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I commend this as the best plan for build- 

 ing a cheap and durable bouse— better than 

 brick, as good as stone, and lasts forever. 

 If nice finish is needed, cement and color the 

 outside wall, and lay it off bylines, like 

 stone, as indeed it is. 



If any one doubts this plan, try it on a 

 smoke-house, or hog-pen, or shed of any kind 

 or indeed, a stone wall. 



No rats infest this boose, no storm can 

 shake it, no wind whistle through it. Dry, 

 tight, warm in winter and cool in summer, 

 it is the cheapest, strongest and best. 



A good proportion of the ingredients 

 which Fowler and all others recommend, is 

 —say 10 bushels or barrow loads of lime, 20 

 of sand, and 70 of stones, &c., and any 

 quantity of water. I take it for granted 

 your readers understand something of the 

 gravel wall plan. I write merely to advo- 

 cate the block stone plan— the same mater- 

 ial, but in different shape. One can^ see how 



--±^P.^2^\^VVnd"'tha^^^^^ 

 other materials, nine-tenths, which cost 

 nothing. J. E. S., Barre, Mass. 



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Keep your Boys at Home. 

 All experience shows that no boy is safe as 

 long as h^ is suflered to run about the streets 

 at night. If the cause why boys of the city are 

 more vicious than those of the country, were 

 ascertained, it would be found to be in a great 

 degree owing to their night street associations. 

 Keep your boys at home evenings, and to do so 

 you must make home a desirable place and 



pleasant. 



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^^ -We understand that the new foundery and 

 machine shop at Alton, carried on by Messrs. 

 Stigleman, Miller & Co., is getting up a mill 

 to be used in expressing the juice from the 

 Chinwe Sugar Cane. .We trust that this will 

 be a cheap and efficient machine; and if the 

 gentlemen would also get up cheap pans for boil- 

 ing the juice, they would bs likely to make 

 money for themselves and benefit greatly the 

 public. 



Th« MicHiGAiT DouBM Plow.— But few of 

 these plows have been used in this section ot 

 Illinois. They can be employed for many pur- 

 poses. In foul grounas, whether of weeds or 

 blue grass, they place the seeds and turt so deep 

 in the ground, that they are out of the way of 

 doing mischief. They also plow the ground 

 well and leave it in the best possible order.— 

 They are used, too, with buccess as prairie- 

 breakers. Prairie broken by these plows is as 

 good or better than old ground for any kind of 

 crop. Orchards can be planted, or any use can 

 be made of grounds broken by the Double 

 Michigan Plow, that can be made oh old 

 grounds. We annex two statements on the 

 subject of the performanees of this plow by 

 gentlemen well known in this State: 



Ottawa, August 6, 1856. 

 John Derre, Esq., Moliae, Ills ^^^ 



We purchased at ♦ p ^^ t^is spring 



of the Michigan Doable^^^^^^.^.^ ^^ ^^^^ 



another from^Mr^ to cur satisfaction, and we 

 Sialf have anotheJ this fall. Last fall we had 

 about ifty acres late bioke prai"« sod^ unrot- 

 ted; common pW- r-'<l do nothing at cross- 

 plowing or turning it over; put m this plow 

 and it buried the unrotted sod out of sight 

 with three yoke of oxen abreast. That Land 

 produced a fine crop of spring wheat. Ihis 

 spring broke prairie with both these plows; 

 rigged them to run alone and put on six yoke 

 ot oxen and steers; they broke about an acre 

 and a quarter a day, ani left the ground as 

 mellow as an old field newly plowed in the 

 spring;— harrowed this ground, planted to corn, 

 all plowed before the 10th of June, and tended 

 if—have promise of a fine crop. The later 

 broke goes into fall wheat and timothy. We 

 would like to have all our plowing done with it. 

 There is no land so hard in our region but this 

 plow will penetrate it and run steadily in it with- 

 out iamping. Your ob't 8erv% 



fSignedJ BRONSON MURRAY. 



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,^-The editor of the Ohio Cultivator a few 

 years ago visited the farm of E2ra Meech. near 

 Lake Champlain. He had protected his garden 

 by a dense growth of evergreens, which were 

 then from twenty to thirty feet high, and in this 

 garden were growing fruits and flowers that are 

 called tender in Central Ohio. That garden 

 was in 45 degrees north. 



Ottawa, Ills., July 11, 1856. 

 Mr. John Derre: 



Dear Sir: I have your favor of the 7th inst. 

 I purchased of Mr. Emery one of the Michigan 

 double subsoil plows, with which I have broken 

 about eight acres here, and have tent it to my 

 farm near Plainfield, in Will county. I broke 

 about ten inches deep. It did the work well, 

 and left the ground almost as light as old 

 ground plowed to the same depth. I did the 

 work with four heavy horses. The plow was 

 well made, easily adjusted and works finely. 

 It is a good plow, when a farmer has plenty 

 of team and a full crop is desired the first sea- 

 80B, and lis influence will no doubt be telt for 

 several years. It will no donbt answer well 

 for subsoiling old ground. 



Your's truly, J. D. OATON. 



