FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



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different circumstances 137 to 141; deductions from 

 these obssrvations 141; preparation and application 

 of, at Weyanoke 20; great did'erence of practice 

 respecting, among good farmers 21; made in sum- 

 mer 24 

 Manuring, the Flemish system of 377; surface, advan- 

 tages of, and reasons for 48^; on fallows for wheat 485 

 Maple sugar, on the manufacture of 739 

 Marble, beautiful kind discovered in Kanawha 309 

 Market, home, allbrded for agriculture by protecting 

 duties 599 



Marl, instance of its remarkable effect on corn, stated 

 by Edmund Harrison 35; in the Northern Neck, 349; 

 from Prince Edward, discovery and description of 7; 

 analysis of 9; in the middle region of Virginia, exten- 

 sion of the discoveries in Prince Edward, Mecklen- 

 burg and Lunenburg counties 117; the mode of ana- 

 lyzing directed in the Essay on Calcareous Manures, 

 objected to 193; analyzing of 192; Jersey (so called) 

 eupposed to be identical with the gypsgous earth on 

 James River 211; its usa and value 572; contains no 

 carbonate of lime 272, 572; of James City and York, 

 rich and abundant 108; first use of marl in Virginia 

 108; prejudices against its use in Virginia 753; trans- 

 portation and sale of from Middlesex 534; plain di- 

 rections for anal}'zing 609; the importance of this 

 Erocess to every larmer using marls, &.c. 609; water- 

 orne, expense of applying, compared with lime 567, 

 568; water-borne, use and cost of in England 365; 

 tnagnesian of Hanover, found in tlie coal and granite 

 region 424; its constituent parts 425; analysed by 

 Professor Rogers 425; auger, description of 184 



Marl beds on tlie Rappahannock 555; in Nansemond 

 581; in New Kent 534; on Nottoway river 701 



Marling, queries on, by Corn Planter 270; answered 

 271; hints for carrying on, by Edmund Noel 197; 

 progress of improvement by 606; in King William 

 county 40 



Marly formation in Prince Edward, description of 6, 

 7, 8 



Marsh, embanked, at Shirley 107; and remarks on such 

 works in general, and their transient value and pro- 

 ductiveness 107 



Marsh land of North Carolina 472; on reclaiming, and 

 preparing such lands I'cr cultivation 167 



Marsh, diked, by Col. John Taylor, put down by the 

 courts as injurious to health 729 



Marshes, embanked, under rice culture in Georgia 235 



Marsh mud as manure 21S, 314 



Marsh, salt, the cishes from, proposed as manure 542 



Marshall, Thomas, his description of the paddle, and 

 its use in cultivating corn 554 



Martins, house 423 



Mattresses of corn shucks, tlie manner of making them 

 described 616 



Meade's Durham cattle 486 



^Measures, Scottish, (note) 98 



"Medicus," on the improvement of agriculture 263 



Meteoric phenomena, remarkable appearance of, No- 

 vember 13th, 1333, 436 



Mice, prodigious number of, and their depredations in 

 young plantation of trees in England 717 



Milk, its becoming sour prevented 752 



Milk sickness on the Wabash 319 



Millponds, on substituting by canals, advantages of 733 



Mineral resources of \ irginia, letter on, by G. W. 

 Featherstonhaugh 520 



Mineral waters of Virginia 2; suggestion of their use 

 in irrigation 700 



Mineralogy of Virginia, importance to the common- 

 wealth of a proper investigation, by geological sur- 

 veys 504; importance of the study of, to Virginia 118 



Mines, gold, of Virginia 523 



Minge, C H. his estimates of tlie expense of liming 

 and marling 567 



Mobile, its former unhealtliiness, and the beneficial 

 change since paving the streets with shells 279 



"Mockjack," on the culture, products, &c. of Lowef 

 Virginia 283 



Mole, account of the habits of 718 



Moles, destroyed by the castor bean 749 



Moon, influence of on the seasons, considered 162 



Mortar, formation of 373 



Morton, W. S. on coal discovered in Prince Edward 506; 

 discovers and describes the argillaceous mar! and 

 sclenite of Prince Edward 5; describes the "tern 

 houille'" or "dead coal" of Prince Edward county 

 629 



Moth, wax 73 



Mouse, Harvest 421 



Mowing machine 701 



Mulberry, white, may be grafted on native stocks 26; 

 on the culture of 485 



Mulberry raised from cuttings 443 



Mulberry, Chinese, propagated by cuttings — Mr. Car- 

 ter's practice 503 



Murrain 398 



INIuscadine grape, early white, 455 



Muskrats, their desti'uctive operations on embankments, 

 and the means used to restrain the mischief 131 



Myrtle wax 419 



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Natural bridge on Stock Creek described 154 



Natural History (Jesse's) Gleanings in 394 



North Carolina — her policy as to works for interoaJ 



improvement 204 

 Negroes, on the proper management of 564 

 Negro stomach, peculiar formation of 665 

 Netherlands, agriculture 9f 100; in Campine of Bra- 

 bant 101; Brabant contiguous to Campine 102; Wal- 

 loon Brabant and Northern Hainauit, 103; Middle 

 Brabant 103; Flanders 104, 106; Pays de Waes 106 

 Newton, W^illougliby, on marine manures 513 

 Noel, Edmund, on native and foreign grapes, &c. 457 

 Norfolk (England) soils and subsoils of, 81; "pan" uni- 

 versal below the soil 81; cause of its formation 81 

 Northumberland, wood trade and farming of 630 

 Nottoway river, navigation of 304 

 Nutrition of plants, tlie seven periods of, described ITO 



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Oak Hill farm, recent improvements on 346 



Oats, a large species of 653; animated 275 



Oat grass, description and value of 297 



Oats cleaned of black-dust 275 



Oil from sunflower seed, its production and value 109; 

 from castor beans 109; from other seeds 646 



Onions, culture of 301 



O}' ster-shells, means for pounding desirable 216; pow- 

 dered, as manure 28; account of their application 29; 

 cost of buying, burning, and applying to land 567 



Oyster-shell h me 240 



Oxalis Crcnata, a newly introduced root — ^promises to 

 rival the potato 27; account of 686 



Oxen used for grubbing 616; trained to back 603 

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Painting houses, errors in the practice 249 



Pampas of South America, vegetation of 716 



Parentage, influence of on offspring in breeding 195 



Pasture and grazing at Shirley 134, 135 



Peachy, T. G. his practice, and products derived in 

 using the oil-cake of the castor bean as manure 267 



Peas, field, tlieir value as a crop 34; supposed to pre- 

 vent the growth of the partridge pea 35; queries 

 concerning 120; black (or tory,) as green manure 584 



Pea vines, wild 401 



Peat mosses, and shell marl beneath, at Dunnichen in 

 Scotland — the supposed formation of both 90, 92 



Pens, to receive early gathered corn — directions for 

 constructing 50 



Petersburg, value of property in 444 



Periodical, literary, want of in the Southern States, 761 



Physiology, vegetable, remarkable law of 295 



Pine, long leaved, remarks on 496 



