THE

WESTERN JOURNAL,

OF

AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MECHANIC ARTS,

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, COMMERCE,

AND

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization.

M. TARVER AND T. F. RISK,

EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED MON TILY.

ST. LOUIS:

CHARLES & HAMMOND, PRINTERS, CORNER MAIN AND OLIVE STREETS.

1848.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUN 30 1915
CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

GENERAL INDEX

TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE WESTERN JOURNAL.

ARTICLES BY THE SENIOR EDITOR.

The Objects proposed by the Publishers, . .

Economy and Habits of Plants,

Manufacture of Iron in St. Louis-Iron Mountain, &c.,

Moral Uses of Plants, - .

Manufacture of Flour in St. Louis, - - - -

Political Economy, - - - - - - -

Moral Economy, - - - - - -

Agricultural Societies, .

Hops—Cultivation and Quantity consumed in St. Louis,

Grimsley's Dragoon Saddle-Tree,

Blow's White Lead Factory, , .

Breweries in St. Louis,

V Distilleries in St. Louis,

Manufacture of Cotton in the South and West,

Natural Laws of Commerce,

Progress of the American Cheese Trade,

Effects of Frost on Vegetation, ..

Deep Ploughing, - - ..
St. Louis Sugar Refinery, - -

Missouri Sugar Refinery, ..

Manufacture of Cotton in St. Louis,

Slavery in the United States, ..

The Vernal Season, . . .

Artificial Agents of Exchange, ..

St. Louis Horticultural Society, ..

A Scrap-Our Existence is three-fold, .

Education, . . . . . . . . .

Lead Pipe and Sheet Lead Factory in St. Louis, .

Portable Saw Mill, - - - - - -

Hemp–History, Uses, Consumption, &c., - -

Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, &c., in St. Louis,

Corporations for Industrial Purposes, · · · ·

Patent Office Report, · · · · ·

Where shall we find a Market for our surplus Grain,

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