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YOL. IV. 



SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY, 1859. 



NO. 1. 



PUBLISHED MONTULY, 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Novel Reading 193 



Contentsof December Number 19-1 



Communication „....^....„ _..19d 



Raspbcrrias 195 



Feeding Stock in Winter 196 



Sorgho asf oud fjr Stock 196 



The Dairy „„ „ .197 



Wines — 197 



Hedging ,....„ 197 



Wants to go into the Country.... 19S 



Contra<Hion of the Feet in Horses 198 



Sugar Growers' Convention in Winnebago County .199 



Editorial Items 200 



Pike's Peak «old Diggings 200 



Proteci-ion of Farms and Buildings with Evergreens 200 



Growii.^»'Jraa8 Seeds .200 



Wheat Crop...—.. , .200 



Communication .._.„...._.......„......... 200 



Tulip* ., _ ^ _ 201 



Stephensoa County .,..., ^ '201 



Proteution for OrcharCs „ 201 



State Horticultural {Society™ „ „ „„201 



A Ch>incc for Enterprise _............. .....202 



The Illinois Cane Crop .^„.202 



Steam Power _.......,„_ .................._.2t'2 



Lectures on the Farm .„ 202 



The Sugar Question „ _ „ „.203 



I mpbee Sugar from Africa .-.. 203 



The Best Pear _ _ __....„ 203 



Sugar from the Chinese Sugar Cane _.„ .wi 



Care of Roses .'...„ 204 



Beat that, gentlemi'B.. .> _ 204 



Small farms...™.. ,..™ „ 205 



Fall plowing for spring wheat and vats ...205 



Enquiries „ .......205 



A steam carriage for common roads 205 



ThflOarden...„ ^ \^^^ 205 



Fruit in Italy ^ 205 



Micro copic Wonc^ers .206 



United SUtes vs Illiatis State Agricultural Society 206 



Effects of late hours _ .J(^g 



Rich Milk 



Commercial 



Advertisements 



Advertisements 



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 .208 



Nivel Readings 



As novels will form some part of our read- 

 ing, and not a little of that of the young, we 

 will dwell upon them in some brief notices. 

 That any person should take up a well selected 

 novel under the impression that they are in- 

 fringing upon any religious obligation, should 

 be dismissed from their minds. If we have 

 spare time for reading, and we should have, 

 these works of imagination may take their 

 place with others in training and improving 

 us. That a majority of these publications 

 are not good, that youth of both sexes read 

 them to their injury, we know, but this should 

 not deter us from accepting those that are 

 good, some of which that have obtained a 

 good verdict we will mention. Walter Scott 

 stands by universal consent at .the head of 

 this class of writers, and will probably retain 

 the position, as we think no age can return 

 when one man's thoughts in an inferior field 

 of literature can make such an indelible 

 mark. The influence of his writings has 

 been good, "high tory" as he was, and with 

 a tinge of superstition peculiar to the Scotch, 

 he yet places images before us of an elevating 

 kind, or those that deeply enlist our better 

 sympathies. Wc i\md his stories in early 

 life and have recalled the characters with 

 very pleasant recollection ever since. Meg 

 Merrilles flits across the fancy as the "repre- 

 sentative of an interesting race, and we are 

 gratified to think that such attributes may 

 belong to one of the most vagrant families of 

 man. Die Vernon. Flora Mac Ivor, Rebecca 

 the Jewess, and many others throughout 

 these volumes, are perfect delineations of fe- 

 male grace and loveliness in the spheres in 

 which they move. It is certainly not a small 

 thing that the imagination has power to re- 

 produce these these beautiful creations un- 

 dimmed by time, and it is none the worse, but 

 all the better, that the ideals are of higher 

 reach than actual life has attained. The same 

 remarks are applicable to the sterner sex, 

 our fair readers may think, for Scott's heroes 

 are noble men in every sense of the word. 

 It was a great triumph, perhaps the greatest 



fiction ever attempted, to take such a humble 

 person as Jennie Deans and make her the 

 queen of heroines. The delineation of Re- 

 becca has given a kinder feeling towards the 

 whole Jewish family, and has done more 

 than all "Jewish Disability Bills" to rescue 

 them from prej udice and reproach. Through- 

 out these volumes we find manners that near- 

 ly imitate actual history; we are introduced 

 to cavaliers and covenenters, to the wars 

 that grew out of the introduction of Protest- 

 antism and its various places into England, 

 and all every way conservative in moral 

 tone and thought - - . •■ .::,-;" ; .' ■ 



Bulwer's earlier volumes differ from 

 "Walter Scott j he invests his characters, 

 the bad ones, and they are too unfre- 

 quently of this stamp, in flying colors, and 

 the youthful mind gets betrayed. Passing 

 through every vicissitude, the roue, vaga- 

 bond, and gambler, they come out unscathed 

 at last, sustaining the falsest philosophy ever 

 broached. Latterly we understand his works 

 have borne a better character, and if so, few 

 can instruct better than he. His personages, 

 in however unnatural or unusual positions 

 they may be in, like Shakespeare's, have some- 

 thing to say worth knowing. h , '^^f^^^:--; 



Slore recently the author of 'Jane Kyre' has 

 attracted greated great attention. A lady of 

 somewhat obscure family, in which the 

 pensive or less hopeful turn of mind 

 may be said to prevail, her writings 

 strike into new and untried paths; her 

 characters are instinct with energy and 

 power; her women are masculine, for 

 what are termed those qualities are needful 

 for them; her children say and do startling 

 things; and so onward the plot is stamped 

 with ingenuity, and the reading world have 

 decided that she has unquestioned genius. 

 She writes for the humble and dependent, 

 and places their wants and necessities, their 

 trials and temptations, the aid and improve- 

 ment tl.ey require in masculine portrayal, 

 blended with that insight into the affections 

 for which woman is remarkable. Such works 

 are needed in the society of England, and, in 



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