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VOL. IV. 



SPRINGFIELD, MARCH, 1859. 



NO. 3. 



Win ^llnxn^ ^mmtt, 



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TAUI.B OP CONTENTS. 



Agriculture 225 



To Knitlleelt 2i7 



The Furmer a Learner „..„,.„ 227 



Strychnine Whisky „„..„„....^ .,.. 228 



Wbat we Want „ „.. 228 



Sugar Cane 228 



Choice of Occupation 2:8 



Evergreeas for Screens 229 



Japan Apple lie Melon 229 



New Orchards 229 



Wheat Crop — Grow Wool ^...„ 230 



A Good Native Cow 230 



All about lloKS „ ...^ „ 230 



Cheap Postage on Seeds,&c „ 231 



A uggeHion 231 



White Beans , 231 



Errata 232 



State Agricultural Society „ 232 



Morrill's L»ad BUI „^,.„ ^ 232 



The Tea Plant. „ gaj 



Nanseinond Sweet Potatoes.. ..-..„— ^.-.,.,...232 



Currency for Taxes „.„ _ ^ 1 232 



Timber Plautiug , 232 



Bloomingion Nureery 232 



What Is to be Done ^3 



Gold «t Pike's Peak 233 



The Advisory Congress 233 



Potatue Culture 233 



Lice on Stock .233 



Protection fur Out Lots 233 



Scedliu«g.._ _ „ 233 



To Dt'lay Flowers.... „ 2.'53 



What is a Farmer .....233 



A Great Corn Your 234 



llol for Pike's Peak.„ 234 



A Talkabo it Fruit Trees , „.234 



Uedge Grower's Manual _ ...i.._. „. 234 



Hardy Perpetual Roses 234 



Dm-b Draining Pay •■ 234 



From an Iiiquirsug Lad 234 



Eastern Emigration '."."'."".......235 



Vnatilatlou ...."".'.'.'.'.'.i^Sb 



" ool. ...,.„ •.»..••........»......., ^5 



Oats „ o^if. 



i'tt^aui Plow „ 285 



Striped Bngn •"?•—••• ^^ 



IlarTesters 1600 Yoars Ago r..'.V..*Z.'."Zr."."^'.235 



tiirly Corn - .i.,c 



Spring Wheat ."■"-■.■."■."".■.'.■■■.■■.■■.V.".'r.238 



Horlicjiltural Society of SoutherD Illinois 235 I 



St.ick Hogs i 2jg 



»<w Corn Planter .,....„ 236 



Sugar Cane CouventioD " * 'a.xii 



List of Shrubbery, Ac, "" v?r, 



Annml Flowers " ': 1^« 



SuKiir Cane Fodder * """"f^ 



Seed Corn " ""f^Z, 



"Zoo 



..286 



.236 



..2St> 



...236 



Cherry Creek Farms 



ThH Wht-at 



Pike's Peak 



Cream Biscuit...., 



The Best T.me to'^'p;i;;:;-;:::;::;::::;"-"v"-' f « 



Farmers I'lant Apple Orchards ,....!^"""^ .S 



Original Domestic Receipts.^ 



Frosted Feet ^ 



Wit on Tombstones „ 



Markets, £c -«,«'_____ . 



••t>«£;w4;.';4...,C. 



,..237 

 ...•iS8 

 -.23« 

 ..239 



A G R ICUI.TURB. 



• BT KIT. F, SPKINOE8. - 



The earliest records of the human race 

 are those of the Bible. In these ancient 

 and venerable records, allusions are made 

 to agriculture and the arts. The very 

 firpt employment which God assigned to 

 Adam (Gen. 2; 15,) was "to dress and 

 keep " the garden of Eden. Whence it 

 is evident that even before "man's first 

 disobedience " he was occupied in the 

 culture and use of agricultural products. 

 Adam was a gardener in the days of his 

 innocence; and he was made such by ex- 

 press appointment of his Creator. 



Of two of the sons of Adam, it is said 

 that " Abel was a keeper of sheep, but 

 Cain was a tiller of the ground.'' (Gen- 



There can be no doubt that the tillage 

 of the ground engaged a large share of 

 the time and attention of the people who 

 lived before the flood. Indeed, religion, 

 matrimony, agriculture and arts must all 

 have originated with the very begiuning^ 

 of the human race; because all these in- 

 terests have their foundations in human 

 nature and human wants^ 



The first act of Noah, after the subsi- 

 dence of the deluge, and when he again 

 set foot upon dry land, was to build an 

 altar unto the Jjord: " And he took of 

 every clean beast, and of every clean 

 fowl, and offered burned offerings on the 

 altar." (Gen. 8 : 20.) And immedi- 

 ately thereafter, Noah is represented 

 (Gen. 9; 20,) as a husbandman, and that 

 he planted a vineyard. 



As the Israelites were an agricultural 

 people, the wealth of their richest citi- 

 zens was reckoned in the property of 

 the field. Job, who is stated to have 

 been f'the greatest of all the men of the 

 east," had seven thousand sheep, three 

 thousand camels and five hundred yoke 



of oxen, besides other valuables of a sim- 

 ilar character. Patriarchs and princes 

 are represented as actively employed in 

 the pursuits of husbandry. . • 



Nor are such statistics of agriculture 

 alone confined to the Hebrews. The 

 Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks 

 and Romans, all gave early attention to 

 this peaceful and necessary piu'suit. But 

 it does not appeat that the literature of 

 ancient nations ever rendered due honor 

 to agriculture. While wars, the aspira- 

 tions of ambition, and the intrigues of 

 demagogues occupy the pages of the an- 

 cient writings, and are the themes of 

 their poetry, but little space is allowed 

 to the praises or the improvement of 

 husbandry. And though at times, cer- 

 tain distinguished patriots are presented 

 to us as having been cultivators of the 

 ground, yet the general impression we 

 derive from the records and icaditions 

 ti£ pa«t ages, is, that agriculture was not 

 held in high honor. The common senti- 

 ment appears to have been that it was a 

 necessary evil; necessary, because it fur- 

 nished subsistence, and an evil, because 

 it required labor. Occasionally, wise 

 and good men Endeavored to dignify the 

 pursuit by their personal devoti^i to its 

 toils. Thus did Cincinnatus, tne patri- 

 otic Roman ; and Divine Providence 

 sought to invest the practise of husband- 

 ry with due honor, by special arrange- 

 ments which made the chosen people of 

 God an agricnltural nation. Moses was 

 a shepherd, and so was Gideon, one of 

 Israel's most distinguished judges; King 

 Saul was a herdsman, and so was David. 

 Elisha was summoned to the dignity of 

 the prophetic office from the plow. 



But, notwithstanding all the effort* of 

 wise and good men, aided by Divine 

 Providence, to prevent the pursuits of 

 the field from falling into degradation, 

 they did so fall. In all countries of the 

 olden time, the toils of the field were 

 held in lower estimation tnan was their 



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