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ADVERTISEMENTS.—TERMS.—CONTENTS. 
PROPOSAL FOR A COURSE OF LECTURES 
ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 
By D. Pereira Gardner, M. D. Formerly Professor of Chemistry 
and Botany in Hampden Sidney College, Va., Member of the Ly¬ 
ceum of Natural ILstoiy, New York. 
The Course is intended to be of service to the practical agricul¬ 
turist, and therefore the methods of discovering and estimating the 
amount of useful saline matters in the soil will be fully examined. 
Portions of Botany, Vegetable and Animal Physiology, will be in¬ 
cluded, to enable the farmer to understand all that relates to the 
food of plants and animals. Geology, so far as it is necessary to 
the study of soils and the art of drainage, will be introduced. The 
action of Manures, and the quantity that may be economically ap¬ 
plied, will also be considered. 
The Course will be fully illustrated by drawings, minerals, geo¬ 
logical specimens, chemical experiments, and analysis. 
The number of lectures will be twenty, distributed in nearly the 
following order :— 
One Lecture—On the Constitution of the Atmosphere and Gas¬ 
eous Matters. 
One Lecture—On the Essential Structure of Vegetables. 
One Lecture—On the Supply of Gaseous Food to Plants. 
Two Lectures—On the Physical and Chemical Constitution of 
the Soil, and its relations to moisture and drought, the theory of 
drainage, fallows, &c. 
One Lecture—On the Organic Food of Plants. 
One Lecture—On the Mineral f'ood of Plants. 
One Lecture—On the Influence of Gases, Water, and Saline 
Matters, on the production of nutritious substances in plants. 
One Lecture—On the Nature of the Chemical Processes in 
Plants, and the methods of developing them. 
One Lecture—On the Comparative Value of Fodders. 
Four Lectures—On the Analysis of Soils, in which the methods 
•af determining the quantities of saline and organic matters will be 
experimentally shown. 
Two Lectures—On Mineral Manures, derivable from the geolo¬ 
gical formations of this and the adjoining States. 
The classification of manures, mechanical, simple, complex, and 
organic; their values, preservation, and collection; the propor¬ 
tions in which they should be applied, &c., will conclude the 
course. 
The Lectures will be delivered in the University of New York, 
on the evenings of Wednesday and Saturday, at half past seven 
o’clock. Fee for the course, 5 dollars. 
The Lectures will commence on Wednesday, the 27th Decem¬ 
ber, should a sufficient number of Subscribers be obtained. 
Subscriptions received at SAXTON & MILES’, 205 Broadwav, 
office of American Agriculturist. 
Convention of SILK-GROWERS AND MANUFACTURERS, 
held in New York, Oct. 13th and 14th, 1843. Published under the di¬ 
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SILK MACHINERY FOR SALE. 
A quantity of Machinery for the manufacture of Silk, is offered 
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for weaving broad silks and braids, together with engines and 
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This machinery is now in practical operation at the Prison, and 
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Dec. 23, 1843. 2t 
IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
On sale by P. L. Simmonds, Agricultural Agent, 
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THE IMPLEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, by J. A. Ran- 
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each. 
Just Published by SAXTON & MILES, 
THE SILK QUESTION SETTLED. 
The testimony of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WIT¬ 
NESSES. Being the Report of the Proceedings of the National 
CONTENTS OF JANUARY NUMBER. 
EDITORIAL. Page 
The Times,. ----J 
A Farmer’s Education, - 2 
Cultivation of Cleared Lands, ------ 3 
Farm of George Douglass, Esq., ------ 4 
Twin Chickens, * 
Country Villa, > - - - - 5 
Shelter for Stock, ) 
Marsh-Mud, \ - 
New York Farmers’ Cluh, j C 
The Present Winter, - - - ---7 
Disease in Potatoes, 
Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 
Quantity of Butter made from Milk, 
Scalded Milk for Butter, 
Virginia Lands, 
Oil Destructive to Plum-Trees, 1 
Bommer’s Patent Method of MakingManure, ( n 
Change of the Quality of Fruit at the West, j ' 
Miscellaneous, J 
The Polotokian, or Artificial Chicken-Hatcher, 26 
Foreign Agricultural News, ------ 28 
Editor’s Table, -------- - 30 
Review of the Market, 
To Correspondents, j 
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
Devon Cattle, L. F. Allen, - - - - - - -10 
Origin of Chess, James Bates, ) 
Culture of Coffee, S. B. Parsons, j 
Aviary, or Fowl-House, H., ) ... re 
Culture of Hemp-Seed, A. Beatty, j 
“ “ Pindars, John J. McCaughan, 18 
Mules for Agricultural Purposes, R. L. Allen, - 19 
Grama, or Buffalo-Grass, J. H. Lyman, - - - - 22 
Experiments with Guano, E. Teschemacher, - - - 23 
The Pulverizer, do. ) _ 
Agriculture of North Alabama, G. L. Cockrill, ) 
Northern Calendar for January, Am. Ag. Almanac, - - 26 
Southern do. do. “ “ “ - 27 
