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THE ILLINOIS FARMER, 



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THE GRAZIER 



Green Food for Stock. 

 It is often the case that farmers and 

 others would find it a convenience to keep 

 up some of their stock, at least in portions 

 of the season, when there is poor feed iu 

 pastures. Especially would this be a con- 

 venience in the case of milch cows. July, 

 August and September, are the most trying 

 months with them. Corn sown broadcast 

 in June, and plowed in, makes a capital 

 food cut green. Many farmers in the 

 northern part of Ohio every year sow 

 fields for this purpose, and the practice is 

 constantly increasing. From the little ex- 

 perience that has been had with the Chinese 

 sugar cane, it is believed that it will furnish 

 a richer uud better article for green food 

 than corn; and besides being by far a richer 

 plant, has this advantage — it may be cut 

 at least twice in the season. We trust our 

 farmers will aot only try t^is plant for the 

 purpose of making sugar and molasses, but 

 for forage, green and dry. A few seed, a 

 pint or more, will furnish the means of 

 making important experiments. 



Foreign Stock. 



Late letters from Messrs. Brown, Johns 

 and Jacoby, agents of the Illinois Stock Im- 

 porting Company, announce that they had 

 made several purchases and s^ere visiting 

 and examining different herds, with the 

 view of making other purchases. They rep- 

 resent themselves exceedingly gratified with 

 many herds they had examined, and candidlj 

 acknowledge that eome of the specimens 

 pleased them better than any they had seen 

 in this country. We anticipate some excel- 

 lent importations 



We copy the following account of the 

 travels and purchases of the agents referred 

 to, from the Morgan Journal: 



Blooded Stock For Illinois. 



Mr. Geo. Anderson, of Lynville, has furnish 

 ed as with the following list of purchases made 

 by the Illinois Stock Importing Company in 

 England, which he found reported in the York- 

 ahireman of April 11th: 



At the sale of M. H. Ambler. Wilkinson Hall 

 Halifax: Bull, Grand Turk, 300 guineas; 

 Heifer, Western Cady, 175 guineas. > • 



At the sale of Rev. T, Cater, Kelbrook Park: 

 Heifer, Pomegranate, 90 guineas; Heifer, Cas- 

 sandra, 58 guineas. 



Wo understand the committee will return in 

 June with all their purchases, of which the 

 above are a part, when the stsck will be sold, 

 after proper notice, to the highest bidder at 

 Springfield. 



Since the above was put in type we have been 

 shown a letter from J. N. Brown, Esq., one of 

 the agents ot the Illinois Stock Importing As- 

 sociation, to his brother, Hon. Wm. Brown, of 

 this place, from which we have been permitted 

 to make the following extract. It is dated 

 Brumley, England, April 3d, 1857 : 



"We had a safe and quick passage (ten and a 

 half days,) and rather a pleasant one. About 

 t'.?-o hundred passengers were on board, and 

 among them several Western men. — G. T. M. 

 Davis, Esq., formerly of Alton, was one. W« 

 left Liverpool on Tuesday, having spent Mon- 

 day in forming acquaintances. We met Mr. 

 Kercheval, formerly of St. Louis, a very polite 

 and obliging gentleman. 



We find thatwe shall have no trouble in ship- 

 ping stock, and upon better terms than we had 

 expected. We attended two short horn sales 

 this week—one on the Ist, Mr. Ambler's near 

 Halifax, consisting of 48 head — 38 cows and 

 heifers and ten bulls. The sales was largely 

 attended, and the bidding was spirited, a large 

 number of short horn breeders being present. 

 The averacce of sale per head, was 38 guineas. 

 We purchased three head, paying for one heifer 

 175 guineas. 



On the 2nd of April we attended the sale of 

 the stock of Rev. Mr. Cator, of Kelbrook Park, 

 Yorkshire. His stock was good, the attendance 

 large, and prices well sustained. We purchas- 

 ed at this sale two heifers, roans. 



Thi« morning we visited the herd of Fawks, 

 one of the most spirited breeders in England. 

 He has about 100 head. He asks high prices 

 yet we hope to purchase two youag bull of this 

 herd. 



This afternoon we examined Col- Towney's 

 herd. His cows and heifers are fine, his bulls 

 nothing extra. 



To-morrow afternoon we will look at a large 

 herd near Liverpool, and on Monday go to Lon- 

 don, and spend the week in looking ; at the cat- 

 tle and horse stock in the south of England, 

 Next week, we visit Scotland, and from thence 

 go to the Dublin Cattle show, which comes off 

 on the 2l8t of the month. There we hope to 

 pick up more good stock. You may rest assur- 

 ed, and may say to our friends, that there is as 

 good stock in England as ever left it." 



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Ttom the Country Oentleman. 



The Arabian Horse. 



"A few wild horses," says a writer, "are 

 yet seen on the deserts of Arabia. They 

 are hunted by the Bedouins for their flesh, 

 which is considered a delicacy if the animal 

 be young, and also to increase their stock 

 of inferior horses, which they often palm 



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