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THE ILLINOIS FARMEB. 



of crops, in the fear that too many may do 

 th9 same thing, and the prices thereby be 

 reduced, we would say that the same fear 

 in relation to potatoes has been expressed 

 for the IttBtr twenty years, and still every 

 y<iar they have proved to be among the 

 more profitable crops; and notwithstanding 

 t!iat carrots can be grown at the rate of a 

 thonsand bashels per acre by those who 

 pursue the improved methods of cnlture, 

 itill they have been, and continae to be, 

 ■old at ad great a price per bashels as oats; 

 and when their true value shall be ander- 

 stood, thousands of acres will be devoted 

 to their cnltore that are now devoted to 

 other crops — [Working Farmer. 



in Acre and a Half of White Beans. 

 A correspondent of the Genesee Parmer, 

 writing from Springhill, Bradford eoonty. 

 Pa., gays: "Allow me to give the facts 

 respecting the cultivation of one and a half 

 acros of beans last year/ The soil is free 

 from excess of wet, bat not what would be 

 denominatei dry, the subsoil being tenacious 

 but a reasonable depth below the surface. 

 The field was caltivated with corn and beans 

 the preceding year. La.st spring, after bar- 

 ing put it in good condition with plow and 

 harrow, I drew shallnw furrows with the 

 plow for planting, say two to three inches 

 deep and three feet distant, and running 

 north and south. Planted in the furrow 

 from six to eischt beans in the bill, scatter- 

 ing them a little, say six to eight inches; 

 then leave a space of twelve inches and 

 plant more beans, and so forth. I have 

 tried drilling and find no difference in the 

 product, as in both cases they make a close 

 row; bnt in pulling, the former method is 

 preferable, when by using both hands we 

 pull a hill at each grasp. Wben the beans 

 wert fairly np, I passed the plow once around 

 •aeh row, tnrnng the earth towards the 

 beam; and when nearly patting forth bios- 

 •0018, plowed them again in the same way, 

 one hand with the hoe following the plow at 

 •ach dressings Under ordinary circnm- 

 stances the bean lot is easily kept free from 

 weedi, from the fact that as soon as the 

 plant is np its krga foliage takes a bori- 

 sontal position, and almoit bids defiance to 

 intruders. From the on« i^nd a half acres 

 I had twenty-four bushels of beans, (smtfll 

 white,) worth one dollar «ad fifty cents per 

 bushel, at the barn. 



CSur4 for Boit.- 'Make some sage tea, and 

 sweeten it well; when about milk-warm, 

 drench the horse with it. If it tarn out to 

 be the cholic, and not thfi bots, the sage tea 

 will ba good for that. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Planting Trees. , 



BY KOBERT L. BELL. 



No man should undertake to plant a tree 

 unless he has judgment enough to know the 

 character of the tree he desires to move; 

 some have roots i^imilar to a sponge, and 

 contain water enough in store to subsist on 

 till the proper fibres are grown to su«tain 

 them; such, for instance, as that curse of 

 our country, the Allan thus, (which is a 

 greater nuisance than the Canada Thistle, 

 and never could be sold until the importer 

 called it the Tree of Heaven, and raised the 

 pjice from one .shilling to one dollur each, 

 by which scheme he made in one year $6,- 

 000.) the Paulonia, Imperially, Willow, 

 Catalpa, and half a dozen Poplars. 



A dozen maples, half a dozen evergreens, 

 the ash and horse chestnut roots, are very 

 thick and fleshy, and contain con.siderable 

 moisture, enough, in fact, to sustain them 

 through much dry weather, after bein<? re- 

 moved, and therefore do not snffer half »s 

 much as the beech, birch, oaks and hicko- 

 ries, the roots of which are not well supplied 

 with fibres. The generality of trees should 

 be planted in the fall, immediately after the 

 leaf falls; this gives them several months 

 before the ground becomes thoroughly 

 frozen to form rootlets, and prepare them 

 to undergo the vicissitudes of a changeable 

 spring. 



I planted last fall some 10,000 trees, and 

 with the exception of the locust, and a few 

 evergreens, consider the fall the only safe 

 season, because the root has an opportunity 

 •of fixing itself permanently in the earth, 

 through the medium of its numerous rami- 

 fications, and thus forming at its extremities 

 spongelets to absorb the necessary fluids, 

 as these become the only true roots to sup- 

 ply the tree with nourishment. There are 

 in roots two fluids of different densities, the 

 one flows inwardly, and is called endosmose; 

 the other outwardly, and is called exosmose; 

 the fluid in the interior of the root is 

 rendered dense, by mixing with the descend- 

 ing sap, and as long as this difference exists, 

 the roots absorb fluids; this may bo proved 

 by growing i)lants in water, when it will be 

 found that a gummy matter is discharged, 

 impregnating the water with a- taste peculiar 

 to the plant; therefore, if the planter do^ 

 sires his plants to continue in a healthy 

 state, be must maintain the conditions of 

 exosmose and endosmose. 



As we scarcely see in natnre a large num- 

 ber of the same variety of forest trees grow. 



