I. AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

II. AMERICAN POMOLOGY.

III. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND INFORMATION.

IV. AGRICULTURAL CIRCULAR AND REPLIES.

V. THE POTATO_ITS NATURAL HISTORY-DETERIORATION, AND IMPROVEMENT.

VI. SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL EXHAUSTION, AND ITS REMEDY

VII. PRIZE ESSAY.

VIII. COMMERCIAL AND OTHER STATISTICS.

IX. THE COTTON TRADE.

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WASHINGTON:

ROBERT ARMSTRONG, PRINTER.

1853.

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Proficers H. I wilgus
10-18-1933

CONTENTS

ESSAYS AND REPORTS.

Page.

Progress of Agriculture in the United States. By Daniel Lee, M. D...

1

American Agriculture as an Art......

3

Remedies considered...

7

American Agricultural Literature. By Daniel Lee, M. D......

16

American Pomology. By Henry F. French....

23

Varieties of Apples for Rockingham Co., N. H.......

24

Pears engrafted on Quince Stocks—Pears on Pear Roots-Plums..

28

Peaches—Cherries-Winter-killing of Fruit Trees and Fruit Buds..

29

Reports of State Fruit Commillees

Report from Maine.......

32

Report from Vermont.....

37

Report from New York.....

39

Rotation of Crops, and Practical Suggestions. By John Young....

48

Practical value of the Analysis of Soils. By Prof. James C. Booth. ...

49

The Potato-Its Natural History-Deterioration and Improvement. By C. E. Goodrich. 354

Southern Agricultural Exhaustion, and its Remedy. By Edmund Ruffin, esq.... 373

The Agricultural value of Phosphate of Lime. By Joseph Harris.......

390

Details of an Experiment on raising Potatoes, in the year 1852. By H. H. Eastman.... 414

The Cotton Trade. By C. F. McCay....

439

AGRICULTURAL CIRCULAR AND REPLIES.

58

Agricultural Circular. By Thomas Ewbank.......
Replies to Circular-

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington City.-- From Mary B. Throckmorton...
Louisiana, Catahoula Parish.-H. W. Huntington...
Mississippi, Ilarion County.--Ebenezer Ford......

Hinds–M. W. Philips......