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FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Pines leaves as manure 120 



Pise, for enclosures 339 



"Planter" on rotation for tobacco lands 524 



"Planter of Mecklenburg," on an improving tobacco 

 rotation 603 



Plants, number of to the acre, at various distances 318; 

 mixed species, extraordinary production of 317; 

 luminous property of certain kinds 605; large 

 leaved, narrow leaved, fibrous, tuberous, and tap- 

 rooted, their different effects under culture, and their 

 proper places in rotations of crops 11 



Plaster of Paris, see Gypsum. 



Plough, hillside 487; used for ditching 385, 435 



Ploughs worked by steam 620 



Plough and horses, estimate of annual expense, and la- 

 bor performed 97 



Ploughing, horizontal, insufficient to prevent washing 

 449; on deep 239, 150 



Pollen, gathered by bees, its use 68 



Prairies of Alabama, account of 277, 367 • 



Premiums, report on, to the United Agricultural Socie- 

 ties of Virginia 147; offered or conferred by agri- 

 cultural societies, generally either useless or inju- 

 rious 147; experiments, the proper objects for 149 



Premiums offered by the Agricultural Society of Rock- 

 bridge 181 



Propolis, produced by bees, its use 66 



Provincial and improper terms, remarlcs on 701 



Poisons, action of, on vegetable structure 226 



Poultry, diseases of 710 



"Poor Farmer" encpnres the means of improving the 

 central region of Virginia 275 



Poor lands, estimate of the usual losses from their cul- 

 tivation 232 



Poor Laws, effects of 361; their evil operation on agri- 

 cultural interests 110; evidence respecting, reported 

 to tlie British parliament 110 to 115 



Posts, for fences, more durable if set with tiie upper 

 end in the ground 747 



Potash, enquiry concernino; the manufacture of, and 

 reply , by D.T. 645; carbonate of, on the manufac- 

 ture of 645 



Potatoes (Irish) raised under a bed of pine leaves 214; 

 gathering and securing of, through the winter 374; 

 Used in Germany to make cheese of 268; improved 

 culture, and increased products of 721; dlfierent 

 chemical products from 723; culture of 476; planting 

 120; a premium crop of 673; effects of removing por- 

 tions of the plants 190; manner of preserving for a 

 long time 213; experiment with, in feeding cattle 

 164; on the cultivation and preservation of, by G. L. 

 Corbin 764 



Powell, R. D. on the culture of cotton, and the rot 

 581 



Public works, bad policy of Virginia respecting the 

 construction of, by J. Dickinson 535; proposed by 

 the Internal Improvement Conventions of North Car- 

 olina 469, 472, 456; and by Board of Public Works 

 591; reasons for and against 469 



Rabbits 684 



Radiation of heat, applied to culinaiy vessels 222; 



Radiation, terrestrial, its effects on the processes of 

 vegetation 696 



Hafflesia arnoldi, a gigantic flower 634 



Railroad, Petersburg, report on its construction, by M. 

 Robinson, 53; later progress of the work 55, 758, 

 404; from Portsmouth to the Roanoke, advantages of 

 and estimate of cost 174; proposed from Richmond 

 to Fredericksburg and Potomac creek 92 



Rail roads of Virginia, and the (supposed) rival in- 

 terests of Fredericksburg, Petersburg and Norfolk, 

 considered by Smeaton 620, 622 



Rail road, Charleston, and Hamburg, errors of con- 

 struction and management 260, 362; description of 

 by A. Dexter 261; peculiar advantages of its con- 

 struction 262 



Rail road proposed from Raleigh to Newbern 354 



Rail roads, accidents and dangers of — their causes, and 

 means for prevention 588; more economical and ef- 

 ficient for transportation than canals 177; to convey 

 granite to Raleigh 468; on the errors in tiie usual 

 mode of construction, &c. 530; wooden, on William's 

 and Hartman's plan, recommended 281; Liverpool 

 and Manchester, made far more costly, by using 

 steam instead of horse power 179; undulating plan 

 and the principle 175, 651, 672 



Rake used in the Valley of Virginia, description of 203 



Raleigh, improvement of 468 



Rats (and mice,) means of extirpating 687; to kill 

 684, 729; method of catching practised by a success- 

 ful rat catcher in England"31; attested by T. A. 

 Knight 33 



Register, Farmers', remarks on its course, and the 

 proper means to render it most serviceable to the 

 community 62; proposal to publish 63; plan of the 

 work 64 



Review of the Paradise within the reach of all men, 

 &,c. 657 



Rice, culture of on embanked marshes in Georgia 235 



Rice mill, an improved kind 687 



Road law in Virginia, objections to 760 



Roads and railways, considered in connexion with the 

 interests of the Southern States, by Smeaton 258 



Roanoke, light lands of, need being consolidated 630 



Rockbridge countj% rotation and practices suitable to 

 485 



Rocks split without gunpowder 136; split by lightning 

 443 



Rooks, useful destroyers of worms in the soil 30 



Root culture 682 



Rotation of crops, essay on by J. Hamilton Couper 9; 

 the theory of, investigated and explained 9; should 

 be directed and altered according to certain princi- 

 ples 12; rationale and principles of, according to dif- 

 ferent authors 223; experimental proofs of De Can- 

 dolle's theory 317; Italian near Parma 14; in Tusca- 

 ny, in Lombardy, and of Sorrento 14; of Norfolk 14; 

 for Rockbridge countv', by R. R. B. 484; the three- 

 field, best adapted to the tide water region of Virgi- 

 nia 569; compared in effects with the four-field 132; 

 proposed for tobacco lands 524 



Rot in cotton 575; observations on 496; comparative 

 safety from of the Alvarado cotton 496; in timber, 

 cause, and means of prevention 307 



Roy, W. H. on the three-field rotation, and the im- 

 provement of land in Lower Virginia 569 to 571; his 

 account of the transportation and sale of marl irom 

 Middlesex 534 



Ruffin, Edmund, on the gypseous earth of James ri- 

 ver 207 



Rye, cultivation of 246; in the grain, good food for 

 horses 685 



Salivation of horses by clover hay, remarkable instance 



of 462; means of prevention 462 

 Salsafy, cultivation of, and manner of cooking 812 

 Sand, sea, wastes formed by — means for reclaiming 



194 

 Salt, common, some account of 726; on ears of corn 



(in the shuck) 404; not proper to use in curing hay 



95; useful on asparagus beds 218; with lime and 



clay, as manure 228 

 Salt wells of the Kanawha 527 



Salt works, of King and of Preston, Saltville, Va. 500 

 Saltville and its neighborhood described, with remarks 



topographical, geological, and general 497 

 Saltpetre,old method of manufacturing in Virginia 601 



ill effects of, on meat 364; denied 364 

 Sampson, Richard, his practice of manuring wheat on 



the surface, during winter, and top dressing grass 



land in summer with unrotted straw 58, 59 

 Sanders, Mr. his great crop of corn 599 

 Sassafras bushes, queries as to the means of destroying 



