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THE II.LINOIB FA^RMEK, 



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B. F. FOX, 



Wholesale aud Retail Dealer lu Hardware, 



IN ALI, ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES, HAS NOW IN STORK 

 one of the largest and best assortments cf goods in his line 

 •ver offered in thit market. Importing many styles of Eng- 

 lish goods direct, and purchasiag I'.is American goods of the 

 manufactnrers at the lowest (cftsh) priced, he is enabled to 

 ofTer merchants and consumei 3 goodsat the lowest prices, and 

 on as favorable terms as any bouse east or west. His stock 

 •mbraces a very large and complete assortment of 



Agricultural Tools aud Implements I 



•f the latest and most improved kinds and qualities. Reap- 

 ers, Mowers, Straw Cutters, Hedge Trimmers, Sicldes, 

 Grass and ±runing Hooks, Oraudles, Scytlies, Snaths, 

 Fbrks, Hoes, Shovels, Scoops, Axet(»M kinds and makes), 

 Picks, Mattocks, Fan Mills, Seed Separators and T/treshing Ma- 

 cliines. 



UODSE FURNISHING & BUILDERS WAREHOUSE. 



Large and complete assortment of Zocks, Latclies, Butts, Hin- 

 ges, Screws, BoUs, Brads, Nails. TRIMMINGS— etoaX variety 



Carpenter's and Builder's Tools ! 



Plartes, Saws, Chisels, Augers, Braces, Bitts, Drawing Knives, 

 Sijvares, Trowels, Bevils, Hatchets, Hammers, Adzes, Burch 

 tnd Broad Axes, Boreing Machines, Gould's and Stejttoe's 

 Morticing Machines, Files, <£«. 



Blacksmith's Tools. 



Bellows, Anvils, Vices, Screw Plates, Tangs, Horse Nails, Horse 

 Mhoes, Buttresses, <tc. 



COOPEE'S TOOLS. 



Fine assortmeut, Knives, Hooks, Planes, X-c. 



CVTIiERY. 



A very large stock aud assortment of Wosteuholm's Butch- 

 er's and othei's, Table, Potktt, Pen, Butcher and Shoe Knives, 

 Razors, Shears, Cissors, Carvers. <£c. Groat variety. 

 GUNS, PlSTOIiS, 



Oiin 7^-immings and MouTitings, single and (Imthle barrelled En- 

 glish and German Kijles, Pistols of great variety, together 

 with a general a^sortm int of goods usually kept iu a IIui ihvare 

 store. 



8 A 'W S 



Every variety, mill, cross cut and circular, fiom three iiiclicM 

 to sixty inclusive, furnished at niannfacturers prices. 



Saddlery Hardware and Carriage Trimmings. 



In this branch of my business^ I am enabled to extend to 

 saddlers and carriage makers unusual facilities, being supplied 

 direct from the manufacturers. Ooods in this line come to me 

 at extraordinary low prices. My stock embraces all varieties: 

 Buckles, Ferrets, Orraments, Roseates, Jtings, Snaffles, Bitts, 

 Partches, Webbing, Self-Adjust ing and Dennison Trees, Sad- 

 dler's Silk, Shoe,'Three-Cmd and Fitting Thread. 



Carriag^e Xriminingrs. 



Bras$ and Silver Plated, Screw Front Bands and Plated Screw 

 Front Mail Bands, Coach Handles, Curtain Frames, Turned 

 Collars, Patent and EnanuMed LeaVier, Enamelled Muslin, 

 Duck and DriU, Rubber Cloth, Carriage Bows, Deer and Curled 

 Hair, Patent Leather and Rubber Belting, Htmp and Rubhir 

 packiiig. 



lO_ Orders promptly filled and forwarded. 



May 1st, 1857. B. F.FOX. 



HORSE BILLS 



PROMPTLY AND XEATLY PRINTED 



SPRINGFIE LD, ILLINOIS 



NOTICE. 

 To the Raisers of Fine Horses. 



