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thQ Board of Sapervisors ; which said County 

 Court or Board of Supervisors, as the case may 

 be, shall, together with the School Commis- 

 siouer, e:(ainiDe all applicants so presented, in 

 such manner as the Board of Education may 

 direct, and from the number of such as r-hall 

 be found ta possess the requisite qualifications,^ 

 such pupik shall be selected by lot ; and in 

 representative districts composed of more than 

 one county, the School Commissioner and Coun- 

 ty Judge, or the School Commissioner and 

 Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 

 counties acting under township organization, 

 as the case may be, of the several counties 

 composing such representative districts, shall 

 meet at the Clerk's ofiSce of the County Court 

 of the oldest county, and from the applicants 

 so presented to the County Court or Board of 

 Supervisors of the several counties represented, 

 and found to possess the requisite qualifications, 

 shall select by lot the number of pupils to 

 which said district is entitled. The Board of 

 Education shall have discretionary power, if 

 any ct^ndidate does not sign and file with the 

 Secret-ary of the Board a declaration that he or 

 she w;iU teach in the public schools within the 

 State, in case that engagements can' be secured 

 by reasonable efforts, to require such candidate 

 to provide for the payment of such fees for 

 tuition as the Board may prescribe. 

 ' In conformity with the above, application 

 for admission to the school should be made to 

 the several County School Commissioners, and 

 the 15th of September is suggested as the day 

 for the examination of applicants. Of course 

 the officers having this matter in charge can 

 appoint any other time they see fit. All stu>^ 

 dents not provided for by the statute will- be 

 charged tuition. Students are expected to be. 

 present on the first day of the session. 



It is presumed that board will be furnished 

 the students by the citizens of Bloomington at 

 moderate rates. 



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Monmouth, 111., July 25, ]85t. 



S. Pbancis, Esq. — I send you some 

 statistics in regard to our Agricultural So- 

 ciety. We call it "The Warren County 

 Agricaltaral Society." It is incorporated 

 under the late law, The Society last year 

 purcliased and inclosed with a close fence, 

 eight feet high, fifteen acres of land, about 

 one mHe from the centre of the city. 



The olficers for the present year are as 

 follows, to-mt: 



J. L. MILCflNER, Pres, 



EwshaKye, See.'. .,,,.,r,. ..,-■■,'.-;.,„. . 



EEXcuTirs coidattn. 

 Jompli H K1t]}7 Jainu McCay . JohnG WUIaon 



Saiqiul WilUiMP John B. McQinnis Samuel Douglas 



Set&^Sttitlt'' ' WilBam Lafarty C L Ar msby 



C. L. Armsby, Treas. 



Trial of Mowers. 



The following is the Secretary's Report 

 of the Reaper Trial on the Farm of the 

 Hon. James Curtis two miles w^st of West 

 TJrbana. Illinois, July 22nd, 1857:- v-rr^ 



About 9 o'clock, A. M,, we came on the 

 ground selected for the Reaper Trial. It is 

 field of winter wheat on breaking of last 

 season, containing two hundred and fifty 

 acres . That part situated for the trial stood 

 well, was even throughout, and would turn 

 fifteen to twenty bushels per acre. Mr, C. 

 estimates it at fifteen bushels, while several 

 good judges put it at twenty. The morn- 

 ing was cool and cloudy, giving promise 

 of a comfortable day for the trial. Quite 

 a large number of farmers were ou the 

 ground fat this early hour, and soon the 

 machines that were to try th^ir prowess 

 were seen coming over the rolling prairie. 



First, we have the Self-Raker of Seynidur 

 and Morgan of Brockport, 'N. York, under 

 charge of D. D. White, General Agent. 

 It was drawn by two hories. The sickle 

 is obtuse scolloped, sickle edged, cutting 

 over cast guards. The cutting is four feet 

 five inches, inside of guards. It has a side 

 draft, but which is in part relieved by pla- 

 cing the driving wheel outside of the ton- 

 gue, and the driver's seat is so arranged 

 as to make his weight also compensate, 

 in part, for this arrangement. A laxge 

 number of th^e machines have been sold 

 by Mr. Bacon this season, and are giving 

 excellent satisfaction. Thev are well made 

 of good material, and do credit to their ma* 

 kers who arc so well known for their Reap- 

 ers, Grain Drills, and other valuable agri- 

 cultural implements. It will be recollected 

 that this Reaper took the first prize at the 

 Bloomington Trial, held by our State Agri- 

 cultural Society, in the harvest of 1854. 



Next, we have the centre-draft Machine 

 of Gr. H. Rugg of Ottawa, Illinois, This 

 is the one that wop so much a,pplaiise, 

 both in wheat and grass, at the late toial 

 at Salem. The sickle is obtuse scollo|>ed 

 sickle edge, with very fine cerratures, and 

 cuts six feet one inch inside of the guards, 

 which are of wrought iron three-fourths of 

 an inch square. Alonzo Lyons of XJrbuia, 

 is the Agent having it in charge assisted 

 by Mr. A. L. Yowel, who also operated it 

 at the Salem and St. Louis trials. But 

 few of these Machines have been soldherjB, 

 and the general impression was against 

 them on account of the position of the 

 team, Had betting been the order of the 

 day, large odds woald have been f^aiast it f 



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