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THE ILLINOIS PARMER. 



price. Whenever yoa buy a ram, buy the 

 best, whatever it costs, and the flock will 

 improve in quaUty, will be hardy and profit- 

 able. 



For Marking Sheep. — Pot into a pan a 

 quarter of a pound of lampblack, two ounces 

 of Venetian red, and linseed oil enough to 

 make a good paint. Mark either with 

 stamp or brush. 



To Cure the Foot-rot. — Put into a quart 

 bottle a quarter of a pound of blue vitriol, 

 one ounce of verdigris, a/nd fill up with 

 chamber-ley. Put a quill through the 

 cork, turn the sheep on its back in a trough, 

 open the hoof and scrape out clean with a 

 knife all the diseased flesh, put on a few 

 drops of the above mixture, and a cure is 

 effected. If there are but two or three lame 

 ones in a flock, put some of this mixture in 

 the feet of all the sheep in the flock — with 

 this mixture, an ouce of prevention is worth 

 more than a pound of cure. 

 , To Cure the Stretches. — Administer a 

 table-spoonful of pulverized saltpeter im- 

 mediately or the sheep will soon be past all 

 cure. 



To Resuscitate Lambs when Chilled. — ^3 

 Give a tea-spoonful of Thomsonian No, 6 in 

 some warm milk, a little at a time, and 

 wrap him in warm flannel. '-^ 



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To AnvEaTisEHs. — The attention of Man- 

 ufacturers and dealers in Agricultural Im- 

 plements, and all others who wish to com- 

 municate with the Farmers of Illinois, is 

 directed to this periodical as an excellent 



medium for advertising. Terms reasonable. 



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A Cheap Paint. — A correspondent of an 

 exchange gives the following simple method 

 of making a mixture which he recommends 

 as both fire and water proof, besides being 

 very durable: Dissolve potash in water, 

 and mix the liquid with fine clay till it is 

 as thick as molasses, then apply with a 

 paintbrush. 



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ttSuAir Interestikg Relic has lately been 

 presented to the Pennsylvania Historical Soci- 

 ety by Mr. Grenville S. Penn. It is the beau- 

 tiful wampum belt originally given to William 

 Penn by the deputation of Indian chiefs at the 

 time of the great treaty. This is an important 

 curiosity, and will be highly valued by tne so- 

 ciety. 



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■Why are sheep the most dissipated and 

 unfortunate of animals ? Because they gambol 

 aboat in their youth, frequent the turf, are very 

 generally black legs, and are universally 

 fleec«d. 



AN ACT to prevpnt the sale of spiritnous liqnors and other 

 articles of trafiSc at or near agricultnral fair-groands. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of 

 the State of JUinois, represented in the General Assembly, 

 That no person shall keep any shop, booth, tent, wagon or 

 other carriage, Teasel or boat, for the sale of spirituons or 

 other liquors, or a'-y prorisions or any article of traffic what- 

 ever, or sell, or expose to sale, give, barter, or otherwise dis- 

 pose of^ in or near any such shop, booth, tent, wagon or other 

 carriage, vessel or boat, or in any other way or place, any 

 spirituous or other liquors, or any provisions, or any article 

 of traffic whatever, at or within the distance of two miles 

 from the place where any agricultural, horticultnral^r me- 

 chanical society or people are collected, holding any (^ricul- 

 tural, horticultural or mechanical fair or public exhibition; 

 nor shall any person within the distance aforesaid, exhibit 

 any shows or plays, unless the same shall have been duly au- 

 thorized by the proper authority, previous to the commence- 

 ment of such exhibition; nor shall any person, within the 

 distance aforesaid, promote, aid or be engaged in any racing 

 of animals, or in any gaming of any description; nor shall 

 any person obstruct the free passage of any highway or tra- 

 veled road within the distance aforesaid: Provided, that 

 nothing in this act shaU affect tavern keepers, distillers or 

 others, exercising their calling at their usual, legitimate 

 ~ places of doing business, nor any person who shall have a 

 written permit from the president of such agricultural, me- 

 chanical or horticultural society to sell bread or other pro- 

 visions for the supply of persons attending such fair or ex- 

 hibition, their horses or cattle, such persons conforming to 

 aU regulations of said society and the laws of the state. 



^ 2. That any person who shall be guilty of a breach of 

 this act, shall be notified by any one of the officers hereby 

 authorized to make an arrest or seizure, or by any person, 

 that he, she or they are violating the law, and if alter such 

 notice any such person shall continue in such violation, he, 

 she or they shall forfeit and pay for every such offense any 

 sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars to the so- 

 ciety holding such fair or exhibition, to be recovered before 

 any justice of the peace' or court having jurisdiction of the 

 prosecution ; and any judge of the circuit or county court, 

 sheriff, coroner, justice of the peace, or constable of the pro- 

 pep county, ehaiX, upon view or information, and without 

 warrant, apprehend any person so offending, and seize booth, 

 teat,*wagon ot other carriage, vessel or boat, spirituous or 

 omer liquors %nd other articles of traffic, and convey the 

 same to a place of safe keeping, and take the said persons be- 

 fore any convenient justice of tbe peace having jiurisdiction, 

 together with an inventory of the things so seized ; and the 

 justice of the peace, upon complaint or oath, or af&rmation of 

 any competent witness, shall issue his warrants, which the 

 said officer or constable shall have authority to serve, and 

 cause the said offender to be arrested, and proceed forthwith 

 to inquire into the truth of the accusation, and if found true, 

 shall enforce the penalty of this act. 



§ 3. If the accused shall fail to pay such fine as said jus- 

 tice of the peace shall inflict, together with all costs of pro- 

 ceedings, including the necessary expense of such seizure, the 

 said justice of the peace shall f irthwith issue an execution, 

 commanding any constable of the county in which such in- 

 quiry shall be had, to make the said fine, costs, necessary ex- 

 penses and costs of execution, by sale of so much of the 

 things so seized, and of so much of the other property of the 

 accused as shall be necessary therefor, and to make return 

 thereof in ten days thereafter, and the overplus of the things 

 so seized as aforesaid, after the satisfaction of said execution, 

 shall be delivered to the defendant, on demand. 



g 4. In case the o'fficer to whom said execution shall be 

 delivered shall be unable to find sufficient property of such 

 defendant to satisfy such execution, such agricultural or 

 other society upon affidavit of any of its officers, shall be en- 

 tiiled to a ca. sa. against the body of the defendant as in other 

 cases. The defcn>'aDt in any suit under this act shall have 

 the right of trial by jury, as in other cases under the laws of 

 this State. 



g 5. This act is hereby declared a public act. 



Approved Feb. 13, 1857. 



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, Midas was so great a man that every- 

 thing he touched turned to gold. The case is 

 altered now — touch a man with gold and he will 

 change into anything. 



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loving friend's rebuke sinks into the 

 heart, and convinces the judgment; an enemy's 

 or stranger's rebuke is invective, and irritates, 



not converts. 



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■"Trees which abide age," said Burke, 

 "grow slowly. The gourd that came up in a 

 night, withered in a day." 



