Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— "Washington. 
VOL. IX. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1850._ NO. iX. 
A. B. Allen &l R. L. Allen, Editors. C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard, Publishers. 
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CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 
Connecticut Farming—Reverse of the Picture, Solon ) 
Robinson.$ 
Live Posts—Wire Fences, etc., Z * * * ; To Restore Pear ) 
Trees, Hawley B. Rogers.) 
Agricultural Geology. 
Fanning of Robert Bakewell; Preservation of Pump- ) 
kins; Bugs on Vines.i 
Roads in Lower Virginia, A Traveller; The Greyhound ; 1 
Is it Possible that the Earth can Produce any Vegeta- > 
ble Spontaneously, Delaware.) 
Yankee Farming, No. 11, Sergeant Teltrue. 
Seeding Timothy ; Powerful Effects of Guano ; Southern f 
Cornsheller; Farm of Mr. Fountain, A. Sherman_$ 
Etrurian Wheat, E. Cornell; Substitutes for Grass. 
Topping Corn and Stripping off its Leaves, J. G. C.; Re- V 
suits from Subsoil Plowing, J. B.; Companions of > 
Civilisation. y 
Fattening Hogs, A. E. Ernest; The Sheep Bot, Egreo;^ 
Mulching, or Gurneyism, as Applied to Fruit Trees \ 
Reasons for Keeping the Best Breeds of Stock, .G___ 
Currants; The Last Crops; Reclaiming Lands; The Cal- ) 
ifornia White Oak, Homer Holland; Irrigation—No. 3 i 
Gooseberries; Dixon’s Patent for Firing Kilns for Pot -) 
tery, &c. j 
Gathering Seeds... 
Third Duke of Cambridge.. 
Virginia Farming, A Virginian ; Selection of Seed Corn 
The Sense of Smell, S: R... 
Review of the July Number of the Agriculturist, Reviewer 
Failure of the Clover Crop. 
Cochin-China Fowls, J. C. Taylor... 
New Mode of Making Butter—Boiled Butter. 
New Fruit Gatherer; Washing Woolen Clothes; Mr. ) 
Robinson’s Tour, No. 21,' Solon Robinson. \ 
Mr. Lewis G. Morris in England ; Rice Threshers ; Cross-1 
ing the Pheasant with the Domestic Fowl; To Clean > 
Brass Kettles.) 
Ladies’ Department: To Make Nudles—an Excellent J 
Substitute for Vermicelli, M.; On Drying Plants so as i 
to Preserve their Colors; A Capital Tomato Recipe ; ) 
To Make Hens Lay; To Toughen New Earthen > 
Ware; Filling Beds. ) 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editors’ Table. 
Review of the Markets. 
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