Ag.. AGENTS FOR THE CULTIVATOR. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. ties of Nova Scotia, 363, Apples from Nova Scotia, 358. Book Farming, 377. Col. Randall's sheep, 378. Culture of fruit trees, 382. Disease in cattle, 380-in potatoes, Foreign Intelligence, 365, 366. Grasses from Bermuda, 388. Influence of water on soils, 375. Mr. French's Farm, Braintree,368. FOR JN, Y.,State Ag. Society, 363. Products of the year 1844, 371. Sanford's Straw Cutter, 383. ILLUSTRATIONS. Woodcock's Plow, 376. Trees gnawed by Mice, 86. FARM IN ILLINOIS. OR SALE-A good farm, with valuable improvements. The subscriber being about changing his business, will sell a great bargain Also has in immediate vicinity, 2,000 acres choice land, which he will sell at a discount from government price. Address ISAAC HINCKLEY, P. M., Audubon, Montgomery Co., Illinois. Dec. 1, 1844-8. PRINCE'S LINNEAN BOTANIC GARDEN Flushing, L. I., near New-York. WILLIAM R. PRINCE & CO'S New Descriptive Catalogues of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants (34th edition,) with prices much below those usually charged, and comprising additions of above 500 select varieties of Fruits, and 1200 varieties of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Roses, not in any other American Nursery, will be sent to every post paid applicant. The cost of the present edition, is above $700, and it is the most complete ever published. Also, Prince's Treatise on Fruits, $2,00, and on the Vine, $1,50, and on Roses, 50 cents. Orders will be executed in a superier manner, and forwarded as ordered. WM. R. PRINCE & Co. Flushing, December, 1814-21. Each number of the Cultivator contains 32 large octavo pazes, and is published at the low price of $1.00 a year-Seven copies for $5 Fifteen copies for $10. "We do no more," says Rev. Dr. Bond, editor of the Christian Advocate and Journal, than strict justice when we say we believe the Cultivator is considered the best work of its class in the United States, an i we have seen nothing equal to it from Europe."-"THE CULTIVATOR IS," says the Auburn Journal, "by all comparison the best agricultural paper in the Union."-" We speak advisedly," says the Northern Advocate, when we give The Cultivator the pre-emi. nence in point of maturity of agricultural knowledge, in every thing which appertains to the farmer or the farming interest""We do not believe," says the Albany Atlas, "that in the present range of period cal literature in America, there is a work so valuable as The Cultiva Baltimore, Md., Dr. G. B. Smith. p. m. Brockville, U. C., J. G. Booth. grave. New Orleans, La., W. McKean, A. Owego, G. J. Pumpelly, Esq. Cornwallis, N. S., Dr. C. C. Ham- Pittsburg, Pa, J. W. Cook, ilton. Columbus, Geo., G. W. E. Bedell, Erie, Pa., T. Moorhead, Jr. Georgetown, D. C., John H King Ithaca, J. McCormick, p. m. Providence, A. H. Stillwell. St. Albans, Vt., M. F. Palmer. St. Johns, N. B., T. H. Wentworth. Lansingburgh, A. Walsh, gratuit-Uuca, W. Bristol. FINE FARMS FOR SALE. THOSE very superior Farms situated near Galway Corners, in No. 75 Nassau street, New-York. SUPERIOR FARMS FOR SALE. TWO superior productive farms in Rensselaer county,2 miles from Hoosic Falls. The farms are about one hundred acres each, and so situated as to be conveniently worked as two or one farm: each having the necessary buildings, and being judiciously divided into pasture and tilled land, all recently fenced with entire new materials in the most durable manner. The land is all of the first quality, and its Any person wishing to obtain the Cultivator, can do so by present state of cultivation would bear a good comparison with any handing a dollar to his Postmaster, who is authorized to forward ii,land in the county. These Farms will be sold together or separate, free of postage to the proprietor. on terms most accommodating as to price and credit. Apply to Lansingburgh, July 16, 1844. ALEXANDER WALSH tor." Postmasters, and the friends of agriculture generally, are invited to act as Agents on the liberal terms above specified. Specimen numbers and prospectuses will be sent to all persons disposed to act as Agents, on application, All orders must be accompanied with the cash, and be