FARMERS^ REGISTER— INDEX. 



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Four-shift rotation, its advantage illustrated by the 

 cultivation and products of the Shirley farm 132; 

 and at Westover 321 



Fruit, gathering and preserving 409 



Fruits, method of generating, new varieties of 223 



Fruit trees, Chinese method of propagating 697 



Forest trees, the most ornamental 282 



Fuel, means for economizing 60 



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G. on tobacco culture, No. 1, 579, No. 2. 7.51 



Gama gi-ass, botanical description of, by H. B. C. 227 



observations on, by N. Herbemont 238 — account of 



by W. B. Meares 241 — its vigorous and luxuriant 



growth in Dinwiddie, by John Grammer 610 — its 



value doubted 611 — found in South Carolina, and 



near Petersburg, Va. 216 — in Halifax county 631 — in 



Sussex 630 — on Roanoke 492— in Prince Edward 401 



Gapes in young turkeys, how cured 116 



Gardening and agricu'lture, products of improved by 



improvements in cultivation 732 

 Garnett, J. M. his address to the Fredericksburg Agri- 

 cultural Society 509 

 Gases, the liquefaction supposed — the great power that 



it will constitute for propelling machinery 53 

 Gelatine, dispute respecting its nutritive qualities 701 

 Guinea grass, its value and management 60, 217 

 Geological essays by Galen 529, 605, 605 

 Geological investigations and surveys, important to the 

 developement of the resources and wealtli of Vii-- 

 ginia 504, 522, 118, 153 

 Geological map of Virginia wanted 154 

 Geological speculations 473 

 Geology, application of to agriculture 246 

 Georgics, Old Virginia, a poetical fragment 551 

 Gestation, period of in ditferent domestic animals 765 

 Gloucester farming 491 . 



Gold, the value of late discoveries in Virginia 244, 

 501, 523, — benefits to be expected and dangers to 

 be feared on this account, from the public 501 

 Gold in Virginia, ancient belief of 619 

 Gold mines, charters for working — reasons for and 

 against granting the various a})plications to the legis- 

 lature 502 

 Gooch, C. W. on curing hay 162 

 Googe's Whole Arte and trade of Husbandric, review 



of, and exti-acts 407 

 Grafting, the various modes described, by Clayton G. 



Coleman 607 

 Grafting grape vines 457 

 Grammer, J. (jr.) on the growth of Gama grass in 



Dinwiddie — deems it of but small value 610 

 Grape, profit attending the culture of 182 

 Grape, Norton, description and valuable qualities of 



300 — contrary opinion thereon 301 

 Grapes, to preserve 382— native and foreign, their 

 qualities 455 — the native the best 45-5 — Woodson, 

 Cunningham, Venable 89 — Bland 89 — methods of 

 propagating, by cuttings, layers and ingrafting, by 

 Edmund Noel 457 

 Grass, orchard 413 



Grasses, artificial, cultivated profitably in Lower Vir- 

 ginia, by Robei-t Archer 398 — different kinds of 399 

 Grass seeds, plan for sowing 434 



Grazing in common, the right of by the law of Vir- 

 ginia 490 

 Grazing business in the Valley of Virginia 631 

 Green cropping in England 674 



Green crops turned in as manure, profit of and com- 

 parison with tlie cost of other manure 308 

 Grigsby, Reuben, on the value of the yellow locust 



156 

 Grubbing, by oxen attached to a lever 616 

 Grubs or bots in horses, remedy for 639 

 G. W. F. on the importance of geological surveys and 

 investigations to Virginia 153 — describes the natu- 

 ral bridge over Stock creek 154 — sends Sinclair on 

 Malaria 556 



Gypseous earth, by Edmund Ruflin 207 — a powerful 

 manure for clover 33 — its discovery, location and 

 constitution 208— supposed to be identical with the 

 "Jersey marl" described by Judge Peters 21 l-"Sup- 

 posed causes of the disuse of Jersey marl 212 

 G^ pseous deposites in Prince Edward 700 

 Gypsum from Smythe county, Va. 9; Gypsum, experi- 

 ments with, anil effects of as manure 217, 229, 366, 

 507; beneficial use of in Columbia, N. Y. 654 — time 

 to sow 746 — on the use of 756— practice in the 

 western part of New York 756 — opposite opinions 

 as to its being injured by heat 757 



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Hambleton, AVilliam, the improvement of his farm, 

 at Emerson's Point 314 



Hampden Sydney College, anniversary exercises, and 

 honors conferred 345 



Harder, Teunis, statement of tlie expenses and profits 

 of his farm 544 



Harnessing work horses, importance of a proper mode 

 754 — diil'erence of practice in Belgium and France 

 755 



Harper, P. W. on Draining 64-3 — on cultivating low 

 grounds 644 



Harrison, Edmund, states the effect of marl on a crop 

 of corn 35 



Harrison, W. B. on cultivation of corn 395 — states re- 

 sult of an experiment of the comparative effect of 

 marl and lime 396 



Harvest management, by "Agricultor" 48 



Hay, clover, made cheaply by Fielding Lewis 23 



Hay making in England 60, 94 



Hay management of, and slovenly practices 94 — proper 

 time for mowing 95 — salt not proper in curing hay 

 95 — manner of feeding 96 



Hay stacks, the heating of by fermentation, and the 

 effects thereof on the hay 60 



Hay, curing of, by C. W. Gooch 162 



Health endangered by hog pens and filtli US 



Heat, new process for generating 466; radiation of, im- 

 portant to be considered in culinary vessels 222 



Hedges 238; instructions for rearing 144; various plants 

 recommended for 145 



Hemp, culture of 669 



Herbemont, N. his observations on Gama grass, hedges, 

 &.C. 23S; on urate rials for enclosures 338; plants for 

 hedges 339; pise walls 339; on teri-e houille 541; re- 

 commends the trial of ashes from salt marsh 542 



Herds grass 4S6 



Hessian Fly 401; means of destroying 351; not con- 

 fided in 351; tlie egg of, supposed to be deposited 

 on the grain of wheat 723 



Hickory tree of remarkable size 612 



Hill-side ditches — the plan of Mr. Bruce objected to, 

 and another recommended by Wardsfork 562 



Hilly lands, on the several plans used to prevent their 

 being washed — horizontal ploughing, trenches and 

 graduated furrows 680 



Hill-sides, plan for retaining rain water on, and pre™ 

 venting washing 730 



Hiving swarms of bees 74 



Hives, for bees, the common objectionable 69; Huber's 

 book-hive 69; village hive, description and use of, 

 and manner of constructing 72 



Hog, increase of weight in fattening 525 



Hogs, on fattening 432; folly of permitting them to run 

 at large 432; method of feeding in st}-es, and with 

 milk 433; bad management of, cfescribed by "A Poor 

 Farmer"' 595; of tlie Byfield breed 319 



Holland, ancient eruption of the sea in 80; draining 

 lakes in 80 



HoUert, M. memoir on his discovery of an artificial 

 manure, proposed by him as a substitute for Dutch 

 ashes 538 



Honey, manner of taking from hives 74, 76 



Hops, faults in managing 302; may be substituted in 

 yest, by the Life Everlasting 631 



