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VOL. IX. NEW YORK, MARCH, I860. NO. III. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
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CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER. 
Naked Fallows and Naked Soils Tend to Sterility. 74 
New Species of Silkworm ; Poultry Raising, No. 1, T. B. Miner 75 
Agricultural Education, No. 2, A. L. Elwyn. 7G 
Table for Planting Corn, Trees, &c.; Grand Vegetable Ban- ^ 
quet to the Potato on his Late Recovery. \ ‘ 
A Perfect Store House, D. A. B.; Ti ffining Cattle and Horses; ; 
Garden Syringes; Scours, S. R. Gray; To Cure Deep > 78 
Cuts in a Horse.) 
New Mode of Raising Wheat; Disease in Swine, F.; Pele’s } 
Merveille Strawberry, N. Longworth. j 
Cows not Giving Down their Milk, F.; Tower’s Improved ) oa 
Grain Dryer. i 
Pumpkins for Milch Cows ; Iron Railing, Grating, &c. 81 
Building and Building Materials, J. B. D. 82 
To Destroy Cut Worms, H. M. Baker; To Restore a Drowned 1 
Chicken; To Remove the Turnip Taste from Butter; V 83 
Agricultural Geology, No. 1..... ) 
Construction of Cattle Yards, R.; Galls on Horses. 84 
Treatment of Mowing Lands, Lewis F. Allen. 85 
New-York Proposed Agricultural College.. 88 
Jerusalem Artichoke ; Geraniums. 87 
Paul’s Deep-Draining Machine ; Housing Cattle—Saving ) 
Manure, A Westchester-County Farmer; Instrument > 88 
for Making Post Holes.j 
Steam Plowing; Valuable Importation of Rare Stock. 8$ 
Portable Steam Engine ; Tea Nuts, Junius Smith. 90 
WTiat Fanners Ought to Know, G. F.; Manure—Plowing } gi 
under Green Crops, W. J. P.J 
Blacksmith’s Portable Forge and Bellows; Pruning Grapes 9? 
Mr. Robinson’s Tour, No. 15. 93 
To Guard the Lung3 while Threshing, An Experienced 1 
Thresher; Recipe for Sausages, A Lover of Good Sau- { ^ 
sages ; To Cure the Scratches in Horses; To A Con- I 
necticut Fanner, Solon Robinson. J 
Wire Fences, T. S. Gold; To Cook a Tough Fowl. 98 
Review of January Number of the Agriculturist, Reviewer 97 
Foreign Agricultural News. 100 
Editors’ Table. 101 
Review of the Market. 10® ■’ 
