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is old." It now presents a beautiful sight. 



Let him who would "stick to what is old," 



^0 arid view this field, and learn a lesson. 

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The Fruit.— The apple buds are not 

 hurt, and we shall be likely to have a plenty 

 of that fruit. The apple is the great relia- 

 ble fruit of this country, and every farmer 

 shoui* plant out his orchard, and take care 

 of it when it is planted. Apple trees will 

 not grow in blue grass sod, or in any close 

 sod, at least when they are young. The 

 ground of the best orchard we ever saw was 

 cultivated for many years in potatoes, corn 

 and beans. Even corn grows too high to 

 benefit young trees, and grain does not 

 agree with them. An orchard in a field oc- 

 cupied by potatoes will grow twice as fast 

 as in another occupied by grain. This has 

 been tested in Bureau county, in this State. 

 Indeed the orchard first mentioned flourish, 

 ed remarkably, while many of the trees in 

 the second died out-right. Take care of 

 your trees, good friends; furnish your fam- 

 ilies with the health-giving fruit of the 

 orchard, and enable the hungry denizens of 

 cities to enjoy also a fruit that can be grown 

 to any amount in oar own country. We 

 have seen Belleflower apples sold for two 

 dollars a bushel the last winter, and even 

 Jennetings are now sold at that price. We 

 are selfish in this matter of fruit, ''We own 



up," kind reader. 



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8©.„Many farmers have lost all, or nearly 



all, of their fall wheat. What is to be 



done? Spring wheat, barley, flaz and oats 



can at once be made to occupy the ground. 



If this is done promptly, the loss may not 



be as great as is now supposed. White 



beans are also a good crop. It will not be 



well, we think, to plant all the land on 



which winter wheat was sown and lost, with 



com; because, in such case, there would be 



more corn raised than would be required, 



and the price would be very low. We have 



not hogs or cattle enough to consume a 



large crop of corn. The coming crop of 



hdgs #ill be light. There are but few in 



thie country, as is evinced by the price, five 



cent8..per pound live we%ht. 



[on. Wm. S. Wait, of Bond county, 

 will plant eight acres with the Chinese 

 sugar cane, the present spring. J. D. Pat- 

 terson, Esq., of this county, will plant some 

 fifteen acres with the same plant. We be- 

 lieve that experiments the coming season 

 will determine the value of this new cane. 

 As we have said before, we do not believe 

 there will be a failure in any case where 

 the experiment shall properly be made- 



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'wo years ago Mr. James Sikes, of 

 DeWitt county, sowed spring wheat on the 

 16th April, which yielded thirty-five bushels 

 to the acre: of the variety known as the 

 Canada club. 



I. P. Baker, in Wabash county, will 

 plant 25 acres with Chinese sugar cane the 

 present spring. I^ is said more than 100 

 acres of land will be devoted to that 

 plant in Wabash county, the present season. 

 Mr. Kroh, of that county, last fall, made 75 

 gallons of Chinese sugar cane molasses, a 



good stock for his winter supply. 



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Asparagus Beds. — A good depth of soil 



is necessary — say from from two and a half 



to three feet — well enriched with rotten 



farm yard manure. Thorough and effectual 



drainage should also be provided. Early in 



every spring apply a dressing of salt, to the 



extent of one or two pounds to each square 



yard. An additional dressing of rotten 



stable manure should also sometimes be 



given. Asparagus is a marine plant; hence 



an occasional application of salt should by 



no means be omitted. 

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Manny's Reaper. — The reader will no- 

 tice an advertisement of these Reapers in 

 this paper. Some one hundred forty were 



sold in this county last year. 



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B@:.In answer to the qugstion often asked 



— ^We say, that there have been no entries, 

 as yet, for the Reaper trial in Marion coun- 

 ty in June next. 



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B®>The silk worm malady continues in 

 France. The Emperor has just offered a pre- 

 mium of ten thousand francs to discover the 

 causes of this malady, and indicate an effica- 

 cious remedy. 



