Agriculture is the most healthy , the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— “Washington. 
VOL. IX._NEW YORK, MAY, 1850._NO. V. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors . C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
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CONTENTS OF MAY NUMBER. 
The Traveller, No. 2, Solon Robinson; The Best Rotation ) 
of Crops, No. 2, A. Beatty.S 
Osage Orange Sprouts for Walking Sticks; Salt Bitterns^ 
as a Manure, V. W. S.$ 
Ruta-Bagaor Swee'lish Turnips. 
Sowing Indian Com for Soiling.. 
Qualities of Lime and its Comparative Value for Agricul-) 
tural Purposes, No. 2.J 
Sowing Broom Com; The WykofF Farm, A. Sherman;! 
A Valuable Southern Grass; Season for Felling Res- > 
inous Trees.? 
The Air-Syphon Ventilator; Discovery- of the Cause of) 
Yellows in the Peach Tree, M. H. Morris.5 
Decayed Grain Injurious to Stock, N. M. C.; Patent-Wire \ 
Railing; Merino Sheep in Virginia, N. H. Andrews.. $ 
Profits of Fanning; Imported Shorthorns, Samuel D. J 
Martin.J 
Trial between Two and Three-Horse Plows; Sheep Shear- ) 
ing and Sacking Wool; Management of Animals.. $ 
Mr. Robinson’s Tour, No. 17... 
Home-Made Guano, S.; Manures—The Food of Plants, ) 
No. 1, Levi Bartlett.) 
Imported Shorthorns—Reply to Dr. Martin, A. Stevens.. 
Manure for Turnips. 
Treatment of Male Breeders; Improved Seed Sower; ) 
Composition of Sprats; Soaking Com in Saltpetre, B. j 
The Turkey. 
Thick and Thin Seeding, A. S.; Experiments with Root) 
Crops, Stephen R. Gray; Milking Cows. ( 
Farm Fences, Lewis F. Allen. 
Curious Circumstance in Breeding Fowls, Azel Downes ; 1 
Railway or Endless-Chain Horse Power, Threshing, V 
Sawing and Cutting Machines, &c., S. Edwards Todd ) 
Review of the March Number of the Agriculturist Re-) 
viewer.. 
The Great Homed Owl....... ; • • 
The American Jerboa, or Deer Mouse; Planting Indian ) 
Corn, R. L. C.; Trimming the Ears of a Horse.$ 
Trial of Plows, B. P. Johnson; Weight of an Acre of I 
Sweet Potatoes, A.; Improvement in Apple Orch- > 
ards, A Subscriber. . 
Ladies’ Department : Preserving Buttpr without Salt; ) 
Elderberry Pies, H.; Irish Wav of Boiling Potatoes; ) 
New Mode of Making Coffee; To Make Cold Cream; ) 
To Make Batter Fritters. j 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editors’ Table. 
Review of the Market. 
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