THE ILLINOIS FA.IljVrE:il. 



61 



Best show of one year old grafted or budded apple 



trees 10 CO 



2d best ~-. 5 00 



Best apple orchard, in bearing; not less than one 

 hundred trees, with names of varieties anddetails 



of mauagement of tiees, fruit and soil 25 00 



2d best - 15 00 



Same, not less than five hundred trees 25 00 



2d best 15 00 



Samples of the fruit in the orchard to be exhibited at 

 the fair. 



Best peach orchard in bearing, not less than 100 trees 25 00 



2d beat 16 00 



B -St peach orchard, in bearing, not less than 500 trees 25 OU 

 id best „..,. 16 00 



Samples of the fruit then in season to be exhibited 

 at the fair. 



Best \^ acre Usier willow, product to be weighed be< 

 tween the Ist December and 1st January, and 

 sample to be exhibited atfairandsent tosociety'g 

 looms 10 OO 



DRAINING, 

 for the best experiment of underdraining, during the 



year, not less than 10 acres $20 00 



To be accompanied in each case with — 



Ist. Statement of the siruatioB of the land previous to the 

 commencement of the process; the kind and condition of 

 th:- soil. 



2d. The method pursued, with a particular account of the 

 ezp'nse. 



3d. The result, and increased value o> the land, if any. 



FARM BOOK-KEEPING. 

 To the farmer who presents the best approved farm 



accounts, for the year 1869, will be awarded 4IO 00 



AMiardinff Committee. 

 CHARLES D. BRAQDON, Chicago, Chairman. 

 EBENEZGR SGELKY, Portland, Whiteside Co. 

 CHARLES SAMPLE. 



To the competitors for premiums on farms, the 

 corresponding secretary will furnish a list of 

 questions, tu which full written answers must be 

 returned. 



Jl^" Competitors are desired to give notice to 

 the corresponding secreiary on or before the first 

 day of July, of their intention to compete. 



Statements to be furnished by Applicants for Pre- 

 miums on Farm Crops: 



1. The land shall be in one contiguous piece, 

 measured by some competent person, who shall 

 make affidavit of the accuracy of the measure- 

 ment, and the quantity of the ground. 



2. The applicant shall make affidavit, accord- 

 ing to the forms annexed, 10 the quantity of 

 grain raised on the ground, entered on the pre- 

 mium list, which must aocompany the applica- 

 tion for premiums, together with a sample of the 

 grain. 



3. The object of the society being to promote 

 profitable cultivation, they do not propose to 

 offer premiums for crops produced by extrava- 

 gant expenditures ; therefore, a detailed certified 

 amount of the expense of cultivation must be 

 made. The expense of labor and manure flhould 

 be particularly stated, and the kind of manure 

 used. The statement must be in the following 

 form : 



— loads manure, at $ per load..,.. $ 



— days' pKwiog, at $ per day $ 



— " Ittbor, ac $ " $ 



— " harveeting, ^ " j 



— " marketing % 



To- 



To- 



To 



To- 



To. 



And thus each item of expense incurred in the 

 cultivation and marketing of the various crops, 



upon ■which premiume are applied for, must be 



fully stated, and after giving credit for the pro- 

 duct of the field, the balance must show the net 



profit realized. 



4. The kind and condition of the soil; the 

 quantity and kind of seed used; the time and 

 mode of putting it in the ground, should be 

 particularly stated. 



Samples of grain and veeetables produced, to 

 be exhibited at the state fair where practicable, 

 and also to be sent to the rooms of the board at 

 the January, 1861, meeting. 



'5. All the grain grown on the entire piece of 

 land measured, must be weighed, and not tht pro- 

 duct of a square rod or two weighed or measured, 

 and the remainder guessed at. Corn to be measur- 

 ed in the ear, and an average specimen of not 

 less than 20 bushels of ears shelled, cleaned, 

 and weighed as above, after the 15th of Novem- 

 ber, and the number of bushels thus estimated, 

 stated in the affidavit. 



Forms of AJJidavils. 



County, ss. — A. B. being duly sworn, 



B&yg .je uccurutely measured the land upon which 



C. D. raised a crop of 



and the quantity of land is — 

 more. 



Sworn to before me, this 



186 . 



the past season, 

 acres, and no 



day of 



-, Justice. 



County, 88, — C D. being duly sworn, 



says that he raised a crop of the past 



season, upon the land measured by A. B., and 

 that the quantity of grain raised thereon was 

 bushels and no more, weighed, (or meas- 

 ured in a sealed half bushel, as the case may 

 be,) and that the statements in regard to the 

 manner of cultivation, etc., are correct to the 

 best of my knowledge. 



