THE ILLINOIS F^RIMER. 



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Chicago prior or subsequent to the 

 Freeport fair, tliat will not materially 

 affect the interests and diminish the 

 resources of the State Society — at a 

 time, too, Avhen the most burthensome 

 interests are shouldered by our Society, 

 and which it is struggling to promote, 

 and has liad the enterprise to assume to 

 foster — an enterprise which thus far has 

 led all other similar organizations. We 

 say, at such a time it is especially dis- 

 astrous that such should be the course 

 pursued by the United States Soci- 

 ety. The Prairie Farmer^ in a very 

 well-timed article on this subject, says : 



"AVhat are the interests that have 

 induced this location ? Have prominent 

 agriculturalists urged it? Have they 

 proffered a welcome to a society that 

 will take much out of their pockets 

 and put little in? Dr. Kennicott, in- 

 formally and unofficiously favored its 

 location here, at the annual meeting, but 

 the Executive Board of the society, of 

 which he is President, has taken no ac- 

 tion in the matter, and the fair is loca- 

 ted without even such an invitation. — 

 Who then are the parties who have 

 invited the United States Society to 

 hold its fair here ? Real estate own- 

 ers, hotel proprietors, stock holders in 

 the city railways, and speculators 

 generally — perhaps it may be said Chi- 

 cago has given the invitation." 



The jParmer goes on to say: 



"We have no fault to find with the 

 parties who have sought to subserve 

 their own interests by inducing such 

 location. But we do regard it as high- 

 ly impolitic, that, in spite of the pro- 

 tests of the State Board through its 

 presiding officer, and in spite of the 

 U. S. Society's repeated declarations 

 that it would not hold a fair where 

 it would interfere with a State organi- 

 zation, it should so forget its own dig- 

 nity and position as to come to Chicago 

 uninvited — even by a county organiza- 

 tion. We have but very little respect 

 for this Society with its present charac- 

 teristics We highly respect many of 

 its officers personally. We believe it 

 may be made eminently useful when it 

 confines its labors to its own legiti- 

 mate sphere. We do not propose to 

 fight it, or throw any obstacle in the 

 way of its usefulness, or the success of 

 its exhibition. But our influence and 

 labor shall be directed to make the fair 

 of the State Society a success, and in- 

 duce the people to regard it a home in- 

 stitution — as tlieir institution, and one 

 which it is their duty, and should be 

 their delight to • honor, sustain and 

 and strengthen, so long as its efforts go 

 to promote home interests and accelerate 

 progress." 



We agree fully with the sentiments 

 entertained by the Prairie Parmer. — 



That paper although published at Chi- 

 cago, looks at the subject from a fair and 

 judicious point of view, and we doubt 

 not its remarks will meet the appro- 

 bation of the great body of the far^n- 

 ing-and manufacturing community, not 

 only of this part of the State but also 

 of all Northern Illinois. As is well 

 known, our State Fair was located at 

 Freeport at the earnest solicitation of 

 the North, and it is their duty and it 

 ought to bo their determination to frown 

 down the efforts now being made by the 

 hotel keepers and cabmen of Chicago to 

 impair its interests. We have no hos- 

 tility to the United States Agricultural 

 Society, and we should on a proper oc- 

 casion extend to it a cordial welcome to 

 the State, but in its present antagonis- 

 tic position to our own Society, we feel 

 that it is not now doing the fair thing — 

 what indeed, as a conservator of the inter- 

 ests of agriculture it has no right to do. 

 We copy the above from the Illinois 

 State Journal. It meets our views, and 

 we doubt not will be entirely approved 

 of by ninety-nine out of every hundred 

 farmers in this State. The holding of 

 the United State Fair at Chicago, the 

 present year, under all the circumstan- 

 ces of the case, is a wanton and ruthless 

 interference in the wishes of Illinois farm- 

 ers, unjust to our State Agricultural 

 Society, and evinces on the part of the 

 Managers of the U. S. Agricultural So- 

 ciety an entire disregard of the Agri- 

 cultural interests of this State and of 

 State Society, which is laboring in sea- 

 son and out of season, in its appropriate 

 field of duty, to advance the Agricultu- 

 ral interests of our people. If the State 

 Agricultural Societies are thus to be 

 annoyed and injured by the U. S. Soci- 

 ety, the sooner that Society goes out 

 of existence the better. We doubt not 



but that will be the sentiment of the 

 farmers of Illinois. 



Premiums for Farms, Farm Crops, Etc. 



Illinois State AonicuLTURAL Society, ) 

 Office Cor. Sec , Springfipld, Juue 7, 1859. j 



To THE Farmers of Illinois : — The 

 present season promises to be a favora- 

 ble one. Farms, nurseries, &c., can be 

 put in good order for exhibition, and 

 large crops arc likely to be made. The 

 officers of the State Agricultural Society 

 desire that there shall be many compet- 

 itors for the premiums offered for the 

 best farms, nurseries, groves and field 

 crops. Hence, the re-publication of the 

 following premiums offered, from their 

 premium list, is made, and to which they 

 respectfully invite your attention : 



FIELD CROPS. 

