Respectfully Laves
Silas Wright

AMERICAN

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE.

CONDUCTED BY

DR. E. EMMONS AND A. OSBORN ESQ.

VOL. III.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE.

ALBANY:
PRINTED BY J. MUNSELL,

No. 58 State Street.

1846.

CONTENTS.

NUMBER ONE.

1. Portrait of Governor Wright,

2. Theory of Agriculture,

3. Central Cavity of the Mastodon,

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4. On the importance of deep and Subsoil Cultivation,

5. Resources of Orange county for Manure,

6. Entomology-Novel Productions,

7. Manures-their Application,

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28

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8. Reports on Geological Survey of the Province of Canada,.....

9. Annual Report of R. Cook, agent Clinton State Prison,

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10. Copper Mines, ...

11. CRITICAL NOTICES.-Notes on the Iroquois, Report of Ma-

nagers of State Lunatic Asylum, 68-Mr. Alger on new Lo-

calities of rare Minerals, Report of the Chemical Examina-

tion of several Waters for the city of Boston, 69-The Quar-

terly Journal and Review, Report of Commissioners of the

Canal Fund of Tolls, Tonnage, and Trade of New York Ca-

nals, 70,

24. Hogs and their trade in the United States and Europe,

118

36. Art and Science of Agriculture,

37. To guard Sheep from the depredation of Dogs,

38. Merino Sheep,

39. A good method of cooking Potatoes,.

40. EDITORIAL NOTICES.-Corn Culture and the soaking of

seeds in Saline Solutions, The promotion of Vegetation by

Electro-Galvanic Action, 156-Refuse of the Wood Yard,

157-To cure fresh Wounds, A new arricle, A new locality

of Pyroxene, On the agency of Caloric, 158-Quarterly Journal

of the Geological Society of London, Gardner's Farmers' Dic-

tionary, 159-American Journal of Science, 160.

41. Errata...

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