CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. 
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Mowing Machine, Hussey's .224 
Muck, Sea 223 
" Swamp, as a Manure 17, 108 
Mud, Marsh, 52, 178, 223 
Mulching, applied to Fruit Trees 276 
Mule, ridden by a Monkey 325 
Mulberries, Products from .54 
N 
Nectarine, Stanwick 228 
Nudles, how to make 291 
Oak, California 278 
Oats, Seed, Time for cutting 19G 
Obituary 100, 104, 19(3, 223 200, 292, 324 
Oil, Laid 37 
Union, from the Garden of Kossuth 51 
Onions, Wild, how to destroy 203 
Orange Trees, Bark, Lice on 325 
Orchards, Apple, Improvement in 162 
" Cultivation of 244 
11 Manure for 108 
" Old, trenching of 317 
" Plowing and planting of 320 
« Value of 239 
Osage Orange, Experiment wilh 139 
" for "W slking Sticks 129 
Owl, Great-horned 100 
Ox, Fat Durham 57 
Oxen, how to prevent crowding 343 
" Sore Necks, how to treat 243 
" Water. 338 
Oyster Beds, Protection of 338 
Oysters, Toasted 131 
P 
Paint for Iron Work 164 
" Zinc 132 
Pancakes, how to make 227 
Papers, Exchange, Notice to 37 
Pasture Lands 203 
Patents, New •* 227 
Pea, Cow, fed to Stock 347 
" vs. Clover 218 
Peaches, Cultivation of on Long Island 213 
Peach Trade, Account of 325 
Pear Trees, Dwarf 18 
" how to renovate 207, 340 
Peat as a Fertiliser 17 
Pedigrees of Shorthorns, 1 15, 146, 150, 245, 281, 314 
Peppermint, growing of 229 
Pickle, Elder-bud, how to make 355 
Pies, Elderberry, how to make 103 
" Pumpkins, bow to make 67 
Pigs, Feeding Qualities of 54 
" New Way of raising 203 
Pig Troughs, Cast-Iron 218 
I'ine Apples, Cultivation of 324 
" in Florida 261 
Pheasants, crossed with the Domestic Hen 290 
Plagiarism of the Southern Planter 165 
Plantation of Gov. Aikin 187 
" Messrs Burgwin 27 
" Mr. Carson 93 
Planing Machine 224 
Plant, Greenhouse, New 131 
" New Agricultural 224 
Plant Something 226 
Planting, Mississippi 303 
Plants, Food of 149, 170, 214, 243 
" how they receive their Ammonia 100 
" how to preserve their Colors 291 
" Number of Species of 224 
" Rosaceous, of Recent Origin 229 
Plaster as a Manure 62 
" for Potatoes 357 
Plow for Sugar Planters 321 
" « Wet Meadows 248 
" Wrought-Iron, Large 186 
Plows, Trial of 147, 162 
Plowing by Steam 89 
" Deep 188, 347 
" Fall 300, 338 
" Subsoil 12, 235 
Pomace, Apple, as a Manure 68 
Pomological Congress 261 
Pork Establishment of Messrs. Frazer 257 
" how much a Bushel of Corn will make 254 
" Packing in the West 101 
Postage on the Agriculturist 229 
Post Holes, Instrument for making 88 
Post Office, Statistics of 37 
Posts, Live 267 
Potato Banquet to .... , 77 
" Plant, proposed Analysis of 228 
" Rot 14, 292 
" Sweet, Cultivation of. , 128 
« Disease in Ireland 293 
Potato Cultivation of in Ireland 104, 350 
'• Curculio .....,.,.,..,, 113 
" Crop, Large 37 
Potatoes, Cost of raising an Acre .26 
" Cultivation of. ......,,,,. , , . , ivo 
" Experiments with 14 
" Irish Mode of boiling 163 
" Sweet, Mode of storing , 303 
" Raising from Cuttings 350 
" " from the Ball 302 
Pottery, American 107 
Pots, Flower, New Form of 35 
Poultry and Eggs 24 
" Inquiries 124 
" Management of 75, 178, 200 
" New Variety of 261 
" Raising, Profits of 133, 301 
" Show of in Boston 37, 357 
" " Birmingham 08 
" Statistics 24 
Premiums, Gratifying 25 
Provisions, American in England 55 
Products, Roadside, Value of 322 
Professorship of the Garden of Plants, Paris 196 
Pruning 33 
" Root 293 
" Summer 209 
Pudding, Bread, how to make 227 
Pump, Endless-chain 221 
Pumps, Force 344 
Pumpkins for Cows 81 
" Large Yield of 357 
" how to preserve 269 
Q 
Queries 312, 339 
R 
Race Horse, English 183 
Railing, Iron : . , 81 
" Wire 145 
Railroads, Benefit of to Agriculture 58, 255, 292 
Railroad, New-York and Erie ; ... 58 
Rake, Cranberry .' 304 
Rakes, Hay, Improved 342 
Raspberries 67 
Rats, destroyed by Barytes 257 
" Fishing for 1(34 
" how to drive away 100 
" " prevent undermining Buildings 164 
Readers, Notice to 10, 11, 101, 322 
Report, Dr. Lee's, on Home Department 06 
Reviewer, Who is he ? 37, 53, 127 
Review of the Agriculturist. . . .97, 126, 158, 190, 221, 251, 284, 349 
Rice, Cultvation of 93, 229, 241 
" Threshers 290 
Rifles, Scythe 197 
Roads 114 
" in Virginia 270 
Robinson, Solon, Whereabouts of 69, 101, 133 
Rocks, breaking of by Fire 211 
Roller, Dibbling, for Wheat 186 
" Garden 353 
Root Crops, Experiments with 154 
" Harvesting and storing of 304, 347 
Roses, China, &u 36 
Rusk, Tea, how to make 227 
Ruta Bagas, Amount consumed by Stock per Day 132 
" Cultivation of 140, 182 
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Salt, as a Manure 60, 196 
" Bitterns as a Manure 139 
" Injurious to Poultry. 110 
Saltpetre, Poisonous to Pigs 68 
Samp, how to keep Sweet 13 
Sauce, Relish, A., how to make ...227 
" Fish, how to make 227 
Sausage Cutter 11 
" Machines 271 
Sausages, Receipe for making 95 
Sawmills 156, 225 
Schools, Agricultural 86 
Scours in Cows, how to treat 78 
Seaweed as a Manure 177 
Sea Sand as a Fertiliser 63 
Seeds, change of 192 
" Gathering of 280 
" Perennial Flower 132 
" Steep for 324 
Seed Wheat, Quantity sown to an Acre 22 
Sewerage of Towns, Prince Albert's Plan of disposing of 210 
Sheep, Col. Sherwood's, Sale of 357 
" Footail in, how to treat 340 
" Merino, in Virginia 145 
" Premiums for Entire Flocks 322 
M Saxon, Importation of 23 
