Agriculture i- 
the 
most healthy, 
the most useful 
and the most noble employment of 
man- 
—Washington. 
VOL. IX. 
NEW 
YORK, 
AUGUST, 
1850. 
NO. 
VIII. 
A. B. Allen Sl 
R. 
L. 
Allen, Editors. 
C. M. 
Saxton & E. 
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CONTENTS OF AUGUST NUMBER. 
Capacity of Soils for Absorbing Fertilising Matter 234 
Food for Calves ; Everything should be done systemati- ( mj 
cally ; A Disinfecting Agent ." \ 
Insects L T seful to Agriculture 236 
Horse Breeding in Russia 23? 
The Use of Chloroform During Castration of Horses 233 
Proposed Remedy for Stealing Fruit, S. E. ; The Rolling 1 
Stone Gathers no Moss ; Value of an Orchard ; The V 239 
Home of Taste ) 
To Measure the Height of Standing Trees, A Traveller ; i „.» 
Gunpowder for Choked Cattle; Irrigation, No. 2. . . . ( 
To Destroy Weeds in Walks ; Mr. Sheafe's Sale of Short- ) 041 
horns, A. B. Allen j 
Remarks on Improved Farming Implements, L. Durand ; ) 
Long-Island Lands, E. ; Great Crop of Hay ; Your > 242 
Neighbor's Hens ; The Best Manure for Trees ) 
Manures — The Food of Plants, No. 4, Levi Bartlett ; I 041 
Spaying Sows, Inquirer ; Sore Necks of Oxen . . . . i 
Cultivation of Orchards, A Farmer ; The Scoville Hoc, ( q,. 
M. W. Philips ; Starch from Indian Corn \ 
Sale of Mr. Bates 1 Shorthorns 245 
Difference Between Selling Milk and Butter 247 
Sebright Bantams ; A Plow for Wet Meadows and ) 0is 
Rooty Land ( ~' io 
The Musk Duck 249 
A Specimen of Agricultural Knowledge, S. R. ; Remedy ) -n 
for Diseased Swine, Shelden Esborn ; Cotton Batting i 
Review of the June Number of the Agriculturist, Re-/ „-. 
viewer ' ( ~°' 
Shrubby Cinquefoil, T. S. Gold ; How much Pork will a i ,,-< 
Bushel of Corn Make '.' j - 04 
i Mr. Robinson's Tour, No. 20 253 
1 Rat's Bane, Properly so Called— A Settler for the Mill- ) a , 7 
I ion ; Packing Establishment of the M<?3sre. F>-azei- S 
j To Country Gentlemen; Large Strawberries 255> 
I Ladies' Department : Southern Recipe for Okru Soup, . 
M. ; Washing Made Easy ; Corn Bread ; To Prepare f 
Bees' Wax ; Sponge Cake ; Sweet Bacon ; To Prevent i oeq 
Dampness in Walls ; To Preserve Cut Fowera Fresh; ? 
• Charcoal in Cisterns ; Cement for Alabaster; Sweet f 
Lard ; To Clean Marble Mantels ; To Keep off Red i 
Ants 
I Foreign Agricultural News 261 
I Editors' Table 261 
Review of the Markets 262 
