Devoted to the Improvement of the Practice
SUPPORT OF THE INTERESTS OF AGRICULTURE.
EDMUND RUFFIN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot
of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his coun-
try, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Swift.
PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR,
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. VI.
Air, remarkable clearness of, a precursor of rain 133
Agricultural publications of elementary and cheap
Kinds recommended 262, for use of schools 260, 263,
762
Agricultural Chemistry, Elements of, by Davy, the
latest edition republished entire, begining 578. (For
the heads of lectures of the above, see table of con-
tents, at 704)
Agricultural county reports, British, utility of 742
Agricultural paper in Wisconsin 215
Agricultural professorships 706
Beaver, remarks on 323
Beavers in Surry county, 174
Beer, effect of electricity on 133
Birds, the impolicy of destroying them 280
Blue grass, value of 203
Blue-mud 734
Bone manure 66, 165, 365-abuses of 345-beneficial
effects of, 95
Bogs and peat moss, hints and directions for their cul-
tivation 39
Book trade of the south, and the furnishing of school
books, virtually a close monopoly in the hands of a
few great publishers at the north 263, 764
Breeders of cattle, a hint to 348
Agricultural Society of Albemarle, premiums award-
ed by 543-of Charlotte, premiums awarded by 290
-of Cumberland, address to 535-of Rockbridge,
address to 538, show and premiums of 725-of Fred-
ericksburg, premiums awarded by 693-address to
765-of Nottoway and Amelia, proceedings of 416
Agricultural tour in Maryland, 453
Agricultural Surveys, recommended 707
Agriculture, progress of 288
Agriculture in England, 12
Canada Thistle, and other noxious weeds, their seeds
bought and sown intermixed with grass seeds 269
Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio, description of 554-Mi-
chigan and Illinois, route of, and description of the
country 170
Canal and Aqueduct, Alexandria, account of 555
Candle-wick, metallic 755
Caoutchouc, East India 132-roofs of 76
Capons, 277, 324, 356
Agriculture of England and the northern states, dif- Carrot, field culture 439
ferently affected by natural causes 271
Agriculture, Flemish 362, 731
Agriculture in France 69, 348
Agriculture, government bounties to, in appearance,
but to printers in reality 83
Agriculture of Gloucester county 179
Agriculture, legislative aid required for the improve-
ment of, and the proper direction, No. I, 695-No.
II, 705-No. III, 755
Agriculture of middle South Carolina 436
Agriculture of upper Fauquier 456
Agriculture of Tuscany 404
Cattle, on fattening with different kinds of food, 103—
of Essex, Mass. 98-on cleaning 556—of Kentucky,
557-Devonshire 398-Durham, value of 285-sale
of 311, at Holkham 70
Charcoal, a remedy for diseased lungs in hogs 286
Chimneys, a suggestion for their improvement 564,
one of immense size, 719
Chinese mulberry seed, a humbug 50
Chinese treatise on silk and mulberry culture, ex-
tracts from 353, English notice of 351
Clay soils, most beneficially ploughed after rain 303
Climate of Louisiana, friendly to longevity 709
Agriculture, Board of, its value as a state institution, Clover, profit from 434
Clover hay, curing of 396
Clover seed, raising of 201
Coal, origin of 132
Coke, natural, found in Virginia 117
Collecting agencies, suspended 127
College, William and Mary, its revival and importance
293, public exercises and honors of 296
Colleges of Virginia and the south considered as works
of internal improvement" 292, reasons for their
Commercial Convention, Augusta, remarks on 112—
being preferred for southern students 294
report of 113-of Richmond-remarks on 251—re-
port to from Committee of Commerce 251-of Nor-
folk, its proceedings, and remarks thereon 565
Commercial reports, monthly, 61, 127, 192, 320, 384,
447, 511, 576, 767
Conditions of Farmers' Register, for Vol. VII, 63, 767
Cooking grain for stock 741
Corn, advantages of planting early, and covering deep-
ly 110-difference of planting on grass or stubble
land 439-harvesting of 135-Baden 48, 173, 342,
489,-"Chinese," puff of 490
Corn-cob meal, and mills to grind it 380
Corn, seed, soaked in saltpetre water, incredible yield
376
Cotton culture 269-manufactories in N. C. 312
Cotton, Mexico-Egyptian 488
Cotton seed covered by the coulter 303
Coulter, a new and good kind 55
Cows, milch, 421-useful instructions regarding the
milking 446
Crops, state of in August 1838, 441-of Nansemond,
574-on the Rivanna 199-on Eastern Shore of Md.
