THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND THE HOUSEHOLD ARTS. VOLUME X. RICHARD B. GOOCH, EDITOR.
Richmond: Printed and Published by P. D. Bernard, Opposite the Exchange Bank, 1850. 383, [1blank] pp, with general title page. Nos. 1 through 12, January through December 1850. Twelve consecutive issues, each 32 pp. The December issue has a detailed Index. The text is generally clean, with a few leaves lightly to heavily foxed. Bound in original half calf: hinges starting, leather chipped heavily along spine. Good+. With advertisements, many articles on improvements in agriculture.
Contents include: The Cultivation of Hemp in Eastern Virginia; Causes of Potato Rot; On the Use of Guano; God Bless the Plough by Lavinia S. Weston [Poem]; Immigration to Virginia; History of Kentucky Cattle [Extensive]; On the Use of Putrescent Manures [Extensive]; Cider; On the Cultivation of Tobacco; Alpaca Raising; Guano for Tobacco; On the Cultivation of Indian Corn; An Address of Dr. James W. Thompson to the Intelligent Famers of Today; On the Preservation of Fruits for Winter Use; The Manufacture of Maple Sugar; The Use of Molasses in Fattening Hogs; Turkey Raising in Tennessee; Apples as an Article of Human Food; The Urine of Animals; The Honorable Willoughby Newton on Profits of Farming in Eastern Virginia; Causes of Diseases in Children; The Cultivation of Irish Potatoes; Moon-Ology - Superstitions and Humbugs; The Use of Salt in Curing Tobacco; Cotton Manufacture of the Union [On the treatment of white laborers]; The Death of President Zachary Taylor; The Oppression of the Fence Law of Virginia; Coloring Pine to Imitate Black Walnut; Transmutation; Domestic Wine; Proposed Remedy for Fruit Thieves; The Shepherd's Dog; Electro-Magnetism and Motive Power; Lithography; The Greyhound; The St. Bernard Dog; Experiments with Guano; Means for Mental Improvement; Tobacco Manufactories; The Legislative Farmer's Club; Iron Coated with Glass
FIRST EDITION. Not in Haynes, Lomazow. 5 Union List of Serials 4022. Item #41499
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