Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — Washington. 
VOL. IX, 
NEW YORK, APRIL, 1850. 
NO. IV. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
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CONTENTS OF APRIL NUMBER. 
Tap Traveller, No. 1, Solon Robinson . 
Manu i 2 Orchards 
Summer Squash, or Cymling for Ftock ; Juvenile Vagran- ) 
cy and Crime — Their Remedy , . . . ) 
Salt Injurious to Poultry 
New Mode of Ventilation ; Qualities of Lime, and its Com- ) 
parative Value for Agricultural Purposes J 
To Raise Early York Cabbages ; Combined Wire and J 
Picket Fence j 
Patent Wire Railing ; Removal of Slaughter Houses from ) 
Cities'; The Potato Curculio, M. H. Monis 5 
Roads 
Improved Shorthorns— Bate's Stock, A. Stevens 
Guano vs. Worn-out Land ; The Best Rotation of Crops, > 
No. 1, A. Beatty S 
Valuable Breed of Fowls, Samuel Y. Clark ; Mr. Robin- } 
son's Tom - , No. 1C J 
American Wine, N. Longworth 
Pure Dorking Fowls, Eben Wight 
A Double House for a Corner Lot 
Guano 
The Farm of L. M. Stevens, Norwalk, Ct. * 
Poultry Inquiries ; New- York State Agricultural Society ; ) 
Barley for Soiling J 
Agricultural Geology, No. 2 
Review of February Number of the Agriculturist, Re- \ 
viewer i 
Amount of Human Food Raised on an Acre 
Cultivation of the Sweet Potato, John G. Chambers 
Medicine for Horses, S ; Successful Experiment in Grow- 
ing the Osage Orange ; To Correspondents ; Indian or 
Grand Millet 
The Forest Scenery of California, Wm. R Prince 
Ladies' Department : What is Dirt? Toasted Oysters; 
Couve Troncuda: Portuguese Method of Bleaching 
Linen; New Greenhouse Plant; Embrocation for 
Wounds 
Foreign Agricultural News 
Editors' Table 
Review of ths Markets 
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