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Ayi Address, delivered tU the 8th Session 

 of the American Pomological Society, 

 held in Philadelphia. By Marshall P. 

 Welder, President, 



Chemical Composition of Soils — Applica- 

 tion of Manures, &c, 



On Breeding and Rearing Cattle, 



The Absorbing Powers of Soils, and of 

 Roots of Plants for Manures, . 



Loss of the Cud, .... 



Hot Tallow a Cure for Ingrowing Nails, , 



Flowers, . . . - , ' y 



Room Plants, . 



Seventy Years Experience in Fanning, . 

 The Bee Protector, . .1 -'' 



Commercial Fertilizers, . . . 



Experiments with Plaster on Pea Fallow, 

 Richmond Female Institute, 

 What may be Learned from a Tree, 

 A Difficult Question Answered, , 

 How to Clean Teeth, . - ^ 



Mason and Dixon's Line. . . 

 Grammar in Rhyme. . , 

 Ashes against Plaster, . , 

 Agriculture, . 



Cooked and Uncooked Food for Swine, 

 and how much Pork a Bushel of Corn 

 will make, . , '$ ; . , 



On Snoring, . 



Grasses, - ..'■„■ 



Agriculture in France, 



Can Cows hold back their Milk ? . 



Gravel in Horses — Retention of Urine, . 



Sales of Fine Stock, 



Mr. Guest's Nursery, 



Portrait of* an Anti-Book Farmer, 



Interesting to Wives, 



Maxims for Married Women, 



Don't Scold, . , 



The Japanese and Chinese, 



The Bird that Sung in May, 



The Rose that Bloomed Up-Stairs, 



Flowers, b v . 



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