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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. IX. 



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. 

 JCr GARDEN AND BIRD SEEDS generally. 

 July \5th, 1844. tf. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194^ Market street, between Fifth and Si.xth 

 streets. South side. 



For sale as above, Pronty & Mears' Patent Centre 

 Draught Self-sharpening Ploughs, with all the new 

 improvements attached. These ploughs have taken 

 nine p'remiums the last fall, in the States of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Delaware. Subsoil ploughs for one or two 

 horses— Taylor's new Patent Straw-cutters— Guillotine 

 Improved do.— Corn-Planters— Cultivators— Harrows; 

 Turnip-Drills, &c. Garden tools of every description. 

 Also, Vegetable and Flower seeds, crop of 1844, grown 

 for this establishment, and warranted true to name. 

 Among th3 collection are several new kinds, very su- 

 perior—as Seymour's White Giant Celery— Union 

 Head Lettuce. Also, Peas— Beans— Potatoes, &c.— 

 Fruit-trees— Bulbous roots, &c., for sale at the lowest 

 prices, by D. O. PROUTY. 



Poudrette. 



A valuable manure— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of the Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth Street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 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. 

 We were entirely unable last spring to supply the de- 

 mand, though it was then but an experiment in this 

 vicinity. The results on corn have been generally 

 very satisfactory. Early applicants will be most cer- 

 tainly supplied. Farmers to the south and in the in- 

 terior, both of this State and of New Jersey, are in- 

 vited to try it. JOSIAH TATUM. 



COLEMAN'S AGRICULTURAL TOUR IN 

 EUROPE. 

 It win not be forgotten that subscriptions to this 

 work, are received at the office Of the Farmers' Cabi- 

 net; where every farmer in the country will be hear- 

 tily welcome as a subscriber to both, or either of these 

 publications. Single Numbers will be sold. 



Str SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 42 

 The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 

 agricultural character of this paper, will be inserted 

 at the rate of one dollar for each insertion often lines 

 or less; and so in proportion for each additional line. 

 Payment in advance. 



A VESSEL recently arrived at New York with a cargo 

 of Guano, the first, we believe, brought into that port. 



The quantity of rain and melted snow which fell 

 during the First month, 1845, was about three and 

 three-quarter inches 3.76 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, Und mo. 1st. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Gad-fly— Sheep-nose Worms page 201 



Harmon's varieties of Wheal in N. York. 202 



Island of Ichaboe— Guano 205 



Time is Money.— Poinled-toed Shoes 207 



Agricultural Imports in England.— Sulphuric 



acid as a Manure 208 



Dithculty in Churning Butter 209 



Food for different Latitudes.— Ornamental 



Shrubs and Flowers 210 



Curing obstinate Hnrses.—Hemp.— Alpaca Wool. 211 



Disease in the Polatoe 212 



Duty on Hops 215 



Heavy yield of Wheat.— Silk 216 



Hemp 217 



Berkshire Hog 218 



Capons.— Cast steel Ploughs.— Butter.— Beautiful 



Experiment with a Plant 219 



Barley.— Facilities for Transportation 220 



Dogs and Cats.— Advantage of planting Fruit 



Trees on declivities.— Artificial Guano. 221 



Poudrette 223 



The Poor.— Orchards 223 



Bones— Whip handles, &.C 224 



Cultivation of Lettuce 225 



American Ploughs in England 226 



Animal Heat „ 227 



Bees Swarming 228 



Editorial Notices ' 229 



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