INDEX.

ADDRESS, preliminary 1 —— Tilghman's to the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 104 Adams, John, original letter from 50 Agriculture, treatise on 13, 54, 90, 129, 165, 211 Arabian horse, account of 31 Ants of Valencia 115 Agricultural education 100 Antediluvian oak 148 Antique nugea ib. Anecdote 149 —— ib. Air jacket ib. Africa 154 Agriculture, essay on 169 —— letters on 332, 370 Agricultural memoranda 172, 227, 317, 380 Appraisement act 182 Agricultural discourse 267 Almanacks, origin of 276 American ginseng 380 —— saltpetre 397 Anecdote of Lycurgus ib. Agriculture, honour paid to, in China 407 Agricultural school at Hofwyl 205 —— hints 292 Abstracts from Philadelphia Agricultural Society's memoirs 293 Absence of mind 429 American plants and minerals 172 Anecdote 432, 315 African people, the 325 Ants, natural history of 448 —— wars of 458 Advice and Caution 475 Antidotes to poison, vegetable 474 Anecdote 472 Boerhaave, notice of 78 Barrett, Starr, decease of 116 Backster, George, decease of ib. Botany bay, a view of 141 Bear, sagacity of 147 Boring, legalized 152 Breweries, London 154 Brewing, family machine 248 Benezet, Anthony, anecdote of 273 Bulls, Irish 278 Boots without seams ib. Bones, &c. as manure 216 Bank note exchange 280, 240, 320,360, 400, 440 Benevolence 394 Books, on 234 Bees, attack by 422 Banks, Sir Joseph 427 Boon, colonel, death of 472 Botany, curious fact in 475 Cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar, wine, statistical account of 23 Coffee plant 27 Cow tree 29 Cattle, Herefordshire, breed of 35 Cowley, Robert, decease of 117 Congress, list of members of 39 Cottage Society, account of 36 Chestnut wood, for dyeing 115 Cobb, Christopher, decease of 117 Cattle, mill feed for 127 Cow, singular account of one 147 Coaches 148 Charity, ladies ib. Chimnies ib. Catwg, wisdom of ib. Combustion, spontaneous 151 Cold, severe 153 Cotton, exportation of, from New Orleans ib. Cameronians, account of the 185 Comfortable discovery 196 Cambricks, flax for 380 Characters, weight of great 394 Cave, Weir's in Virginia 396 Camels 398 Corn pounder, Lincoln 220 Caterpillars 172, 223 Curious phenomenon 231 Cattle, valuable breed of 295 Chester Agricultural Society 306 Cider, on making 339 Cabbages for cattle 340 Culinary poisons, letter on, &c. 348 Correspondents, notice to 120, 160 Carpets, cheap and elegant 453 Cement, Turkey 473 Chemistry applied to industrious economy 475 Corrosive sublimate, gluten an antidote for 471 Council Bluffs 473 Christians, new sect of 474 Desultory Remarker 45, 81, 121, 161, 201, 244, 283, 321, 361, 401, 441 Domestic economist noticed 78 Deaths, list of, in the principal cities of the United States 117 Deaf and dumb marriage 197 Delametaire, Etienne, death of 236 Death, instance of premonition of 290 Diving bell 120 Domestic manufactures, premiums for 174 Drink, parallel of enjoyment and suffering, 314 Diamond, the 461 Drought 474 Druids 477 Dreaming ib. Disputants 476 Education, agricultural 100 Ellery, William, decease of 116 Economy of Nature 150 Ephraim, my neighbour 262 Education 382 Ellery, Mr. account of 75, 232 Earth, the productions of the 328 Europe, statistics of 352 Edgeworth, Richard L. esq. memoirs of 412 Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin 444 Economical bread, receipt for making 465 Fig tree, American 28 Fire places, improvement in 37 Franklin, Dr. original letter of 44 Fry, Mrs. account of 126 Flax, on dressing 170 Franklin, Dr. anecdotes of 179 Fulton, Robert, steam-ship 192 Family brewing machine 248 Foreign tongue, the English a 274 Franklin's, Judge, address 366 Farmers, hint to 380 Flemish husbandry 219, 303 Fruit trees, on the oiling of 222 Fruit garden 226 Fruit trees, method of forcing 228 Firmity and Hominy 291 Farmers, encouragement for, on poor land 332 Fuel, economy in 339 French women 352 Forest trees, on the culture of 223 Fiction, works of 231 Flax for cambricks 280 Fata Morgana 451 Flowers in Holland 453 Food, cheap 457 Fox, Charles J. character of 467 Gas lights 151 Green crops, manures of 168 Glass, method of rendering it less brittle 195 Grape vine, native 247 Gossip, view of a 262 Glass making, introduction of into France 273 Gimcrackery, on 326 Garrick, anecdote of 355 Ginger 457 Governors, mode of electing 477 Gil Blas and Don Quixote 476 Gourd, Jonah's 465 Grape vine, on the 69, 101 Horses, disease among 30 —— wild, of the west 31 —— cheap food for, &c. 246 —— cure for foundered 227 History, on the study of 49 Holkham sheep shearing 379 Honey, on taking, without destroying the bees 224 Historical sketches 229 Horse, the Arabian 31 Hams, to cure, Westphalia fashion 172 Hartford fair 431 Horse, running 470 Jewish emigrants 76 "Is it peace, Jehu?" 88 Indian jurisprudence 116 Jones, David, decease of 116 Intemperance, expose of the causes of 133 Iron boat 277 Indian corn, its good and bad