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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



can make a reputable living. There is a 

 great want of female labor in the country, 

 and if •women from Ncvr York or else- 

 where, AvoulJ come here Avith the deter- 

 minntion of making their homes with 

 families in the country, the demand for 

 such women would be very grent. Their 

 labors wouM be those of the house, and 

 would be appreciated and paid for^ and 



they would secure good homes. 



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Domestic Hints. 



Haras, at a cost of 15 cents a pound, 

 are cheaper food than beef at ten cents. 



Boiling is by far the most economical 

 mode for cooking meats. 



Butter is the most concentrated animal 

 fat. 



When you buy goods on a credit, you 

 must pay more for them than if you wore 

 to pay cash. 



It is very pleasant to dress well ; but 

 not pleasant when one thinks that the 

 clothes on his back belong to another, 

 and that he will be called to pay for 

 them when they arc worn out. 



A mar. does not possess true delicacy 

 of feeling, when he purchases articles 

 not absolutely necessary to his comfort, 

 and knows that he cannot conveniently 

 pay fcrthcm. 



The communitvknow Avhen a man and 



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his family aic livmg beyond their means. 



It is often uie case that families will 

 spend more than they earn, and depend 

 upon others for .=upport, who aim to save 

 a little by close economy. 



Young men who dress well, fancy they 

 appear well, and do nothing for their own 

 support, look with disdain upon other 

 young men less expensively dressed, and 

 who earn their living by their labor; but 

 the time is yrobably at hand when the.=e 

 -gay idlers will have their borrowed garbs 

 taken from them, and they will be seen 

 as very ordinary * -Jackdaws." 



Live within your income, and know 

 what that income is, and you will save 

 yourself from much personal discomfort 

 and degradation. 



SoAvi^-G Peas. — S. R. Elliott, of 

 Cleveland, has published his experience 

 in regard to sowing peas. He says — 

 "Some years since I commenced with 

 sowing peas, and covering them at differ- 

 ent depths, varying from one inch to one 

 foot. I found those buried ei^rht inches 

 deep, appeared above ground only one 

 day later than those buried only two 



inches ; while those that were covered 

 twelve inches deep, were but a little over 

 two days behind. As they grew, no per- 

 ceptible difference was noticed, until they 

 commenced blossoming and setting, then 

 the advantage of the deep planting ex- 

 hibited itself; for those that were eight 

 and ten inches deep continued to grow, 

 blossom, and set pods long after those 

 only two to four inches commenced rip- 

 ening and decaying. 



If the soil is light and loamy, I will 

 hereafter plant my peas eight to ten 

 inches deep; if the soil is clayey, I will 

 plant six inches. I never earth- up, but 

 leave the ground as near level as I can." 



"AVell, Mr. 



is selling off his land 



into small farms. He is getting tired of 

 his 500 acre field of corn, and his large 

 stocks of cattle, and other heavy farming 

 operations. At one time he fairly broke 

 himself down in carrying on his busi- 



ness 



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"He is showing some sense at last.— 

 He has had a hard time of it, and all he 

 could enjoy from the fruits of his labor 

 was the house that covered him, his 

 clothes and food ; to say he had other 

 comforts, how could he enjoy such when 

 in every moment of his waking hours, and 

 I will venture to say his sleeping hours 

 also, he was harrassed with his busi- 



ness?" 



"Do you mean to say that all he ob- 

 tained for his labor was his shelter, food 

 and clothing?" 



"Yes, that was about all. Perhaps 

 in looking over his farm he might some- 

 times say, "I am monarch of all I sur- 

 vey;" but that feeling amounted to noth- 

 ing substantial. The idea was probably 

 terminated with another interesting idea, 

 that there were those about him who 

 would be very willing to see him boxed 

 up, and laid away where his remains 

 would not be offensive, so that they could 

 sell his farms and enjoy the money." 



"And what moral would you induce 

 from all this?" 



"Why that a man should be industri- 

 ous, enjoy the good things of this world, 

 do good to his fellow men in his day and 

 generation, be clever to all we meet on 

 our journey of life, and lay up treasures 

 where they will secure eternal enjoyment, 

 beyond the reach of panics, hard times, 

 and the graspings of those who never 

 earned anything for themselves." 



t^^ Farmers ! be of good cheer. — 

 "Brightly breaks the spring I" "March 

 came in like the lion," but before its 

 close, even in the middle of the month, 

 we had beautiful spring weather, and the 

 warm rains have started the wheat and 

 grass beautifully, and everything beto- 

 kens well for the farmer. 



Take heart — plow up the fallow ground 

 — get in your oats, your spring wheat, 

 your corn, your Hungarian grass, your 

 northern sugar cane, your grass seed, 

 potatoes — see that your gardens arc suf- 

 ficient to furnish you with healthful food, 

 have all the tools at hand n:'cessary for 

 the work — you have no time to dally 

 now — be wide awake — 



Fow, ]il iw a>i'l pl.iiit wJiiipsliiL'jnir.l' filpep; 

 .\nil jon wlllhuvi. ciiDiifrli ti> «'ll, iiuU ti» ent. 



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Patent Office Sef.ds. — Sonic persons 

 have acted as tl;()ii|;h t'u-y Mipposcd that the 

 seeds of the Piiteiit Office were distributed 

 to supply with gardon vegotable.s. They 

 are much in error. Tlio^e .seeds arc general- 

 ly new varieties, aud on which a high value 

 is set. They hvc di.stvibuted for trial. If 

 they succeed well iu our climate and soils, 

 seeds should be aaain di.<trihuted, so thatthe 

 benefits of these superior Vi-.rleties of vegeta- 

 bles shall become general. Persons who 

 receive Patent Office .scedti, should bear these 

 facts in mind. 



6Q^ Edgar Saunders, in Emery's 

 Journal of Ayricidturc, says, that cau- 

 liflower seed should be sown in the 

 hot bed, and the plants be planted out 

 in rich, well prepared soil, should be well 

 tended, the earth frcqucntiy stirred about 

 them, and if they do not head in the fall, 

 the plants should bo lifted and planted 

 out in the cellar, where they would be 

 likely to head. Old Dr. Johnson, of 

 Dictionary memory, .=?aid, "of all gordjn 

 flowers, give nic the cauliflower, 



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Seejjino GftoLM> TO (j!KAbr>. — There is 

 a good deal uf difference iu opinion in regard 

 to the time when gva.ss seed .should be .sowu. 

 A majority, wc believe, favor .-^piiiig sowing. 

 Indeed, many believe that the hqq({ should 

 be sown in the latter jiart of Febraary,' on 

 the snow, or not later than April, so -that the 

 seed may be imbedded in t:ie earth by the 

 spring rains. 



Tree Pruuiiig. ' ' 



Wc notice that our farmers the present 



spring, are attending more to pruning 



their apple trees than usual. Itis hardly 



possible that an apple tree can bear good 



