FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Bookstores in Raleigh 468 



Bone manure, its use and valuable effects 312, 728 



Bots or grubs in horses, remedy for 639 



Bread, consumption of in France and England 710 



Breeding, influence of parentage on offspring 193 



Breeding, for a dairy stock, remarks on 79 



Breed improved of hogs and cattle belonging to the 



Rev. John Kirkpatrick C32 

 Bronn, Professor, his theory of the influence of the 



origin of seeds on their products 2.57 

 Brooui corn (sorghum saccharatum) its cultivation and 



uses 600 

 Browne, Peter A. on the geology and mineralogy of 



Virginia 504 

 Bruce, James C. on horizontal trenching 334 

 Brush (Pickering) for destroying caterpillars in their 



nests 302 

 Buckwheat 371 — account of it and its culture in 



France 391 — culture of 216 — its culture and product 



by E. Crenshaw 345 — as green manure 5S4— queries 



on 477 

 Burnt clay 396 

 Butter, observations on the making, curing and casking 



299 

 Buzzard, Turkey, facts respecting 752 



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Cabell, N. F. on native grapes; Woodson, Bland, Cun- 

 ningham and Venable grapes 89 



Cabin system of Ireland, strong example of the ill 

 effects of minute division of lands 89 



Calcareous deposites in Lower North Carolina, de- 

 scribed by Isaac Ccoom 614 



Calcareous earth, supposed to be absent in the middle 

 region of Virginia, previous to the late discovery of 

 marl, by W . S. Morton 6 



Calcareous earth, its powers of combining with pu- 

 trescent matters and thus promoting cleanliness and 

 health 76 — useful for these purposes in towns and 

 still more in the country 77 to 79 



Calcareous soil, favorable to health in Alabama 276, 

 214 



■Calcareous manures, the use of favorable to health 557 



Calcareous rocks proposed as manure for the mountain 

 region 487 



Calcareous tufa, its formation 487 — a valuable material 

 for manure 487 



Cameron, Duncan, his report on public works proposed 

 for North Carolina 546 



Campagna di Roma, description of as desolated by ma- 

 laria 538 



Canada Thistle, the danger of its progress and the ne- 

 cessity for legislative safeguards against 612, 756 — 

 its appearance in Queen Ann's county, Md. stated 

 byT. Emory 755 — the difficulty of destroying it 756 



Canal boats on a new plan 603 



Canal, recently made by natural means in Upper Ca- 

 nada 684 



Canals, accelerated movement of boats on 92 



Canals, their superiority to rail roads 56 



Cane violet, on the culture of as food for cattle 720 



Carolina, North, objects for public works within, and 

 means for their construction 546 



Report of the Board of Public Works 591 



Caroline county, queries and remarks on farming in 

 436 



Carrots, cultivation and profits of 656 



Carter, Hill, some account of his farming on Shirley 

 105 to 107 — statements of his embanked tide swamp 

 129— his cultivation under the four-shift rotation 132 



Castor bean oil cake used profitably as manure 109 — 

 account of by T. G. Peachy 267 — queries on, 700 



Catawba grape 455— -wine made from by John Carter; 

 report on by W. R. Johnson 574 



Caterpillar, Gooseberry, destroyed by lime water 663 



Cattle, experiments on feeding with mangel wurtzel, 

 turnips and potatoes 164— monthly increase of flesh 

 fromthe^e different kinds of food 166— live and dead, 



comparative weight of 749 — distemper of, enquiry 

 as to its cause and suggestion of means for arresting 

 its ravages 160 

 Cattle, management of by Mr. Nicolau 174 — Devon 

 and Durham breeds in Buckingliam 643 — Meades' 

 stock 350, 486 — native 510 — results of crossing the 

 Devon and improved short-horned 67.3 — improved 

 short-horn, observations on 660— of choice breeds 

 and qualities imported by Corbin Warwick 127 — 

 improvements in the breeding of in England 741 — 

 English, to be imported in Ohio 596 



Cement, fire proof used in France 312 



Central region of Virginia, obstacles to and means for 

 the improvement of its lands 585 



Charlestown, on the Kanawha 528 



Charters for incorporating gold mine companies 502 



Chasselas grape, 455 



Chesapeake Bay, and its tributary rivers abound with 

 marine manures 513 



Cheap farming in Virginia, satirical account of 186 



Cheat (or Chess) controversy 304 — proofs in support 

 of cheat being produced from wheat 305, 535, 619, 

 638,724— and the contrary 83, 305, 400 



Cheese making 418 



Cheese made of potatoes in Germany, method de- 

 scribed 268 



Chemistry, importance of its study to farmers 473 



Chlorine, favorable to the germination of seeds 289 



Clay burnt, its value as manure 27, 28 — causes of fail- 

 ure in burning 27— method of burning — expense 

 28 



Cliff, fall of in England 420 



Clover, Buffalo 216 



Clovjr, its effects as a manure 243, 543— difference be- 

 tween the Western and Southern 544 ;means of setting 

 it on poor land 400 — sowed among growing com 

 687 



Clover crops at Weyanoke and manner of making into 

 hay 23 



Clover-hay, management of in New York 169 — re- 

 markable instance of its salivating horses 462 — how 

 prevented 462 — manured by gypseous earth 33 



Clover and trefoil seeds, fraud practised with by "doc- 

 toring" 62 



Clo\er lay, great value of as manure 323 



Clover seed, machine to clean 487 — easy mode of sow- 

 ing 566 — machine for thrashing 382 



Clover system on Sliirley 134 



Coal discovered in Berkley and Morgan counties 312, 

 4.36 



Coal, recent discovery of in Prince Edward, described 

 by W. S. Morton, "506 



Coal, estimate of the expense of transporting by rail 

 road and canal 686 



Cocke, Thomas with W. I. Cocke and Edmund Ruffin 

 their experiment on cheat 83 



Cocke, W. T. on moth weevil in the crop of 1833, 

 450 



Cocke, J. H. (sen'r.) on propagating the Chinese 

 mulberry by cuttings 503 



Cocoons, market for in Baltimore 109 



Cold weather at New Orleans 582 



Coleman, C. G. on grafting 607 



Colony, Pauper, in Holland, account of its origin, ex- 

 pense and advantages 142 to 144 — similar establish- 

 ments desirable in Great Britain and Ireland 144 



Columbia county. New York, system of farming in, by 

 J. P. Beekman 542— farming in, by Mr. Sanders 599 



Commercial reports, monthly, and state and prospects 

 of markets for agricultural products 212, 289, 383, 

 445, 493, 575, 617, 702, 766 



Commercial speculations, anticipated 215 



Conventions, Internal Improvement of North Carolina, 

 their meeting and objects 467— memorial from to the 

 legislature 546 



Copy rights, American, expense of purchasing, by 

 Carey, Lea & Co. 460 



Corn, Indian, examples of remarkable heavy products 



