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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. IX. 



Particclar attention is invited to the Sale of Ed 

 ward Harris' Norman Horses, at Moorestown, New 

 Jersey. It is very rarely that farmers of the United 

 States can avail tlieniselves of an opportunity for 

 the purchase of such stock. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194J Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets. South side. 



For sale as above, Prouty &; Mears' Patent Centre 

 Draught Self-sharpening Ploughs, with all the new 

 improvements attached. These ploughs have taken 

 nine premiums the last fall, in the States of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Delaware. Subsoil ploughs for one or two 

 horses — Taylor'snewPatent 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 the collection are several new kinds, very su- 

 pejior— 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. 



itr SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 43 

 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. 



Seed Store, 



No. 23 Market Street, Philadelphia. 



The subscriber keeps constantly a supply of White 



and Red clover, and other grass seeds. Field seeds, 



consisting of Spring and Winter Wheats, Potatoe- 



Oats, Barley, andchoice varieties of Seed-corn. Also 



in season, Fruit and Shade Trees. Garden and Bird 



seeds generally. Guano in parcels to suit purchasers. 



M. S. POWELL. 



Philad., March 15th. tf 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Second 

 month, 1845, was about four and three-quarter inches. 

 4.738 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, "ird mo. 1st. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Difficulty in Churning Butter, obviated. page 233 



Professor Hallowell's E.\periments on Manures. 234 



Farm cultivated by the Insane 236 



Progress of Horticulture in Indiana 237 



How to raise Turkies 240 



E.xperiments with Gas liquor on Grass Lands. — 



Cultivation of Fruit 241 



Seed Wheat 242 



Prouty &, Mears' Centre-draught Plough in Ohio. 243 



Report on Crops 244 



Letter from T. le Couteur 245 



Lightning Rods,— No. 1 247 



The Shepherd's Dog 252 



Animal Heat, concluded ,. .. • 253 



Scientific Agriculture 255 



Uselessness of Dogs 253 



.-\cquired Knowledge among Farmers 257 



Adulterated Milk 258 



I. W. Roberts' Durham Steers.— Ingenious Baven. 260 

 Editorial Notices 261 



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