FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Roads, horizontal U 



Roanoke, upper, reports on the practicability of navi- 

 gating by steamboats of shallow draught 306, 395, 

 437 ° 

 Rolling seed beds 48 

 Roofs covered with paper 639_ 

 Roots of plants, on the excretions from 550 

 Rose, general account of 26 

 Rotting of timber, to prevent, 131 

 Rust in cotton on piairie lands, its causes 653 

 Rye, green, as a manure for cotton and corn 494 



Salt, as a manure for cotton 677 



Salubrity and insalubrity of different situations 688 — 

 causes of malaria 688 



School, manual labor, advantages of 271 



Sea-kale, culture of 159 



Sea ore 185 



Season and state of the wheat crops 189, 254 — in 

 Northern Neck 254 



Seasons in olden times 247 



Seed corn, destruction of 14 



Seeds, their germination accelerated by scalding 686 — 

 vitality of 687 



Sheep, guarded from dogs by bells 569 — Merino and 

 Saxon, comparative advantages of 403 



Sheep with two legs 357 



Silk culture, general directions and remarks 232 — the 

 fitness of the United States for it questioned 570 — 

 facts in relation to 414 — proposed at Cape Florida 

 259 — proposed in Loudoun 335 — in Petersburg 126 

 — prospects of in western Virginia 535 — encour- 

 agement of in tile northern states, by legislative 

 bounties 168 — new improvement of, in raising sev- 

 eral crops of cocoons in a season 381, 510 



Silk Factory, Connecticut, report of 133 — Atlantic 

 127 — in Philadelphia, proceedings for establishing 

 and report in favor of 723 



Silk manufacture, the earliest accounts of, in this 

 country 619 — commencement and progress of in 

 the United States 735 — improvement in 395 



Silkworms, experiment in breeding 146 — two or more 

 crops of a year 510 



Silkworm's eggs, necessity of cold to fit them for 

 hatching 613 



Sinclair, Sir John, sketch of his agricultural and eco- 

 nomical labors 141, 609 



Slavery in Virginia 180 



Slavery, and the efibrts for its abolition, opinions of the 

 presbyterian church of Virginia on 507 



Slaves, management of 114, 494, 574 



Slaves, emancipation of in the West Indies, some of 

 the effects of 49 



Slaves, emancipated in Virginia, present condition of 3 



Small matters in domestic economy are important 334 



Soap, cold, receipt for making 64 



Soap from flints 432 



Soapers' waste as manure 471 



Soils, essay on 486 



Soils, suitable for cotton, tobacco, sugar, and the tea 

 plant 560 



Soils, argilaceous, essay on the nature, formation, pro- 

 perties and productions of 202 



Soils, magnesian, analysis and qualities of 212 



Solway moss, account of its bursting and overflow 504 



Soot as manure 470 — effects of on wheat 443 



Sow taught to act as a pointer 463 



Spade husbandry 130 



Speed, comparative table of 431 



Stable manure, spreading 133 



Stall feeding 105 



Starch, to make 183 



Steam, progress of 369 — its apphcation to the purpo- 

 ses of husbandry discussed, and experiments stated 

 628 



Steam coach, Dr. Church's 495 



Steam plough, operation of 300 — remarks on 687 



Steam power compared with water 269 



Stoves, travelling 6 



Strawberry culture 584, 709 



Subsoil, the ill effects of turning up in new land 762 



Sugar, from beets, notices of 31, 250, 267, 278, 351, 460, 

 656 — facts and estimates respecting 247 — progress 

 of making described 721 — about to be commenced 

 in England 749 — encouragement of in Massachu- 

 setts 649 



Sugar culture and manufacture in Java 591 



Sugar crop in Florida, value of 65 



Sugar, from Indian corn 124, 4S0 



Surplus revenue of the United States, considered in 

 relation to the agricultural interests, and prosperity of 

 the nation 121 



Swamp lands of North Carolina, their drainage to be 

 effected by the state 767 



Tea plant, culture of in Ohio 217 



Temperature, increase of in penetrating the earth 107 



Tennessee land and farming 118 



Tillage, difference of exhausting and enriching 378 



Tobacco, on curing 313 — on firing through flues 41 — 

 tlie necessity of perfect ripeness before cutting 41 — 

 Oronoke and Pryor, difference in value and product" 

 622 



Tobacco culture considered more extensive than profit- 

 able 742 — its expense compared to that of wheat 

 and of corn 743 



Tobacco crop, remarks on 2 



Tobacco plant beds, preparing and managing 2 



Tobacco lands, on the improvement of by clover 385 



Tobacco planters' convention in Maryland, and report 

 on the burdens on the tobacco trade in Europe 747 



Top dressingof grass lands 458 



Trade of the United States 218 



Transplanting 559 



Tulip, culture of 467 



Tunnel of Haerlem railway 383 



Turbilli, Marquis of, some notice of the life of 70 



Van Mons' theory and method of raising good fruit 



trees from the seed 222 

 Vine, grape, a new seedling 705 

 Vines, grape, difference of growth, culture and product, 



in the United States and in Europe 89 

 Vines, (melon, &c.) to protect from bugs 197 

 Virginia, the most ancient description of, by Capt. 



John Smith 389 — some description of in letters 



written in 1688, 584, 641 



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Warming rooms 592 



Washing, economy in 405 



Washington's views of war and of agriculture 706 



Water power of Richmond, and manufactories 368 



Waterloo Caesarean cabbage, fraud respecting 330 



Water melons, successful mode of raising them of large 



size 745 

 Weevil, black, means of guarding against 655 

 Weights, comparative, of green and dry grasses 656 

 Weights and measures, French, compared with Eng- 

 lish or American 119~want of uniformity in 533 

 Wells, artesian or bored 23— observations on, and the 

 causes of their failures 438— in France 686— uses of 

 them for heating 687 

 Wheat, culture of, 193 

 Wheat, Victoria, 125 

 Wheat crops in western New York 191 

 Wheat crop of 1836, generally unfit for seed 319 

 Wheat insects 414 



