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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



PHIIiABEliPHIiL SUED STOB.B, 



No. 23 MARKET STREET. 

 M. S. Powell keeps a constant supply of Clover and 

 other Grass Seeds. Field Seeds, consisting of prime 

 Seed wheat, Buckwheat, Millet, Oats, Corn, Rye, &c. 

 lir GARDEN AND DIRD SEEDS generally. 

 July 15£A, 1844. tf- 



POUDRETTE— a valuable manure— of the best qual 

 jty, prepared in Philadelphia, for sale at the olttce of 

 the Farmers' Cabinet, No. 50, N. Fourth street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 7o per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— $5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

 or thirty cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, en- 

 closing the cash, with cost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated. 

 Farmers to the South, and in the interior, both of this 

 State and New Jersey, are invited to try the article. 

 As a manure fur turnips, buckwheat, &c., it has been 

 used to great advantage. The season for applying it 

 to the wheat crop, is now at hand. Those who con- 

 template using it this fall, would do well to secure it 



gafly_ JOSIAH TaTDM. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194J Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets. South side. 



For sale as above, at wholesale and retail, a com- 

 plete assortment of Farming tools, among which may 

 be found Horse-powers and Threshing Machines, Grain 

 mid Seed Fans of various patterns. Corn-shellers in 

 variety. Hay, Straw, and Corn-stalk Cutters, eight 

 different patterns, from g 1 50 to $30. Corn-stalk Cut- 

 ters and Grinders— Chiinis— Cheese-presses, &c. Cen- 

 tre-draught Ploughs . f eight sizes. Bill-hooks— Bram- 

 ble Scythes— Grubbing Hoes— A.xes and handles- 

 Hatchets— Potatoe Hooks— complete sets of instru- 

 ments for making capons. 



Garden, Grass, Flower and Field seeds, warranted 

 fresh and true to name. D. O. Prouty. 



Agricultural Implement Manufactory, 



No. 190, Market street, two doors above Sixth street, 

 and two doors below the Ked Lion IJotel: 



Where are manufactured and for sale, lower than can 

 be purchased elsewhere, Horse Powers and Threshings 

 Machines. Fanning Mills, Corn Shellers, Straw and 

 Hay Cutters, Horse Rakes, Ploughs, Harrows, Cultiva- 

 tors, Soyd Planters, Cheese Presses, Churns, f unips, 

 and every kind of farming implement generally in use. 

 Also, Beach's Self-sharpening Plough and castings — 

 and Wiley's two-pointed do. Every description of im- 

 plement made to order, or repaired by experienced 

 workmen, and warranted. Slater's Patent Corn Sliel- 

 ler and Grinder. EDWIN CHANDLER, 



Mgcnt for Agricultural Machines of every desifription,. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Seventh 

 month, (July,) ItHA, was a little more tlian five 



inches and a quarter 3.-.Jri4 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, t'th mo., 1st, 



On our 31st page, will be found a list of premiums 

 offered by our spirited friends in Newcastle co,, Dela- 

 ware, at their Annual E.xhibition next month. They 

 anticipate high gratification from the Address to be 

 delivered by J. S. Skinner. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Discovery of a Guano Island page 9 



Galvanic Experiments on Vegetation 11 



Death of J. C. Loudon ~! 13 



Vegetable Physiology 15 



New Grain Fork.— Harvest Song 16 



Bees 17 



Manuring and Steeping Seeds 18 



Variely of Colours 20 



Prevention of Potatoe failure.— Cotton 21 



Sulphate of Ammonia, &c.— Dairy Contrivances. 22 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Exhibilon. 23 



Guano and Turnips. — A Chrap Paint. 24 



li. B. Herr's Native Steer.— Raising Heifers. 25 



Clotted Cream.— Gas Tar 26 



Tulips .27 



Blialit in Pear Trees 28 



Forjn and Constitution of the Cow. . 29 



N. York Agricultural Institute 30 



Newcastle Agricultural Society Premiums. 3] 



Meeting Philadelphia Agricultural Society. 34 



Atmospheric Rail-way. — Blue wash for walls. 35 



Pi!;s Sucking a Cow.— Fruit in Cincinnati. 30 



Deep Ploughing. — Editorial Notices 37 



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