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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



Agricultural Implement Manufactory, 



No. 196, 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 Shelters, 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- 

 ter and Grinder. EDWIN CHANDLER, 



Agent for Agricultural Machines of every description. 



POUDRETTE— a valuable manure— of the best qual 

 ity, prepared in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of 

 the Farmer's Cabinet, No. 50, N. Fourth street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— $5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

 or thirty cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, en- 

 closing the cash, with cost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering 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 invited to try the article. 

 It has been used to great advantage as a top-dressing 

 on wheat in the spring. For corn in the hills, and for 

 vegetables generally, there is perhaps nothing superior 

 to the Poudrette. Truck growers in New Jersey, and 

 elsewhere, whose interest it is, to have their vegeta- 

 bles, melons, &c., early in the market, will find this 

 manure of great importance. The price will be ad- 

 vanced in March. D. K. Minor. 



WHOLESALE & RETAIL SEEI>& IMPLEMENT 

 WAREHOUSE. 

 Constantly for sale, Corn Shellers of every variety, 

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

 ters, of difl'erent patterns, from $5 to §30 each. Grain 

 Fans, of various kinds, from $3 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, 



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



WANTED. — An industrious, thorough-bred farmer; 

 — a single man would be prefL'rred. One who can 

 work, and is competent to direct others, may hear of a 

 good situation, by applying at the office of the Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet. Recommendations as to character and 

 capability, will be required. 



Feb. 3rd, 1844. 



irf TO RENT— and possession given on the 1st of 

 fourth month next, a small Farm near this city, which 

 has been occupied for some years past as a Milk Farm. 

 Apply at the office of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Give gardens to the Million page 201 



Guano 202 



Potatoes 205 



Grafting 206 



Diseases of Peach Trees 209 



Short-horn Cattle .^ 210 



Hints as to the Culture of the Potatoe 211 



Disease of Pears 212 



Coated Saperda of the Linden Tree 213 



Strawberries 214 



Mexican Agriculture 215 



Insulated Coulter 216 



Horticultural Society— Nomenclature of Fruits. 217 

 Dr, Darlington's Address before the Agricultu- 

 ral Society of Newcastle Co., Del. 218 



Fruit Trees 222 



Grass-seed, &c. — Letter from H. Colman 223 



Cultivation of the Cranberry 225 



Hereford Cattle 226 



"Take care of the Creatures." — Management of 



Peach Trees and Culture of Indian Corn. 227 



Newcastle County Ag. Report on Cows. 228 



Editorial Notices 229 



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