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- than the whole race of politicians put together." Swift.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
Acid carbonic, production of in a liquid state 702
Acid soils, objections to their existence 640-evidence in support of 729 Agricultural improvement, obstructed by prevailing habits and opinions-by P. W. Harper 284 Agricultural journals, general value of 327-their uses to the cultivators of the rich western lands 327 Agricultural journals, French 432 Agricultural prospects of Virginia 762 Agricultural societies, usual improper course of their procedure 521-causes that lessen their utility 321-improvements in, recommended 522, 523-re- marks on their advantages and the indisposition to
form and sustain them 564
Agricultural societies, the necessity of forming,
and the Farmers' Register as an auxíliary, by N. E.
Read 531
Agricultural Society of King William and King and Queen, formation of 317-address to by Wm. Boul- ware 481
Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, address to by Dr. R. R. Barton 5/9
Babbage, account of his calculating machine 240 Barbour Gov. J. on the progress of agricultural im- provement 703-the need and importance thereto of legislative aid 704-on the soil and husbandry of the
red lands of the southwest mountains 705 Barns, Joel, describes Emmons' chain band horse-pow-
Agricultural Society of Buckingham, formation of 317 -constitution 383-premiums offered by 580 Agricultural Society of New London, cattle show of and premiums awarded 487-constitution of 489-Barton, Dr. R. R. his address to the Agricultural So- address to by Wm. Radford 490 Agricultural Society of Amherst, formation of 155- premiums offered by 297
Agricultural Society of Charlotte, papers of published on the improvement of agriculture 367-on the cultivation of fruit trees 368--on the management of horses and mules, and their manure 415 Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, address to by James M. Garnett 491
Agricultural Society of Norfolk, address to by Wm. Garnett Esq. 523
ciety of Rockbridge 548
Batte, Robert, on cheat and spelt 162
Beans, early in forcing 366-string (or snaps) dried for winter greens 751
Beaver, plan for its domestication 422 Beaufort, S. C. its erection into a naval depot and great commercial port, and the rail roads necessary for those objects 152
Bee management, improved system of invented by by Mr. Nutt 296
Bees, to guard effectually against the moth 5
Beetle, the burying, peculiar habits of 662
Bibliomania 238
Bone manure, effect of on turnips 92-other accounts
196-prize report of experiments on the effects of 318;
observations on 319-prepared in New York, and exportation to England 347-inquiries and remarks on by John Wickham 379-on its value 562--mode
of preparing and applying by J. H. Gibbon 563
Bones fossil, the immense quantity in Siberia 80
Bones, horns, &c. effects of as manure 409
Book farmers, an apology for 17 Bots in horses, not injurious 250, 251
Boulware's Wm. address to the Agricultural Society of
King William and King and Queen 481
Bread, machinery for making 168
Bread made of wood, the rationale and the process
607
Broom corn, profits of its culture 432 Broom grasses, botanical description of the different kinds 745
Buckwheat and millet, queries on 80
Buckwheat, considered as a green crop and compared with clover 303-its cleansing effect when made a preparing crop 138
Buckwheat straw furnishes a blue coloring matter 616 Bull, on the proper qualities of 209-mode of fixing to prevent damage from when vicious 210 Butter, how made in Chile 37-successful manage- ment of in Massachusetts 561-making and preser- vation of in England 589-on the making and man- agement of in the dairy district of Scotland 717
Cabell, N. F. reports the product of a remarkable crop of corn 659-a trial of Herbemont's wine 648 Calcareous deposites on the borders of Piankitank Ri- ver described by A. Billups 348
Calcareous earth, abundant in the prairie soils of Ala- bama 716, 717-supposed to be the cause of the ab- sence of trees on the prairies, pampas and steppes 716 -none present in nearly all the lands now or for- merly under trees in Virginia and elsewhere 716 Calcareous region of Alabama described by R. W. Withers 637
Calcareous rock discovered in Prince Edward by W.
