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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



P. 



Profits, Agricultural 

 Potatoes, Irish 

 Potato Pudding, Sweet 

 Potato, Japan 

 Pea Weevils, 



Premiums of the Virginia State Agricultu- 

 ral Society, . . 205, 

 Proposition, a noble 

 Plantation Hygiene, 

 Portraits from the field and farm 3'ard, 

 Ploughing, Fall . " . 

 Potatoes, Sweet, to keep 

 Phosphates, use of, on Clover and Peas, . 

 Plough, best 



Plastering, good and bad, 

 Pea fallow, 



Pea fallow, how to sow wheat on, 



12 



90 

 92 

 181 

 190 



223 

 259 

 317 

 334 

 343 

 348 

 268 

 282 

 285 

 316 

 315 



Q. 



Quandary, Christopher. A very good letter 

 to . . . . 229 



R. 



Report on Rockland — farm of R. B. Ilax- 

 all, of Orange county, . 34 



Reports. Sundry from Nottoway Farmers' 

 Club, . _ 129-13G 



Root Crops. Cultivation of, - 246 



Report to the Locust bottom .Agricultural 

 Club, - - 258 



Reaping Machine — as an implementof prac- 

 tical utility, - - 351 



Reaper, Morrison's. Trial of Reaping Ma- 

 chines in England, - 329 



Reaping Machines, with a notice of Cald- 

 welFs, . . 222 



Review. Agricultural and Commercial, 221- 



253-338 



S. 



Shelter cheaper than fodder, . 7 



Stall feeding Sheep, . 8 



Sheep. Bells on, .12 

 Soils of the Valley of A^a. Prize Essay on, 



by Prof. Wm. S. Gilham, of V. M. I. 20 

 Swine. ■ Suffolk and other breeds, 36 

 Sheep. What Census says about, 38 

 Sheep in tlie Valley of Va. Prize Essay 



on, by S. F. Christian, . 45 



Soil. Exhaustion of, . 47 



Soil. Power of different, to retain water, 59 

 Saliva. Use of, . .79 



Sheep. Best mode of protecting from dogs, 122 

 Seed. Rolling in Guano, . 123 



Sheep. V/atering and other care, 157 

 Sheep. Washing and pack wool, 157 

 Strawberries. Princess Alice Maud, 182 

 Steam-power for Farm pur]>oses, 200 

 Scraper. Use of in cleaning out ditches, 



mill races, &c., - .197 



Soap. Manufacture of, . 275 



Strawberries. Selection of twelve of the 



most esteemed varieties, - 296 



Seeds. Quantity of different by weight and 



measure, . . 303 



Seaboard Agricultural Society, 315 

 Slaughter-House at Mpntmatre, 327 

 Seeds. Life of, . . 355 



State Agricultural Society. Fourth An- 

 nual Exhibition of, . . 383 

 T. 



Turpentine, . . 1 



Tobacco. Experiments with guano on, 129 

 Tidegate, . . 186 



Turnip culture, . . 201 



Tobacco. Its culture and manage, by Dr. 



R. F. Taylor of Amelia, . 295 



Tobacco culture in Massachusetts, 302 

 Trees, . . 337 



V. 



Valley of Virginia. Soils of. Prize Essay on 20 

 Valley of Virginia. Soils of. Review of 



Prof. Gilham's Essay on, . 156 



Virginia State Agricultural Society. No. of 



members in, . . 188 



Virginia State Agricultural Society. Fourth 



Annual Exhibition of, . 216 



Vegetation. Philosophy of, . 320 



W. 



Wheat. A new enemy of, . 9, 79 



Wheat. Increase the crop, . 128 



Wheat. Experiment with mixed Mexican 



and Peruvian guano on, . 130 



Wheat, Essay on. By Dr. Campbell, of 



Nottoway, . .133 



Wheat Crop in Va. for 1856. Prospect of, 183 

 Wool-packing, . . 155 



Wool. Cleanino; and cardinj 



190 



Wheat. Ccmiparative receipts of, in Rich- 



m(md, for 1855-'56, . 254 



Wheat. Smut in, . . 234 



Wheat. Mediterranean. Letter concerning, 265 

 Wheat. Cultivation of, . 266 



Wheat. Harvesting, . 268 



Wheat. Gen. J. 11. Cocke's crop of 268 

 Wheat. To clean chess or cheat out of 271 

 Wheat. Smut in. Chloride of lime as a 



remedy for, . . 288 



Wheat. Lime as a preventive of Smut in, 279 

 Wheat Fly. Sowing lime to kill, . 92 



Wheat-growing. Report of Committee of 



Locust Bottom Farmers' Club on, 293 

 Wine. To make pure of apples, 300 

 Wheat. Winter cultivation of, 304 

 Wlieat. How to sow on Pea fallow, 315 

 Wheat. Comparative produce of different 



kinds, . . 330 



Wheat-threshing by Steam power, 329 

 Wheat-growers in North Carolina. Impor- 

 tant to, . . 339 

 Wheat Plant. Growth of, . 330 

 AVheat Fly. To destroy, . 347 

 Wheat. Production and consumption of 352 

 Wagon Cover. How to make, . 3.38 

 Wheat and ]ts culture. Discussion of, by 

 the Virginia State Agricultural Society 

 during the late Fair, . .375 

 Y. 



Yarn. A fact worth knowing, . '1-9 



