TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. IV 



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Acid in wood — its effects on salt and butter 414 



Agricultural Convention of Virginia, result of their 

 petition 52 — remarks on and suggestions for the one 

 proposed 434 



Agricultural Convention of New York, sketch of its 

 proceedings 700 



Agricultural Establishment at Moeglin, in Prussia 167 



Agricultural jurisprudence, 301, 345, 444 



Agricultural and national interests injured by frequent 

 changes of the outlines and limits of farms 5()4 



Agricultural papers (periodical) — misconception of the 

 nature and value of 93 



Agricultural reading, its value 492 



Agricultural Society of Buckingham, proceedings of 

 695. Address to by the president 695. 



Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, proceedings of 

 539, address to 540 



Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, address to 547 



Agricultural Survey of Massachusetts 650 



Agriculture requires legislative aid, especiall}"^ to sup- 

 port agricultural professorships — a board of agricul- 

 ture — and tours or surveys 284 



Agriculture-— in Brit lin, progress of 174, flourishing 

 state of 15 — in Flanders 69 — in Pennsylvania, noti- 

 ces of 497 — in Rhode Island 305 — of Florida 65 — of 

 Amherst and Nelson, I'emarks on No. 1, 651 — of 

 Nansemond, observations and memoranda of 524 — 

 Flemish, characteristics of 501 — some account of 

 613 — of N^w England, observations on 752, Chinese 

 545 — of the U. States, anticipated changes in 251 — 

 of the western states 42 — of Java, (sugar and indigo) 

 591 — of Virginia, some peculiar advantages of 127 

 — causes of its long-continued decline, and present 

 depression, No. I, political causes — prevalence of 

 party spirit 702; No. II, causes presented in errors 

 of practice 725 



Agriculture, the aid toby the legislature of New York, 

 ■stated, and the effects," No. I., 634, No. II, 689. Re- 

 marks thereon, 634, 692 



Agriculture, professorships of in France 639 



Agriculture, poetical extract from an old work on 486 



Animal matter in shells 640 



Animals, treatise on the formation of 257 



Animals, extinct, of the ancient world 12 



Ants, natural history of 328, 386 



Ants, red, a remedy against 560 



Apples for fattening hogs 544 



Apples, comparative value of, to feed stock and for 

 sale, and their products, cider and brandy 503 — dif- 

 ferent views of the same 623 



Appomattox river, upper, on the improvement and 

 value of for navigation 377 



Arable land, on converting to permanent pasture or 

 meadow 664 



Arrow root of Florida 352 



Artichokes, culture of 158 



Artichokes, Jerusalem, 493 



Ashes as manure 467 



Asparagus, culture of 153 

 Asses, Al'rican, importation of 93 

 Atmosphere, etfects of on vegetation 91 



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Barclay, Robert, of Ury, account of his labors and 

 improvements 359 



"Barrens," western, description of 463 



Beef, fresh, a convenient mode of distributing in ex- 

 change, among neighbors 706 



Bees, war with 476 



Bees, stingless 48 



Beet (sugar,) soil and climate for 252— culture of in 

 P^urope 687 



Big head, disease of horses, to cure 379 



Birds' egijs, trade in 353 



Blight in pear trees, cure of 395 



Bones, as manure 304, 321 



Breadstuffs, prices of 417 



Breeding, a novelty in 445 



Broom corn culture 58, high prices of the product 76i 



Brooms, manufacture of 3S3 



Broths, chemical composition of 145 



Buckwheat, or brank, culture of 616 



Bulls, advantages of making them work 649 



Butter, making and curing 163 — preserving 182 



Cabbage, common, culture of, S99 — Savoy 402 



Calcareous manures, remarks on 57 — reviews of naw 

 works on 95 



Carbonic acid gas reduced to a solid state 560 



Caterpillars, new mode of destroying 167 



Cats employed to protect gardens from birds 460 



Cattle, sale of 70— breeding of in Chili 301— highly 

 improved breeds of, their suitableness to our agri- 

 culture in general denied 571 



Charlotte, and adjacent counties, rough notes upoa 

 some of their agricultural improvements 374 



Chemistry, action of on agriculture 134 



Chickens, raising 302, 398 



Chinese mulberry fraud 558, 625, the defence of Mr. 

 Whitmarsh and his agent 625 



Cider, its value defended 623 



Climate of the eastern side of North America, why 

 colder than the same latitudes in Europe 599 



Clover 554 — fertilizing effects of 240 — after corn 188 

 — considered as green manure for tobacco land 385 

 — salivating eff^ects of 105 — prevented by being 

 mixed with other grasses 220 



Clover and gypsum not sufficient for durable improve- 

 ment 5 — on the results of their long-continued appli- 

 cations, without other manure 317 



Clover, crimson, 221 



Coal, anthracite, product and consumption of 399 



Coal deposites near Farmville 473 



Cocoons, demand for 133 — on raising two or more suc- 

 cessive crops in a year, a new practice in France 282 



