THE RURAL MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY _EVENING FIRE-SIDE_. [Illustration: "Venerate The Plough."] PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY RICHARDS & CALEB JOHNSON, _No._ 31, _Market Street_. 1820 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