Canada Thistle, on its effects as a weed and means to check its extension 29-its first appearance in Mary- land 30
Canals in the United States, list of 468
Caoutchouc on India rubber, account of its recent conversion to various economical uses 414 Carbonate of lime crystalized, found in marl 444 Carmichael, W. on Cooley's thrashing machine and Eastern Shore improvements 364-describes a pro- ductive kind of corn 604
Carrots, premium crop of and the culture 754
Cart, (drag) of Lord Somerville, figures and descrip- tion of 615
Carter, Hill, on the advantages of the four-shift rotation compared to the three-shift, and in reply to objec- tions 657
Caruthers, John F. on the vine culture of Rockbridge
Cattle, Mr. Coke's at Holkham 142-extensive sales of in England 165, 170-on the breeding, rearing, fat- tening and general management of 193-on buying and stocking a farm with 207-description of the wild breed 193-of the Devon breed 194-Here- ford 796-Short Horned, Dutch, Holderness and Teeswater 196-Long Horned 198-Galloway breed 199-Highland breed 200-Ayrshire breed 201- Kyloes or Isle of Sky breed 201-Alderney breed of 301-on soiling, advantages of 393-stall feeding 395 different methods of 396, 397-the points by which they are to be judged 446--on grazing for profit 333--artificial food for 457-stable manage- ment of 459--rules for the sale of 460---weights, live and dead 462--table of prices 463
Cedars, remarks on sprouting the seed 536-transplant- ing for hedges 536-hedges of, management of, by John Taylor of Caroline 536-on raising them from the seed, and transplanting 640 Celery, the mode of cultivation directed 603 Cement, newly discovered, forming an artificial stone
Cheat supposed to be produced from wheat 60, 162-- causes supposed 162
Commercial reports, monthly 63, 125, 181, 247, 391,
443, 520, 578, 639, 709, 776 Cooking animal food, loss of weight by 171 Cordage materials for, Agave Americana and Yucca Filamentosa 6
Corn, (Indian, or Maize) native country of 75-on the manner and expense of cultivation 65, 10, 701- mode of cultivating on the Pamunky objected to 466-the mode of cultivating by J. R. Wallace 618 the harvesting of 661-greater shrinkage afterwards of grain from which the fodder had not been re- moved 662-its being topped considered 422-a new mode of cultivating (in Alabama) mixed with rice, potatoes, peas and pea-nuts 634-mode of saving the fodder and stalks 635-a' productive kind obtained by selection,described by J. M. Garnett 496; and by W. Carmichael 604-a remarkable crop of in Buckingham, stated by N. F. Cabell 659-large products of, and remarks on 638, 639-the impro- priety of hilling 155-salted to guard from weevil
Corn trade, foreign, of England, account of 173 Cotton in Florida 2--account of its introduction into the United States, and progress of its culture 353- the several species 353-Sea Island, description of, culture and after management 355 to 359--short sta- ple, description and management of 359-value of cotton as a product 362-observations on the crop of 1834, and on the crop in general 122-the several species described by H. B. Croom 590, 769-re- marks on Mr. Spalding's essay on cotton 591-Egyp: tian, remarks on 770-rot in, supposed cause of, and the introduction of the Petit Gulf kind as a rem- edy 548-rust in caused by insects 725 Cotton gin, Whitney's 360
Cotton manufacture in England, its progress 758 Country pleasures, letter from a boy to his friend in town 764
Cow producing four calves at a birth 374-the proper qualities for breeding 210
Cows, diseases of 89-worked in Nassau 276-valua-
ble for the dairy, remarks on 766; list and descrip- tion of a number 768; milch, the management of 553; the best breeds for milk 553; products of in milk and butter 553; pasture for, and other food best calculated to increase or improve their milk 554, 555, 556; sea weed for cows 556; salt, benefit of in their food 557
Craven, John H. report on his farm 226 Cream, raised by heat 286
Croom, H. B. on the agriculture, soil and products of Middle Florida 1; on the several species of cotton 599, 769; on Egyptian cotton 770; on Florida coffee and okra 710
Crossing grain, and thereby obtaining new and valuable varieties 480
Crows, to kill with arsenic 24; more beneficial than injurious to corn planters 243
Cucumbers, culture of 323
Cultivation, exhausting or improving 9
Cultivation and consumption of the United Kingdom 213
Cunningham Grape, account of by C. Woodson 310
Dairy, situation and buildings proper for 585; utensils for 586; management of milk, cream and butter 586 Dairy business and fattening animals, comparative profits of 313
Deformities produced by darkness 238
Devon breed of cattle described 194
Dew, Professor, letter from to the editor, prefatory to his Essay on the Usury Laws 97; on interest of mo- ney, and the policy of laws against usury 98 Diary of the weather 60; for quarter ending with Sep- tember 446; ending with December 1834, 555 Discontinuances of subscribtions, improper and fraudu- lent in certain modes 192
Diseases of wheat, uncertainty and general errors re- specting 278
Diseases of cattle, want of knowledge of among farm- ers 293
Domesticated fish 153
Draining, remarks on 59
Drag log, or drag-roller 751
Draught, treatise on the principles of 623
Dried fruit, to preserve from insects 533
Ducks, success of plan of raising 409, [see plan in Vol. I.]
