The Dollar Farmer, A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Practial and Scientific Agriculture. By Prentice and Weissinger. July 1843 to June 1844. Louisville, Kentucky. Printed and Published at the Office of the Louisville Journal. 1844. 192pp.

Contents include: On the Management of Cows with Calves; On Silk Worm Eggs; Hints for Renovating Old Soils; Blinds and Bridles for Horses; Colic in Horses; Standard of Character for Prize Cattle; Experiments and Observations on the Production of Butter; A Review of the Irish Sketch Book; Suggestions for Comparative Experiments with Guano and Other Manures by Professor Johnson; On the Production of Hemp; Guano; Transferring Bees; Jones's Multiplying and Equalizing Bee-Hive; Cheese Making; Tobacco in Illinois; The Agriculture of Cuba; Hints for Hemp Growers; The Honey Bee; Cure for Bloody Cow's Milk; The Mammoth Cave; Management of Fruit Trees; Mange or Mad Itch in Swine, The Tarrif of 1842; Abortion in Cows; Necessity of Work for Children [on the evil of not requiring children to do manual labor]; Manuring Cotton Land; The French Tobacco Monopoly; New Orleans Hemp for Bagging and Rope; Tobacco in Connecticut; Hussey's Hemp-Cutting Machine; Large Hemp - New Hemp Tree which "Yields enough rope to hang all the Tyler men in the country;" Letter from Henry Clay on Free Trade; Exhaustion of Soil by Indian Corn; A Ninety Pound Watermelon in Chicago; Report of the Louisville and Jefferson County Horticultural Society; Mr. Webster's Speech [Daniel Webster] at the Agricultural Supper; Insanity in France [a census of all insane persons in the country]; The Moral Effect of Dress; Burning Water - Liquid Fuel [gasoline?]; The Export of Cheese to China; Dr. Lakey's Theory of the Earth; The Calico Printing Business; Profane Swearing; Superstitions of the Day by John Greenleaf Whittier; Another Shower of Flesh and Blood [exactly what it sounds like; farmers finding meat and blood distributed around their fields as though it had rained]; Alum and Children vs. Fire; Food of the Poorer Chinese; Witchcraft; November Meteors; Cornstalk Molasses; Agriculture in Russia; Natives Grapes and the Vineyard; Phonography; American Cotton Fabrics - The News from China; American Hemp; Cuba Tobacco; The Progress of Fourierism [Charles Fourier]; The Steam Plough; Descriptions of Five Choice Varieties of Pears; Hemp vs. Cotton; The Management of Tobacco; Culture of Hemp Seed; Cooking a Bullock's Heart; Hints for the Management of Hens; Vampyres [Vampires]. Their Crimes and Punishments [wowzers; fascinating stuff; extensive p.133!]; Culture of Coffee; Destruction of Insects by Artificial Means; A New Kind of Steamboat; Mode of Cultivating the Turkey Tobacco in the West; New Process for Manufacturing Sugar; Garlic a Preventative against Rats and Mice in Grain Stacks; Scotch Guano; Smoking Tobacco; The Georgia Volcano; Natural Fountain of Hydrogen Gas at Fort Smith; The Use of Salt as a Manure; A Duel in New Orleans; Superior Dutch Cheese; Mode of Teaching the Deaf and dumb to Speak by the Articulate Sounds; A Tragedy in St. Louis - Seduction and a Father's Revenge.