culture 364 Internal wealth 397 Indian corn, new method of preserving 228 Ice, power of 235 Ivory paper 474 Indian, double-jointed 473 King, the, death of, &c. 145 Letters of a citizen, to his friends in the country 5, 47, 89 Letter to the editors 3 —— from an Englishman in this country, to his friends at home, 11, 51 —— original, from John Adams 50 —— —— from Dr. Franklin 44 —— On Mrs. Fry's proceedings in Glasgow 126 Light, without heat, or combustion 36 Libraries, public, of Germany 80 Law case 113, 231 Longitude (new theory of) 115 Lane, Thomas, decease of 116 Library, apprentices' 146 London 151 Laplandv152 Leeches 153 Lybia 154 Longevity, extraordinary 155 Law suit 184 Lord Thurlow 277 Locust tree, the 412 Lincoln corn pounder 220 Lycurgus, anecdote of 308 Law work, new 476 Ladies, learned ib. Lands, public 468 Moral plough boy 15, 59 Mummies 79 Miscellany 75, 115, 145, 193, 223, 274, 314, 354, 394, 433, 471 Modes of salutation 115 Mill feed for cattle 127 Mine, silver 150 Missouri, boundaries of 152 Maple Sugar, on the culture of the 164, 218 Manufactures, domestic, premiums for 174 Manner, on the importance of 177 Mortgage act 184 Maine 275 Modern inventions 278 Madeira, island of 387 Missouri, staples of 418 Marivaux 230 Microscope, beauties of the 345 Martial glory 233 Marriages, list of 155, 197 Mammoth cave in Kentucky, account of 464 Nicholson's prize essay 17, 62,93 Natural curiosity 386 Niagara falls, route to 289 Needle, variation of the 351 Natural history, curious facts in 428 Nunneries in Rome, visit to two 454 Narrow resources, advantages of 462 Otto, Joseph, decease of 117 Oil spring 145 Oil stones 276 Oxen, on the use of, &c. 309 Oranges 227 O'Groat's, John house 430 Oil, cotton seed 470 Political Economics 26 Peruvian bark, singular effect of 29 Pumpkin seed, oil of 30 Pleasure, on the pursuit of 43 Phenomenon! 147 Paint, a newly discovered 149 Potatoes, seed 151 Portugal 153 Poultry houses, method of preserving from vermin 155 Peaches, to dry 173 Plum trees, canker on 174 Poultry 196 Pickle, Frederick, decease of 197 Pennsylvania hospital 276 Prices current 239, 280, 320, 360, 400, 440 Parmesan cheese dairy 376 Punctuality 384 Prompter, the 391, 417,466 Plaster, remarks on 223 Pear tree, on the 226 Potatoes, young, in the winter 227 Peaches, to preserve from frost 227 People, the African 325 Pompeia, present state of 341 Potatoes 338 Pyroligneous acid, antisceptic power of 456 Population in America, increase of 474 Ruth, story of 125 Ralp, Elizabeth, decease of 116 Russia, 153 Republican manners 175 Rain gauge, state of, at Philadelphia 197, 239, 280, 320, 360, 400, 440, 479 Rhode Island 275 Rivers, machine for crossing 277 Rain, cattle scenting 278 Rice, wild 377 Rags, conversion of, into sugar 224 Ruta Baga, experiments 225 Rural Magazine, a friend of, to its readers 281 Riddle, Baron Smyth's 476 Raindeer 475 Slavery, extension of 6 Sugarcane 27 Savannah, fire in 76 Straw bonnets 80 Seeds (from the plough boy's cottage) 85 Starch, to make 115 Staughton, Don Juan, decease of 116 Sweden, latitude of, trees in 150 Spider, anecdote of ib. Snow, red 152 Smokers, hint to 155 Shoes, wooden scaled 175 Sentiments of an old soldier 179 Shepherd's dog 190 Snow Storm, the 253 Seeds, on 378 Salt, remarks on, as a manure 411 Speech, natural to man 419 Strawberry, improved method of cultivating 222 Spanish inquisition 232 Sullivan, O. Theodore, death of 236 Sugar, domestic, on the increase of, in the United States 330 Steam coach 419 Subscribers, address to 240, 281 ——, notice to 480 Scottish adventurers 355 Salt mines of Meurthe in France 357 Stone Floors, &c. 421 Sounds, increase of, during night 476 Silk, domestic sewing 476 Seduction 472 Thermometer, state of, at Philadelphia 40, 240, 280, 319, 360, 400, 440, 479 Trees, new method of inoculating 173 Turkeys, cheap food for 272 Tortoise, land 276 Turkmans, the 383 Turks, account of the 392 Trees, to prevent decay in 223 Turnips, on the culture of 308 Thrift, lessons on 344 Transplanting wheat, on 434 Travels, Burckhardt's 469 Tooth, drawing the wrong 475 United States, congress of the 471 —— —— square miles of the 474 Vine dressing, near Vevay 25 Village teacher 41, 83, 123, 163, 203, 241, 286, 322, 403, 443 Vine grape 173 Variety 363 Vineyards at Vevay 295 Watt, James, Life of 32 Whale fisheries 36 Wool, imports of, into England, 74 Wolf bounty 78 Water, preservation of, at sea 116 Writing, legible 150 Webb, Margaret, decease of 156 Wayne, William, decease of ib. Winchell, J. M. decease of ib. Whimsical conflict, 184 West, Benjamin, death of 232 Whale, surprising vigour of a 310 Wild horses and asses, 313 Workmanship, premiums for 313 Waste of life 343 Wooden soaled shoes 175 Whale, Spitzbergen, zoology of the 423 Wonders of nature 452 Wirt, extracts from 461 Whale fishery, Nantucket 470 Wheat, cutting, before it is ripe 472 Yeast, receipt to make 278

