Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1851. NO. !!. 
A. -B. Allen & R. L, Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard, Publishers. 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
THE 
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CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
A Great Milker ; Substitute for an Ice House; Bouilli 
Cure for a Bellowsed Horse ; Whence Comes the Ni- ) 
trogen that is Appropriated by Plants? Insects ( 
Destructive to Peach Trees ; Imported Berkshire > 
Pigs. S 
Improved Breeds of Cattle—Their Inheritable quali-1 
ties; To Cure Stines and Bites; Plaster upon > 
Clover ; To Tame a Wild Sheep.) 
Chain Gatos; Ice—Ice Plow—Ice Houses ; How to \ 
Make Ice in a Hot Climate.* 
Preserving Snow; Vegetables and Fruits in Use in 1 
England at Different Seasons of the Year ; Village > 
Lectures.—No. 4.) 
Bullock’s Portable Progressive Power Press; To Make { 
Boots Water Proof.J 
Notes from a Kitchen Gardener’s Memorandum Book. { 
—No. 1.* 
Ventilation. 
Value of Dogs ; Review of Professor Johnston’s Notes \ 
‘ on American Agriculture Continued. J 
The Princess Tribe of Shorthorns, Samuel D. Martin ; ) 
Reply to Dr. Martin, A. Stevens. 
Wash for Apple Trees . 
Hen Show and Hen Fever, Solon Robinson... 
Are You Prepared for Winter ; Large Cattle in Ken- ) 
tucky, J. G. Kinnaird. < 
Cattle Shows and Fairs in Kentucky, James G. Kin- \ 
naird. i 
Review of the January Number of the Agriculturist, > 
Reviewer. $ 
Effects of Irrigation . 
Salt for Cattle and Sheep, Solon Robinson ; English I 
Ray Grass and Italian Rye Grass, Charles R. > 
Alsop. ) 
A Jaunt in Ohio.—No. 1, A Visitor . 
Experiment With Corn—Deep Plowing and Green I 
Crops, U. B. Oglesby; An Improved Sheep Hop- > 
pie ; To Prepare Anchovies. ) 
Ladies’ Department : Cheap Luxuries ; Fried Pota- ) 
toes ; A Fine Hash ; To Make Maple-Sugar Cus- > 
tard; Valuable Washing Recipe; Frying Fresh ) 
Fish; Blowing out a Candle; To Clean Silks; ) 
Dyspeptic Boarding House. y 
Foreign Agricultural News . 
Editors’ Table.. .. 
Review of the Markets ... 
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