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Editm'ial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



No. 23 MARKET STREET. 

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

 other Grass Seeds. Field Seeds, consisting of prime 

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

 5rr GARDEN AND BIRD SEEDS generally. 

 July iSlh, 1844. tf. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194i Market street, between Fifth and Si.\th 

 streets, South side. 



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

 plete assortment of Farming tools, among which may 

 be found Horsepowers and Threshing Machines, Grain 

 and Seed Faii^ of various patterns. Corn-shellcrs in 

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

 different patterns, from §4 50 to $30. Corn-stalk Cut- 

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

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

 ble Scythes— Grubbing Hoes— Axes and handles- 

 Hatchets— Potatoe Hooks— complete sets of instru- 

 ments for making capons. 



Oarden, Grass, Flmcer and Field seeds, warranted 

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



POUDRETTE— a valuable manure— of the best qual- 

 ity, prepared in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of 

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

 the manufactory, near the lienitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— .f5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

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

 closing the cash, withcost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated. 

 Farmor.s to the South, and in the interior, both of this 

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

 As a manure for 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- 

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

 early. Josiah Tatdm. 



Agency for the Purchase & Sale of 



IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE. 



The subscriber takes this mithod of informing his 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 &c., for a reasonable commission. All.leUeas post 

 paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will be attended 

 to without delay. AARON CLEMENT. 



Sept. 5th, 1844. 



irp- A fa»m for sale, cheap. 



Situated in Newcastle county, Delaware, nine miles 

 west of Delaware City, in a healthy and rapirlly im- 

 proving neighbourhood, and convenient to a landing 

 on the canal. It contains about lO'J acres. For fur- 

 ther particulars inquire in Philadelphia, Parrish street, 

 third door below Seventh street. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



New York Stale Fair, &c., at Poughkecpsie, page 73 

 When, where, and how to get a drove of sheep. 75 

 Cultivation of the Peach — Ripe Fruit and Dys- 

 entery 77 



Wheat t rning into Cheat or Bromus 78 



Electricity 80 



Management of Truit Trees.— Guano 81 



Sheep-nose worms. — Agriculture and its improve- 

 ments 82 



Dr. Beekman's Address 84 



Dr. Gardner's History of Guano 85 



Productive Farms.— Rust, Blight, and Mildew of 



Wheat , 87 



Shell Fish as a Manure.— Mending a Tree 88 



Report on Indian Corn. . 89 



Philadelphia Butter.— The Toad 90 



Successful Cultivation of Madder 91 



Drummond Light 93 



Guano as a Manure 94, 90 



Disease of Potatoes 95 



Lightning Rods 97 



Marl underlying Charleston 98 



Madder.— MustartJ a profitable crop 99 



Indian Summer. — Potatoes. — Guano.— Editorijil - 

 Notices l**" 



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