Agriculhtre is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — "Washington. 
VOL. IX. NEW YORK, 
FEBRUARY, 1850 NO. II. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
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CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
rrnported Shorthorns, S. P. Chapman 
Houses for the Poor ; Soaking Corn in Saltpetre, James C. ? 
Taylor J 
Improved Farms in Connecticut, W. E. ; The Weeping ) 
Cypress; Agricultural Education, No. 1, A. L. Elwyn.. J 
The Japan and Deodar Cedars; What is a Fair Rent for Dairy ) 
Cows ? A Stranger in America ; Fanning of Mr. Hancock ) 
Agricultural Chemistry, No. 17, J. McKinstry ; Saving Ma- j 
nure ; Cure for Hydrophobia J 
Mowing Machine ; Directions for Hatching Chickens 
Dimensions of a Cart to Haul Shocks of corn; Mr. Robin- ) 
son's Tour, No. 14 ) 
Drilling Wheat ; Patent Hoops ; Under/draining Meadows 1 
with the Subsoil Plow ; An Onion from Kossuth's > 
Garden 7 
Native Grasses ; Guano — How should it be Applied ? Wire ) 
Fence ; Sea Marsh Mud $ 
Who is Reviewer ? 
Products from the Mulberry, Daniel Stebbins; Increase of 
Fertility from Shading the Soil ; Feeding Qualities of 
Pigs ; Long and Short Teams 
American Provisions in England ; Value of Corn Cobs, A ) 
Subscriber ; Value of Ashes ; Value of Guano J 
Chapman, Randall & Co.'s Sugar Mill ; The General Govern- \ 
ment in Favor of Agriculture, at Last J 
A Durham Fat Ox ; Corn Estimated by the Hill, and not by } 
the Acre i 
Henerit of Railroads to Agriculture, Solon Robinson 
Products of Illinois, J. D. S 
Amount of Sundry Articles Imported into the U. S. ; Salt,") 
Mixed with Lime and Magnesia ; Care of Young Stock, 1 
A Long-Island Subscriber ; Drilling Grain— Thick and f 
Thin Sowing, Nugator J 
Wheat Bran as a Fertiliser ; Clover-Sowing Machine 
Wire Fences ; Lime and Plaster as Manure ; A new Fertiliser 
Biscayan Mode of Cultivating Asparagus ; Profitable Farm- 1 
ing ; Eating Horse Manure ; Georgia Fanning, J. B. ; > 
Improvement in Sugar Making in the Island of Cuba. . ) 
The Castor Beau ; Farming in Missouri, Urbane B. Oglesby 
The Canada Lvnx, or Big Grey Wild Cat • ■ • ■ • • 
Home-Department Agricultural Report, Daniel Lee ; Novel 1 
Method of Grafting, Jacob Hewes ; Oyster-Shell Lime, V 
Inquirer ; Guano * 
Ladies' Department.— Chamber Birds, No. 4 ; Pumpkin 1 
Pies; Late Raspberries; To Keep Moths from Woolen % 
Clothes, Carpets, and Furs ; Caution ) 
Foreign Agricultural News 
Editors' Table 
Review of the Market, 
