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THE ILLINOIS F^HMER. 



are good food for liogs. Should your 

 seed peas have bugs in them -whcii about 

 to plant, scald them with hot water. 

 May 20, 1858. W. 



SPRINGFIEtD, JUNE 1, 1858. 



IKB=*Thc Northern Spy has been found to 

 be a most productive and valuable apple in 



Soutliern Ohio. 



««r-The llUnois State Fair for 1858, will 

 be held at Ccntralia on the 14th, 15th, IGtli 

 and 17th days of September. 



The Ohio State Fair for the present year 

 will bo held at Sandusky City. 



8®:„0ur thanks are due to Messrs. Douglas, 

 Trumbull and Harrif*, for Congressional docu- 

 ments. 



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B^^The mountains in the Salt Lake pro- 

 duce immense quantities of salt. Blocks of 

 pure white salt can readily be detached from 

 them. 



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B^^No man can boiTow himself out of debt. 

 If you require relief, work for it. A dollar 

 saved in your house, or from your back, is 

 worth ten borrowed. '. 



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JB^^Tlie iruit has generally been injured 

 by the late frosts tlirough the country. In 

 some localities peaches and apples are entire- 

 ly killed, and everywhere more or less in- 

 jured. 



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E^^The Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 have denounced as humbug and swindling, 

 the practice of some men in soiling the seed 

 of fine varieties of strawberries. Theseedwill 

 scarcely ever produce a good variety. .^_^ 



J8?S==It is a well known fact, that after tim- 

 ber land is cleared, if it is suffered again to be 

 covered with timber, most of it will be new 

 varieties. It is thus nature shows itself in 

 favor of a rotation of crops. 



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"ife^We have noticed no action on JMr. Mor- 

 rill's land bill in the Senate. That is a bill, 

 in the passage of which through the Senate 

 a larger number of the inhabitants of the 

 United States are iuterestedthan in any other 

 bill or measure now before that body. 



Jgj^AYe suggest to our members of Congress 

 thataprovisionof law which would enable per- 

 sons to send seeds or grafts by mail, at the same 

 rates of postage as are charged on books, would 

 be very beneficial to farmers, gardeners and 



others. 



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Iji^^Grape vines have become diseased in 

 Eui'ope, and some euiinent men suppose that 

 the vine ^\ill becijme extinct. In Madeira 

 nearly all the vines have ah'eady perished. 

 IMany of the American varieties have been 

 taken to Europe to ascertain their adaption 

 to its climate and soil. 



B^„George L. Squires, of Galesburg, offere 

 his entire stock ofDioscoreaBauttatas to any 

 one who will pay the expense of getting them. 



8@^Comstock's Prolific Dwarf Pea can be 

 planted any time before July. The Cham- 

 pion of England Pea, for late crop, has no 

 rival. 



8^„The tea plant is found to grow veiy 

 well in South Carolina; but the cost of labor 

 is too great to render its cultivation profita- 

 ble. 



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fi^^Running accounts not only run out a 

 man's estate, but his manhood. Better adopt 

 the^'Better-not-buy-what-you-cannot-pay-for- 

 principle." 



B^x,Enquiries are frequently made of us — 

 where can Suffolk Swine be purchased? "We 

 answer that the Illinois Breeding Association, 

 at Summit, Cook county, have them for sale. 

 JjCtters addressed to Sargent Cook, care of 

 Chas. L. Reed, Chicago, will be promptly 

 answered. 



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H^^The failure of the vintages of Europe 

 bas greatly lessened the amount of winemadc 

 and Induced the manufacture of spurious arti- 

 cles. Pure wine of grape can scarcely now be 

 had, and most of the brandies we receive from 

 France are spurious — having been manufac- 

 tured out of corn whisky. 



J8@*The llawles' Janet apple tree requires 



much attention to secure fruit in perfection. 



It must not be allowed to bear too much 



fruit. If this is done, it will be of small size 



and insipid flavor. Thin out the fine limbs 



of the tree — prune so as to open the head — 



and you will secure perfect apples, which, 



''when good are good." 



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B@„The Dielytra is now in bloom. This 

 is a beautiful herbaceous perennial plant, the 

 foilage resembling that of the peony. The 

 flowers are in long sacems, hanging like the 

 fuschia. The plant is perfectly hardy. A 

 second crop of flowers can be obtained by cut- 

 ting offthe stalks a few inches from the around 

 so soon as the spring flowers fall. 



8@„In answer to an inquiry, we will say, 

 that to secure "Button Onions" for planting 

 out next spring, sow onion seed very thick 

 on a good well prepared and clean piece of 

 ground, and very thick, and this fall take 

 them up when green and dry them in the 

 I shade. The stalks will shrink up and the 

 bottoms form very small "button onions." 



J|®"The May Weed (dog fennel) is an an- 

 nual plant. Do you desire to get rid of this 

 nuisance? Mow it down as soon as it comes 

 into flower — before the seeds in the flower 

 mature. By thus destroying the seeds, you 



can get rid of this pest. 



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U^^Farmers who cultivate carrots are aware 



that much depends on early thinning, 



and weeding. To ascertain where the row is 



readily, sow a few radishes with the carrots. 



This will enable one to hoe the carrots as soon 



as they show themselves, for the radishes come 



up immediately and match the rows. 



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|^"Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, 



says, that American grape vines grow three 



times the length thatT foreign grape vines do, 



and that in trimming theyshould be left three 



times as long, and that the vines should be 



planted three times the distance that we plant 



foreign vines. 



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B^^'The following plan is recommended in 

 the I^eic Yorker as a cure for bloat in cattle : 

 "Take a common sized rope, double it once or 

 twice and twist it together, put it into the crea- 

 ture's mouth, brins: it over the head and tie. 

 This throws the mouth open. Then drive 

 the animal about the garden a few minutes and 



the bloat is gone." 



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Bi^The wild flowers of our woods and prai- 

 ries, it is said, will make beautiful parlor orna- 

 ments. As a general thing they have all that 

 degree of hardihood that they may be dug up 

 in bud or blossom, and arranged and planted 

 in vases or pots, will go on blossoming in a 

 shady parlor as if no change of location had 

 happened to them. 



Devon Herd Book. — Sanford How- 

 ard, of Boston, is asking patrons for 

 the 3d volume of the Devon Herd Book. 

 He says, if the present subscribers will 

 take five copies each, he can publish the 

 work without loss, and unless this is 

 done, it must be published at a great 

 saci'ifice. 



jl^^^ The crop of Apples was greatly 



injured by the last frosts, in this section 



of the State. AVe have been informed 



by one who ought to know, that of early 



apples there will be but a very few. 



The late may do better. 



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jg^^" Mr. Sanford Howard, and oth- 

 ers, of Boston, are about leaving for 

 England and Scotland, to purchase 

 stock for the " Massachusetts Society 

 for the promotion of Agriculture." They 

 desif-n to purchase Ayrshii-e and other 

 valuable stock. 



