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FAllIMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 11 



other species or variety grew in the vicinity of the 

 plant, and the blossoms consequently could not have 

 been fertilized but by its own poilen. These seeds 

 were carefully sown, and the result was a number of 

 seedling plants, with foliage of all sizps and textures, 

 from the common white, to that of the parent. No 

 better proof is needed to confirm what we now state, 

 and have heretofore stated." — American Gardener's 

 Magazine. 



THE INDEX TO VOL. IV. 



It has heretofore been our course not to delay the 

 last No. of a volume for the issue of the index, (which 

 must necessarily be completed and printed after the 

 close of the volume,) but to send the index to every 

 subscriber with the next No. But so many of these 

 loose sheets have been lost, either after or before their 

 being delivered from the post-offices, and so numerous 

 and long continued have been the consequent demand 

 for duplicates, and even sometimes triplicates copies, 

 that, in self-defence, another plan of issuing must be 

 adopted. For this purpose, the next and last No. of 

 vol. 4, will be delayed (if necessary,) after the first 

 of April, the day when it should in due course be is- 

 sued, until the index for vol. 4 can be printed and 



stitched with it. Then the one cannot fail, without the 

 other, to reach every subscriber. 



It is believed that almost every subscriber to the Re- 

 gister intends to have his numbers bound in volumes, 

 and attempts to preserve them for that purpose. But 

 so little care is generally used in preservation, and so 

 much delay permitted before the binding, that the very 

 desire to preserve, serves to destroy for us numerous 

 volumes, by applications for lost or mislaid numbers — ■ 

 which applications we have never refused, if the 

 copies asked for were on hand — and they have been 

 always furnished gratuitously, unless in some few 

 cases where a single applicant asked lor half a volume 

 or more. It would save much loss to all parties, it all 

 subscribers who wish to preserve their numbers com- 

 plete, would not delay the binding much beyond the 

 completion of each volume. If this had been done 

 from the begining, we should not now be unable to 

 buy back copies of vol. 1 at the higher price, which is 

 offered, (#6,) than the subscribers paid for them. And 

 on the other hand, if none had cared or desired to pre- 

 serve their tiles perfect, we should not have had de- 

 stroyed, and lost the value of some hundreds of volumes 

 in the course of four years' publication, by the demand 

 for duplicates of lost and mislaid numbers. 



Table of CoMcjUs of Fanners^ Ilei 



'inter ^ J^^o. 1 1 , 



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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page. 



Remarks on the agriculture of Nelson and Am- 

 herst, No. I. - - - - 651 

 On the prairie lands of Alabama, and the cause 

 of the rust in cotton, so frequent on those 

 lands, ..... 653 

 Means of guarding against the ravages of black 



weevil, . . . . . 655 



Substitute for hop yeast, ... 656 



Experiments on corn, - - - - 6S5 



Cotton seed oil, .... 685 



Effects of legislative aid to agriculture in the 



state of New York, No. II. - - 689 



Remarks on Dr. Beekman's letter on the legis- 

 lative aid given to agriculture in New York, 692 

 Proceedings of the Agricultural Society of 



Buckingham, .... 695 



Address to the Agricultural Society of Buck- 

 ingham, .... - 695 

 Sketch of the transactions of the recent Agri- 

 cultural Convention of New York, - - 700 

 Dn the causes of the long continued decline, 

 and great depression of agriculture in Vir- 

 ginia, No. I. - - - - 702 

 A "Join-beef" paper, - - - 706 

 On the use of the cultivator — improvement of 



land, &.C. 707 



Florida colfee — potatoes, - - - 708 



Strawberry culture. Distance of corn — experi- 

 ments with marl and gypsum, - - 709 

 Commercial report, - - - - 711 

 The Index to Vol. IV. •• - - 712 



SELECTIONS. 



Clayton's letters on Virginia, . - - 641 



List of patents for improvements of machines, 

 &,c. to be used in agriculture, or domestic e- 



Pogo. 



conomy, ..... 644 



Make your bulls work, ... 649 



Encouragement of beet sugar, - - 649 



Peat lor 'fuel, - - " - - - 649 



Agricultural survey of Massachusetts, - 650 



Electro-magnetic engine, ... 650 



Propagating the peach, ... 655 



Beet sugar, ..... 656 



Comparative weights of green and dry grasses, 656 



On the species and varieties of domestic fowls, 657 

 On the conversion of arable land to pasture and 



meadow, ..... 664 



Economy in feeding with hay, - - 677 



Salt as a manure for cotton, ... 677 



On reclaiming marsh land, ... 678 



Artesian welis, .... 686 



Accelerating the growth of seeds by scalding, 686 

 Heating by hot water drawn from the bowels of 



the earth, ..... 687 



Beet culture, ..... 687 



Vitality of seeds, .... 687 

 The steam plough, and the Scotch system of 



husbandry, ..... 687 



Rabbits preferable to pigs for making manure, 688 



Salubrity and insalubrity of situations, - 688 



Fattening animals, .... 693 

 Account of the Boston Asylum and Farm 



School, - - - - - 69.3 



Real friends to agriculture, ... 694 



A new seedling vine, - - - - 705 



Potash from beet-root, ... 705 



Hay from Scotland, .... 705 



Washington's views of war and agriculture, - 706 



Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road, - - 707 

 I'he native, or common red midberry as food 



for silkworms, .... 709 

 Morus intilticaulis not produced from its own 



seed, - - - - - 711 



