FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



them 158; their rapid increase on cultivated fields 

 158; supposed fitness of sassafras for medicinal and 

 other uses 159; on extirpating the growth 366, 398 

 Schistus, as manure 635 

 Schools, agricultural 474 

 Scuppernong grape, white and black 456 

 Seasons and crops, reports of solicited 447 

 Seedlings, from grafted and ungralted trees 372 

 Seed wheat, importance of its being well matured, and 



perfect, proved by experiment 318 

 Seeds, the influence of their origin on the crop, Pro- 

 fessor Bronn's theory 257, 258; locomotive powers 

 of 634; producina; oil, on the cultivation of— a^ new 

 source of profit to farmers in the United States 

 646; their germination favored by chlorine 289; 

 garden, duration of the vitality of 251; of annual 

 flowers, 650; grass, frauds in the sale of 62 

 Selden, John A. on the four-shift rotation, and account 



of the improvement of the Westover farm 321 

 Selcnite, found in Prince Edward 9 

 Semple, Judge James, account of his improvement by 



marling, &c. in York county 157 

 Shands, William, on the yellow locust 215 

 Sheep, statement of actual profits from a flock 747; 

 husbandry 182, 230, 414, 415, 416; merino, brought 

 into Virginia when imported the burs of the Span- 

 ish tliislie 273 

 Shells, chemical analysis of, by Professor Rogers 589 

 Shells, used in Mobile for paving the streets, and the 

 supposed benefit thence resulting to the health of 

 the inhabitants 152, 279; broken down by being co- 

 vered wath fermenting dung 116; decayed oyster, 

 banks of (or Indian banks) a valuable manure 514 

 Shells, fossil, (or marl) proposed as a material for 



roads 395; in New Jersey 382 

 Shells and organic remains found in a marl bed in 



North Carolina 298 

 Shelluiarl under peat moss in Scotland— its formation 



— £ 1000 a year obtained by its sale 90, 92 

 Shirley farm, its state and products first under the three- 

 shift, and then under the four-shift rotation 132; soil 

 and crops 106; management of manure on 107; em- 

 banked marsh 107 

 Short stages, advantages of in drawing heavy loads 697 

 Silk, culture of in New England 410; in New York 

 recommended 378; in South Carolina 152, 413; in 

 Virginia, and obstacles to its extension 120, 230 

 Silk worm, Virginia natural, account of in an old poem 



734 

 Silk worms, directions in detail for rearing and manag- 

 ing 476; the United States well adapted to the rear- 

 ing of 26; a tabular statement of their food at every 

 ao-e, &c. 483; simplicity of their management 631; 

 Persian method of managing 542; number of eggs 

 of 525 

 Silk reeling and twistintr machine of Adam Brooks 242 

 Sinclair, sfr John, on Malaria 557; sketch of his life 



and public services 286 

 Sirop for feeding bees 71 

 Skippers in bacon, means for preventing 203 

 Slavery and Emancipation, review of late works on, 



by Professor Dew, and Mr. Harrison 36 

 Slavery, evils of to Virginia 36; remedy proposed for 



40; the three kinds of 48 

 Slaves, manasjement of 564; refugee and emancipated 



carried olf by the British to Nova Scotia and to 



Trinidad 405; their subsequent condition 405 

 Slaves of hunger — laborers in English factories 187 

 "Smeaton" on°the policy of North Carolina as to pub- 

 lic works 204 

 Smut in wheat 401 

 Snakes, their usefulness to the farmer, and the folly of 



the general wanton destruction of their lives 402 

 Soap making, hints on 760; proper metliod and causes 



of failure 55 

 Soils, sandy, in Columbia county, greatly enriched by 

 clover and gypsum, 543; light or sandy, the great 

 benefit of their being rested and consolidated 710; 



of Bedford county, description of, and their value 

 337; their bad management in general 338; in Wes- 

 tern New York 403 

 Soil of embanked fresh water marshes — a putrescent 

 and rapidly wasting body, which will return under 

 the dominion of the tides 107 

 Song of the bees 203 



Sorrel, growing on marl 116; explanation 117 

 Spelt produced from wheat 633 

 Spider, (the water,) account of 678 

 Spring, burning, on tlie bank of the Kanawha 527 

 S.eam power, new method of applying 662; for rail- 

 ways more costly than horse power 179 

 Steam thrashing machines in Scotland 655 

 Steam ploughs proposed 620 

 Steam carriages 694; on common roads 489 

 Steam boiler," to prepare food for stock 381; construc- 

 tion, &c. described 475 

 Steam boat disasters, frequency of 467 

 Steamed food for swine and cattle 475 

 Steamer, to destroy bedbugs 382 



Steger, J. H. his plan lor lessening the labor of cutting 

 down and removing corn on the stalks 269; discovers 

 a new marl in Hanover 424 

 Stimson's, (Earl) farm, its products and manage- 

 ment 442 

 Sting of the bee 66 

 Stock, live, in England, the great increase of weight 



produced by improvements in breeding 672 

 Stock, dairy, remarks on breeding 79 

 Stone walls for fences 715 

 Straw, wheat, Richard Sampson's use of unrotted to 



cover his grass land during summer 58 

 Straw feeding 366 

 Straw cutters, usefulness of 662 



Streams, necessity of a good outlet for, in draining 390 

 Stumps, machines for pulling up 302, 662 

 Suckering corn, opinions and facts respecting 685 

 Sugar, claying or whitening 746 

 Sugar crop of 1833, 444 

 Sugar, beet-root, account of the product in France 



693, 694; estimated value of the production 5(;7 

 Suggestions for ditlusingof aoricultural knowledge, by 



tours, lectures, £tc. by F. G. A. 648 

 Sulphuric acid in springs in New York 542 

 Sumach leaves, use of in Norfolk— their value as a 



crop for market 152 

 "S(/u7/i Cuique," on the injustice and impolicy of the 



law of enclosures, or fencing in Virginia 396 

 Swallov>'s, destroyers of numerous insects 476 

 Swamp (tide) of Shirley, account of the manner and 

 cost of its embanlcment, by Hill Carter 129; its cul- 

 tivation, and crops from 1826 to 1832 inclusive 130 

 Swamps, extensive, their drainage prohibited (in ef- 

 fect) by the operation of the laws of Virginia 232 

 Sweetwater (summer and white) grapes, best of fo- 

 reign kinds 455 



Tar from pitcoal, a cheap substitute for paint 289 



Teasel, used in the cloth manufacture 619 



Temperature of fermenting manure observed 137 to 

 141 



'Tm-c hoxLilk" its properties 539, 540, 541; supposed 

 to be identical with the "dead coal" of the Chester- 

 field mines 628; found in Prince Edward 629 



Thistle, Canada, a growing enemy to agriculture, 

 which ought to be guarded against 612; account of 

 it in New York 613 



Thistle, Spanish, introduced in Virginia by tlie impor- 

 tation of Merino sheep 273; its extiqmtion recom- 

 mended, and objections tliereto anticipated 273 



Thrashing- machine, a simple and cheap one described 

 by A. %. Venable, 274; Z. Booth's recommended 512 



Three-field rotation, the best for the climate and soil 

 of the tide-water region of A''irginia 491; and by 

 Wm. H. Roy, 569 



