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CONTENTS. 



New Hampshire and Virginia, - 65 



Successive crops of Oats — Their Effect to 



to Destroy Wild Onion, - 68 



Meeting of the Gloucester County Agrir 



cultural So'y.— Osage Orange Hedges, 71 

 Enlargement of the Planter.— A Ditch- 

 ing Machine.— rManipulated Guano, ? 72 

 '$o Acjvertizers in general. — Messrs. IVIa- 



thews & Saunders' Cattle. — New Boots, 73 

 Agents for the Southern Planter. — Acr 

 knowledgements to the Press.— A I>un 

 in the Runic Measure.— The Lime and 

 Salt Mixture, - r - r 74 



To Cure Cattle of Hoven. — Irish Pota- 

 toes — Hot Beds — Early Peas, ? 75 

 Wyandot Corn. — Wyandot or Hicks Corn, 76 

 Plan of a Tobacco House, - 77 

 Tobacco Plant Beds — Another Plan. — A 



new Prescription for Happiness, - 78 

 The Snow Storm of January 17th and 



18th— Grass Sjseds, - - - 79 

 Sale of Negroes, - - -80 



Address, - - - - 81 

 Mexican Guano, - r - 93 

 Corn and Cob Meal as a Food for Stock. 94 



Tobacco Beds.— The Cultivation of 



Horse-Radish, - - - 94 

 Dry Cellars.— The Beautiful in Agricul- 

 ture, ■ , - 95 

 Salt on the Kanawha River, - - 98 

 Hereditary Influence, - - ? 99 

 A Remarkable Horse, - - r 101 

 Crosses of the JVIerino. — Rearing Lambs, 103 

 Encouragement of Sheep Husbandry, r 105 

 Hints for Young Gardeners, - - 106 

 Landscape Gardening, - - - 108 

 Raising Mushrooms, - 109 

 Cooking Food for Hogs, r - - 1^0 

 One Square Foot of Boards, - - 112 

 Barn-Yard Manure, - - - 113 

 Mr. Dulany of Loudoun's Stock, - 11$ 

 The Housewife, - - - 120 

 Norfolk, No. 755, Amer. Herd Book, - 122 

 Miss Kirby and Calf Morgiana, by Nor- 

 folk 755.— Top Grafting old Orchards, 123 

 Harrowing and Dressing Wheat in Spring. 



Important, if True, - ? 124 

 Terms and Conditions— A Friend of the 



right Stamp. — Advertisements, - 125 



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