POETRY.

The aspen tree 118 Song of gratitude ib. The hamlet ib. Verses written after seeing Windsor castle 119 Finland song ib. Quiet mind ib. Moonlight and calm at sea 120 Go, idle lays! ib. The graves of my fathers 157 Auld age ib. Dreadful hard times 158 Winter 159 To —— ib. Versification from the book of Ruth ib. The peasant and his wife 160 Agriculture ib. Time 198 Winter evening's amusement for Jane and me ib. Youth and old age ib. Cure for trouble ib. Lines inscribed to M. Wiltshire ib. On intemperance ib. Hope ib. To my wife 200 The Icelander's song ib. To the snow drop ib. The soldier's adieu 279 Evening ib. On the return of the new year ib. The fox and the cat 399 Stanzas, from Barton's poems ib. Memory ib. The deaf and dumb boy 237 On man's dependance on his creator ib. Ode to imagination 238 An invocation to poverty 239 Glory to God ib. Prayer and praise to God ib. Hymn to resignation 318 The beau and the bedlamite ib. Silent worship 319 Paddy M'Shane ib. The braes of Yarrow 358 The ivyvib. To a country girl 359 On prayer ib. On the duke of Bridgewater 438 On the kitten ib. An autumnal tale 439 The Cherokee's grave 478 Hope ib. Angler ib. The mother's lament 479 Church Fellowship, ib.

