Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. —Washington. 
VOL. X 
NEW YORK, APRIL, 1851. 
NO. IV, 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard, Publishers. 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
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CONTENTS OF APRIL NUMBER. 
Pork—Bacon—Ham, No. 1... 
Fish Ponds on Long Island ; The Largest Crop of Wine ) 
Ever Made in the South, Sidney Weller. \ 
Squash-Vine Borer, T. V/. Harris. 
Hens in California; Col. Chesney’s Account of the Arabi- \ 
an Horse.} 
Notes from a Kitchen Gardener’s Memorandum Book, ) 
No. 3.J 
Long Names for Fruits; Plant Trees, Solon ; Economy of > 
Grinding Corn for Feed.i 
New-York State Agricultural Society ; Grafting. 
Mustard ; Manual-Labor School of Agriculture for the Jews ) 
in the Holy Land.4 
Forbes’ Shanghaes, E. W.; Curious Facts in Vegetable ) 
Physiology, Solon Robinson ; To Kill Cockroaches \ 
Review of the February Number of the Agriculturist, Re- i 
viewer.( 
Wheat Growing in the West, Charles Betts. 
Burning Gas for Fuel; The Thorough-Bred Horse. 
Different Kinds of Food for Soiling. 
The Endicott Pear Tree..... 
Prize Merino Sheep.. 
Wire Fence for Forest Lands; Discovery of a New Fi- ) 
brous Plant. S 
Discovery of a -Bed of Phosphate of Lime, at Hurdstown,) 
New Jersey, Levi Bartlett.£ 
Superiority of Shorthorn Cattle. 
Deterioration of Land by the Improvement of Animals;) 
Chemistry of Milk, No. 1, E. Emmons.J 
Management of Manure or Compost Heaps, T. S. W. Mott 
Great Value of Guano. 
Bone Dust as Manure. 
Advantages of Systematic Arrangement; Who Culti- ) 
vates Sainfoin in the United States ?.4 
Ladies’ Department: The Farmer, H. N. W.; Small \ 
Sweet Courtesies of Life; To Make Green Salve, M. $ 
Edgwood Pudding, or Desert Cake ; Glenvvood Cake ; ( 
Glenwood Waffles; To Iron Silks.4 
Foreign Agricultural News... 
Editors’ Table. 
Review of the Market... 
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