VOLUME V. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., MAY, 18G0. 



NUMBER 5. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



PUBLISUED MOKTULY, 



BT 



BAILHACIIE & BAKER, 



JOCKNAL OFFICB, SpbIXGFIELD, IlLIKOIS. 



M. L. D XIDSTLAF , Editor. 



TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 



One copy, one year, in advance f 1 00 



Five copies, " " 3 75 



Ten " and one to the person getting up club 7 50 



Fifteen copies and over, C2^ cents each, and one to person 

 getting up club. 



CASn RITES OF ADTERTISINQ : 



One dollar per square of ten lines, each insertion. 

 CONTENTS. 



May 70 



The Farmer's Enemies, No. 2 70 



The Culture of Vines 71 



F.Virbanlis Scales 72 



Prairie Cellars 72 



Manny Reaper 73 



Why don't the West manufacture 73 



Agricultural Instruction 74 



Beautify your homes 74 



Old Firkin heard from 75 



T)ie interior of China ....,,,„ .i. „...,. ,wj»«ii>*.. -75 



The cultivation of grasses. .....;;.,.■;.i....'•.'.';'.i^■^.-,t^... 76 



The Picuro-Pueumonia Epizootic. 76 



Fruit prospect in Egypt 77 



The Cattle Distemper in North Brookfield, Mais 77 



Quantity of seed per acre 7S 



EDITOR'S TABLE: 



Difference of climate in tlie Northwest 78 



Lee County Agricultural Society 78 



Fawlies' Steam Plow 78 



The Garden 78 



The Orchard 78 



Prince & Co's Melodeons 73 



Western Land Ollice 7S 



Grafting Cherries 78 



Spaulding's Prepared Glue 73 



Sweet Potatoes. 78 



Liglitning Rods 78 



The Peach Uorcr 79 



Apples Identical 79 



Wheeior, Melick & Co's. Tlirashers 79 



The Small Fruits 79 



Early Chickens 79 



Scientific Artizan, Cincinnati, Oliio 79 



Coe & Robert's Patent Thrasher and Cleaner 79 



Fairbanlc's Scalei 79 



Piatt's Ditcher 79 



Colored Plates of Fruits 79 



Land Rollers 79 



Uahneman Medical College 79" 



Catalogue of Columbus Nursery, Oliio 79 



Sweet Potatoe Culture 79 



Evergreen Tree Peddlers 79 



Southern Illinois Horticultural Society 79 



Sale of Stock at Summit Farm 79 



Knox County Fair 79 



Chase'sHand Books 79 



The Sap-Sucker, 79 



Atlanta Union Central Agricultural Society 79 



Premium List of Dlinois State Agiicultural Society. . . .79 



Sewing Machines 79 



Layering tiie Grape 79 



Purple Caue Easpberrys 79 



A Change 79 



Exchanges 79 



Strawberries 80 



Sewing Machines SO 



The McQuiston Corn Slieller 80 



<i rover & Baker's Sewing Machine SO 



Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College 60 



Fawkes' Steam Plow 80 



Markets 80 



A Resit OF Advertisemests. — This number of the Farmer 

 contains more tlian the usual number of advertisements. We 

 do not intend to again allow them to crowd so much upon the 

 reading matter. This time it could not well be avoided. Sev- 

 eral oilers were declined for want of space. 



SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. 



OUR OLD FRIENDS 



Who have shown their good sense by early selecting SINGER'S as the . 



/".Best JUachiDe ; ■^- 



And who have never had reason to regret it — but who indulge in % sly chuckle, when they witness the etruf^les of their 

 neighbors to make their " confounded cheap machines work"— are refpectfiUly invited to call and see the beaiitifnl office we 

 have fitted up at _ ,;. :,■:.: ; . . . 



THE OLD STAINTD, ISTo. 85 FOUH-TH STREET, 



:-,...;•;■.'•>:■—■- : 8T. LOmS, MISSOURI. > ;: . ^ • •", 



The largest sized octavo volume would not contain the letters we have received in praise of the machines it has been our 

 goodfortuneto sell. 



It is now nearly four years since we sold the first Singer Machine In this city to Messrs. Stickkit A Scollat, Proprietor* 

 of the Planters' House. Tlie lady who presides •^er that immense hotel, remarked a few days ago that Uieir 



SINGER Machine 



Had be€ti in constant tCsenearhfFOUJB TSARS; never been the Uatt 

 out of order, and was, to all appearance, ai this moment 



EXACTLY AS GOOD AS NEW. 



It is a signiflcact fact that out of the thousands of SINGER MACHINES wo 

 have sold, not one has ever required 



TO BE SENT TO OUR OFFICE FOR RBPAI S. 



The price of Singer's Machines are now so low that every- 

 body is purchasing, ^ . , , 



The simple fact that tailors will buy no other than SINGKR'S No. 8 STAND- 

 ARD, is sufficient, of itself, to prove that it cannot be excelled, for tailors re- 

 quire the 



NEATEST AS WELL AS THE STRONGEST WORK. 



It is well knoicji that we Guarantee every MacJdne, and tliat the lest men in St, Louis vouch for 

 ourre^wmihiUty. :. r- ._: ; ■■ -^^ 



A scribbler of doggerel indulges in the following: 



SINGER'S LETTER "A" MACHINE, 



The best and cheapest ever seen ; 



Rapid and noiseless — sewing thread as fine 



As any cobweb, or as coarse as twine. 



It's nice strong stitcli, alike on either side — 



The matron's comfort and the tailor's pride — 



Compared witli which the " double chain, "* each day, 



Will waste more tliread than could the wages pay. 



Of some strong lass who sits with dainty skill 



Proud of the chance her mistress' place to fill. 



• *Cheap machines, so called, all make the heavy " double chain stitch, " that uses 6^ yards of thread to the yard sewn ; 

 while Singer's stitch only uses 2;^ yards of thread to the yard sewn. :..,■., . ' ■ ■. - 



May, 18G0. It 



EDWARD DEAN, Proprietor, 



85 Fourth Street, ST. LOUIS, MO, 