THE THOROUGH BRED HORSE YOUNG 

 SARNTON, imported by the Illinois Importing Com- 

 pany, will commence his first season the 15th of March, at 

 tha stable of John 0. Crowder, 2 miles west of Springfield, 

 Illinois, and to prevent complaints we give timely notice 

 that he will be limited te 40 mares, p.nd as tbi-ro has perhaps 

 bsen that number partially engaged, we would hero say that 

 no mare will be considered engaged untilapart of the money 

 is paid. Having acquired a character at home and abroad — 

 having sold for :t5,050 — having taken the $500 premium at 

 the St. Louis Fair last Fall, from the best ring of Horses (ad- 

 mitted by judges) that was ever exhibited in the western 

 country — in &ct he acknowledges no superior in the United 

 States. The terms will perhaps be $75 cash; pasture for 

 mares from a distance gratis. Bills and particulars in due 

 time. JOHN C. CKOWDER & CO. 



N. B — The thorough-bred Imported Horse, Barnton, will 

 be exhibited at Calef A Jacoby's sale, ou the 23d day uf 

 March, and perhaps one-fifth interest offered for sale. 



Will stand at the stable of the subscriber, in addition to 

 Imported Barnton, Sida Hamstt, by Andrew Hamctt, that 

 only needs to bo s«en to be admired, having taken the prc- 

 minm over 40 horses at the State Fair last Fall. Also, Ac- 

 teon, by Imported Acteon. Believing the raising of fine 

 horses the most profitable business the Farmer can engage 

 in, I hope they will take the necessary pains to select the 

 ri^ht sort of horses to breed from. I have had considerable 

 experience in the horse business, and am confident that I can 

 offer the public abetter itud of horses, suited to the wants of 

 nil, than can be fonnd at any stable iu Illinois; aud to test 

 the thing, I would suggest that we have a general show of 

 horses and brood mares with their colts, at some suitable 

 time, say the '2d Saturday in April, and the owners oi horses 



S've the services of their horses to the best brood mares, Ist; 

 ; and 3d. What uay you gentlemen. 



JOHN C. CKOWDER. 

 f«bl4 w3m-fkrmer. (Reg copy w 3m.) 



:^ . THE ILLINOIS 



•Jflutuat Fire Insitrance Co, 



LOCATED AT ALTON ILLINOIS. 



CIIAnTEBED FEB. %Z, 183i>. OROANIZiiD APiaL4. 1S.39. 



Amount of premin,ii notes in force Fehniary 



\st, 185G, constiivting a fund for the 



payment of Losses, 



$8 00,0 0.0 0, 



Secured by a lien on property insured, valued 



at over ' 



$9,000,000! i 



''r^IIIS company insured d\v(dlingri,^tores,\\iirrhoiisc.-!.iniUMi- j 



X factories, Diill.s, liariiii, stable-* and t'n' cnnti-nts of o.icli, , 



together wiUi every other similar species >il' prujjei ty Kitliin ■ 



the State, from | 



LOSS OR DAMAGE 13 Y FIRE! j 



The Dliectors feel Justified in rfcomincniliiif; this company fi> 1 

 the fiivorable considerntiim of t'ln citizens of lllimis. Kviry ' 

 one insured becomes t. nieml.or. the co'ii]inny biing an i.s- j 

 sociation of customers — ciich of vlioni is concerned in in- 

 suring his neighbor. A& the indeiiiuitication fund augments 

 in exact ratio with t'lo increase of risks, tln^ capital of the 

 company it comparatively exhaustions; aud the entire saiety 

 of the institution must be apparent to every one who reads 

 the charter. 



The cost of insuring in this conip.iny i.s so low. as to render 

 it almost inexcusable for the owners of insurable proi.erty 

 not to avail themselves of its protection. 



BOARD OP DIREC TORS. 



LtMA:J TkUSIBULL, KLIAB HlBr.AUH, I . Kw.LENBKnuER, 



Bknj. F. Loso. Samuel Wade, 



KonEKT Smith JoHxJAMrs, 



TiMOiny TuR.XEK, Hexrt Lea, 

 M. G. Atwood, Nath'l Uaxso.v, 



1JEX.)AML\- V 



Lewis KEi.LENiii.RCEa. Trtas. M 



n^ Kn Agent for tlii:3 Company may ho found in 

 every Couniy of the ,'Jtute. 