767
Crow, a bird of prey, 453
Culture and products of a lot, through a series of years
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Editorial articles and remarks—on agricultural hobbies
and humbugs 47; disasters on rail-ways and their
causes 57; on Johnstone's treatise on draining, &c.,
61; to the friends and supporters of the Farmers'
Register 63; the degrading of the great farmer
Coke, by a title of nobility 70; the bounties of
government to agriculture and to printers 83; the
wines from Halifax and Scupperong grapes 92;
marl of South Carolina 111; the Southern Com-
mercial Convention 112; the course of Massachu-
setts in aiding agricultural improvement 117; Jauf-
fret's new plan of making manure 125, 311; on
collecting agencies, and their discontinuance 127;
subscriptions erased 128; the preference for north-
ern seed-wheat 129; the failure to answer the
former queries on marling 142; remarkable natural
features of the route of the Michigan and Illinois
canal 170; fibres of certain tropical plants 198;
analysis of the Santee marl, (S. C.) 198; use of
sub-carbonate of soda in washing clothes 202; on
objections to remarks on humbugs 211; on the
Chinese treatise on silk-worms 228; state of the
wheat crop 255; on the furnishing agricultural
books for the use of schools 263; marling in South
Carolina 265; the comparative sizes of leaves of
different kinds of mulberry trees 275; large size of
the native kind 417; on the colleges of Virginia.
and the revival and importance of William and
Mary college 232; covering cotton seed with the
ha row 303; on seedlings from Chinese mulberry
seeds 316; the profit of reading the Farmers' Reg-
ister to southern planters 217, 318; state of wheat
-crop 319; on spring wheat 336; on the arrears of
and notices to subscribers 343; selection of seeds
355; libraries for common schools 357; on Mr.
Hicks' silk-culture and results 379; on silk-culture
in the United States, and the apparent general fail-
ures 339; the mulberry speculation and mania 391;
qualities of the Chinese mulberry 392-3; on the
durability of the effects of marling 407; large
leaves of native mulberry and of seedlings of
Chinese 417; on seedlings of Canton mulberry 424;
-progress of the mulberry speculation 425; on
strictures of a correspondent 434; on season and
state of crops in August 441; multicaulis trade
and mania 445; notices and replies to corres-
pondents 448; the marl-indicator 454; the pe-
culiar fitness of Virginia and adjacent states for
silk-culture 464; on Grant Thorburn's hum-
bug 490; the morus multicaulis culture, and spe-
-culation 492; on the several claims to the me-
rit of making known the value of the multicaulis
497; on the speculation 504; on the comparative
unfitness of northern regions for its growth 521;
disadvantages of the north-western states 521; the
milk-sickness 533; sinking of drained swamp lands
544; on the ancient laws and policy of Virginia
558, 711; on the proceedings of the Norfolk com-
mercial convention 564; advantages of the lands
of Nansemond 575; on manuring with marsh mud
720; on irresponsible banking and its consequen..
ces 729; on the introduction of the morus multicau-
lis 753; address to subscribers, and the public 759; to
correspondents 767; "Smith fund" 762
Eggs 741
Elizabeth city lands, improvement of 435.
Embankments, general directions for 19; of sea-shores
20; for reclaiming land from the sea 22; for pro-
tecting land from rivers 27, 32; of lakes 36.