addressed to LUTHER TUCKER, Ed. Cultivator, Albany, N. Y. FARM FOR SALE. TWashim bes in Alexandria min George. IS farm lies in Alexandria County, D. C., six miles from the town. It contains two hundred and thirty-nine acres; from seventy SHORT HORN DURHAMS FOR SALE. o eighty in low land meadow, and from eighty to ninety in excelier NE or two Heifers three years old, in calf by the prize bull Me Lime, which has been used already with fine effect, can be procured timber, with a comfortable dwelling, good barn, ice house and daty, teor, and one yearling and ans in call fine reniently divided into ter were got by the imported bul, Duke of Wellington-also a fine two farms and will be sold upon accommodating terms as to price and bull calf, now about 6 months old got by Meteor. Troy, Oct. 25th, 1814. GEO. VAIL. credit. Apply to Washington City, D. C. Oct. 1844 11 * T. L. RINGGOLD. CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP, SWINE, AND POULTRY, Where single numbers or complete sets of the back volumes can always be obtained. FROM THE STEAM PRESS OF C. VAN BENTHUYSE* 1845. INDEX TO VOLUME II. (NEW SERIES.) [EXPLANATION.—In making out the annexed Index, we have placed every thing relating to MANURES under that head-so with CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP, SWINE, POULTRY, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, BOOKS, PERIODICALS, &c. Every article referring in any wise to these subjects, will be found arranged under these several heads A. Animals, on fattening, ....... ....... 157 348 3501 Bones and fish for manure,.. 39, 333 Bones used on Long Island,. 12, 106-dissolved in sulphuric acid,..... 204, 266 106, 153 Bog cutter described, .... Acknowledgments, 10, 41, 73, 105, 152, 184, Ants, to destroy... - Mr. Delafield's, at Waterloo, - Mr. Roper's, South Carolina, -Gov. Jenison's, Vermont,. -Col. M'Donald's, Eufalla,. -Dr. Lee's, Cortland... -Hon. Z. Pratt's, Greene,. ....... Comstock's Garden, figure of,. 52 157 -description of varieties, 162 worm in,... 216 246 - origin of, 241 345 Golden Russet,. 375 samples of, 344, 374 for swine,.. 337 361 Apple trees, profits of, 12, 115, 262, 347, 384 191 management of.. 207 325 115 76 Advertisements-Notices of, .. 153, 217, 312 - Education, remarks on,.................... -College, in Tennesse, -in England and Ireland,. 253, 287, 301 Apricot trees, productive, -Exhibitions, notices of,.. - Fairs, advantages of,. -Institute at Aurora,.. -Lecturer appointed, -Meetings in Albany.. 355 Aphis or plant louse, 325 Arsenic, how detected,.. 119 Art.choke, Jerusalem, culture of,. 70 -American Herd Book,... 379-Arago's Astronomy,.. American Shepherd, Balance of Organic Nature,. Colman's Tour, part III.,...... 1.52, 191 -part IV 341 Catalogue of Camelias, ............ 24S Canada and the Colonists,.......... 323 Every man his own Farrier, 194 Elocution made easy, ..... 194 Economy of waste manures, ....... 211 299- Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 155, 226, 346 Geological Survey of South Carolina, 155 24 67 73 -how to feed,. 262 51, 109 Asparagus, culture of, 79, 227 - Papers, benefits of, 52, 70, 94, 195, 275,292, salt for,.. 87 Law of Storms, ....... 310, 346, 389 -how to cook,.. 160 Landscape Gardening, 115 Ashes, on meadows,.. 87 Lardner's Lectures, -reply to attacks on... 273, 324, 377 Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer,.. 323 Washington's Letters on Agriculture, 226 Botanical Tour,.......... 141, 212, 274, 339 Broom corn, culture of,... 339, 383 Buckle, improved lever,.......... 153, 291 115 Budding, to prepare strings for,.278 Buildings-Ribbon houses,......... 308 115 42, 216 43, 65 English Farmery,................................................ 120 50 117 plans of houses,.. .............. 315, 345 123 69, 202 23 44 51, 293 202 143 215 ... 202 249 Mr. Donaldson's, at Blithewood, Mr. Prentice's, Mount Hope,....... 43 Mr. Gowen's, ....... 290 Col. Sherwood's, Auburn,........................... 133 location, construction, &c.,......... 161 for plantation laborers,. .................................. 144 sunburnt brick for,..... 306 Carriage house and stable,... 337 220 Burning clay, how performed, ...... 291 301 Burdocks, to destroy, .... 