Dupuy, W. J. on the suitableness of sheep husbandry for middle Virginia 656
Dutch ashes as manure, use and value of 167, 432; chemical analysis of 168
Du Val, J. on the propriety of the names of corres- pondents being signed to communications 690; on keeping Irish potatoes 660
Editorial remarks-on the offspring of hybrid animals 3; on the value of yellow locust seed 3; opinions of old authors on tobacco 11; changes of volcanic pro- ducts to fertile soil 12; on the periodical returns of the American locust 37 and 126; on Mr. Curwen's diary of his harvest labors 52; reports of crops and seasons 63; cheap edition of the Farmers' Register proposed 63; and abandoned 256; Tunicata corn 75; on gathering fodder (from corn) as practised in Vir- ginia 92; Tornado of June 1834, 122; Richmond and Fredericksburg railway 124; pine bug or worm 125; reaping with the scythe in England 132; on salt and carbonate of soda as manures 137; Mr Coke's farmning 142; on the discovery of calcareous rock in Prince Edward, and of the green sand in the lower counties of Virginia 154; impolicy of inspections of gypsum 180; abuses in discontinuances of subscrip- tions 192; condition and prospects of the College of
William and Mary 239; objections to frequent expres- sion of editorial opinions 239; partridge pea 255; on the ambiguous signatures to communications 256; the papers and procedure of the Highland Society pro- posed as an example to the agricultural societies of this country 266; causes of unprofitable tillage in Virginia 266; "Bubbles from the Brunnens" 272; on the diseases of wheat, and their uncertain nomer- clature 278; on the petition for a change in the law of enclosures 283; on the value of bone manure 319; on cheat and spelt, and the introduction of the latter in this country 325; on the use of periodical jour- nals to the western planters 327; on the removal of restrictions on trade in England and in the United States 336; Professor Rogers' apparatus for anal- yzing marl 365; on the three and four-shift rotations 380; Cunningham and Norton grapes, and failure in vine culture in the United States 381; on the peti- tion for a change in the law respecting enclosures, and the peculiar oppression of that law on the poor 402; vine culture, and the probable need of a calca- reous soil for vines 404; cheat controvery 408; le- gislation needed for the promotion of agriculture 418; review of the transactions of the Société Roy- ale et Centrale d'Agriculture, 432; crystallized carbo- nate of lime found in marl 444; Artesian wells of Alabama 455; prairie soils, samples desired 455; British Association 456; typographical errors 456; comparative statement of the three and four-shift rotations 466; moth weevil moving northward 466; improvement of wheat fan described 485; on the experiments necessary to settle the question as to the gain or loss of gathering fodder 486, 487; hum- ming bird made tame 496; on the action of quick- lime in connexion with putrescent manures 497; the value of the writings of John Taylor of Caroline, particularly his Inquiry, &c. 510; spade culture in England 513; the effect of smuggling on the re- strictive system 516; the importance of geological surveys to Virginia 517; on the Norton Grape 520; on the change required in the proceedings of agri- cultural societies 523; on sprouting the seeds of ce- dar, and transplanting for hedges 536; on the pre- paring bones for manure 562; on the effect of expo- sure of lime to the air 602; on the effects of expo- sure to wet and heat on gypsum 603, 631; on Mr. Woodson's report of experiments on the losses caused by gathering fodder, and reaping green wheat 610; the general results of the law of enclosures on interests of Virginia 610, 611; on the obstacles to the improvement of lands naturally poor 614; notice of the Tennessee Farmer 622; on Artesian wells, and anticipations of their future benefits 630; constitu- ent parts of gypsum 632; on the expense of water- bone marl 637; on the objections to communications to the Farmers' Register being anonymous 660; on the translation of the account of vine culture near Paris 693; on the labors of Mr. Blacker in Ireland 706; the season and weather of first quarter of 1835 776; thefts committed in post offices 710; on the re- cent enactments of the legislature of Virginia, af- fecting the interests of agriculture 711; on the com- mittee of agriculture and manufactures, and its re- port on the petitions for a change of the law of en- closures 711; on misapprehension respecting edito- rial comments 712; on the calcareous constitution of prairie soils, and speculations on the cause of their peculiar features 716; the difficulties attending the absence of carbonate of lime in soils 728; Chi- nese mulberry, not to be preserved by propagation by seeds 738; on the state and prospects of the Far- mers' Register 765; on Mr. Lewis' lime kilns 769; mountain locust (robinia pseudacacia) supposed to be a native tree of lower Virginia 770; on the im- provements of small farmers in Ireland 775; season in April 1835, 776
"Editorial communications," how to construct 581 Eels, singular habits of 187
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