CONT 



ENTS. 



The Soil, (concluded,) 



To "Head" and Expel Rats.— A Remark* 



able Cow, - 

 Domestic Life in the Free States, 

 A Chapter for Husbands.— Vinegar, 

 The Culture of Domestic Animals, 

 On the Culture of the Sweet Potato, 

 Agricultural Antiquities of Virginia, 

 Black Tooth in Hogs. — One Hundred 



Tons of Grass to the Acre, 

 How to make a Sound Shingle Roof. — ■ 



Mulching. — A Wheat or Corn Crop 



saved by Chickens, 

 How to Raise and keep Irish Potatoes, - 

 Labor Lost, - 



Mapes', Hildreth's and Rhodes' Super- 

 phosphates, - 

 Potatoes, - 



Re-planting Corn. — Disease in Peach 



Trees, - 

 Cutting Wheat— Sheep. — Colic in Horses 

 Wheat Drill. — Benefits of Sawdust, 

 How do the Nitrates of Soda and Potash 



produce their Fertilizing Effects, 

 Steam Cultivation, 

 Limestone Soils, 

 Ploughing in Green Crops, - 

 Small Farms vs. Large Farms, 

 Characteristics o£ Overseers, 



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Indian Corn, Maize, 

 The Duck Trade, &c, 

 Mapes' & Gibbs' Rotary Digger, 

 Barometers for Farmers. — Marking, 

 High Farming in England, 

 Clover as an Improver of Wheat, 

 On Abandoning Tobacco Culture, 

 Permanence of Improvement by Guano, 

 A Reply to a Young Farmer's Request 

 in the^ J une Number of the Planter, - 

 Wheat among Ruta Bagas, - 

 Good vs. Bad Breed of Hogs. — The Dis- 

 ease amongst Hogs, 

 The Wool-Clip of 1857, 

 Recommendations to Overseers, 

 Fine Wheat. — The Prospect for Wheat in 



Virginia, - 

 Good Asparagus. — Kossuth. — Dr. Fitch's 

 Report on the Insects of New York. — 

 Pissant vs. Chinch Bug.-— The Army 

 Worm, - 

 The Grass Caterpillar, 

 Reform in Inspections of Tobacco, 

 Put up Pickles for Markets, 

 Something about New Fruits, 

 Mignonette — Reseda Odorata, 

 Something better than Sweetmeats, 

 Pruning Evergreens. — My Pink and oth- 

 er Pinks, - 



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