Orchards. 



We know a farmer, who ha? planted out sev- 

 eral orchards ^yith suscess, and. practices on this 

 wise : He obtains his trees in the fall; buries 

 them in the ground; and sets, them out in the 

 spring. Long experience satisfies him that this 

 13 the best for the trees, and that this practice 

 secures a good growth the first season. 



It is a good thing to look at the young traes 

 planted out often, and see if they are attacked 

 by borers. If they are, cat out the borers — or 

 get them out some way — and close up the wound 

 with wax. 



' There is danger that your youRg apple trees 

 will be girdled by mice and rabbits this winter. 

 Oiear away all the trash about them, and take 

 domestic, tear it into strips, broad enough to 

 protect the tree — saturate the strips with tar, 

 and wind them about the tree above the roots. 

 The cloth cr.u be m^de to answer for several 

 years, if taken ofx in the spring. 



Shoald you desire to raise seedling apple, 

 peach, qainci or peai' crecs, plant cat the seed 

 in the fall. 



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Pears. 



This fruit has been cultivated in the United 

 State.^, since the first settlement of the country. 

 Tha Horticultural periodicals generally contain 

 notices and illustratioas vt the new as well as 

 old vari'^tios, and thero are long lists in the Fruit 

 Books and Nursery Catalogues, In fact, the 

 number of varieties of pears in many of the 

 Nursery Catalogues, exceeds those of apples. 

 We have been surprised in visiting the eastern 

 cities, "ill pear time," that few pears were seen 

 in the markets; and those found there were sold 

 at very high prices. At a late Pomological 

 mscting in Western New York, a gentleman 

 stated that hs had 500 dwarf pear trees— that 

 his white Doyenne's did not do well this year, 

 but from the others he had said the trait at the 

 rate of twelve dollars per bushel, or ten cents 

 each! Dr. Grant, of Newburg, stated that he 

 had sold 400 pears, the produce of a six year 

 old tree, for 12;j- cents each — 550 — and obtained 

 §12 per bushel for seckel pears." Now it does 

 saera tons exlraordinarv, ifpear trees produce 

 thus iu New York, and considering the fact that 

 millions of the trees have been planted out with- 

 in the last ten years of the best varieties — that 

 pears are not plenty ia the markets. There is 

 something unaccountable in this fact, taking all 

 the published statements of nursery men and 

 cultivators to be true. 



Chinese Sngar Cane. 



There is a great desire in this ^section of the 

 State that there shall be a meeting here of the 

 growers of the sugar cane, for the purpose of ob- 

 taining and imparting information relative t© its 

 culture and the manufacture of its juice into 

 sugar and molasses. It is manifest that the 

 plant is to be a staple of our State, and, 

 whatever information will tend to make its culti- 

 vation profitable, shoald, if possible, be obtained. 

 Much good syrup was made in the season just 

 closed, but every manufacturer had his own syss 

 tern, and there is now no perfect rule generally 

 known to insure the best success. Hence a 

 meeting of those persons whojhave made success- 

 ful experiments, can be eminently asefal to 

 themselves, and to those who design to engage 

 in the business. We append a call for the 

 proposed meeting, and hope the editors of this 

 State will not only publish it in their paper 

 but call attention to it editorially. 



Springfield, Nov. 20, 1857. 

 Sugar Planters of Illinois : — I am request- 

 ed to give notice that there will be a meeting 

 of the Northern Sugar Cane Planters of this 

 State, at the office of the Corresponding Secre- 

 tary of the State Agricultural Society, in this 

 city, at 9 o'clock on Thursday, the 7th day of 

 January, 1858. It is believed that such a 

 meeting can be rendered of great service to 

 those farmers of our State who design to grow 

 the Northern or Chinese sugar cane. 



S. FRANCIS, Cor. See. 



111. State Ag. Society. 

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Fruit Requiring Names. 



We anticipate a meeting of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society in this city on the 4th of Jan- 

 uary next. In our vicinity, growing out princi- 

 pally of the change of ownership in farms, there 

 are a great many apples the names of which 

 are lost, and the owners are very desirous of 

 obtaining their true names. There are also 

 raised in this county a good deal of-seedlinsr 

 fruit, much of which is "very good," worthy of 

 propagation and to which names should be 

 given. We expect at the January meeting sev- 

 eral gentlemen competent to decide upon the 

 names- of old fruits, and upon the value of the 

 new. We therefore suggest that such fruit 

 should be sent to the Corresponding Secretary 

 of the State Agricultural Society, who will pass 

 it over to the Horticultural Society, for their 

 examination. It will be properly taken care of; 

 and the decisions of the Society noted. 



When corn costs 50c per bushel, pork costs 

 0c per pound. 