Xfis^ Application for insurance may be niHde \u 



JAMKS L. lilM,. Aynt. 



April 1, 1857. at Sprirgfield. 



ST^ll COR.V »JfIIIjJL, 



ALlRtD J low. 



Ben.i. K. Hart, 

 Jon.N Uailuaciie, 

 .loiix Axwoon. 



LONO. Presidciit. 



0. A'ltVooD, See'y. 



alniojt 



For Grinding' Corn, Cob, Hominy or Meal and 

 (<rnerai Stock l''eed. 



WE DELlYEll THIS MILL AT ANY 

 point, or from our wagons, that run thnius'.i thoiiif- 

 ferent ]i;irts of the Cfuntry, n* the mauufacturer's retail jiricu, 

 nhicii is, for the nii;l complete, $(J0. 



Order.i, or letters uf inquirv should be addressed to 



HUNT,'PYKE & Co., Springfield, III. 



We need but say that where the Star Mill has been used, it 

 has gained credit beyond ail other Mills now in use: and the 

 farmer only needs to see and try it in order to become con- 

 vinced that it is perfeit iu its arrangement from the fact that 

 it grinds green as well as old corn, (corn nnj cob passing 

 through it together,) which no other.Mill will do. Farmers 

 and stock-growers can save from ao to 40 bushels of corn iu 

 each 100 by the use of this Mill; (at least we have certificates 

 to that effect.) Persons having once experienced its benefit, 

 will never return to the wasteful practice of feeding corn in 

 the ear. 



It will undoubtedly make good meal of shelled corn for fam- 

 ily use. 



Tlie Mill. crinds from twelve to twenty husliols per hour, 

 and nia!.rs:iT: easy draft for two horses. 



V<e can pLiduco first prem'ums, diplomas, and recommcn 

 (laliiins too iiiimerou.-i to mention. 



For full particulars, references aud dcscripiionof Mills, see 

 circulars. 



N. B.- I'er&ous can bo supplied with a f tar Mill, and also 

 sec one in operation by calling at tiin Agricultural Store of 



FKANCIS & 13AH11KLL, 



Jan 1, 1658 Authori'/,ed Agents. 



U.S. WILSON,) . p roi.ivv f •'. T. .loII\?ON. 

 E. W.BUOWN,) ^' ■" ^^^'"■•^' \.t. i: lloi'KINS 



BROWN, GODDIN & (X). 



WHOtESAtE GKOCliRS AM> 



Commission Merchants, 



NO. 62 SECOND STREET, 



St. I^ouls, Mo. 



Special attenti >n given to the sale of Grain aud Country 

 Produce. Km J. E. D. 



llUnoU Central Rail Road 



liANDS FOR SAtE. 



riMIE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD 



JL Company invites the attention of Agriculturalists and 

 Farmers to the forcilc lands adjacent to their Road, which 

 are offered for sale upon low terms, and long credit at low 

 rates of interest. 



Itis thipolicy and wisliof the Company to sell oil their 

 lands to actual settlers; and no inducement is offered to 

 speculators; in tact none will be sold on long credit, without 

 the distinct obligaticn ofcultivat'^n. 



Illinois occupies the most central position of the Western 

 States, aud comprises the most fertile seciion of the belt of 

 l.^.nd extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Missouri 

 River, aad including New Yoik, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, ludiana, lUiuois, Michigan; Wisconsin, Iowa aud 

 Northern Missouri. 



Unlike the Stutm Nort h of us, the productions are not 

 i-hected by rigorous winters,— nor is the heat of summer 

 opj,ros8ive. The lands West of the Missouri River gradually 

 and rapidly decrease in fertility, till they blend with the 

 Ureat American Plain, and being chiefly, if not solely adapt- 

 ed t^ graz:-i5, can never compete with those of this State. 



The lands bordering upcu the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, 

 and upon the lines of the proposed roadsin lowc, have been 

 taken up, and arc n.w selling at from |10 to $15 per acre, 

 although settlers have to pay heavy freights upon the trans- 

 port.Uion of their agricultural tools, furuiture and goods; 

 and when theircrops are produced, Ihe extra cost of trans- 

 portation to Eastern markets exceeds the cost of produc- 

 tion. 



