FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Coke, manufacture of 432 



Cold weather 185 



Cold, prevalence of in South Carolina 10 



College of William and Mary, prosperous state of 510 



Combined labors and talents, as necessary and as like- 

 ly to be advantageous in agriculture as in other 

 things 738 



Comfrey, prickly, a new food for cattle 216 



Commercial Reports, monthly, 53, 126, 192, 254, 319, 

 446, 575, G39, 711, 765, 



Contributions in writing to the Farmers' Register, cul- 

 pable failure to furnish 746 



Contributors to the pages of the Farmers' Register, 

 appeal to 510 



Copper in Virginia 343 



Corn, aiiiian, native country of 107, harvesting of 117, 

 547 — cultivation of 554, in Botetourt 43 — experi- 

 ments on cultivation of 6S5 — made profitably with- 

 out tillage by covering with leaves 763---the greatest 

 land killer 33 — distance lor {)lanting of 622, 709 — 

 successive crops of on the same land 475 — early hous- 

 ing of 108, 201— the advantage of keeping in the 

 shuck or husk 484 



Corn, green, to preserve for boiling 59 



Corn and cob crusher and grinder 44 



Corn trade 383 



Correspondence, private, extracts from 190 



Cost of irapiovements or new investments in agricul- 

 ture rarely estimated 733 



Cotton and the cotton trade 59 



Cotton bales, quick work in packing 458 



Cotton seed oil, on the value and manufacture of 685 



Crow bill, debate on in the Senate of Virginia 336 



Cultivation in New England, improvements in 618 



Cultivator, use of in tillage of corn 707 



Cultivator, echelon, described 237 



Currants, culture of 112 



Cut worm, remarks on, 431 — origin and habits of 563 



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Dahlia, tree 124 



Dawson, William, memoir of 337 



Dismal Swamp, general account and description of 513 



proposal to drain, by Col. Wm. Byrd in 1728, 521 — 



account of tlie earliest passage through, written by 



Col. Wm. Byrd 593 

 Double crops 133 



Draining and cultivating swampy land 218, 378 

 Drinks for laborers in harvest 345 

 Drilling wheat 161, 171, and remarks on new culture 



161 

 Dyes, vegetable 234 



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Early bearing of apple and pear trees, to promote 234 



Eastern Shore of Maryland, remarks on Professor Du- 

 catei's geological survey of 300 



Eastern Shore lands, remarks on 5 



Editorial articles and remarks---on tobacco plant beds 3; 

 condition of emancipated slaves 4; marble found 

 near Gaston 30; the usual recommendations of pat- 

 ent machines 44; the operations and opinions of the 

 "abolitionists" 49; etfects of marl on cotton 53; the 

 result ot the petition of the Agricultural Convention, 

 and the gross neglect by the legislature of the claims 

 and interests of agiicultnre 53^ chemical changes in 

 sugar cane 66; insjjections — poor laws — slavery — 

 queries 68; "marl" of new Jersey (or green sand) 

 and erroneous opinions thereon 86; Eastern Shore 

 railway 94; early housing of corn 109; French 

 weights and measures 119; silk business proposed in 

 Petersburg, and recommended for lower and middle 

 Virginia 126; Professor Uenwick's edition of Puvis 

 on Lime 131; labors of Sir John Sinclair 141; sup- 

 position of Hessian lly and moth weevil existing in 

 France 170; tlie "John Francis" letter and fraud 183; 



pine "limestone" lands of Florida 188; the patent 

 law 197; the argilaceous soils of France, and M. 

 Puvis' opinions thereon 202, 209, 211; magnesian 

 soils, and M. Puvis' essay and opinions thereon 212, 

 216; Van Mons' theory 222; anticipated changes in 

 the agriculture of the United Slates — silk — and beet 

 .sugar 251; marly or gypseous earth of Geneseo, N. 

 York 252; season and wheat crop 255; accounts and 

 collections 255, green sand and marl, and prevalent 

 errors thereon 276; use of farming notes 2S6; pise 

 and mud wall, controversy 290; public works in aid 

 of transportation 312; implement for milking cows 

 316 ; general unfitness of the wheat made in 1836, 

 for seed, 319; season and state of crops 320; silk 

 culture in pauper houses 335; Dawson's views of 

 manuring 335; brining and liming seed wheat 342; 

 controversies between correspondents 343; factories 

 of Richmond and Petersburg 363; fraud and puiis of 

 the "Waterloo Caesarean Cabbage" 330; puds of Vir- 

 ginia land at London auctions 33; raising two or 

 more successive crops of cocoons in a year 381; new 

 and rare varieties of native grasses 384; agricultural 

 convention 436; artesian or bored wells 438; green 

 sand, and mode of detecting its presence 474; eliect 

 of long continuation of exhausting tillage 475; the 

 overflow of Solway iposs 504; prosperous state of 

 William and Mary College 51:); John Carter's grapes 

 and wine 510; appeal to all who have been and all 

 who ought to be contributors to the pages of the 

 Farmers' Register 510; errata 512; on the Whitinarsh 

 mulberry fraud 558, and 625; on the chemical na- 

 ture of aifferent soils, and their degrees of fitness for 

 certain plants 561 ; contributors to the Farmers' Reg- 

 ister and those who are not 57S; on the account of 

 legislative action in New York in aid of agricultural 

 improvement 634, 692 on the animal matter in shells, 

 and Sir John Sinclair's opinions of their value 640; 

 clover on tlie calcareous prairie lands of Alabama 

 655; proceediniiis of tlie agricultural conventions in 

 New York and Virginia contrasted 701; the exclu- 

 sion of party politics from the Farmers' Register 

 702; the Chinese mulberry not reproduced from its 

 own seed 711; losses of numbers and of the indexes 

 of the Farmers' Register 7t2; on the mob andiiot in 

 New York, to lower high prices 741; on the true 

 theory of the operation of speculation in, or "mono- 

 polizing" of grain, and the false theory which is gene- 

 rally received thereon 754; the supposed injurious 

 etfects to land of magnesian lime 750 ; on the loss 

 by fire of the Petersburg Rail Road Company 759 ; 

 suspension of list of patents 765 ; the recent enact- 

 ments of North Carolina in aid of the improvement 

 of the state, by railways 766 ; and by draining the 

 swamp lands 767 ; to subscribers on the closing of 

 vol. IV 768 



Electric, shock from a sheet of paper 266 



Electro-magnetic engine 659 



Emigrationlo the west 7, 10, 42, 732 



Excerpta Curiosa 445 



Experiments with mixtures of ashes, gypsum, lime 

 Sic, applied to corn when planted 425 



Fallowing, summer, the process in Britain described 



23 

 Farm productive 93 

 Farm school of Boston, report of 693 

 Fanners, importance of their personal attention to 



their farms 1 

 Farming on the Rivanna 554, 764 

 Farming in Virginia, ])ro(its of 577, 746 

 Farms, large and small, their diii'erent advantages con- 



sider'd 564 

 Fattening animals 6;>3 



Female industry a]iplied to silk culture 168 

 Fishery, herring, in North Carolina 59 

 Fishes, migration of 479 