Embankments from the sea 76
Enamelled hardware 134
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Fence and tresspass law of New York, 191
Fevers, cause and prevention of 506
Fertility, perpetual, of certain soils, 130
Fish, as manure, 152, 546
Flax, improvement in the manufacture of 501
Flint in wheat-straw 256
Florida, remarks on, and general description of, in
1838, 524-climate and products of 273
Flowers, double, conjecture on the causes of 134
Flowers, fruits, and trees 337
Forests of America 518
Fruit trees, planting, 576
Fruit trees, on "rinding" or ringing, to forward the
production of fruit 317
Garnett's, J. M. address, remarks on some parts, 93
Cas, natural, used to light a village 491
Gate, plan and description of 53
Geology and geography of New York, 402
Glanders, communicated from a horse to a man 543
Gloucester county, and part of Matthews, remarks on
the soils and agriculture of 179, 193
Gold mines, Peruvian, new mode of extracting the
metal 287
Grape and silk culture 92-on the profitable blending
of both with dairy business 89
383-the greatest amount to be obtained from given
means 361-quantity to apply to an acre 491-Jauf-
fret's discovery of a new mode of making 65, 165,
253, 303, 309-marine vegetable, application and
value of 300-liquid, 73-of fish 546-compost, of
peat 548-of bones 66
Manures in general 366-of mineral origin 291, 649,
(Lecture 7, Agr. Chem.)-of vegetable and animal
origin, (Lect. 6, Agr. Chem.) 640.
Manures (oil-cake and bones,) exported from the Uni-
ted States to Europe 344
Manures of salt-water rivers, inquiries and remarks
Manures used in Essex, Mass. 99.
Manures for wheat 157
Manuring, morals of 151
Malaria, on the sources of in Virginia, and the means
of remedy and prevention 216
Heating, Joyce's new mode of, 62—apparatus for 317, Marl of South Carolina, 111, 173, 265, 324—use of in
Herring, natural history of 387
Hoes, 386-sharpening 424
Hogs, management and diseases of 381
Honey, directions for taking, without destroying the
bees 397-antiseptic property of 520
Horse, age of judged by his teeth 357-description of
the best form of 512-velocity of in the race, phi-
losophically considered 71
Horses, singular and fatal disease of 563-secret for
taming 158
Houses, how moved in America 393
Humbug, agricultural, "Chinese" corn 489
Humbugs and hobbies, agricultural, essay on 47-
some objections to the essay on, 208-reply to the
objections 211
Hydrogen gas found in leaden water pipes 344
Hydrophobia in sheep, 394
Ice-houses, constructing and filling, 516, 550
Improving lands by other means than manuring, as
burning, irrigating, fallowing, &c. (Lect. 8, Agr.
Ch.) 656
Indian rubber, or Caoutchouc 520
Insects of destructive kinds 422
Marl as manure, inquiries as to the effects, and an-
swers 406-7
Marl-indicator, account of 454--objections to 759
Marling and liming in New Jersey 56
Marling in Queen Ann's, Maryland 144
Married and unmarried life, statistics of 89
Marsh grass as manure 359
Marsh-mud as manure, 359, 720, 722, 723
Massachusetts, the appropriations and works of, in
aid of agricultural improvement 117
Melons grown over water 111
Milk, quality of 212--from cows fed with distillery
swill 401
Milk-sickness of the west 313, 533, 719, its supposed
Mulberry, account of different varieties, 257, large
leaves of different kinds 417
Mulberry, Chinese, (morus multicaulis,) its culture,
414, 429, 492, 742--its introduction into this coun-
try, and diffusion of the knowledge of its value 497,
753-when genuine 502-not exempt from the de-
predations of insects 502-superior growth in the
south 511-the speculation in and high prices 355,
503-not well suited for the northern states 521-re-
moval of plants 575-in Florida 274
Mulberry culture, Chinese methods 353
Mulberry and silk culture, encouraged by old enact-
ments of Virginia, 559
Laws of Virginia, ancient, curious extracts from 558, Mulberry crop for silk raising 734
Leaves, manuring with, theory of 458-statements of
effects 463, 563
Libraries for common schools 357
Lightning conductors, efficacy of 279
Lime, as manure, 140-value of 424, 736-its applica-
tion, 739-use of in New Hampshire 292—anec-
dote of its use 261-general want of in the soils of
Massachusetts and Maine, the cause of their unfit-
ness to produce wheat 102
Lime-spreader, Smith's, description of 487
Liming in Maryland 2-in Charles City 421-effects
in raising value and price of lands 422
Liming and marling in Matthews county 142
Locks and aqueducts, selection of stone for 6
Loin-distemper of hogs 503
Lucerne 315
Machine for ditching and banking 200--for reaping
159-for thrashing, grinding, &c. 275
Machines for sowing grain 348
Peach crops, prospect of in Delaware 261
Peach tree 277, to protect from worms 428
Manure, materials for, 335-effects and value of Peas, as food for horses 254
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