Looking to the future growth of our country, this State, 

 which combines the most favorable temperature with the 

 richest soil aud meat healthy climate, will for all time be the 

 great grain jiroducing district. It is full of mineral wealth 

 such r.s Conl. Iron, Lend, Limestone, &c., and has already the 

 iidvan'eges of churches and schools, of population, and of 

 tlio investment of capital. Moreover; there is scarcely a 

 county in Illinois which has not a supply of timber. The 

 southern section of the State includes ut least 2,00u,000 acres 

 of the best quali'y of timber land; and the extensive pineries 

 in niljuining States, accessible by the Lakes, furnish Chicago 

 with an immen i anantity of timlierandlumberamcunting 

 in 1856, to 460,O0o,00n feel. 



lllinoiscsperiully dnrii);; th.- last ten years, has been rap- 

 idly develojpinu- her resonices. 'jTie pc.pulation is now about 

 L.WO.OUO and 'lehty millions of dullurs have been expended 

 for I'.ailroads: wliicli. with the waters of the M:s»issippi, 

 Illini is lUver, the Miohipan Canaland Lake communications 

 afford cheap and roiivenieut means for the transportation of 

 hor products to every market. About one million acres c^ 

 the Conii)any's lands have already been sold, and many 

 fiourishing villages evince he rapidly increasing prosperity 

 of the country. Such is the facility and economy with which 

 these liuids cui bo cultivated, th; t in two years farmers can 

 readily surround theni-^elves with all the comforts of old set- 

 tled farniii in the Eastern iStatea; and such is their fertiliey 

 ami i)roiinctiTnnesH, that property purchased at from $6 to 

 ^'Jii per •xcre at six years' credit and three per cent, interest, 

 cai' be fu'ly paid for witl.it! that time, together with all the 

 costs of iuiprcveniei'tK.by <>rdinnry industry; from the profits 

 of the croi)s. 



Although it is evident that leiu'sin the vicini'y of railroads 

 in Illiuois will advance to $50 or even $100 per acre within 

 ten veais. yet the interests of this Company arc more advan- 

 ced liy pl.ncing ti.eir property in lIio hands offarmers, to set- 

 tle tlj" cciinir\. relvinc; upon the husiness ofthc road for its 

 chief profit, and t) .naMe 't to discharge its obligations ;to 

 the State. These considerations indnco the policy of rapid 

 sales, which lirve been progiassiu;; iinc! increasing for two 

 years p^i'^t, and will be jiursucd till the lands are finally 

 disposed of. No encouragement is given to speculative pur- 

 chasers, as the f onpany does not wish to dispoBO of any of 

 its lands except for rctual settlement and cultivation It is 

 evident, therefore, that the best interests of settlers can no- 

 where be as \V«U promoted as by purchasing and settling 

 upon these lands 



For information as to price, terms, etc. apply to 



JOHN WILSON 



Jy29-dwCm Land Comm 'r I. C.R. R. Co., Chicago, III. 



KUHNS & HAINF.S* 



PRJEJfrMUJfl nRIMjJLS! 



TTIi: 15EST NOW IN USE. 



T 



Sweet Potato Plants. 



WE WILL HAVE THEM IN THE PRO- i 

 per season, for s.ile by the hundred or thousand, at j 

 fair prices; (See advertisement of early Nausemond potatoes) l 

 febl FRANCIS & BARREL. I 



PHIS DRILL TOOK THE TWO FIRST 



Premiums at the late State Fair of Illinois, held at 

 Pcc-ia; also at the State Fairs of Wi.sconsin .and Ohio. This 

 Drill will sow Wheat, Rye, Oats, Barle'j, Buckwheat, Rice, 

 Ikmp, lUicc, Timothy, Clover and Millet Seed, without any 

 change of fixtures; can be regulated in one minute to sow 

 any quantity or kind of Seed. Warranted for durability and 

 workmanship. 



Good and responsibb agents wanted in every county in the 

 Stat.'. Circulars sent to any address. Those wanting drills 

 should order early. Apply to 



B. KUHNS & CO., 



mar20 FCm-wlt Springfield, Illinois. 



