Report of the commissioner of patents for the year 1859: Agriculture.
Washington: George W. Bowman, 1860.
Tabla de Contenido
Preliminares.
Government experimental and propagating garden.
Historical sketch of the United States agricultural society.
Native grapes of Arkansas and Texas.
Report on the saccharine contents of native American grapes in relation to wine marking.
Report on American grapes. - On the presence of tartaric acid in the cultivated grape of the United States.
The native grapes of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England.
Culture and management of the grape, and the mode of marking wine.
Culture of the grape-vine in the vineyard.
The state of the grape-when and how it should be gathered…
Treatment of the young wine.
Use of the husks, lees, and seeds.
On the productions of the Ionian islands and Italy. - Agrami.
Fertilizers.
Marl.
Plaster, or gypsum.
Veterinary science and art.
Veterinary medicine.
Administering medicines to domestic animals.
Acclimation and domestication of animals.
Fish Breeding.
Transportation of living fishes.
Breeding of migratory fishes.
Breeding trout at Hartford.
English plows and plowing. - Sixthly. The effect of the length of the various parts…
Secondly. The relative influence of the mold-board…
Thirdly. The influence of the depth of the furrow upon the draft.
Fourthly. The influence of velocity on the draft.
Fifthly. The influence of wheels of various kinds upon the draft…
Sixthly. The effect of the length of the various parts…
Steam plows in England. - Boydell´s Patent Traction Engine.
Fowler´s Steam Plow.
Boydell´s Patent Traction Engine.
Fawkes´s Steam Plow.
Waters´s Steam Plow.
Construction and arrangement of horse stables.
Saxon merino sheep.- Spleen in sheep, and its prevention.
On the principal plants used as food by man.
Art of governing the sap. - Experiments on paw spirits.
Farm journals.
Experiments on paw spirits.
Vegetable fiber. - The vegetable cell.
Importance of salt in agriculture.
Some hints upon farm houses.
Green soiling stock.
Fences and herding. - Nine distinct benefits.
Advantages of soiling.
Fam supply and roots.
Could dispense with most fences.
Cost of board francés.
Docility of animals.
Nine distinct benefits.
Higher influences of the system.
General view of the subject.
Mr. Quincy´s statement.
Agricultural schools of Prussia.
Meteorology.
Theory of electricity.
Theoretical deductions and illustrations.
Conduction and insulation of electricity.
Distribution of electricity.- Electrical induction.
Electicity in motion.
Electricity of the atmosphere.
Inductive action of the cloud.
Precautions with regard to lightning.
Effects of telegraph wires.
Means of protecting buildings.
Tabacco.
Miscellaneous.
Paper on Grapes.
Native, or indigenous grapes.
From William A. Forward, of Palatka, Florida.
From, S. M. Baird, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
From C. R. Bukalew, Minister Resident.
From S. B. Parsons, at Lausanne.
Silk culture.
The radish, and fruits of Japan.
From Beverly L. Clarke, United States Minister Resident to Guatemala.
Orchard-house culture.
The hang-worm.
Letter from N. H. Morague, M. D., of Palatka, Florida.
From Rev. James T. Barclay, Jaffa.
From O. R. Buckalew, Minister Resident.
From David L. Gregg, Consul at Honolulu, Hawaiian Kingdom.
Wooden shoes.
From Hon. Joseph Wright, Minister to Prusia.
From A. J. Smith, United States Consul.
From Ernest Volger, United States Consul.
From William Story, of Jamestown, Fentress county, Tennessee.
From O. B. Nichols…
From J. A. Mertz…
From Charles A. Leas…
From W. M. West…
Contributions of seeds, cuttings.
Patents for agricultural inventions or discoveries for the year 1859.