Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture: Containing Communications on Various Subjects in Husbandry & Rural Affairs, Volume 1

Johnson & Warner, 1808 - Agriculture

Vol. 1- includes a statistical account of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge.

A List of the members	xvii

Page	xxx

Premiums proposed by the Philadelphia Society	xxxi

Library	xlvii

On Sheep by John D Steele near Downing	1

On Rotting Flax by Joseph Cooper of	9

On Peach Trees by Richard Peters	15

On Cutting off the horns of bull calves	25

Account of native thorns by Thomas Main	286

Description of a kitchen stove by Samuel	291

Gypsum whether it is found in the United	310

Observatians on the pea fly or beetle and fruit curculio by William Bartram	317

On clearing land by John Taylor Esq of Caroline Virginia	324

On smut in wheat	1

On blight	3

On the flax husbandry of Ireland	8

Supplement thereto by James Mease M D	47

On ditto by James Mease M D	65

Substitute for trench ploughing and new mode	85

New mineral manure for clover by Josiah	93

Account of the produce of wheat and rye dur	99

New Pummice Press	115

Instruments in the process as substitute for trench	126

On sheep and their diseases by Joseph Capner	133

On the yellow water of horses by Richard	139

On gypsum by the same	156

Account of the dimensions of American	176

On peach trees by Richard Peters with	183

Improvement of land by William Ashford	193

Com	222

Herbage and shrubs spontaneously produced	237

Hemlock for live fences by the same	249

On a three furrow plough by William	257

Observations on making and fining cyder	268

Postscript to Mr Taylors memoir	280

Plan and Elevation of a Stercorary	285

Change of seed not necessary to prevent degene racy naturalization of plants and important cau tion to secure permanent good quality of plants	11

Produce of grains in 1787 and 1788	21

Mode of plashing hedges	25

Analysis of soils and modes of discovering their component parts	27

Utility of Pyrites as a manure	33

On the Fruit Curculio	34

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Commencement of plan of the present Bridge 18	18

Act of Incorporation and Organization of the Company 76 21	24

3	30

General Observations 33	33

8	39

Address of the President and Directors at the close of	52

Remarks on single or multiplied Arches 73	73

11	82

25	83

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Title	Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture: Containing Communications on Various Subjects in Husbandry & Rural Affairs, Volume 1
Author	Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture
Publisher	Johnson & Warner, 1808
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	4 Nov 2008

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