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THE ILLINOIS FARMER; 



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In Central Illinois tfre coming crop of 

 wh0at will be light. Many fields will not 

 lAake their seed. This is the opinion of 

 many of our best farmers. This is a great 

 misfortune — ^but what is to be done? 



We say, lose no time in lamenting Over a 

 state of things that cannot be helped. 

 Many of yon, farmers, have lost yodr wheat. 

 You do not wish to pat your' wheat land 

 into corn. There are some spring crops 

 which you can get from your wheat land. 

 Oats, spring wheat, barley and flaxseed. 

 All these articles pay well; and, in a favor 

 able season, well pat in, they all yield good 

 crops. : > ■ : 



Mr. Sykes, of DeWitt county, has raised 

 with ordinary culture, 36 bushels an acre of 

 Canada club wheat, and that, too, sown as 

 late as the l5th of April. Barley is now 

 bringing $1 90 per bushel in St. Louis by 

 the quantity; and we are told that operatoi^ 

 there are contracting for the coming crop 

 at $1 10, Oats are worth 54 cents; and 

 the last quotations of flax seed were over 

 $2 50 a bushel. . >.V 



We tell our friends tb be busy— to obtain 

 seed of wheat, barley, oatSi flax — and put 

 these seeds into the ground well —and, with 

 the blessing of Heaven, you will not be 

 great losers by the loss of your fall wheat 

 crop, . • , i 



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Raising Spring Wheat. 



Mr. Editor: — Under the above caption I 

 give you my modus operandi with several 

 years experience in the cultivation of spring 

 wheat. As the season is fast approaching, 

 preparations should be commence at once. 

 li corn has been raised the previous year, 

 and the stalks remain on the ground, they 

 should be broke down, raked up in heaps or 

 long rows and burned previous to seeding. 

 The earlier wheat is sown the better, provid- 

 ed the ground be in good order. A few 

 days later is better than sowing in mud and 

 water; therefore, let the ground settle, If 

 plowing has been done in the fall, of course 

 no clearing is necessary, but both are 

 brought now to a common level; with one 



horse and a one horse plow, (which every 

 good farmer has one or more for cultiratii^ 

 com,) mark out in lands twelve traces wide, 

 which is very convenient, three breadths to 

 the land (where a machine is not used.) 

 From one and a half to two bushels to the 

 acre should be sown with the same horse and 

 plow;— turn it under as shallow as the plow 

 will turn a farrow. The advantage of plow- 

 ing in wheat on ground that was plowed in 

 the fail, is, that it kills to a great extent all 

 running vines or wild buck-wheat, as it is 

 commonly called; and will produce from 

 five to ten bushels per acre more than if put 

 in the ordinary way; not being so likely to 

 lodge. Each horse and hand will put in 

 from two to two and a half acres per day ; 

 harrow once the same way it was plowed 

 and the whole is complete. J. H. S. 



West Jersey, March 6, 1851. 



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I^^Every man who has a garden or farm 

 should not negleet to have some good grape 

 vines In cultivation. The Catawba aad Isabella 

 do well here. Thy should not be planted where 

 the roots stand la the water during winter. 



A OENEEAL ACT for the Incorporation of County Agrlcnl* 



SECTION I.— Be it enacted by the People of 

 the State of Illinois, represented in the General AssemiHy, 

 That an Agricoltaral Society may be formed in any ceon^ 

 cf the state, by the yoluntu'y association of any nxunber of 

 legal voters of the same — not less than twenty — who may 

 meet and organize for that purpose, under a constitution and 

 by-laws of £elr own construction, which they may alter and 

 amend at pleasure ; the use and benfit of the same to be alike 

 free to every citizen of the county who is disposed to associate 

 with them under the constitution and by-laws so provided, 

 and in accordance with this act, upon such terms as may be 

 provided. 



"g 2. Each County Society, thus organized, may thereupon 

 Ee constitued a body corporate and poUtic, under an appropri- 

 ate name ; which name, together with that of tiie Prosident, 

 Secretary and Treasurer, shall be recorded on the books of the 

 county clerk of the county wherein said Society is located ; 

 whereupon said Society shall be deemed legally constituted, 

 and under this name shall be capable of contracting and being 

 contracted with, suing and being sued, pleading and being 

 implMtded, in all courts of law and equity in this State; and 

 in said county shall have power to sue for and collect all g^ra- 

 tuitouB subscriptions which are or may be made to such So- 

 ciety; and may have a common seal, which they may change 

 at pleasure ; and may, in their corporate name, acquire by 

 purchase or otherwise and hold real estate, for the use and to 

 promote the objects of the Society, not exceeding in quantity, 

 at any time, five hundred acres. 



1 3. Any person who shall, without the permission of the 

 officers of the corporation, enter within any inclosure which 

 may be used by such corporation for an agricultural or me- 

 chanical fair, and any person guilty of disorderly conduct, or 

 such as may interrupt or be prejudicial to the interests of said 

 Mr, show or exhibition, whether inside the inclosure for the 

 same, or at any distance within two hundred yards of such 

 nclosure, shall be liable to immediate arrest, and to the pay- 

 ment of five dollars to the association, to be recoverable at 

 suit of said corporation in action for debt, before any justice 

 of the peace or other court in this State. 



g 4. The provisions of the third section of this Act arerhere- 

 by made applicable and legally available to aU Agricultural 

 Societies within the State, whether incorporated or unincor- 

 porated, and which desire to take the benefit of the same. 



g 5. This act to be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved Feb. 8, 1857. 



