FARMERS' REGISTER 



Flax bleached, a new discovery 395 

 Flies, to prevent their annoying horses 421 

 Floods from rains, in 1771, in Virginia and South Ca- 

 rolina 506 

 Flori<ia cotl'ee, the fraud in lecommending 708 

 Florida soils and "limestone" 185 

 Flour market of Riciimond 458 

 Forest scenery of America described 580 

 Fowls, domestic, on the species and varietiesof 657, to 



fatten in a few diiys 260 

 Fragments of a memorandum book — notes of farming 

 in Henrico, Charles City, James City, and York 

 counties, 2S6 

 Frosted plants, recovering 53 

 Fruit kept sound in cotton 339 



Fruit trees, directions as to tlieir transplanting 751 — 

 tariing injurious 301 — old, treatment of to renew 

 the vi'Tor 457 



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Gas lighting 486 



Gases, effects of on vegetation 197 



Generation of plants 7 



Geological survey of Virginia, report of its progress in 



1836, 713 

 Geological survey of Maryland, extracts from reports 



of 292, 409 

 Geological survey of New York 29, 352 

 Geological wonder 557 

 Geoloj^y, practical uses of 302 

 Geology of the country around Gaston 30 

 Germination of seeds, facts respecting 221, in ice 232 

 Gooseberries, management of 112 

 Grain, importation of 6, quantity 725 

 Grain, distillation of, amount, and elfects on prices 638 

 Grain, ripe, loss of weight in, by drying 423 

 Grain cutter, (or reaper) Hussey's, report of its trial 



and perlbrinance 414 — Wilson's mowing and grain 



cuttins: machine 430 

 Grape, Willcox, and other seedlings 419 

 Grape, Harris seedling 509 

 Grass alone inadequate for improving land 5 

 Grass land, to be brought from arable, management of 



664 

 Grasses suitable for South Carolina 581 

 Green crops for manure 411 

 Green sand, its eti'ects as manure 579 — compared with 



those of calcareous marl, and with the two combined 



276 

 Grinding old garments into new 492 

 Ground pea (arachis hypogcea) the property possessed 



by it, and some other plants, of ripening their fruit 



under ground 456 

 Gypsum, action of as manure 129 — effect not lessened 



by exposure to weather 146 

 Gypsum on marled land 579 

 Gypsum discovered in Prince Edward county 34 — the 



statement exposed as a fraud 183 

 Gypsum in New York, (so called) erroneous facts and 



questions concerning — found to be merely calcareous 



marl 187, 252 — remarks on, and the probable exis- 

 tence of a similar substance in western Virginia 314 



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Hackberry, proposed for live hedges 4 



Harrow, expanding 237 



Hay, economy in feeding with 677 — stackinj of 344 

 — to determine the weight of in the stack 234 — im- 

 ported from Scotland 705, from France 247 



Hay &, haymaking, remarks on 108, 279 



Haymaking in England — general account and direc- 

 tions 449 — singular mode of 52 



Hay and beet sugar imported from France 247 



Healthiness produced by marling 109 



Heat at the earth's centre 493 



Heifer, a precocious one 359 



Hens, means to make them lay in winter 751 



Hessian Fly, 113, 414, 475 — on the habits of 340 — 

 supposed to have existed in France 169 



Highlands injured by water 69 



High prices, morality of 742 — true and false doctrine 

 respecting 754 



Hill-side ditches, a sure safeguard against washing 

 639 — advantages of 731 



Hints and Queries, in regard to the trade of Peters- 

 burg 534 



Hog, wild, its ravages 736 



Hog raising, ditl'erent modes, tried by experiment and 

 compared 730 



Hop yeast, substitute lor 656 



Horse Chestnut, to secure the success of planting 584 



Horse racing of old 445 



Horses, economical method of keeping 461 



Hoi'tus siccus, directions lor making 638 



House keeping, observations on, remedy for dust 166 



Husbandry, items of, from various sources 749 



Hybrid animals, on the propagation of 255 



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Improvement of land 260 — remarkable instance 232 



Inclined planes, steep, on railways, new mode of over- 

 coming 271 



Indigo 421 — culture and manufacture in Java 591 



Indigo, Bengal 572 



Internal Improvement, law of Maryland, its passage 

 201 



Iron, improvement in the manufacture of by use of 

 heated air 557 



Iron for railways, demand for 395 



James River & Kanawha Company, proceedings of the 

 annual meeting of stockholders, and progress and 

 condition of the work 604 



Labor, the respectability of 358 



Lampas in horses 240 



Land-slip in Troy, N. Y. 615 



Leaves, mode of delineating exactly and easily 531 



Leaves of trees, as food for cattle 559 — a covering of, 

 a substitute for tillage of corn and potatoes 763 



Leeches, preservation of 217 



Legislative aid to agriculture in Virginia., improba- 

 bility of its being accorded 415 



Lice on fowls 94 



Life, duration of, of slaves and free negroes 478 



Lime, on the use of as manure 499 — used in Nottoway 

 and Prince Edward 376 — mechanical uses of 587 



Lime kilns, construction of 240 



Lime spreader, a newly invented implement 624 



Liming destroys malaria 419 



Liming with oyster shells 14 — in Fairfax 108, 378 



Lockjaw in a horse cured 613 



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Machine for the upward transmission of weights 445 

 Madura aurantiaca — see Osage Orange 

 Magnesia in lime, error as to its injury to land 750 

 Malaria, destroyed by liming 419 — essay on, from the 



Italian 502 

 Manures, importance of 5, 7, 554 

 Manures, mineral, general account of 72, 240,261 

 Manures (putrescent) ditferent effect of on ditfierent 



soils — ana on the same, before and after liming 335 

 Manures of various kinds, green 411 — green rye 494 



— leaves and mud compost 40 — green sand 579, marl 



623— bones 321— ashes 467, soot 470— soapers' waste 



471— salt 677 



