FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Marble discovered near Gaston, North Carolina 30 — 



verd antique, discovered near New Haven 3S3 

 Marble cement 271 



Marl, on cotton land 52— found in INew England 493— 

 good and increasing eiiects of in Va. C23— Squancum 

 2!) 



Marl and green sand, price and value of in New Jersey 

 637 



Marl, description and ingredients of the earth impro- 

 perly so called iti New Jersey S(i 



Marling produces healthiness 109 



Marling and improvements in Monmouth, N. Jersey 6 



M.irshes, malaria of 504 — treatise on reclaiming 678 



Meadow land, management of 428 



Measures of capacity in South Carolina irregular 434 



Melons, Canteloupe, culture of 745 



Memoranda for those who would improve in husband- 

 ry 496 



Memoranda, from a note book 425 — of farming in 

 Henrico 427 — Brandon 427 



Mice &,c., method of destroying 145 



Milk, to ascertain the richness of 155 — adulteration of 

 in tlie city of New York 279 



Milkingcows, implement for 318 



Mill ponds, the great advantages of substituting them 

 by canals 374 



Millet 60 



Minerological Society and School, of Virginia 315 



Mines, Gurney's safety method of lighting 290 



Money, as a medium of exchange 481 



Money market 59, 508 



Morns Miilticanlis, (see Mulberry, Chinese) 



Moss improvements 529 



Mountains of North Carolina, their height, &c. 33 



Mouse trap 59 



Mud walls, mode of construction for houses and enclo- 

 sures, and value of 172- — -defended 438 



Mulberry, ditierent kinds and qualities of 266 



Mulberry, native or common red, approved as food for 

 silkworms 709 



Mulberry plants and seed imported by Mr. Whitmarsh 

 and sold as Chinese ; gross cheat exposed 55S 



Mulberry, Chinese, great increase and value of 549 — 

 price of 270 — products of 462 — acclimating of 399 — 

 French practice and opinions on 447— frauds in sale 

 of 479, 553 — said to be raised from seeds 352 — can- 

 not be reproduced from its own seeds 711 



Mulberry culture 509 — profits of 429 — general direc- 

 tions for, and remarks on 232 



Mule's colt, death of the second 357 



Murrain, or Carolina distemper in cattle, remedy for 94 



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Nansemond, the land and oyster-shell banks of 357 



Navigation of the lower waters of the Meherrin, Not- 

 toway, and Jiluckwater rivers, remarks on 532 and 

 535 



Native grapes, information wanted of new varieties 

 384 



Newspapers and other periodicals, legal liabilities of 

 those who take them 476 



Nicotine, (essence of tobacco) IIS 



Norlolk county, remarks on its agricultural state 707 



Northern states, encominm on 573 



Notes of an agricultural tour in New York 422 



Nutmeg, history of 195 



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Oats, skinless 458 



Oil mill 116 



Onion, tnagic or tree 221 



Orchard grass, 131 — to prepare (he seed forsowing425 



Osage orange, the leaves food for silkworins 89,"lS8, 



285 

 Overseers, management of 114 



Paper veneering 394 



Patent law, defects ot 197 



Patent machines and implements, and the puffs there- 

 on 44 



Patents and inventions — remarks on 416 



Patents, monthly lists and description of, for improve- 

 ments of machines and implements to be used in ag- 

 riculture, or domestic economy 45, 151, 235, 302, 

 353, 406, 477, 536, 644 — publication suspended 765 



Peach, on propagating 656 



Peat for fuel 649 



Peat soils of Scotland, compared to that of the Dismal 

 Swamp 528 



Persimmon tree and fruit, account of 351 



Petition to the legislature of Maryland, for aid to the 

 improvement of agriculture 736 



Pine apple, cultivation of 460 



Pise walls, their superiority over mud walls maintained 

 239 



Plants, tendency of to reproduce themselves 234 



Plants, spontaneous 183 



Pointer dog, anecdote of 463 



Political economy, on the knowledge and ignorance of 

 34 — queries on, as connected with agriculture 68 



Poppy seed oil 638 



Potash, profitably derived from refuse part of beetroots 

 705 



Potatoes, cultivation of 444 — on preserving and raising 

 them from seed 433 



Potatoes, sweet, cultivation of 105 — remarkable pro- 

 duct of 474 — advantage of keeping in cellars 493 — 

 remarks on the uses, value, and culture of 621 



Prairie lands of Alabama, remarks on in regard to the 

 theory of their formation 653 



Private correspondence, extracts from 253 



Provisions, high price of, attempted to be lowered by 

 pilJaging and destroying them 740 — remarks on these 

 proceedings, and the tendency of the causes thereof 

 741 



Putrescent manures, general account of 16 



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Rabbits, their value for making manure 688 



Rakes substituted lor hoes, in hand tillage of corn 731 



Railway through Virginia to the south-west, the best 

 route discussed 309, 369, 441 — ditierent opinions re- 

 specting 366, 367 



Railway, City Point, report of survey and estimates of 

 120 



Railwa,y, Eastern Shore 94, 200 — report of engineer 

 on 552 



Railway, Wilmington and Halifax, engineer's report of 

 survey and estimates 348 



Railway, Portsmouth and Roanoke, description of 532 



Railway, Raleigh and Gaston, progress of 707 



Railway, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, 

 third annual report of 345 



Railway, Petersburg and Roanoke, annual report and 

 proceedings of the company 759 



Railway for conveying marl 29 



Railway across the isthmus of Panama 579 



Railway transportation of live stock 464 



Railways, resistance on 217 — increase of trade and tra- 

 vel on 368 — in progress in England 123 — in North 

 Caro ina35, and the south generally 140, 342 — aided 

 by subscriptions of the state of North Carolina 766 



Rappaliannock lands, statements of practice in their til- 

 lage and improvement 61 



Rats, white, 428 



Reaping grain at different stages of maturity 156 



Rented land, removing shrubs from 59 



Review of "An Essay on the climate of the United 

 States" 599 



Reviews of new works on calcareous manures 95 



Rhubarb, culture of 157 



