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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER II. 



PAGE 



Tobacco 33 



Profits of Grazing in Fauquier 35 



Wet Feet 35 



How to get a Stand of Clover 36 



Common Lime— Is it Indispensable to the 



Fertility of the Soill 36 



Breaking Colts 38 



Experiments 38 



Use of Guano on Summer Crops 40 



On the Use of Single Manures 42 



Cure for Rose-Bugs 44 



Peas and Pea-Hay 44 



Flax Culture 46 



Recipe for Curing Sores 47 



Experiments in Agriculture 48 



Loss of Bacon in Curing.— Important Ap- 

 plication of the Syphon Principle 48 



State Agricultural Society 49 



New England Housewives 49 



Comparative Merits of French and English 



Horses, by the Hon. Wm. C. Rives 50 



Irish Potatoes 53 



To Agricultural Societies, Clubs and Asso- 

 ciations 54 



Query respecting Artificial Guano 54 



University Pigs 54 



The Wool Grower and Stock Register. . . .54 



Specific Manure for Tobacco 55 



M'Cormick's Reaper 55 



Bone Mill at Richmond 56 



Strawberry Cultivation 56 



Extract from Correspondence 57 



Payments to the Southern Planter 57 



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