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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
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ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 
By D. Pereira Gardner, M. D. Formerly Professor of Chemistry 
imd Botany in Hampden Sidney College, Va., Member of the Ly¬ 
ceum of Natural History, New York. 
The Course is intended to be of service to the practical agricul¬ 
turist, and therefore the methods of discovering and estimating the 
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Portions of Botany, "Vegetable and Animal Physiology, will be in¬ 
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One Lecture—On the Comparative Value of Fodders. 
Four Lectures—On the Analysis of Soils, in which the methods 
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organic ; their values, preservation, and collection ; the propor¬ 
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CONTENTS OF SECOND DECEMBER NUMBER. 
EDITORIAL. Page. 
To our Subscribers,. 353 
Clearing Forest Lands, ------- 354 
Wintering Sheep, -------- 355 
Durham Heifer Daisy, > qc« 
Farm of Mr. Wm. K. Townsend, J 500 
Tour in England, No. 16, ------ - 358 
New Y.ork Farmers’ Club, - - - - 359 
Agricultural Shows, \ 
To prevent Cream Frothing when Churning, > - - 360 
Salt destructive to Plumb Trees, J 
Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, ) gg. 
List of Premiums of the American Institute (concluded), J 
Foreign Agricultural News, ------ 373 
Editor’s Table, -- ------ - 374 
Review of the Market, ) . 075 
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C. Baker, Culture of Com, - ... 364 
M. W. Philips, Cotton Crop of 1840, ) 
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Wm. Partridge, Fertility of Sea-Mud, - - - - 366 
Henry A. Field, Muck as Manure, ) _ . 357 
J. W. Stuart, Ancient Apple-Tree, j 
P., Is Wheat the Original of Chess? ... - 368 
J., Novel Method of Working Butter, - 369 
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T. S. Pleasants, Ice-Houses, > - - - 370 
D. K. Minor, Poudrette as Manure, ' 
EXTRACTS. 
Good and Bad Points of Cattle, and Formation of ) . 37 ^ 
Fat and Muscle, ) 
