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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



PKIIiiLDEIiPHIiL SSXiD STORE, 



No. 23 MARKET STREET. 

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

 other Grass Seeds. Field Seeds, consisting of prime 

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

 aJ" GARDE?J AND BIRD SEEDS generally. 

 July i5th, 1844. if 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. I94i 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 Mathincs, Grain 

 and Seed Favs of various patterns. Corn-shcllers 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 1 f eight sizes. Bill-hooks— Bram- 

 ble Scythes — Grubbing Hoes — Axes 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. 



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 Penitentiary on Coates' 

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

 four bushels— ,f 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 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- 

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

 early. Josiah Tatom. 



US' A FARM FOR SALE, CHEAP. 

 Situated in Newcastle county, Delaware, nine miles 

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

 proving neighbourhood, and convenient to a landing 

 on the canal. It contains about 109 acres. For fu* 

 ther particulars inquire in Philadelphia, Parrish street,' 

 tliird door below Seventh street. ,. 

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The communiccition of Dr. Noble, on the first page, 

 in relation to drilled wheaP, claims the notice of every 

 grower of this great staple. The land on vvhich the 

 experiments were tried, is located in the State of Dela- 

 ware, north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 

 on the rood leading from Wilmington to the Summit- 

 bridge. The wheat was of the Mediterranean variety. 



The quantity of rain which fell in the the Tenth 

 month, (October,) 1844, was a very little more than 



five inches 5.025 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, lltk mo. ist. 1844. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Broadcast and Drillrd Wheat page 105 



Age of Apple trees — Do natural trees outlive 



grafted? 107 



Premiums for the best managed Farms 108 



Checking Horses.— Milk 110 



Statistics of Fruit.— Keeping Cattle Warm Ill 



Improvement of the quality of Potatoes— Otter 



in India 113 



Insects injurious to Domestic Animals 114 



Bancroft's Address, N.y. State Ag. Fair 116 



N Y. State Agricnltural Society 117 



Minutes of the Philadelphia Ag. Society. — Ala- 

 bama Wheat 119 



Manufacturing Establishments in Philadelphia 



and its vicinity 120 



Geology of Soils 122 



Improvemets in South Carolina. — Receipt for 



making Coffee 123 



Dr. Darlington's Address 124 



Reports of Philadelphia Ag. Society 128 



St. George's Ploughing Match 133 



Editorial Notices 134 



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