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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



No. 17. Will county— Winter Wheat, 733 

 per imperial quarter — weighs 63 lbs. per bushel. 



No. 19. Dewitt county— White Winter 

 Wheat. 733 per imperial quarter — weighs 63 lbs. 

 per bosbel. 



No. 20. Kankakee county — White Winter 

 Wheat, worth 73s per quarter — about 62 Ibfl. 

 per bushel. 



No. 21. Lee county — Spring Red, about 64 

 lbs. per bubhel — worth 68s per imperial quarter. 



No. 22. Marshall county — Fair White Win- 

 ter Wheat, about 62 Iba. per bushel — worth 72a 

 per imperial quarter. 



No. 23. Union county — Winter Wheat, about 

 63 lbs. — worth 733 per imperial quarter. 



Ho. 24. Mason county -Fair quality, about 

 62 lbs. — worth 72s per imperial quarter. 



No. 25. Williamson county — Red Winter 

 Wheat, 64 lbs. per bushel, prime sample — worth 

 72s per imperial quarter. 



N. B — All the sample? are in the best condi- 

 tion anid cleanly dretsed, in both respects better 

 than the cargoes arrive, and the whole would 

 bear the passage well and no doubt come out in 

 good order, I never saw a finer specimen of 

 samples from the United States together. 



(Signed.) J. Exeley. 



November 27, 1856. 



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Sea-Kale. — This hardy perennial is found 

 growing on the sea coasts of Britain. It is cul- 

 tivated for its blaached shoots, which are cooked 

 liked asparagus, and is esteemed as a delicate and 

 wholesome vegetable. As yet,it is but litte grown 

 in the the United States. 



Sow the seeds early in the spring, an inch deep 

 in fourteen inch drills. When the plants are one 

 year old. transplant them eighteen inches apart, 

 in straight rows five feet asunder. The ground 

 must have been thoroughly trenched and manur- 

 ed. Late in the fall, when the leaves have sepa- 

 rated themselves from the crown, heap over each 

 plant a shovelful of clean sand or ashes, and earth 

 up a ridge a foot and a half high over the rows, 

 from a trench dug along the space between them, 

 and beat it smooth with the back of the spade. 

 In the spring, after the cutting is over, the earth 

 should be levelled into the trenches, so as to ex- 

 pose the crowns of the plants, and a good coat 

 of strong manure dug in around them. It is 

 adapted to the coldest climates, and deserves to 

 be more extensively cultivated. 



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Young Colts and Cattle. — ^The half feed- 

 ing of your stock is one of the most mistaken 

 and injudicious systems ever pursued by man, 

 besides being positively sinful. They should 

 be provided with good tight, warm, dry 

 sheds, facing the south, opening into yards. 

 They should be so fed, as to be always kept 

 in good growing condition — ?o fed, as that 

 the elements of l)one, mu.scle, tendoius, and 

 ft moderate degree of fat, nre always to be 

 fou.id in the quantity and quality of tlic 

 food given to ihcni. — vfw. Fanner, 



Gutta Pereha and India Rnl)ber. 



These two articles which were scarcely known 

 when the Merchants' Gazette was establiished 

 in 1839, now occupy a large space in the com- 

 merce and industry of the world Very many 

 persons, say our cotemporary, the Southern 

 Argus, wheth they first arise in the morning, . 

 takes a bath in a Gutta Percha tub, comb their 

 hair with a gutta percha comb, and shave with 

 a gutta percha handled razor, sharpened on a 

 gutta percha razor strop, before a mirror with a 

 gutta percha frame; eat their breakfast on a 

 gutto percha table cover, and over a gutta percha 

 crumb cloth, and after they have finished take 

 their gutta percha walking-stick and rally forth 

 to their business; and if it is raining, don them- 

 selves from head to foot in gutta percha gar- 

 ments. And yet many of these intelligent peo- 

 ple are totally ignorant of the article which they 

 use so extensively, and many imagine that it is 

 a preparation of the old fashioned India rub- 

 ber. 



Mr. E. L. Simpson, of New York, a gentle- 

 man of eminence in the scientific world, sheds 

 some light on thiz subject, and furnishes a suc- 

 cicn and most interestina; account of the discov- 

 ery and proprieties of this article. 



Perhaps no material was ever discovered 

 which was so extensively shipped as an article 

 of commerce — taken up so eagerly, and manu- 

 factured at once so extensively, as has been the 

 article of gutta percha. 



The first that was known of this wonderful 

 production by the Europeans, was in the year 

 1845, when Doctor Montgomerie, an English 

 gentleman, residing at Singapore, observed in 

 the hands of a Maylayan wood chopper, a 

 strange material used for a handle to his axe. 

 On learning from him that it was made from the 

 sap of a tree, which soon solidified on being ex- 

 posed to the air, also, that by the use of hot 

 water it could not only be made plastic, but 

 made to take (and when cool retain) any desi- 

 red form, he immediately obtained samples of 

 the material, which were forwarded to the Lon- 

 don Society and Sciences, with the best descrip- 

 tion he could obtain regarding them. 



These samples arrived in England about the 

 time the importance of the discovery for vul- 

 canizing India rubber was made known, and 

 the vast monopolies created by the issue of rub- 

 ber patents. The London Society equally im- 

 pressed with the singular properties of these 

 strange samples, lost no time in having them 

 examined and reported upon, Avhich report was 

 of such a character as to create a great excite- 

 ment, and to induce large orders foa its impor- 

 tation, which continued so to increase, that in 

 1848, its importation amounted to 21,508, valu- 

 ed at $275,100. 



This article is produced from a juice or sap, 

 taken (mm the Isonmdra or Gutta tree, which 

 is indigenous to all llie islands of the Indian 

 Archipelago, and especially to the Mayalan Fen- 

 insular. Borneo. Ceylon, and their neighborhoods, 

 in which are found imniMise forests of it-all 

 yielding thi.s product in great abundance. 



Its fruit Contains a concrete (diltle oil, which 

 is ustd by the nativt'S with their Icod. 



