FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Tide-water district of Virginia, its superiority main- 

 tained, by Mockjack 155 



Tillage, improvements of, in England 742 



Timber, preserved Irom rotting by lime 668 



Tobacco, management of, by Frederick Oronoko 290; 

 topping and priming 290; cutting and flavor 291; co- 

 lor 291; firing and curing 292: pressing 292; stripping 

 and assorting 292; substance and texture 292; order 

 293; wood for hogsheads 293; queries on curing, and 

 answers 294; concise directions for the cultivation 

 and management of, by J. F. Edmunds 641; priming 

 and topping, cutting and housing 641; curing — strip- 

 ping and prizing 642; management of every process 

 described by "Yellow Pryor" 632; on culture of, 

 by G. 579, 751; tillage of the crop and manage- 

 ment in its growing state; topping, priming, worm- 

 ing 751; the cultivation not opposed to the improve- 

 ment of the soil 441; rotation with clover, example 

 of on the farm of Wm. Old 441; preparation for, and 

 planting — cultivation — remarks and queries on Mr. 

 Old's method of cultivating 608; should not be made 

 the first crop on newly cleared land — best to follow 

 corn and peas 461; regulation concerning the trade 

 of, in France; means of guarding from early autumnal 

 frosts 508 



Tobacco growers, a few hints to, by "A Planter ol 

 Mecklenburg," 603 



Tobacco regie n of Virginia, on the improvement ol 

 the lands of, by "Planter"' 524 



Tornado in Vijginia,descriptionof its appearance 763; 

 etfects in Prince George 764 



Trees, wounds of, the process of nature to heal 225 



Trees, transplanting 382 



Trees, diseased, experiment on one with calomel 214 



Trees, raining, or such as possess a power of collect- 

 ing water 666 



Trenching, horizontal, to prevent the washing of hilly 

 land, by James C. Bruce 324; advantages of, 334; 

 process 335 



Trunks, for dikes of tide marshes 131, 167, 237 



Tufa, Calcareous, improperly called "marl" in Rock- 

 bridge 436; recommended as a valuable material for 

 manure 4S7; its manner of formation by nature 487 



Tulipomania in Holland, account of, 219; parallel case 

 in the land speculations and bank mania in Virginia 

 221 



Turkeys, young, cure for their gapes and snuflles 116; 

 proper treatment of 348 



Turkeys, query respecting 286 



Turnips, quantity to the acre 684; exhausting effect of 

 488; culture at Weyanoke 22; qualities of several 

 kinds 153 



Turnips, Swedish, equal in fattening to potatoes 564; 

 experiment with, in feeding 164 

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Undulating railway 464 



University of Virginia, report of honors conferred July 

 1833, 190 



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Vegetables, instinct of 59 



Vegetables, large 403 



Vegetable structure, action of poisons on 226 



Vegetable mould, natural formation of 228 



Venable,A. W. describes a cheap thrashing machine 274 



Venable grape, 89 



Venison ham manufactory 649; opposite politico-eco- 

 nomical views of the subject 650 



Vetches, winter 676 



Vine, propagation and culture of 413; by N. Herbe- 

 mont 493; in Europe 24 



Vines, Mr. Herbemont's 448; pruning of 412; frame 

 or trellis for, described 458; planted in yards 383 



Viper, 422 



Virginia, general dcsciiption of, 1; civil divisions — face 

 of the countiy — geology and mineralogy — mineral 

 waters 2; public works 3; agriculture and manufac- 

 tures 4; climate 4; population 5; the great and various 

 mineral resources oi', 520; mineral springs, proposal 

 for their improvement 297 



Virginia Farmer, remarks of its editor on the Farmers' 

 Register 128 



Vitahty, the duration of, in various garden seeds 251 



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W. on the locust tree 344; on ornamental trees 



W. on thrashing machines, and Albemarle Agricultu- 

 ral Society 553 



Walnut, Englith, may be grafted on native stocks 26 



W^ardsfork's observations on hillside ditching to save 

 lands from being washed 562 



Warwick, Corbin, his importation of cattle of choice 

 breeds 127; their pedigree 128 



Water obtained by boring, in the city of New York 184 



Water power for small mills 436 



Water racks, for the passage of streams through fences, 

 proper course for constructing and fixing them 692 



Water used for combustion 488 



Wax moth 73 



Weather, diary of 573, 637, 703, 747; 



Weed, ware, sea, used as a manure 513 



Weevil 724; destroyed by China leaves 227, black, 

 some account of, 325; moth, its manner of propa- 

 gation inquired into, by E. R. 325; by T. S. 331; 

 its ravages 325; dillierent opinions of its origin 325, 

 326, 327; experiments to ascertain the manner of 

 propagation 327; means to guard against the increase 

 and depredations of moth weevil 329; unusual num- 

 ber in new corn of 1833, 331; means of preventing 

 injury from 218; state of, in crops of 1833, 450; 

 a proof of its manner of propagating 463; the scarcity 

 of, 381 



Weights and measures, Scottish, (note) 98 



Westover farm, its management and improvement 

 under the four shift rotation, by John A. Selden 321 



Weyanoke farm, course of cultivation and improve- 

 ment on 17; its soil analyzed 18 



Wheat culture and product at Weyanoke 22; advantaga 

 of cutting before it is ripe 759; its first introduction 

 in New Zealand 490; experiments on, with regard 

 to its changing to cheat 420; great crops of in New 

 York 383, 759; machine for r^-^aping, invented by C. 

 McCormick, and tried in Rockbridge county 301 



Wheat, Yellow Lammas, enquiry respecting 161 



Wheat and corn, on raising good crops of, 242 



Wheat insect, (new) its ravages 310, 351 



W. J. D. on the greater healthiness of calcareous soils} 

 214; diseased trees — raising potatoes 214 



Wheel carriages, jjroper construction and fixing of, 87 



Whole Arte and Trade of Husbandrie, by Googe, re- 

 view of, 407 



Williamsburg, improvements of land near, 109 



Wood land, what season best to cut down? 639 



Woodson grape 89 



Wool, Saxony, 678 



Wounds of trees, natural process of their healing 223 



Worms destroyed by rooks 30; by lime water 730 



W. X. Z. on marl beds in New Kent 534 



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X. his Monthly Commercial Reports 212, 289, 383, 445, 

 493, 575, 617, 702, 766 



Yankee management and economy 167 



"Yellow Pryor" his directions for the management of 



tobacco 632 

 "Young Farmer" on tillage of Indian corn 45fl 



