T,inZ,E OF CO.-^^^Tl^^^'TS OF \*OIj, I 



Acid from sumach berries 508 



"Agricultor" on harvest management 48 



Agricultural intelligence — reports of the season and 

 crops 636 



Agricultural books, foreign 192 — the scarcity and high 

 prices of in the United States 761 — bad policy of 

 the duty thereon 761, 762, — plan of republishing 

 them in a cheaper form proposed 762 



Agricultural journals 93 



Agricultural knowledge, public institutions in Europe 

 for promoting 390 



Agricultural improvement and interests, tiie neglect of 

 by the legislature of Virginia and their need of legis- 

 lative aicl— by J. M. G. 613 



Agricultural interests, injured by the operation of the 

 poor lavF system 110 



Agricultural premiums offered by societies, generally 

 useless or injurious 147 



Agricultural schools 474 



Agricultural science, obstacles to the diffusion of 597 



Agricultural societies, their usual advantages and de- 



* fects 200 — means recommended to render them more 

 useful 201 



Agricultural Society of Albemarle, some account of 

 by AV. 553 



^gi'icultural Society of Fredericksburg, address to, by 

 their president J. M. Garnett 509 — remarks on native 

 cattle 510— thrashing jnachines 510 — implements, 

 experiments 511 



Agricultural Society of Middlesex, (Mass.) reports on 

 the farms of Mr. How and Mr. Moor 597, 598 



Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, premiums offered 

 by 181 — extracts from address to by Dr. R. R. Bar- 

 ton 439 



Agriculture, state of in Virginia 493; in Prince George in 

 1821 232— in Georgia 490 



Agriculture, propriety of encouraging the improve- 

 ment of by legislative enactments 452, 662, 672, 

 690, 748, 741 — means for promoting the improve- 

 ment of 738 — reflections on its improvement by 

 Medicus 26.3 — observations on the improvement of 

 in Virginia, by Jolui Dickinson 26 



Agriculture of the Netherlands, described at length 

 100, to 106 



Agriculture in Virginia essay on by Claiborne W. Gooch; 

 causes of its decline, anrf suggestions for its improve- 

 ment 121 to 127 



Agriculture, encouragement of by government, in New- 

 York— circular letter of J. P. Beekman correspond- 

 ing secretary of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society 309 — remarks on applied to Virginia 309 



Alabama, the calcareous region of described 276— fa- 

 vorable to health 276 



Alabama lands 217 



Ale, made from Mangel Wurtzel 715 



Mga marina, or sea weed as manure 513— its use in 

 New Jersey and in Scotland 514 



Alimentary tubercle of Van Deimen's land 665 



Alnpach, slide of, a remarkable work 52 — its construc- 

 tion and uses 53 



Analysis, chemical of shells 589 



Analysis of various calcareous deposites 581 



Answers to queries respecting the implements and ope- 

 rations of farmers on James river 648 



Ants destroyed by camphor 380 



Aphis Lanata or American Blight 372, 683 



Apiaries 70 



Apple seed, time to sow 224 



Apples, means to keep 684 



Appomattox, Upper, on improvements in the naviga- 

 tion of 670 



Arabic work on Agriculture, notice of 492 — transla- 

 tions from 515, 583 



Arabs, their opinions and treatment of horses 602 



Archer, Robert, on the culture of artificial grasses in 

 Lower Virginia 398 



Ashes, leached, as manure value of 748 



Ashes Dutch, {"cendres de mer' or sea ashes) chem- 

 ical composition of 375, 538— use of as manure in the 

 Netherlands and remarkable effects of 376 — their im- 

 portation into England recommended by Sir John 

 Sinclair 376— account of their use and value as ma- 

 nure 679— substitutes proposed for 537, 714 



Ashes of pit coal as manure 628, 630, 635 



Asparagus, new and successful mode of rearing, by 

 covering the beds with sand 135 



Atmosphere, influence of on land and the importance 

 of preparing soils to profit by it 336 



Ai-tichokes, Jemsalem, as food for stock and their cul- 

 tivation 639 



Avalanclie in the White Mountains 406 

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Bacon, to prevent its being injured by skippers 203 



Barley, on the culture of 598 



Banks Indian, of decayed shells a valuable manure 514 



Bat, tame 421 



Bay beny or myrtle wax 419 



Beds, wide, in drained low-grounds, how laid off and 

 kept 709 



Bee, history of 698— a parasite of 443 



Bee-hive, an improved plan described by Z. 749 



Beekman, J. P. his account of the farming and im- 

 provements by plaster and clover in Columbia coun- 

 ty, Ne^v York 542 



Bees, 444 — treatise on the manawment of, translated 

 from the French 65 — different kinds of 65 — distinc- 

 tion between the queen, drones and working bees 65; 

 their reproduction 66— sting 66— produce honey, wax, 

 pollen and propolis 66— swarms -67— diseases of bees 

 and their enemies 63— hives 69, 70, 71— manual for 

 the management of during each month of the year 

 71 — moving them to pasture 75 — directions for buy- 

 ing 72— management of 250— in Cashmere 677— kept 

 at work in a garret 218— manner of hunting them, 

 to discover the trees or hollows in which they live 

 146— means for preserving in winter 119 



Beets, product of, and proposed as food for hogs 595 



Berwickshire, old and new husbandry of 88 



Bird killing, effects of 752 



Birds, winter food of 699— useful to destroy insects 

 476 — should not be wantonly destroyed 26— protect- 

 ing seed-corn from their depredations 713 



Black tongue, a disease of horses 572 



Blaettermann, Professor, on Terrc houille, S(C. 540 — his 

 translations from an Arabic work on agriculture 515 



Bland grape 89, 456 



Blight American (or Aphis Lanata j 372 



Blue grass by H. C. 580 



Boabab, the largest tree in the world; description of 

 598 



Boats, new principle used to increase their motion on 

 water without additional power 303 



"Boke of Husbandry" by Fitzherbert, review of 369 



"Book farming," popular objections to and rts great 

 effect in improving the agriculture of England 743 



