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 MONTHLY.

ST. LOUIS:

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

1848.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUN 30 1915

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

I-MINT.K).

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,

Distilleries in St. Louis,

Manufacture of Cotton in the South and West,

Patent Office Report,

Where shall we find a Market for our surplus Grain,

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