 Best ten pounds of Sugar maie from Chinese or 



African Su^ar Cane Gold Medal. 



Second best - $15 



|25 

 25 



25 

 \h 

 20 

 10 

 10 

 b 

 10 



Third best - 10 



Best gallon of sjrup made from Chinese or Afri- 

 can Sugar Cine 15 



Second best > 10 



Third best ~ «.. 6 



[Ten pounds of sugar and one gallon of symp muPt be de- 

 posit-id by rompelitors for these premiums with the Corres" 

 ^ponding Secre.a.y.] 



Best crop of Fall Whoat, not less than fire acres „, 



Best crop of Spring Wheat, not less than 5 acres 



Best crop of Indian Corn, notices than five acres to 

 be shelled and weighed between the 5th of No- 

 vember and 1st January. ~ 



Second best 



Best crop of Rye, not less than five acres 



Second best 



Best crop of Buckwhoat, not less than five acres. ... 



Second best 



Best CiOp of Field peas not less than half acre 



Second best Medal. 



Best crop of White Beans, not less than half acre 10 



Second best Medal 



Best crop of Potatoes, not less than half acre 10 



Second best ..m Medal. 



[^ppclmens of the qaulity of the Potatoes must be exhibit* 

 ed at the Fair.] 

 Best crop of Sweet Pototoei, not less than quarter 



sere ..„ |I0 



Second best Medal. 



Best crop of Onions, not less than Quarter acre 10 



Second bast Medal. 



Best five acres Fall Barley > 10 



Best five acres Spring Barley «„........ 10 



Best five acres nemp 10 



Best acae of Flax 10 



Befit acre of Broom Corn 10 



Beeticreof Clover Seed „ m 10 



BeBt acre of Timothy seed m.m lO 



Best acre of Bine Grass seed 10 



Best acre of Timothy seed 10 



Beet acre of Flax seed ». 10 



Bestacre of Castor Beans.. 10 



Statementa to be famished by applicants for premiums : 



let. i^pecimens to be at the Fair (irounds for exhibition, if 

 practicable. 



'2d. The land shall bemensnredby some competent persoBi 

 who shtll make affidavit of the accuracy of the measurement 

 and quality of the ground. 



3d. The applicant and one disinterested person shall make 

 affidavit to the quantity of grain and other products raised on 

 the ground; the kind and condition of soil; theqnantitysnd 

 kind of seed used ; time and mode of planting, and mode of 

 cultivation. 



4tli. The grain and seed must bo weighed after being in 

 merchantable condition, and calculation made according to 

 the legal weight per bushel. Potatoes, onions, &c., measured; 

 the weight of hemp or flax when prepared for market. 



All crops in the above list to be entered with S. Francis, 

 C irresponding Secretary, before the first day of next Decemi 

 her. 



The premiums to be awarded by the Executive Board, at 

 their meeting in January, 1860. 



FARMS, NURSERIES, *0. 

 Best improved and highly cultivated Farm, not 



less thau 500 acres Gold Medal 



Second best $15 



Best improved and highly cultivated Farm, not 



less than 160 acres ......................n.GoId Medal 



Second be8t...„ |15 



Best improved and highly cultivated Farm, not 



less than 40 acres .>. Oold Medal 



Second best $15 



Best arranged and economically conducted Dairy 



Farm « Oold Medal 



Second best $15 



Best improved Farm for all purposes „.Gold Medal 



Best arranged and economically conducted Prai* 



rie Farm Oold Medal 



Second beet $16 



Best grove of cultivated limt>er on the prairie....GoId Medal 



Second best Silv. Medal 



Best arranged and cultivated Nursery of Frait 



aud Ornnmental Tre»s, Shrubs and Plants $20 



Second best » 10 



Best arranged and cultivated Nursery of the va- 

 rious Fruit Trees ~ ........>.. 20 



Second best 10 



Best arranged and cultivated Nursery ot grafted 



Apple Trees, from 1 to 4 years old....„ 20 



Second bust 10 



Best show ot 1 and two year old grafted br budded 



Apple Trees 10 



Second best 6 



The committee, in making their award, will be governed 

 by the gen->ral arrangement, cultivation, thrift, pniuinK and 

 training of| trees and shrubs. All competitors are required 

 to furnish the committee, at the time of examination, or be- 

 fore they make their award, a written statoment of the modo 

 of the preparation of the nursery grounds — the manner of 

 cultivation, mode of pruning trees, shrubs and plants in 

 their respective nurseries. 



Ail persons who desire to compete for the above premiums 

 must communicate their intention to S. Francis, Correspond- 

 ing Secretary, Springfield, III , by letter previous to the let 

 of August, so as to give the Committee full time to examine 

 the farms, ncrseriea and groves to be entered. 



Awarding Commiltee: 



Benj.F. Johnson .„... .Urbanm 



Dr. E. H. Clapp Peoria 



Ch. H. Rosentiel.- Freeport 



a. FRANCIS, Cor. Sec'y. 



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j|@°"'We often see in a beautiful 

 field, a clump of bushes, which the ow- 

 ner is too lazy to clear off. Does that 

 look like good farming ? 



