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diggin-? from '2 to 20 ffil in iuiy iiliicc. Tlic s]iiiiiif ia usually riitlier colJ nml Ijnckwnrd ; somo- 

 tinios oxtrcnioly dry, nud sonietinies oxtreiiuly \vut. The puinimrs arc cool and coniforinVdc. 

 Tlio autumn is dclightfid — nlninst all one continued Indian Buninicr until Decend)er, (I run tlie 

 j>low on the loth, lOtli, and ITtli days of the latter month this year,) giving the farmer ample 

 time to gather his bountiful crops. The winters are sunshiny and jdcasant, except a few weekg, 

 ■which are severely cold, even dangerous to venture far from home unless amply protected by 

 clothing. The productions for export are wheat, (mostly spring,) oats, corn, buckwheat, rye, 

 barley, beef, pork, butter, eggs, poultry, and wild fowls. We are rather backward in the horti- 

 cultural department Many of the first settlers, who have been here 12 or 15 years, are just set- 

 ting out orchards. Fruit trees of all kinds grow with extreme rapidity. I know of some Apple 

 trees, five years from the nursery, which are six inches in diameter, and bear two bushels of fruit. 

 English Cherries do extremely well. I have eleven, set three years last spring, from tlie Buffalo 

 Nursery. Tliey were then about one inch in diameter; and some now measure over four inches 

 in diameter, and have borne fruit every year since they were set I have some common red 

 Cherry trees, four years' growth, that measure sixteen inches in circumference. These trees 

 have had no extra culture or manure. Plum trees grow well, and bear well. The country is 

 very natural for Plums, and many grow wild in the woods. Raspberrie?, Currants, and Straw- 

 berries, do extremely well. Peach trees grow very fast and bear large crops; biit are very likely 

 to kill by the severe cold of winter. On the whole, I think there are but few places where can 

 be raised better fruit, or more of it, than here. S. W. Aunold. — Pamjian, DeKulb Co., 111. 



A Lktter from Muscatixe, Iowa. — We have seen it stated, that there was soon to be started 

 "A Nurferymeu's Express." In the far west we feel the want of such an express very much. 

 The western people will go largely into the cultivation of trees and shrubbery. Experience has 

 proved that almost every variety of tree and plant cultivated in New York and Pennsylvania 

 will do equally well, and, as a general thing, grow more thrifty. The warm weather of fall and 

 spring sometimes injures the Peach. Ko portion of our country has ever been settled where so 

 much attention was given to fruit growing as in the northwest ; and our labors have been 

 crowned with great success. The Northwestern Fruit Growers' Convention, held at Chicago last 

 October, as well as every Agricultural Fair, is a plain demonstration that we do not live upon 

 corn and pork alone, but we have a taste for fruit also ; and our western soil and climate are quick 

 and bountiful in the great luxury of fruit S. F. 



To THE YicTDi OF Happt Coxtentmext. — Friend Atticus — I fear my prolixity has taxed your 

 patience, so I come at once to my plan. I hope you will appreciate the benevolence that 

 prompts my efforts. It is simply this, that we exchange places ; — as your physician, I recom- 

 mend such a change. I know yoii will be happy. The exhaustless energies of your mind will 

 revel in active exercise in a sphere which, for awhile at least, might seem limitless. You would 

 find something new to do all the time ; and then what you had done would show in such bold 

 relief — to such advantage — that you would be in danger of growing vain of your own aeccm- 

 plishings. While you were thus pleasuring yourself, I would try and content me in your home, 

 prosy as it might seem to a stirring westerner, with all its attained excellencies and perfections — 

 for we have become so habituated to a life here where everything is being done, that we might 

 be restive in a land where anything was fi.nished. 



I hope you will not accuse me of vain egotism when I tell you how fond I am of beauty 

 wherever it is found, and of my cultivated and refined tastes — though indeed they might seem a 

 great bother just now; but I try to keep them burnished for that happy by-and-by, when I trust 

 they will find scope for exercise. I only tell you this because I know I am a stranger to you, 

 and you would like to feel that all your gathered perfections would not be like sweetness wasted 

 on tiie desert air. I have a whole troop of little Olive plants; and they too admire the beautiful. 



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