INDEX. 



383 



F. 



PAGE 



Fairs in Virginia, the late District - 25 

 Fly and Joint- Worm, Lime as a Remedy for 83 

 Farming, the Four-Field or Mattaponi vs. the 



Five-Feld or Pamunkey System of - 84 

 Fowls, Swinging Roosts for - 87 



Farmer's Club, Thirty-First Meeting of the DO 

 Flour, Important Improvement and Economy 



in the Manufacture of - - 141 



Fruit, Diying Houses for - 151 

 Fighting Creek Farm, Report on - 168 



Farms Improved by Keeping Sheep, - 170 

 Fine Cattle, - - - 184, 312 



Fruit and Flowers, how to Gather and Keep 



always Fresh, - 248 

 Fowls, how to Raise and What Kind, - 268 

 Farm, Report on Mr. John Marshall's - 292 

 Farinaceous Aliment obtained from Straw, 297 

 Fair Grounds, Plan of the - 306 

 Fattening Animals, - 341 

 Fruit and Fruit Trees, - - 321 



Further Extracts from the Papers of the Not- 

 toway Club, - - - - 363 

 Five-Field Rotation, - - - 372 



I,. 



PAGE 



Lime as Manure, Experiment to Test the Ac- 

 tion of, above the Falls of the Tide- Water 

 Rivers of Virginia, on Different Soils, by 

 Com. Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, - 84 



Lima Beans, . - - - 158 



Lime, Experiment with - 243 

 Loudoun Agricultural Association, - 281 



Lime, Super Phosphate of - - - 294 



Lime, its Action, &c. - 302 



Lithographic Drawing of the Fair Grounds, 807 

 Lexington (Kentucky) Fair, Description of, by 

 Alexander S. Mathews, - 337 



M. 



Milch Cows, Essay on the Treatment and Ma- 

 nagement of, by Lewis Bailey, - - 52 

 Miocene Marl, Facts and Testimony of Greatly 

 Increased Production from the Use of, on 

 Land Naturally Poor, by Edmund Rufhin, 100 

 Maine Liquor Law, - 105 

 Morgan Horses, - 107 

 Maine Liquor Law, acceptance of Mr. Timber- 

 lake's Challenge to Discuss the - - 180 

 Manure, Saltpetre as a - - - 182 

 Milch Cows, Summer Feed for - - 203 

 Milk Pans— Soiling Cows, - - 247 

 Mules, Some Words about - - 297 

 Management, the Best System of - - 870 



X. 



Nelson's Guano Attachment for Sowing Guano 



in the Drill with Wheat, - - - 120 

 New Books, - 243 



New York State Agricultural Society, - 274 

 North Devon Cattle for Butter, - - 311 



O. 



Osage Orange Hedge, - - 82, 112 



Oddity let loose, - - * 164 



Onions for Fowls, - 837 



Fa 



Parks and Pleasure Grounds, - 28 

 Present, an Acceptable - - - 28 

 Pea, Essay on the Values and Properties of the 

 Southern, or Cornfield Pea, by P. M. Ed- 

 mondston, - t - - 48 

 Premiums, Schedule of, for the Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Fair, - - - - 56 

 Planting Tobacco with a Trowel, - - 88 

 Planter Premiums, Award of - - 147 

 Provisions, Packing for Market, - - 200 

 Peas — When are they Poisonous to Hogs ! 215 

 Peas, Compared with Guano — Grass Crop on 



Tide- Water, - - - - 215 



Poor Land, Improving or Enriching, - 231 



Produce, Shipment of 247 



Patrick Henry's Resolutions on the Stamp Act, 274 



Pumpkin Seed, how to Select - - 275 



Profits of Sugar Culture, - - - 291 



Putrid, Noxious Gases, Disinfecting of - 304 



Pea Culture for Manuring, - 329 



Preserving Butter, - 835 



Painting, - 336 



Pork, - - - - - 336 

 Preston, Win, Ballard, Address of, before the 

 Virginia State Agricultural Society at its 2d 



Annual Exhibition, ... 353 



G. 



Guano, Experiments on the Benefits and Pro- 

 ducts of, Compared to Costs, by Thomas 



Jones, Jr. - - - - - 36 



Guano, Applied to Corn, - - - 82 



Grasshoppers in the Valley, - 85 



Guano, Application of, to Corn, - - 104 



Gardens, Management of Small - - 137 



Game Fowls, ^ - - 138 



Guano for Corn — on the Application of - 181 



Guano Deposites on the Chincha Islands, - 182 



Gate, a Cheap Plantation - - 196 



Gas for Country Use, - 207 



Graduated or Guard Ditches for Hill-Sides, 225 



Good Stock, Necessity of, in Virginia, - 260 



Guano, - - - - 289 



Guano, the Mode of Using - JNk - 298 



Grape, Pure Juice of the - 304 



Green Corn as Forage, - 326 



Good Effects of Repeated Dressings of Guano, 330 



Galls, Saddle - - - - 372 



H. 



Hydraulic Cement Piping for Conveying Wa- 

 ter to Dwellings, - - - - 86 

 Hogs, Oats and Late Corn for - - 147 

 Hill-Side Ditching, Premium Essay on - 173 

 Harvest Drink, Diet and Medicine, - - 178 

 Hunt's Merchant's Magazine and DeBow's Re- 

 view, 180 



Horse Stock, Selection of - - - 197 



Harness Buckle, - 299 



Harvest, Past Year from Extra Early Seeding, 340 



I. 



Invention, a New - - - - 29 

 Insects in Wheat and Oats in 1769, 1732 and 



y 1755, - - 181 



Improved Short-Horns, - 212, 261, 275, 364 



Ice House, 308 



J. 



Joint Worm Convention, - 246 

 Journal of Transactions of the Virginia State 



Agricultural Society, ... 369 