293 337 Butter, from six cows in thirty days,.. 50 71 quantity per cow. -as performed in Edinburgh,. 59 Beef curing for British markets,. 121-how to salt,.. 370 made in Vermont, .............. 389 - in the United States, 139, 171 Bees, habits of,. 118 140, 171 exported in 1843-4, 89, 162 197 ............ 68 69 -cure for sting of, 155 171 -barren, fertile, and very fertile soils, 172 -of soils, utility of,. 192 -soils from Wisconsin.. 215 Bee-hives, Mulholland & Crane's,. 344 price of, in Paris,.................. 331 casks for packing, ................................... 293 231 to sweeten rancid, ................ 339 - of slates... 233 Bee-moth, to destroy,.. -Wheat, barley, oats, &c.,. ANIMALS, care of, in winter, 234 Be Definite," writers should,.. -feeding, and purposes served by food, 33 Beets, premium crops,.. care of, in spring,.. - Domestic, of Nova Scotia,. --of North-Carolina,.. --of France, ..... --ofouth Carolina,.... -winter food for,..... -whence their fat?.. 78 sugar, for cattle,. 188 Belgium, notes on,.. 242 Bermuda and Crab grasses, 269 Birds not to be spared, 270 - vs. insects, 198 Blight in Pear trees,. 229] Blithewood, notice of,. 309- County, products of,.................................. 189 34 California plants,................................... 382 51, 95, 293 Carriage for Manure, .............................. 310 219-house and stable, plan of,.. to make it " 55 55 come, 356 308 213, 372 190 C. 194 .... 47 .... 204 43 in Ayrshire, Scotland, Wm. Davis' Prairie, Gershom Flagg's," Geo. Patterson's, 92 125 77 D. 204 Dairying, districts for,................. 15 96 Dairies, products of,... 68, 89, 189 Mr. Calhoun's, 217 Robert Donaldson's, ....... 249 242 -Col. Sherwood's, 16 Henry S. Morse's, .................. 257 272 Relief for choked, ............................... 195, 312 Death of Lord Western, ..................................... ..... 99 of Dr. Samuel Akerly, ................................ 252 -of Earl Spencer,.. Delaware Ag. Society, ..... 229 Definiteness in writers necessary, 213, 372 Col. Sherwood's, 133, 251 Distilleries of Germany, Mr. Donaldson's, 241 DOMESTIC ECONOMY-Apple jelly, 79-J. F. Sheafe's, .......... Mr. Gowen's, ...... 290 in Connecticut, ・・・・・・・・ 320, 349 Sales of, in England,· 203 Dudley Chase's, 160 Farms, experimental needed, · ....... 35 79 of Dublin, ... ............................. 253 Fanning mills, Grant's, 62 Facts in farming,⋅ Bees, cure for sting of,........ on curing,.............................. 46, 109 300 91, 276 77 321 Fastenings for cattle,................ 76 370 Fattening animals, remarks on, Cotton beds,..................................... 162, 292 Fence, rail, laid straight,⋅ 62 machine for making picket, 149, 252-rules for building, 123 330, 350 48 92 93 107 228, 375-remarks on building, 209, 213 322 durable, ...... Corn Cake, wintering, best mode of, 381 Cattle Shows, times of holding, ... 157 47 Eggs, to preserve, Cement, for earthen pipes, for pickles, .... Hams, to keep in summer, -to cure,... .... 322, 353 - Vermont,... Cheese, to improve quality of, 16 Itch, Barber's, cure for, 278 Filberts, culture of, made in the United States, ....... 68 Jerusalem Artichoke, to cook, 271 Fish for manure, ... Meat, to cure, 113, 309, 353, 339, 389- ponds, fish for, Tomatoes, to cook, ̧•••••••••••••• 321 Flour, quantity in bushel of wheat,.... Flowers, cut, to preserve, · · · · · 283 Door-yards, plants for, &c., 344 Dogs, the whiffet,· Shepherd's, 197 Flower Cases, Ward's, 203 Fodder should be cut, 208, 280 Food of animals, remarks on, ****** 203 Draining on farm of O. C. Rogers,.... 31 ....... 195 289 machine for making tiles for,....... 99 Forest trees, culture of. 324-successful in Alabama, 143 ---in Germany,.... .... 228. 375 Chestnuts, how to plant, 319-advantages of, Chemical Science, value of, 192-Side-hill,....... .......... Chili, agriculture of, - ponds and marshes, Intelligence, 16, 99, 159, 185. 229. 253. 294, 325, 346, 390 305 Flax, culture of.... 79 Flouring mills of Giessen, 375 Flowers, preservation of cut, .... 13 26 ...... 53, 203- 381.382 16, 33 .............. 35 58 of laborers in England, ................ 135 amount of in different plants, 384 ..... 111 235 272, 303 980 |