FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



plication to Virginia 309; copies lost by mail, of the 

 Farmers' Register 57G; loss in crops of wheat of 

 1833 323; on Mr. Eruce's letter on hill side trenching 

 335; alleged remedy for Hessian Fly 351; Dutch 

 ashes 375; progress and prospects of tiie Farmers' 

 Register 384; study of the natural histoiy of ani- 

 mals important to agriculture 3D4; foreign opinions 

 of Virginia farming, 395; on tlie discovery of a new 

 marl in Hanover ot singular properties 425; its analy- 

 sis, showing it to contain a large proportion of car- 

 bonate of magnesia •425; importance of geological 

 surveys and investigations to the agriculture of Vir- 

 ginia 426; on using the plougli to aid cutting ditch- 

 es, &.C. 435; answer to strictures of the Albany Ar- 

 gus, on the political course charged to the Farmers' 

 Register 44G; on the advantage of reports of tlie 

 seasons and state of crops 447; Mr. Hcrbemont's 

 grape vines 44S; on the improvement of the Colum- 

 bia lands, and the facilities for similar effects on the 

 poor and cheap soils of Eastern Virginia 544; on the 

 marine manures, &c. available for lower Virginia 

 515; procuring and using marl 556; on Sinclair on 

 Malaria 286; on Wardsforli on hill side ditches 363; on 

 the comparative expense of liming and marling 567; 

 losses by the mail 569; on the letter and opinions of 

 W. H. Roy 571; on New Jersey marl, and its entire 

 deficiency in carbonate of lime 572; on the increase of 

 coiTespondence of the Farmers' Register 575; on 

 agencies 576; addressed to postmasters 576; on crop 

 grass 580; on the quality of various specimens of marl, 

 or grass calcareous eartii 581; on a "Farmers'Directo- 

 jy" 534;dirferent value of gray and white fossil shells 

 as manure 591; on the mianagcment of hogs in Virgi- 

 nia 596; on the progress of the Canada thistle 612; on 

 the Commercial Report of April 5th, and on the 

 curi'ency 618; on the fence laws of Virginia and 

 New Jersey, and on raising hogs at large, and in 

 styes 634; on the alleged changes of wheat to cheat 

 and spelt 633; on the contraclictory statements on 

 gama grass, ruid on the publication of such opposite 

 opinions 640; on Mr. Rogers' analysis of magnesian 

 marl 462; on making collections of shells and other 

 fossil remains 462; on soils favorable and mifavora- 

 ble to the locust tree 4S7; on the calcareous tufa of 

 the Ihnestone region 487; the Farmers' Register, not 

 useless to the planters of Georgia 491; on the gold 

 mines of Virginia, and the evils and benefits to ac- 

 crue to the community from gold mining 50 J; on 

 the introduction of the manuhictory of beet sugar 

 506; on hay making in England 61; on tiie advan- 

 tages of agricultural journals, and the measures de- 

 sirable to be adopted to make the Farmers' Register 

 more useful 62; on the manufacture of potash 645; 

 FoUett's cotton hulling macliine Gi6; on the com- 

 ments on tlie venison ham manufactory 650; on the 

 Tuckahoe 666; supply of foreign periodical publica- 

 tions obtained 673; on the "Emancipation policy of 

 Great Britain" — and the English Reviews republish- 

 ed by Condy Raguct 689; on provincial terms used in 

 agricultural publications 701; on tlie "Cultivator," 

 and elfects of agricultural journals 716; bone manure, 

 728; on the eflect of the law in forbidding draining 

 734; on draining mill ])onds 734; on Canada thistle 

 * 756; on the effect of heat on gypsum 757; on the 

 want of a literary periodical in the Southern States 

 761; on the scarcity and high prices of foreign agri- 

 cultural books in the United States, and proposal of 

 a plan for a cheap republication of the best 761, 763; 

 on the terms of publication of the Farmers' Regis- 

 ter, and state of the work at the end of Vol. I. IHT, 

 768 

 Eggs, means of preserving 356 

 Eggs of the sdk worm, number of 525 

 T'2iectricity, its supposed cii'ect on vegetation 404 

 Emancipation and deportation of slaves, the impracti- 

 cability of the plan 41 

 Emancipation policy of Great Britain— a plan contem- 

 plated during the late war with the United States 688 



Emerson's Point, the farm of William Hambleton, Ma- 

 ryland, the improvement of, and the means used for 

 the pui-jiose 314 



Enclosures, law of in Virginia, its injustice and bad 

 policy, and the enormous losses caused by it 185, 396, 

 450, 490, 753, 633 



Engine, locomotive, load of on the Petersburg rail 

 way 296 



Engines, locomotive on rail ways, performance of with 

 different grades, loads, and velocities 495 



Entomology, importance of to the study of agricul- 

 ture 411 



E. R. on the origin and properties of moth -weevil 325 

 Evergreens, observations on planting 746 

 Excavating earth, machine for 732 



Exotic trees, bad taste in planting in Virginia 283 

 Experimenting in agriculture, often misunderstood 115 

 Eyre, W. L. his remarks on the manures and farming 

 of the Eastern Shore of Virginia 731 



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Factories, English, condition of their laborers 187; ev- 

 idence thereon laid before the British Parliament 

 188; infant labor 189 



Fairfax county, description of soils of, and their ma- 

 nagement, by F. 552 



Fallow, the various and contradictoiy senses in which 

 that term is used, and the origin of these ditierent 

 applications 202; summer, best when dry 321 



Farinaceous aliment obtained from straw 702; farm of 

 Samuel Chamberlain, its great products stated 229 



Farm dung, management of 98, 100; Davy's opinion 

 on the fermentation of 99 



"Farmer of the Lower James" on surface draining, 

 and the cultivation of corn 577 



Farmers, hints to 90; the cause of, connected with edu- 

 cation 727; of the west, advice to 653 



Farmers and mechanics 437 



Farmers' Register, remarks on 183; progress and pros- 

 pects of 384; parly course charged to, and denied — 

 what political subjects claimed as proper ibr discus- 

 sion 4.46; terms of for Vol. II, 767; remarks on, in 

 closing first Vol. 767 



Farming on Long Island 271; in lower Virginia, objec- 

 tions to by a foreigner 395; contrast of good and bad 

 740; in Northumberland 630; in Halifax, Va. 631; in 

 Virginia and New York, contrasted 750; seasonable, 

 practical effect of 434; in Scotland, great expense ot 

 in preliminary improvements 310 



Farms, large and small, the difference exemplified in 

 the former and present husbandry of Berwickshire, 

 and the cabin system of Ireland 88, 89 



Farm management, by W. X, Z. 539 



Featherstonliaugh, G. W. on the mineral resources of 

 Virginia 520 



Fecundity of insects, examples cited 464 



Feeding with hay 96 



Fence law^ 350 (see enclosures) 



Fences, dead, objections to 338; live, different plants 

 proposed for by N. Htjrbemont 389; of different 

 kinds 659 



Fern owl 422 



F. G. A. suggests some means for the better difiusion 

 of agricultural knowledge 648 



Fishes, salt water, naturalized in fresh 714 



Fitzlierbert's Buke of Jlusbanifrij, review of, and ex- 

 tracts from 369 



Flanders, double or secondary crops, common in the 

 husbandry of 13 



Floating (irrigating) land, profits of 97 



Flour, improvement in the preparation of, for expor- 

 tation 412 



Flour trade of the United States, from 1821 to 1831, 

 inclusive 219 



Floyd, Govenor, of Virginia, extracts from his mes- 

 sage on the public works of the state 472 



Fossils of Lower Virginia, a collection of specimens 

 desired 463 



