Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — Washington. 
VOL. IX. 
NEW YORK, MARCH, 1850. 
NO. III. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER. 
Naked Fallows and Naked Soils Tend to Sterility 74 
New Species of Silkworm ; Poultry Raising, No. 1, T. B. Min* 75 
Agricultural Education, No. 2, A. L. Elwyn 76 
Table for Planting Corn, Trees, &c. ; Grand Vegetable Ban- ) j~ 
quet to the Potato on his Late. Recovery J 
A Perfect Store House, D. A. B. ; Training Cattle and Horses ; 1 
Garden Syringes ; Scours, S. R. Gray ; To Cure Deep S 78 
Cuts in a Horse ) 
New Mode of Raising Wheat ; Disease in Swine, F. ; Pele's \ -« 
Merveille Strawberry, N. Longworth i 
Cows not Giving Down their Milk, F. ; Tower's Improved \ gg 
Grain Dryer S 
Pumpkins for Milch Cows ; Iron Railing, Grating, &c 81 
Building and Building Materials, J. B. D 83 
To Destroy Cut Worms, H. M. Baker ; To Restore a Drowned ) 
Chicken ; To Remove the Turnip Taste from Butter ; \ 83 
Agricultural Geology, No. 1 J 
Construction of Cattle Yards, R. ; Galls on Horses 84 
Treatment of Mowing Lands, Lewis F. Allen 85 
New-York Proposed Agricultural College 88 
Jerusalem Artichoke ; Geraniums 87 
Paul's Deep-Draining Machine : Housing Cattle — Saving J 
Manure, A Westchester-County Fanner; Instrument \ 83 
for Making Post Holes 7 
Steam Plowing ; Valuable Importation of Bare Stock 89 
Portable Steam Engine ; Tea Nuts, Junius Smith 90 
What Fanners Ought to Know, G. F. ; Manure— Plowing ) gl 
under Green Crops, W. J. P \ 
Blacksmith's Portable Forge and Bellows ; Pruning Grape3 92 
Mr. Robinson's Tour, No. 15 93 
To Guard the Lungs while Threshing, An Experienced - ) 
Thresher; Recipe for Sausages, A Lover of Good Sau- ( gg 
sages ; To Cure the Scratches in Horses ; To A Con- j* 
necticut Farmer, Solon Robinson J 
Wire Fences, T. S. Gold ; To Cook a Tough Fowl 96 
Review of January Number of the Agriculturist, Reviewer 97 
Foreign Agricultural News 10° 
Editors' Table *°1 
Review of the Market '02 
