THE AMERICAN FARMER, CONTAINING ORIGINAL ESSAYS AND SELECTIONS ON AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, RURAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS; WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS AND THE PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. JOHN S. SKINNER, EDITOR. "O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint, VOL. VI. Baltimore: PRINTED BY J. ROBINSON, CIRCULATING LIBRARY, CORNER OF MARKET AND BELVIDERE STREET OPPOSITE THE FRANKLIN BANK. 1824. CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. ACKERLY Dr., his eulogium on Linnæus, 158. ADAMS, J. Q. on the value of the Fisheries, 41. ADLUM John, on American vineyards, 53-on the cul- AGE, of the horse, Lawrence on, 28. -Answered by Veritas, at the end of this index. -Of ALBEMARLE, transactions of, 97. -CUMBERLAND, meet at Fayetteville, and elect officers, and other proceedings, 15. -DORCHESTER, Maryland, constitution formed. -EAST TENNESSEE, proceedings of, 80. 281. -Of MASSACHUSETTS, roceedings of, at a dinner at Brighton, 254-request Mr. Lowell's address for publication, 267—repors of its last exhibition, 273, -of PENNSYLVANIA list of premiums for 1824, 49-give notice of their exhibition and list of pre- miums for Oct. 1824 212-editorial notice of its show at Chester, 26-official account of their ex- hibition at Cheste in Ot. 1824, 26-contents of their volume of mmoirs, 310-elect officers for the ensuing year, and take measures for the next Cat- Of PHILADELPHIA, proceedings of, 228, 262. Of the VALLY, elects members, appoints officers, and is addreed by the President, 2-papers read to, 59-pape read from R. K. Meade, 66-papers read to, 78, 4-paper, No. 5, read at Oct. 15, 1823, by W. M. Brton, 90-papers, No. 6, read to, 97- BACON, to prevent skippers in, 79-how to make ba- BARNS AND STABLES, on the construction of, 244. BATHING, the good effects of, 84. BEES, plan of the Charlies' hope hive, 114-on the pre- BELLENGIR, J. S. on the culture of corn and other BENE SEED, on the use of, by R. Goodwin, 46. BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 313. BOSLEY, Col. N. M., answers to certain questions res- BOYLE, James, on the laws of trespass in Maryland, 308. BREAD MAKING, by Cobbet, 86, 100, 108. BUEL, Judge J., on steeping seed wheat, 307. BUFFALO, recommended as a labouring animal, 213- CALVES, on rearing, 147, 151-essay on rearing, 318 CALHOUN, J. C., his report on internal improve- ments, 389-orders and communicates experiments CANALS, N. Y. expense of travelling on, 118. -Of the Chesapeake and Delaware, 199--progress -The Chesapeake and Ohio, report of the Board of CATERPILLARS, how to destroy, 92-destroys the CATTLE, large ones slaughtered in Baltimore, 20-- H. A. Carpenter's experience with Short Horns, 20-remarks on, by Veritas, 21-improvement of, in Worcester, Massachusetts, 178-liable to diseases of climate, 200-cheap method of fattening, 229- on fattening with flax-seed jelly, 260-importation of North Devons, 332-Devon, remarks on, by Philo Ignoramus, 339-table of calculations to show the increase of, from one Devon bull, 385--Improv- ed Short Horns, 410-on the value of Gen. Ridge- ly's breed, 411-remarks on, by Veritas, in re- CHAMPION, Charles, letter from, dated 24th Feb., 55. APPLES, note of valuable kind, 32-remarks on by CHARCOAL, best preservative of peach trees, 946. CHEMISTRY, importance of, as connected with agri- CHERRY TREES, on insects that destroy, 189. CLARK, Col. his plan of ascending rapids in rivers, 202. CLINTON, D. W. his remarks at the celebration of the -On house-keeping in America, 123. -On keeping cows, 174, 181. COCKROACHES, natural history of, 134. COFFEE, on the plantations of, in Cuba, 284. COMPOST, of vegetables with lime, 374. CORRESPONDENT, observations of one on a visit to Saratoga, dated Steam Boat United States, 137.— letter from Philadelphia, 145-dated Saratoga, describes military academy at West Point, 169- Katskill mountain and town, 185-describes Earl COTTON, culture of in Egypt, 29. CUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, meet at Fayetteville and elect officers, and other pro- CURRANT WINE, how best made, 127. CUTS, of mouldebart, I--of Abbot's harrow, 21-Mr. Pomeroy's decorticator, 60-Charlie's hope hive, 115-of a common gate, 142-of the manner of plaiting straw and grass for hats and bonnets, 156--how to trim vines, 188-of an improved plough sent by A. Pickens, 188-of a new post and rail fence, 207-one for cleaning wheat from gar- lic, 222-to show the true principle of construct- ing carriage wheels, 277-of Skinner's breed of DECORTICATOR, Mr. Pomeroy's, 65. DISBROW, his method of obtaining water by boring, 309 DINNER, invitations to from the Cook's oracle, 57. DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, Md. con- and how, 1-of great lakes in, 6. DUCATEL, J. T., professor of agricultural chemistry. EAST TENNESSEE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, ENCLOSURES, laws of Maryland in regard to, 158. EXPERIMENTS, valuable ones to show the difference between cooked and uncooked food, 320-to show the draught of different ploughs, 320-important |