Agriculture is the most healthy , the most useful , and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. IX. NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1850. NO. X. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
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CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 
The Traveller, No. 3, Solon Robinson. 
Researches on the Sugar Cane. 
Massachusetts Farming, No. 1, F. J. S.; Advantages of ) 
Drilling Wheat; Fall Plowing. ) 
Poultry Raising, No. 3, T. B. Miner.. 
Raising Potatoes from the Ball, Aaron Killam; Roguery 1 
in Guano—Quantity Imported into Great Britain; > 
New and Economical Mode of Forcing Vegetables, ) 
Premium Butter; Mississippi Planting, M. W. Philips; ) 
Storing Sweet Potatoes.$ 
Cranberry Rake; Harvesting and Storing Root Crops; ) 
Improved Harrows, L. Durand.) 
Professor Simonds’ Lecture on the Diseases, &c., of the ) 
Liver. j 
Sketches of Canada, Solon Robinson. 
Reclaiming Wet Lands, Daniel Gates; Irrigation, No. 4 
American Wine from the European Grape, B. Poppe ;) 
Poultry. \ 
Preparing Bones for Manure—Dissolving them in Sul- ) 
phuric Acid ; New Variety of Wheat. \ 
Queries—Lime, the Food of Plants, A Subscriber; Im- / 
proved Com and Cob Crushers; Cut Worms.j 
Republication of Professor Johnston’s Lectures, B. P.) 
Johnson.y 
Sale of Mr. Sheafe’s Shorthorn Cattle... 
Sowing in Drills; Field Crops in Otsego County; Culti¬ 
vation of Broom Corn in Montgomery County..... 
Tenth Annual Show and Fair of the New-York State 
Agricultural Society... 
The Shorthorn Bull Meteor; Trenching Old Orchards.. 
Review of the August number of the Agriculturist- 
Value of Anthracite Coal Ashes for Manure ; Plowing ) 
and Planting for Orchards.i 
Plow for Sugar Planters ; Endless-Chain Pump ; Guano 1 
Speculators; Superior Native Apples; Gathering > 
and Storing Winter Fruit.) 
To Our Florida Friends ; Hedge Plants of India ; Premi-1 
ums on Entire Flocks of Sheep; Value of Roadside > 
Products.) 
Ladies’ Deparement: To Make Hommony; English, 
vs. American Girls; Tomatoes for Winter Use; To ( 
Boil Hommony; Home-Made Candles; To Purify ( 
Molasses ; To Burnish Britannia Ware. 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editors’ Table... . . 
Review of the Markets... 
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