Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X 
NEW YORK, MARCH, 1851. 
NO. II! 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard, Publishers 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
THE 
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CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER. 
Review of the Notes of a Foreigner, on American Agricul- ) 
ture Continued....$ 
Poultry Raising, No. 4, T. B. Miner. 
What Can I Do?. 
New-York Markets, No. 1. 
Imports and Exports of the United States. 
Cultivation of Cranberries, Edward Thacher. 
Village Lectures, No. 5. 
Large Wheels on Rough Roads; Discovery of an Immense 
Vein of Phosphate of Lime, E. Emmons. 
Cultivating and Embellishing Railroad Embankments and 
Grounds. . . 
A Jaunt in Ohio, No. 2, A Visitor . 
Agricultural Geology, No. 6 . 
Georgia Burr Millstones, Solon Robinson. 
Mulching Orchards—Cultivation—Planting, L. F. Allen 
Irish Cattle. . 
Orcharding.... . 
Ivy on Buildings ; To Prevent Moths Getting Under Hives ; 
Connecticut Farming, D. S. P. 
The Traveller, No. 4, Solon Robinson. . 
Preparation'of Bones for Manure . 
Fair of the Washington-County Agricultural Society, Alon¬ 
zo Sherman. 
Notes from a Kitchen Gardener’s Memorandum Book, 
No. 2. 
Improvement in Agriculture in Missouri; Urbane B. Og¬ 
lesby ; Madder. 
What Mind will do in Agriculture, L.; Protection of Sheep 
against Dogs.. .. . . 
Horse Shoeing; Best Time tor Cutting Hickory Timber, 
A Virginia Farmer; Writers for the Agriculturist _ 
; Ladies’ Department : Rye Flour; Dress of English Wo- 
| men ; Brown Bread vs. White; Habits of Jenny Lind ; 
Gigote ; To Wake Fine Hand or Shaving Soap; Bed 
j Bugs; Worthless Furniture.... 
I Foreign Agricultural News.... 
j Editors’ Table..... 
I Review of the Market... 
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