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INDEX. 



Oats, premiums for, 517. 

 Ohio, its hilly resion, 75. 



averajre of wheat in, 150. 



Oil-cake, origin of feeding with, 93. 



formerly used only as manure, 93. 



and Indiaunieal. 205, 370. 



premium for an Essay on, 212. 



manufacture of in England, 423. 



■ expense of feeding with, '124. 



co.st of making, 424. 



utensils for manufacturing, 424. 



Oil, olive, production of, 197. 



sale and use of, 198. 



manufacture of 199. 



quantity estimated, 200. 



Olive, cultivation of, 195-200. 



tree and oil, 197. 



land, in France, 198 



cultivation in the United States, 195. 



Onions, 800 bushels an acre, 515. 

 Orange, Osage, for hedges, 554. 

 Orchards, directions for setting out, &c, 88,89. 

 Order of Agriculture in Europe, 429. 

 Organic tissue of plants, 233. 



existence: its philosophy, 403 



Osage Orange for hedges, 554. 

 Owens, Messrs., of Maryland, 374. 

 Owens, J. Jr . letter from, 375-6. 

 Ox, states of his labor. 354. 

 Oxen at the South, 158. 



and their value, 105. 



' feeding them fat. 371. 



Oxfordshire sheep, 221, 222. 



Page County, Va , its Resources, 102. 

 Pampas of South America, 85. 



wool-i;rowing on, 85. 



Papers in Maryland and Virginia, 25. 



Agricultural, their use, 26. 



their duty, 51, 58. 



Parents and their children, 21. 

 Paris, the bakers of, 6. 

 Parsnips for hogs. 202. 

 Patent-Office Report, 11, 551. 



and the Potato Rot, 11. 



Mr. Fleischmann on Wool, in, 551. 



Patterson, Mr., of Maryland, 350. 



his estate, 350. 



Peas, analysis of, 70. 

 Pea-straw, analysis of, 70. 

 Pea-vine the best cattle range, 163. 

 Peach-trees, the borer in, 402. 

 Pears, preserving, 282. 

 Pear-tree, the Endicolt, 284. 



the Stuyvesant, 284. 



Peel, Sir Robert. Agricultural Dinner of, 427. 

 Peg-roller, the, 430. 

 Peunock's revolving rake, 252. 



diill, 550. 



Pennsylvania in 1840, 52. 



and her markets, 75. 



employment of capital in, 475. 



Periodicals, agricultural : see Agriculture. 

 Persia and its climate, 84. 

 Philadelphia, markets in, 57. 

 Phosphates, the, 69, 70. 



earthy, C9 



alkaline, 70. 



of potash as manure, 539. 



of soda for the same purpose, 539, 541. 



Pie-plant: see Rhuhnrh. 

 Pitch-pine tree, the, 253. 



danger of its extinction, 253. 



the cause and remedy, 253. 



destruction of by hogs, 253. 



Plains of Germany, 128. 



of thePo, 127. 



great and productive. 127. 



Plants, origin of their carbon and nitrogen, 22. 



the constituents of 115-121. 



effect of climate on, 67-8. 



cellular tissue of, 116. 



spiral vessels and ducts of, 118. 



sap of, 233, 236. 



absorption by them, 234. 



the roots of 234. 



a new variety of, 422. 



increase of, 403. 



minute, their force, 120. 



see also Botany. 



Planters, tobacco, 5. 



gain to, 486. 



the profits of 483. 



Planting trees in lime, 93. 



and plant-beds, 302. 



the Potato earlj', 522. 



Plaster of Paris, cost and u.se of, 158, 160. 



see Gypanm. 



Plow, the, and young men, 10. 



example of the Romans, 10. 



and Science, 51. 



American and English, 421. 



Ransome's, 421. 



monarchical honors to, 427-8. 



Poetry : see Hoiiscirife's Department. 

 Poinsett, Hon. J. R . on Manufactures, 476. 



and on Agriculture, 476. 



Policy and action of Governments. 474. 



Pollards or dwarf trees, 405. 



Poor, the, of England and Ireland, 107. 



of America. 107. 



Poplar, amount of potash in, 94. 

 Population, increase of 63. 



in New- York and Virginia, 63-66. 



decrease of in Virginia, 102. 



agricultural, emploj'ed, 5s7-8. 



Portuguese measures, 409. 



Potash, phosphate of as manure. 539. 



Potato Rot and the Patent-Office Report, 11. 



Mr. Colt on. 15. 



Mr. Teschemacher on, 590. 



another cause for, 11, 290. 



atmospheric influence considered, 464 



• and Lime, 28. 



a covering of Straw for, 579. 



salt ys. barn-yard manure, 15, 290. 



agricultural salt for, 591. 



varieties from the seed, 16 



run out in about 14 years, 16. 



charcoal for, 290. 



lime, and niarshmud compost, 290. 



Irish, analyzed, 413. 



Sweet, or Carolina, 413. 



early and deep planting for. 417. 



Mr. Gowen on the, 417, 420, 579. 



yield of 417, 418. 



the price of 417. 



English experience in, 418. 



storing them, 418-19, 420. 



crops of 438. 



and manufactures, 486. 



observations on the, 522. 



early planting of 522. 



crops from seedlings, 523. 



premiums for, 517. 



correction relating to Mr. Gowen, 579. 



starch from diseased, injurious, 597. 



Potash wash for fruit-trees, 44. 



sulphate of in all plants, 70. 



quantity in trees and plants, 94. 



Poudrette for corn, 94. 

 Poultry and eggs, 359. 



