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in a sack or box. The price varies with each year. Plants can be 

 had of Illinois nurserymen as low as three dollars, and it is cheaper 

 generally to buy them than to raise from the seed. 



Fowls Roosting m Fkuit Trees. 



Mr. C. Renwick, Wolf borough, K. H. — The opinion prevails that 

 to allow fowls to roost in a fruit tree will result in its final destruction. 

 Is it on account of the amount or nature of the manm'e dropped, or 

 for other reasons ? 



Mr. N. C Meeker. — It is hard to tell what the cause may be, but 

 nothing is more certain than that if a farmer allows his fowls no other 

 place to roost than in his fruit trees, said trees will bear little or no 

 fruit. More than this, his cattle are apt to die in the spring, and they 

 are always lousy ; his hogs are distressed, as can be told by their 

 squealing; his boys have holes in their pantaloons, and are apt to 

 cliew tobacco, and his house, barn and fences are in bad order. 



Hay Teddee. 



Mr. "Wm. Langworthy, West Edmeston, Otsego county, ]^. Y. — 

 I wish to learn something of the practical value of a hay tedder, the 

 price, and where made ? We have 100 acres of heavy grass. 



Mr. IS". C. Meeker. — Those who have used tedders like them, and 

 the general testimony is that in wet seasons they will pay for them- 

 selves, for, as they will stir a large amount of hay rapidly, they 

 really add to the duration of sunshine. As to where they are made, 

 that is a conundrum. Only our advertising columns can solve it. 



Lead Laxds in Illinois. 



Mr. H. Stevens, Dunleith. — Persons inquire concerning mining in 

 the lead regions of Wisconsin, and Dubuque, Iowa. Good mineral 

 lands can be leased here in the mining districts. Some are open for 

 any one to prospect and mine on, by paying the usual ground rent. 

 In wet or water diggings, the proceeds for the use of the ground are 

 from one-ninth to one sixteenth, as parties may agree ; in dry, one- 

 sixth. The mineral is found at all dejDths, from the surface down to 

 180 feet and more. The usual depth is from forty to 100 feet. It is 

 mostly pure, ready for smelting, and in a variety of forms ; in solid 

 sheets from one-half inch to four feet in thickness, vertical and hori- 

 zontal. In some sections of the mines it lies mostly in openings, 

 which are from two feet to twenty feet, and over, in width, and as 



