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Ornithology, - 



Use of Gas Lime, ... 



Produce on Hand. — Prospects for Pro- 

 duce, - - - - 



Thinning Forests. — To Sweeten Rancid 

 Butter, - 



The Culture of Domestic Animals, 



Adoption of a l)og instead of its Foal by 

 a Mare, - 



Roofs and Roofing, - 



How to Make Hens Lay in Winter, 



How can Setting Hens be Taught to For- 

 sake the Lazy Habit? Negroes and" 

 Cotton.— To Keep Rabbits from Bark- 

 ing Trees. — An Essay on the Rearing, 

 Management and Food of the Horse, 



Fertilizers for Fruit Trees, 



Impositions upon Farmers, 



Wood Sold in Small Quantities, 



North Devons— The Proper Cattle for the 

 South, - - 



Tea Drinking, - - 



Wire Fence.— California Soap, 



For Washing.— On Cutting off Large 

 Limbs from Fruit Trees, 



Tomato Culture. — New Process for Pre- 

 serving Timber, - 



Mares versus Geldings, 



The Present and the Past of the Imple- 

 ments of Agriculture, 



Composition of Cake Produced by Press- 

 ing Distillery Dreg, 



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A New Plan for Ploughing Flat Land, in 



aid of Drainage, - 



Bricklaying, - 



Good Plan of Shoeing Horses, 



Surface Manuring, - 



A Bill Donating Public Lands, &c, 



Lime Applied in Minimum Quantities. — 

 Ornithological Sketches. — South Down 

 Sheep. — Clover Seed, 



Corn Crop.— Sugar from the Sorghum. — 

 Orchard Grass, &c* 



Harrowing Wheat, - 



Mr. Nathan Loughborough's Result from 

 Graining and Grazing Cattle, 



Franklin and Gypsum, 



A Manure-Spreader Wanted. — Subsoil 

 Ploughing in Clarke, 



Preserving Wood by Steeps, - 



To Stock Breeders.— Raising Hogs, 



Export of Breadstuffs. — Malic Acid, . - 



A Projet for the Consideration of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the State Agri- 

 cultural Society and the Farmers of 

 Virginia, - 



How Does Plaster of Paris Act? 



" Tyro" Answered, - - 



Seasonable Suggestions. — Origin of Va- 

 rious Plants, - 



The Kitchen Garden, 



Cultivation of Asparagus, 



Scientific American, 



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