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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. IX. 



Particular attention is invited to the Sale of Ed 

 ward Hairris' Norman Horses, at Moorestown, New 

 Jersey. It is very rarely that farmers of the United 

 States can avail t)iemselves of an opportunity for 

 the purchase of such stock. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 194i Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets. South side. 



For sale as above, Prouty St. 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's new Patent St raw-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 liew kinds, very su- 

 perior—as Seymour's White Giant Celery— Union 

 Head Lettuce. Also, Peas— Beans- Potatoes, (fee- 

 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 

 "W 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. 



!I3= 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. 



Seed Store, j 



No. 23 Market Street, Fhiladelphia. ' 



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, and choice varieties of Seed-corn. Also 

 ill season, Fruit and Shade Trees. Garden and Birdf 

 seeds generally. Guano in parcels to suit purchasers. 

 M. S. POWELL. 



Philad., March 15th. tf. 



The quantity of rain and melted snow which fell 

 during the Third month, 1845, was nearly two inches 

 and a half. 2.415 inches. 



Penn. Hospital, 4th mo. 1st. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Preparation of Seed 265 



Improvement under Difficulties 266 



Agriculture, &c., of the Cherokees 267 



Steaming of Cattle, &c 268 



Experiments in Farming 269 



Greatest amount of Produce from a given surface. 270 



Fecundity of Hens 272 



American Ag. Association of N. Y.— Guano. 275 



Cattle Epidemic— Useful Directions.— Oats,— 80 



bushels per acre 277 



Rich Milk.— Taljular Estimate of Crops, 1844. 278 



Southdown Buck 281 



Can a Horse Reason ? 288 



Potatoes, Wheat, &c.— Sulphate of Ammonia- 

 its Uses, &c 284 



Raising Cranberries 285 



American Provisions.— Soiling Cattle 286 



Premiums of Agricultural Society.— Guano. 287 



Royal Agricultural Society of England. 288 



Cultivation of the Cranberry 290 



Making Hav— Cutting Grass 291 



A Fact for the Curious 292 



Recipe for Making Cri^ad.- Raising early Cucum- 

 bers.— Editorial Notices 293 



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