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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



"Doing Good." 



An old farmer of Sugar Grove said to us: 

 "Your Farmer is doing good. I found my 

 wheat, 200 acres, winter killed. I took 

 your advice, did not grieve about it, did not 

 spend any time complaining; went to work, 

 bought spring wheat and spring barley for 

 seed, sowed over the whole land, and I 

 verily believe that I shall make more money 

 by my spring wheat and spring barley, than 

 I would have done if my winter grain had 

 lived. My spring wheat looks well, and my 

 barley I believe will yield more than fifty 

 bushels to the acre. My fields are beauti- 

 ful. I never had so fine a prospect for 

 crops. Some of my neighbors followed my 

 example, and they have fine prospect. — 

 Others delayed, sowed no spring grains, 

 rented out their lands, and I am afraid will 

 see hard times next winter. Give me your 

 hand, old friend, I jpust be going." 



This was the language of truth : and those 

 farmers who went to work at once in the 

 spring, when they discovered their wheat 

 was killed, sowed spring grain, and occupied 

 all their grounds with different crops, will 

 find that the year will not be an unprofita- 

 ble one with them. Provisions of every 

 kind are bound to rule high, not so high 

 perhaps as when a scarcity of food brings 

 starvation prices, but high enough to pay 

 well for labor. 



The farmer's life is one requiring the exer- 

 cise of untiring energy. When crops are 

 made, they must be secured; and scarcely 

 will the present crop of grain be harvested 

 before preparations must be made for grow- 

 ing others. The present season affords a 

 fair prospect for the success of a future crop 

 of winter wheat. The earth is fully sat- 

 urated with rains, a fact which has not 

 been the case for the two previous seasons. 

 Preparations are now already in progress 

 to devote more land to winter wheat the 

 next season, by one-third, than ever before 

 was done in Illinois. 



Indeed, it wonld surprise any one, in 

 passing over our railroad lines, to notice the 

 vast tracts of prairie land already broken 

 up for a crop of wheat the next season. 



Some of these tracts of land thus broken, 

 are miles from timber and settlements. 

 Crops of wheat will be raised without even 

 fencing them; for they are beyond the 

 present range of stock. 



There is an abiding confidence among our 

 agricultaralista that the raising of produce 

 will pay, and pay well, in this section of the 

 country for years. 



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Illinois stock Importing Association. 



Since the return of Messrs. Johns, Brown 

 and Jacoby, a meeting of the Association 

 has been held, and a report of the proceed- 

 ings of the committee was laid before it. 

 The Association passed a vote of thanks for 

 the able manner in which they had perform- 

 ed their duty. The following is the sub- 

 stance of other proceedings had at this 

 meeting: 



• It was resolved that the sale of the stock 

 purchased should be as follows: ten per 

 cent, in cash, and the remainder on a credit 

 till January 1st, 1858, with" approved secu- 

 rity; that the animals shall be sold to citi- 

 zens of Illinois, with a proviso that they 

 slrnll remain in the State for two years, 

 unless the owner shall move, when he^all be 

 allowed to carry his stock with him. In 

 selling the stock again, the preference shall 

 be given to purchasers residing in the State. 

 Upon the arrival of the stock in this city, 

 due notice will be given and ample arrange- 

 ments made for their sale at public auction, 

 when it is probable that a full attendance 

 will be present from all parts of the State. 

 A resolution was adopted appointing a 

 committee to procure refreshments on the 

 grounds, to accommodate the public that 

 may be present. 



The stock had not arrived when this 

 article was written; but was daily expected. 



The question now presents itself —In what 

 manner can this valuable stock be rendered 

 most useful to the farmers of this State? 

 In answer to this question, we present the 

 suggestions which have been made to us, 

 and which have our entire concurrence. — 

 Associations should be formed in the differ- 

 ent counties to buy in such portions of the 

 stock as is most desired. The burden of 

 the expenses would thus be distributed 

 among a number of persons, and would not 



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