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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VIII. 



COATI!S' SEED STORE, 



No. 49 Market Street, Up Stairs : 

 FRESH TURNIP SEED, 



Of the most approved varieties for Cattle and Table 



use, with a complete Assortment of 



GRASS & GARBZiN- SEEDS, 



Of the finest Quality and best Varieties— Bird 



Seeds, &c, JOS. P. H. COATES, 



Successor to Oeorge M. Coates. 



Seed and Implement Ware-house. 



The subscriber has on hand and for sale, a few 

 pounds of Dickson's Improved Hybrid Ruta-baga seed; 

 this turnip is larger, better flavoured, and more pro- 

 ductive than the common kinds. Garden, grass, and 

 flower seeds of all kinds, warranted fresh. Also, 

 Straw-cutters of eight different patterns; among which 

 are Hovey's & Conklin's, new and very superior- 

 price from $15 to $25 each. Turnip Drills, $2 50 to $8. 

 Corn-Planters of various patterns. Horse Rakes, Cul- 

 tivators, Churns, Centre-draught Ploughs, from $4 50 

 to $13 each. Side-hill, Subsoil, Double-mould, and 

 Shovel Ploughs. New York Ploughs, from $2 to $6 

 each. Also good Scythes, various makers, 75 cents to 

 $1 each. Scythe Sneeds, from 37^ to 871 cents; Rakes, 

 Forks, made of cast-steel, a superior article— Grass 

 Hooka, Brier Hooks, Potatoe Hoes, Brier Scythes, Cow 

 Chains, Grain Cradles, very cheap— Garden-lines and 

 Reels, &c., &c., for sale at the lowest prices. Persons 

 in want of implements or seeds, are invited to call at 

 the Seed and Implement Ware-house, No. 194^ Market 

 street, between Fifth and Sixth streets, Philadelphia. 

 D. O. Proutv. 



May 15th, 1844. 



FHIXiADi:i.FHIA SEED STORE, 



No. 23 MARKET STREET. 

 M. S. Powell keeps a constant supply of Clover and 

 other Grass Seeds. Field Seeds, consisting of prime 

 Seed wheat, Buckwheat, Millet, Oats, Corn, Rye, &c. 

 jrr GARDEN AND BIRD SEEDS generally. 

 July 15tk, 1844. tf. 



POUDRETTE— a valuable manure— of the best qual- 

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

 the Farmers' 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- 

 closingthe 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. 

 As a manure for turnips, buckwheat, &c., it has been 



used to great advantage. 



D. K. Minor. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Sixth 

 month, (June,) 1844, was a little more than three 



inches and a third 3.351 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 7th mo., 1st. 



GUANO.— The attention of farmers is respectfully 

 requested to the Guano as a manure, for sale by the 

 subscriber. No. 19 South Wharves, over the Baltimore 

 Steam-boat office, or at the office of the Farmer's Cabi- 

 net, — by the cargo, bag, or less quantity: it is superior 

 in all respects as a manure, to all now known. 



July 15th. George A. Leinao. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



page 



What manure does my soil want ? 361 



Changing Bees.— Green Fodder for Cows. 363 



Pasturage of Bees.— The Plough— Bee Moth. 364 



Preserving Butter.— Saw Mills 366 



Substances of which the parts of animals consist. 368 



Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph 371 



Experiments on Land 373 



Economy 374 



Science and Agriculture 375 



Leander — J. Gowen's Bull 376 



Soaking Seeds in Chemical Solutions 377 



Agricultural Premiums and Exhibition 380 



Etrurian Wheat.— Editorial Notices 382 



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