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Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — "Washington. 
VOL. IX. 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1850. 
O. X, 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchakd, Publishers. 
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CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 
The Traveller, No. 3, Solon Robinson 
Researches on the Sugar Cane 
Massachusetts Farming, No. 1, F. J. S. ; Advantages of j 
Drilling Wheat ; Fall Plowing J 
Poultry Raising, No. 3, T. B. Miner 
Raising Potatoes from the Ball, Aaron Killam ; Roguery J 
in Guano — Quantity Imported into Great Britain ; ' 
New and Economical Mode of Forcing Vegetables, ' 
Premium Butter ; Mississippi Planting, M. W. Philips ; j 
Storing Sweet Potatoes ( 
Cranberry Rake ; Harvesting and Storing Root Crops ; i 
Improved Harrows, L. Durand J 
Professor Simonds' Lecture on the Diseases, &c, of the i 
Liver '.} 
Sketches of Canada, Solon Robinson 
Reclaiming Wet Lands, Daniel Gales ; Irrigation, No. 4 
American Wine from the European Grape, B. Poppe ; j 
Poultry ! 
Preparing Bones for Manure — Dissolving them in Sul- j 
phuric Acid ; New Variety of Wheat i 
Queries — Lime, the Food of Plants, A Subscriber ; Im- j 
proved Cora and Cob Crashers ; Cut Worms ) 
Republication of Professor Johnston's Lectures, B. P. j 
Johnson J 
Sale of Mi-. Sheafe's Shorthorn Cattle 
Sowing in Drills ; Field Crops in Otsego County ; Culti- j 
vation of Broom Corn in Montgomery County j 
Tenth Annual Show and Fair of the New-York State i 
Agricultural Society | 
The Shorthorn Bull Meteor ; Trenching Old Orchards 
Review of the August number of the Agriculturist. . . . 
Value of Anthracite Coal Ashes for Manure ; Plowing 
and Planting for Orchards ' 
Plow for Sugar Planters ; Endless-Chain Pump ; Guano 
Speculators ; Superior Native Apples ; Gathering 
and Storing Winter Fruit 
To Our Florida Friends ; Hedge Plants of India ; Premi- 
ums on Entire Flocks of Sheep ; Value of Roadside 
Products 
Ladies' Deparement: To Make Hommony; English 
vs. American Girls ; Tomatoes for Winter Use ; To 
Boil Hommony; Home-Made Candles; To Purity 
Molasses ; To Burnish Britannia Ware 
Foreign Agricultural News 
Editors' Table »...»*♦» 
Review of the Markets 
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