Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington 1 . 
VOL, IX, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1850 _NO. iL 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. C. M. Saxton, Publisher , 121 Fulton Street. 
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Imported Shorthorns, S. P. Chapman. 
Houses for the Poor ; Soaking Corn in Saltpetre, James C. ) 
Taylor..5 
Improved Farms in Connecticut, W. E.; The Weeping ) 
Cypress; Agricultural Education, No. 1, A. L. Elwyn.. \ 
The Japan and Deodar Cedars; What is a Fair Rent for Dairy } 
Cows ? A Stranger in America; Farming of Mr. Hancock $ 
Agricultural Chemistry, No. 17, J. McKinstry ; Saving Ma- ) 
nure: Cure for Hydrophobia.j 
Mowing Machine; Directions for Hatching Chickens. 
Dimensions of a Cart to Haul Shocks of corn; Mr. Robin- ) 
son’s Tour, No. 14.5 
Drilling Wheat; Patent Hoops; Underdraining Meadows ) 
with the Subsoil Plow ; An Onion from Kossuth’s > 
Garden.7 
Native Grasses; Guano—How should it be Applied? Wire ) 
Fence ; Sea Marsh Mud.J 
Who is Reviewer ?. 
Products from the Mulberry, Daniel Stebbins; Increase of) 
Fertility from Shading the Soil; Feeding Qualities of > 
Pigs ; Long and Short Teams.) 
American Provisions in England; Value of Corn Cobs, A ) 
Subscriber; Value of Ashes ; Value of Guano.$ 
Chapman, Randall & Co.’s Sugar Mill; The General Govern- \ 
ment in Favor of Agriculture, at Last.J 
A Durham Fat Ox; Corn Estimated by the Hill, and not by j 
the Acre. ) 
Benefit of Railroads to Agriculture, Solon Robinson. 
Products of Illinois, J. D. S. 
Amount of Sundry Articles Imported into the U. S.; Salt,'] 
Mixed with Lime and Magnesia; Care of Young Stock, 1 
A Long-Island Subscriber ; Drilling Grain—Thick and | 
Thin Sowing. Nugator. J 
Wheat Bran as a Fertiliser ; Clover-Sowing Machine. 
Wire Fences; Lime and Plaster as Manure; A new Fertiliser 
Biscayan Mode of Cultivating Asparagus ; Profitable Farm- ) 
mg; Eating Horse Manure; Georgia Farming, J. B.; V 
Improvement in Sugar Making in the Island of Cuba.. ) 
The Castor Bean; Farming in Missouri, Urbane B. Oglesby 
The Canada Lynx, or Big Grey Wild Cat. 
Home-Department Agricultural Report, Daniel Lee; Novel ) 
Method of Grafting, Jacob Ilewes; Oyster-Shell Lime, > 
Inquirer ; Guano.■ ■ • ' 
Ladies’ Department.—C hamber Birds, No. 4; Pumpkin ) 
Pies; Late Raspberries; To Keep Moths from Woolen > 
Clothes, Carpets, and Em’s ; Caution.) 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editors’ Table. 
Review of the Market..... 
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