Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X. NEW YORK OCTOBER, 
1851. NO. X. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher. 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
PROSPECTUS OF 
THE PLOW, 
A MONTHLY CHRONICLE OF RURAL AFFAIRS, 
(Successor to the American Agriculturist.) 
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR S! 
The Cheapest Agricultural Periodical in America. 
“ He who by the Plow would thrive 
Himself must either hold or drive? 1 
SOIiON ROBINSON, EDITOR. 
C. M. SAXTON, PUBLISHER, 152 FULTON ST., N. Y. 
TERMS. 
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New York. 
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stairs, where he will always be happy to see his friends from 
country or city. Office hours, 12 to 3 o’clock, P. M. 
A. 11. A ELEN and R. L. ALLEN, late Editors of the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist, will be regular contributors to the Plow. 
Also, Professor Norton, Dr. Antisel, L. F. Allen, and others, late 
correspondents of the Agriculturist. 
CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 
A Farmer’s Kitchen of Old Times in New England, Solon ? 
Robinson...) 
Pork—Bacon—Ham.—No. 7. 
Per-Centage of Ash in Wheat; Importation of French \ 
Merino Sheep, S. W. Jewett. j 
Law of Overhanging Trees. 
Red Antwerp Raspberry; Skylarks; Mr. Vail’s Short-) 
horns, Geo. Vail. . \ 
A Pattern of a Landlord; Post-Hole Augers ; Cultivation ) 
of the Foreign Grape in the Open Air, Joseph Tbgiio. 5 
New Rice Huller; Shade Improves the Soil. 
Birds, L. F. Allen.. 
Poultry Raising.—No. 7, T. B. Miner....... 
The Traveller.—No. 7, Solon Robinson.. 
Basket Willow, Watson G. Haynes. 
Professor Norton’s Laboratory and! Course in Agricultural ) 
Chemistry. ‘ 
Winter Apples for the South; Poultry Statistics, J. V. D. ) 
Wyckoff; Pigyard Manure.j[ 
Hungarian Cattle . ._. 
Chemistry of Milk.—No. 3, E. Emmons. 
Review of the August Number of the Agriculturist, Re- ) 
viewer.£ 
j Vermont State Agricultural Society, Cattle Show, and Fair 
American Plows in Europe; Scalding Hogs, Peter E. Ear- ) 
vey.J 
Eleventh Annual Show and Fair of the New-York State ) 
Agricultural Society.$ 
The Cotton Crop. 
Foreign Agricultural News-:. 
Editors’ Table. 
Review of Market.... . 
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