THE RURAL MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY EVENING FIRE-SIDE.

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Vol. I. Philadelphia, First Month, 1820. No. 1.

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It is not without feelings of anxiety that the editors of the Rural Magazine issue forth their first number to the public; for they are aware of the lasting effect of a first impression, and that they have now fairly embarked in an adventure, the success and the termination of which are alike uncertain. Diffident however as they are of their own abilities, they have full confidence in the excellence of their plan, and the kindness and assistance of their friends. Of the value of this assistance, the work itself will testify; of the plan which they have marked out, it is but fair that the reader should be informed.

A leading object of the Rural Magazine will be to furnish correct views of the science of Agriculture, and the various improvements which are daily made or suggested in it. For this purpose the best and most recent European works on the subject will be consulted, and selections made from the American newspapers that are devoted or friendly to the cause. The best information on the subject will thus be condensed in a form less unwieldy than a newspaper, and more popular than in scientific books. We also expect original papers from our agricultural friends, being confident that there is much in the farming of our neighbouring counties, well worthy of being widely known and imitated.

Yet, as we wish our Magazine to have an extensive circulation, and to be interesting not merely to the farmer, but to the citizen and the general reader, a considerable part of every number will be occupied with topics of general literature, selections from approved new publications, particularly Biography and Travels, Essays, and information on scientific subjects; and original miscellaneous communications. To original and well written essays, our pages will always be accessible; and we particularly solicit such as will throw light on the history, antiquities, geography, curiosities, and productions of our own country. With the genuine productions of the Muse we shall always be glad to adorn our pages; but we have no desire to patronize the unfledged attempts at versifying, the lamentable ditties with which the public is weekly besieged, for we hold that in poetry there is no tolerable medium.

But to an American and a philanthropist, there are still higher objects to be gained by the circulation of such a paper, than the mere diffusion of agricultural intelligence or general literature. He lives under a system of government which is ideally perfect; and he sees it distorted by the vices and the passions of its subjects. He is the disciple of a religion which breathes good-will to mankind; and on whichsoever side he turns, are to be seen oppression, the darkness of ignorance, self-inflicted wretchedness, and amalgamating corruption. He sees a large portion of the human family held in chains by the very nation that has pronounced all men to be free and equal. The condition of that unhappy race, even when emancipated, excites his deepest commiseration and most anxious fears. He sees the aborigines of our country, a noble race of men, perishing like the beasts of the forest before our approach; and that under every circumstance of wretchedness and degeneracy.—Above all, the great and fatal delusion of war, more bloody than the superstitions of Moloch, still overspreads the world, and renders man the destroyer of man.

To all these subjects will the Rural Magazine be watchful and alive; for the editors believe them to be subjects of the deepest interest, and having relation to our highest duties. He who tills his field, or pursues his occupation with diligence and skill, is a deserving and honourable citizen. He who, in addition to this, cultivates his mind, and stores it with useful and ornamental knowledge, raises himself in the scale of being, and adds to his capacities both for happiness and usefulness. But when he adds to this industry, and to these talents and accomplishments, the benevolence of a Christian philanthropist, and renders them subservient to the welfare of his species, he attains to the highest dignity of his nature, and fulfils all the obligations which devolve on him as a citizen and a man.

Such are the general outlines of our plan; and as we feel no local or political prejudices, they shall never have place in the discussion of any subject which may appear in our columns. Combining in this manner an agricultural, a literary, and philanthropic journal, we look with confidence to the support of our enlightened fellow citizens; and assure them, that no exertions on our part shall be wanting to fill up the measure which we have meted out, and render the Rural Magazine deserving of their patronage.

FOR THE RURAL MAGAZINE.