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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. VIII. 



WHOLESALE & RETAIL SEED & IMPLEMENT 

 WAREHOUSE. 



Constantly for sale, Corn Shellers of every variety, 

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

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

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

 Crackers, Sausage Cutters, Sausage Slufters, 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, 



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



Agricultural Implement Manufactory, 



No. 19G, Market street, two doors above Sixth street, 



and two doors below the Red Lion Hotel : 

 Where are manufactured and for sale, lower than can 

 be purchased elsewhere, Horse Powers and Threshing 

 Machines. Fanning Mills, Corn Shellers, Straw and 

 Hay Cutters, Horse Rakes, Ploughs, Harrows, Cultiva- 

 tors, Seed Planters, Cheese Presses, Churns, Pumps, 

 and every kind of farming implement generally in use. 

 Also, Beach's Self-sharpening Plough and castings — 

 and Wiley's two-pointed do. Every description of im- 

 plement made to order, or repaired by experienced 

 workmen, and warranted. Slater's Patent Corn Shel- 

 ler and Grinder. EDWIN CHANDLER, 



Agent for Agricultural Machines of tvery description. 



POUDRETTE. 

 The manufacture of this article having now got fairly 

 underway in Philadelphia, we shall have it constantly 

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

 inet; the price at present, is $1 50 cts. 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 carefully 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. It has been used to great ad- 

 vantage as a top-dressing on wheat in the spring. For 

 cdrnin the hills, and for vegetables generally, there is 



perhaps notliing superior to the Poudrette. Truck 

 growers in New Jersey, and elsewhere, whose interest 

 it is, to have their vegetables, melons, &c., early in the 

 market, will find this manure of great importance. 



a3= SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 43 

 The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 

 agricultural character of this paper, will be inserted 

 at the rate of one dollar for each insertion of ten lines 

 or less; and so in proportion for each additional line. 

 The money to be paid in advance. 



Thb quantity of rain which fell during the Eleventh 

 month, (November,) 1843, was nearly four inches and a 



quarter 4.148 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 12th mo. 1st. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Page 



Diseases of the Plum Tree 137 



Deep Ploughing.— Cultivation of the Strawberry. 139 



Diversity of Climate and Seasons 141 



Tobacco 142 



Peach Tree Protector 143 ^ 



Unruly Milkers.— Machine for Weighing Coin. 144 



Hereford Cattle 145 



On the Preparation and Use of Manures 146 



Process for Preserving Timber. — Multicole Rye. 151 



St. George's Agricultural Society - 153 



Little Delaware 153 



Calico Corn 154 



Failure of Seed Potatoes 155 



Report on Swine. — Industry 156 



Insanity of the Horse 157 



Cultivation of Cranberries. — Long Short-cake. 158 



Agricultural Address— Washington 159 



Domestic Economy 160 



Horse's Foot 161 



Extraordinary Cow.— Breeders' Convention. 162 



Floating Capital.— Individual Example 163 



The Apple 164 



Diseases of the Peach and Plum Tree.— Editorial 



Notices 1G5 



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