Sworn to before me, this ; day of , 



186 . C D, 



, Justice. 



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From the Chicago Demoorat. 



Fairbanks' Scales. — In that mag- 

 nificent block of iron buildings erected 

 upon the corner of Lake street and Wa- 

 bash Avenue, by I. H. Burch, Esq., 

 and which challenges comparison with 

 any edifice designed for mercantile pur- 

 poses in the Union, is the Warehouse 

 and ofiice of Messrs. Fairbanks & Green- 

 leaf, Manufacturers and Dealers in those 

 Platform and other Scales which have 

 given the name of •'Fairbanks" a world- 

 wirie celebrity. 



Messrs. Fairbanks & Greenleaf occu- 

 py No. 35 of this Block, and their 

 rooms are entered both, from Wabash 

 Avenue and Lake street. They have 

 three rooms, 140 feet deep and of a pro- 

 portionate width, filled with every vari- 

 ety and description of Scales, from the 

 ponderous Railroad Scale that will 

 weigh a locomotive, down to the delicate 

 balance in which the Chemist measures 

 his infinitessimal drugs. The scales are 

 all from the manufactory at St. Johns- 

 bury, Vt. At this manufactory the 

 original inventor of Scales still presides 

 devoting his time, and the entire resour- 

 ces of his mind, now enriched by an ex- 

 perience and practice of thirty years, to 

 the improvement and perfection of the 

 Scales, which to the general eye appear 

 advanced to the ne plus ultra of utility 

 and perfection. The reputation of the 

 Fairbanks* Scales is unequalled, and 

 never has the demand for them been 

 greater than now. Orders for them are 

 sent, not only from all parts of this 

 country, but from China, France, Spain, 

 Central and South America, and even 

 England herself, the fact being recog- 

 nised and admitted that the Fairbanks' 

 Scales are really better than any which 

 can be made at the most celebrated Eng- 

 lish manufactories. 



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An earth greater or smaller, denser or rarer, 

 than the one on which vre live, would require a 

 change in the structure and strength of the 

 footstalk of all the little ilowcrs that hang their 

 heads under our hedges. There is something 

 curious in this considering the whole ina.ss from 

 pole to pole, and from circumference to centre, 

 as employed in keeping a snowdrop in the posi^ 

 tion most suited to the promotion of its vegeta- 

 ble health. — Wluwell. 



The Fireside. 



MUSIC IN THE HOUSEnOLD. 



All boys and girls have a strong desire for 

 amusements, especially during the long win- 

 ter evenings, and if this natural desire is not 

 ministered unto by rational amusements be- 

 ing furnished by parents, they will be in- 

 clined to seek it elsewhere than within the 

 home circle, and if restrained within these 

 bounds, they become morose, and lose that 

 interest under the parental roof that should 

 always mark the devotion of the younger 

 members of the family. It is the want of 

 something to fill up the void during the hours 

 of relaxation from work or study that gives 

 such a craving — such a strong desire to 

 leave home and to seek for enjoyment in 

 other social circles ; it is this which strands 

 so many young men in our large cities j it is 

 the sound of revelry that invites them into 

 the toils of danger, and sends them back to 

 their country home with shame, or drags 

 them down to an early grave; better give them 

 rational enjoyment that should bind them to 

 their own home until the intellect is lo far 

 inatured that the danger of undue excite- 

 ment is past. As a general thing our farm- 

 ers and mechanics have been too remiss; 

 reading for the family has not been suffi- 

 ciently supplied ; by this we do not mean to 

 include all agricultural reading, but newspa- 

 pers, magazines and works of travel, of hia- 

 tory and of science. Music, which has such 

 charms at the fireside, and which binds the 

 family into closer bonds of union, has, with 

 the farmer, been almost wholly neglected. 

 It is true that many of our more wealthy 

 farmers have procured a piano for the daugh- 

 ters, while the. sons have been left nearly 

 uncared for. The hands of the boy have 

 become hardened by labor, and unfitted to 

 play on this instrument, which requires a 

 rapidity of touch beyond other than those 

 little accustomed to labor, either on the farm 

 or in workshop; hence, the piano, like the 

 long nails of the Chinese gentleman of lei- 

 sure, is the badge of wealth or leisure, and 

 is unfitted, by its pecular construction, to be 

 used by the toil-hardened hands of the farm- 



