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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



POUDRETTE. 

 The manufacture of this article having now got fairly 

 under way in Philadelphia, we shall have it constantly 

 on hand, and for sale at the office of the Farmer's Cab- 

 inet; price one dollar and fifty cents per barrel, con- 

 taining four bushels; or seven barrels for ten dollars— 

 or thirty cents a bushel, at the manufactory. Orders 

 from a distance, enclosing the cash, with cost of por- 

 terage, will be promptly attended to, by cart^fully de- 

 livering the barrels on board of such conveyance as 

 may be designated. Farmers to the South, and in the 

 interior, both of this State and New Jersey, are in- 

 vited to try the article this fall on their wheat; and in 

 the spring, on their corn, vegetables, &c. The concern 

 is under the care of D. K. Minor, whose establishment 

 has been for several years in operation in New York, 

 where the demand is continually increasing. 



FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, bound ;— Price $4. 



YOU ATT ON THE HORSE, with Skinner's Addi- 

 tions;— Price $2. And all other Agricultural works, 

 noticed in the Cabinet, for sale at this office. Also 

 books bound. 



The Agricultural Society of Chester and Delaware 

 counties, held its Annual Cattle SIiow at West Ches- 

 ter, on the 17th ult. A large number of the farmers 

 of those two, and the adjacent counties, as well as 

 from the State of Delaware, were drawn together by 

 the occasion. The exhibition of stock, we understand, 

 ■was gratifying, and reflected much credit upon the 

 public spirit and skill of the owners. A number of 

 premiums were awarded for superior horses, cattle and 

 sheep; and in the afternoon an Address was delivered 

 by John D. Steele, which contained many sound, prac- 

 tical hints for the farmer. 



The Address of J. S. Skinner, before the Columbian 

 Horticultural Society, at Washington, as well as the 

 communication on Peach Trees, have come to hand. 

 They shall be attended to a month hence. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Tenth 

 month, (October,) 1843, was nearly three and a quarter 



inches 3.22 inches. 



Perm. Hospital, 11th mo. 1st, 1843. 



FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVER- 

 GREENS, SHRUBllERY, &c.. 

 In great variety, for sale as heretofore, by the sub- 

 scriber, at his Nursery, near Haddington, four miles 

 west of Philadelphia. Orders sent by mail, or left at 

 the office of the Farmer's Cabinet — where Catalogues 

 may be obtained— will be attended to, and the trees 

 will packed, when ordered to distant places. City 

 gardeners supplied with trees suitable for the streets, 

 at a liberal discount, SAMUEL RHOADS. 



Tenth mo. 15th, 1843. 



WHOLESALE & RETAIL SEED & IIVIPLEMENT 

 WAREHOUSE. 

 Constantly for sale. Corn Shellers of every variety, 

 for hand or horse power; Straw and Corn-stalk Cut- 

 ters, of different patterns, from $5 to $30 each. Grain 

 Fans, of various kinds, from $8 to $30 each;— Corn 

 Crackers, Sausage Cutters, Sausage Sluffers, Apple 

 Parers, Churns on a new plan, which are cheap and 

 good; — Self sharpening Premium Ploughs;— Subsoil 

 Ploughs; Agricultural Furnaces; Cooking Stoves, &c., 

 for sale low, by D. O. PROUTY, 



JiTo. 176, Market street, above Fifth, Philad. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



FAOE 



Peter A. Browne's Agricultural Address 105 



Hints to Young Farmers 110 



Short horns as Milkers Ill 



Agricultural Societies 112 



Provision Trade with England 114 



Remarks on Transplanting 116 



Agricultural Exhibition. — Lucerne .... 117 



Cultivation of Madder 119 



Ohio Vineyards. — Frye's Lactometer 120 



St. John's Wort -122 



New Varieties of Native Grapes 123 



Capons 125 



Cultivation of Hemp 126 



Disease of the Apple Tree 127 



Western New York 128 



Philadelphia Agricultural Society Report 129 



Prouty &. Meats' Plough 130 



Acclimation of Plants 131 



Editorial Notices ,133 



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