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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



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EDITORIAL NOTICES. 



The Ohio Board of Agriculture, at tht-ir 

 meeting on ihe 3rd of December, at Colambus, 

 decided upos taking measures to test the vulae of 

 the Chinese Sugar Cane for making sugar and 

 Eiolasses, in the soils and climate of Ohio. 



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'The celebrated stallion horse. Black 

 Hawk, owned by David Hill, of Bridgeport, Vt., 

 died a few days since, at the age of twenty-three 

 years. He belonged to the Mrrgan stock, and 



was the sire of maiiy successful trotting horses. 



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J8@"The raspberry is an old fruit." It is said 

 that some years ago a stone coffin with the re- 

 mains of human being, was found in a tamulus, 

 in England. Where the stomach would he, some 

 seeds, supposed to be those of the raspberry, were 

 found. These were carefully gown, they genera- 

 ted, and proved to be plants of the common rasp- 

 berry. The remains from which the seed was 

 taken, was deposited as early as the fifth or 

 sixth century. This shows a wonderful vital- 

 ity in the seeds of the raspberry, and also that 

 our Saxon and Cimbrian forefathers used the 



berries as food. 



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jj®*The " Catawissa Raspberry," a native 

 variety, which bears from July until frost, is ad- 

 vertised in Washington. The plants can be had 

 there at SI each. The berries are fine, flavor 

 excellent, but they are not as g-ood as some of the 

 improved varieties. Their excellence consists 

 in the hardiness of the plants and the long time 



they continue bearing. 



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S&^ The United States Agricultural Society 



will hold its annual meeting at the Smithsonian 



Institution, in Washington, on the 14th instant. 

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Chinese Sugar Cane. — Persons should be 

 cautious in purchasing this seed. There is a 

 great demand for the seed ; and there are sever- 

 al kinds of seed that bear a general resemblance 

 to it. We have been told that peddlers are al- 

 ready in the field selling chocolate corn seed for 

 the sugar cane seed. 



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New Snbscribers. 



We are con.^tantly receiviiag the names of new 

 subscribers, but they do not come as fast we de- 

 sire. Come on friends I We can send back num- 

 bers. 



How TO KEEP Mice from Fritit Trees. — The 

 Ohio Cultivator says : Mix fine gun powder and 

 tallow together and rub on the bodies of your 

 trees, and yon will not be troubled with mice. 

 If the powder is coarse it should be pulverized 

 in some vf&y after it is mixed with tallow. Any 

 atteuipt to pulverize before will most likely re- 

 sult in an explosion. 



Llamas for Ccba. — Large stocks of Llamas 

 from South America, are being shipped to Cuba. 

 Thesa are used for beasts of burden. 



Robert A. Alexander, the dlsiiogalshed 

 stock raiser of Kentucky, is the son of Mr. Al- 

 exander, who emigrated from Scotland at an early 

 day. The father wat a brother of the late Sir 

 William Alexander, of Scotland, and the present 

 R. A. Alexander is entitled to the title. But he 

 prefers to remain here as an American farmer. 

 He occasionally visits Scotland to see to his es- 

 tates. He is a bachelor — the worst thing that 

 can be said of him. 



Cutting Grafts.— Now is the time that this 

 should be done. Tie them up ia separate 

 bunches and label them welL They can then be 

 buried in sand or earth, and kept till wanted. 



Get your cuttings for Gooseberries, Currants 

 and Grapes and treat them in the same manner. 



These should be planted 6ut early in the spring. 



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The Dioscorba Buttatoas. — Wm. R. Prince 

 has issued another circular for the sale of the tu- 

 bers of this plant. He insists that it has been 

 successful wherever properly cultivated. Out ef 

 the great number of publications in the agricul- 

 tural papers, from those who have experimented 

 with the plant, we have seen one which speaks 



of it in high terms. 



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Chinese Sugar Corn. — There is great anxiety 

 among farmers to obtain the seed of the CbiQese 

 Sugar Cane. It will not be likely to be plcntr, 

 but the prospect is that there will be a sufficient 

 supply in the fall of the present year to meet fu- 

 ture demands. We have strong confidence that 

 the Chinese Sugar plant will within five years 

 be among onr most valuable crops and wili sup- 

 ply much of the domestic demand for sugar and 

 molasses. " 



Mareetino.— This is high in our market. At 

 retail— Batter, 25to35 cts.Ib; Egg6,25to30doz.; 

 Chickens each, 12tol5 cts.; Turkeys, 8to9 cts. 

 ft».; Fotatoss, 40 cts. per peck, Apples, 35 

 cts. per peck; Cheese, 15tol62 3 cts. per ft. 



We need a large number of small farmers in 

 the neighborhood of our city, for furnishing our 

 citizens with market articles. Most of the fiar. 

 mers of our State are engaged in raising large 

 crops cf wheat, or large stocks of hogs aod cattle 

 for market. 



