VOLUME V. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE, 1860. 



NUMBER 6. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



PUBLISHKD MONTHLY, 



BY 



BAIL II AC HE & BAKER, 



Journal Office, Springfield, Illinois. 



M. L. DUNLAP, Editor. 



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CONTENTS^ ~~ ■-.;■■/ 



Requie?cam fS 



The Waltz S5 



June S5 



The Apiary S6 



f^wine $7 



Honey made to Order hi 



Shiii-I Horn Durham Cow Adelaide ,SS 



The Cattle Disease 8S 



Sweet Potatoes 90 



Native Evergreens 9^ 



Hog Cholera <jl 



Maxims 91 



Spaulding's Prepared Glue 91 



Crops 92 



Fruit Growing in Central Illinois 92 



Fruit Growing 92 



From Home 93 



Items from b xchanges 9:? 



A Trip to Egypt 94, 



The I'rices of Kami Products 94 



EDITOR'S TABLE : 



June 95 



Green Peas 95 



Fawkes' Steam Plow 95 



Ripe Mulberries 95 



Blackberries 95 



Barometer 95 



Chicago Sugar Cured Hams 95 



Br>.'aking I'lows for two Horses 95 



Enlargement 95 



Cultivators 95 



Silver Ware for Premiums 95 



Missouri Fruit Grower-- Association for 1S59 95 



G. W. R. R. and the State fair 95 



Premium List of Illinois State Agricultural Society 95 



State Fai r 95 



The Value of Shelter !.95 



NVilbur, Emory & Co., Chicago 95 



New Potatoes and Clierries 95 



Field's Rotary Cultivator 95 



Corn Culture 95 



Young's Cultivator 95 



The Medical Investigator 95 



Wire Fence 95 



Cheese Hand Book, No. 2 95 



l)oul)le Shovel Plows 95 



No Cattle Shows in Massachusetts 95 



Hand Corn Sheller 95 



Steam Plowing 95 



Wheeler <t Wilson's Sewing Machine Rooms, St. Louis. 95 



A change 96 



Tlie Adverti.semcnts 9(5 



Diinlap's Nursery 96 



Strawberries 96 



Post Oftice Change 96 



The Farmer as a Premium 96 



O.Miii trade in Slilwaukee 96 



Very Liberal 9G 



MARKETS 96 



Requiescam. 



BT GEORGE ARNOLD. 



Give mo, when I die, 



A grave among the corn and clover ; 

 Let me peaceful lie 

 In corn field, with forest nigh, 



AVhere the blossoms, bending over, 

 Mingle sigh for sigh. 



With ever-rustling leaves 

 : Whispering to the rustling sheaves. 



Let the tall trees wave 



High above my grave, 

 And strew, each Fall, their treasures o'er me, 



Leaves of gold and brown. 



Softly floating down. 

 Or driven wildly onward when 'tis stormy. 



! give not a tomb — 



White, and marble cold, anddreary, 

 In I he churchyard's glofun ! 



Rather when I'm weary 

 Let me lie at rest ' 



'Neath the clover, growing fair 



In the warm sunshiny air, 

 With its thready tendrils twining round my breast. 



rv». . -''y^'- ,■■"-'.■'■. ■ '■ 

 So, tranquil be my sleep, ■^•' ■^j^^i^'T'^'. ' 



When the hazy, slanting beams .' 

 Rest on forest, vale and steep, 



Through long summer afternoons — 

 Be my slumber still and deep — 

 Let the new and waning moons 

 Come, and go, and bring me dreams. 



^ ^Saturday Prett. 



The Waltz. 



To music's sweet measures in couples they wWrl, 

 Tattooing the floor as they circle and curl ; 

 The toes of the ladies go tippity tip, 

 The heels of the gentlemen rippity-rip. 



All making a Babel of noise by their jumps. 

 Like hoj>pity, skippity, fhunippity-fh'umps; 

 Coat skirts against dresses go liippity-flap. 

 Then huggity, tuggity, rubbity-rap ! 



Thus mated together, strange murmurs arise, 

 Discordant ofmu<ic, of wiiispers and ~iglis; 

 For masculine fingers, with nervous unrest. 

 Quite close to the heart of the maiden are pressed. 



Imperial waltz ! from the land of the lUiine, 

 Where music is hallowed b3- TempU and Shrine, 

 In public emltraccs thy votaries meet, 

 Fantastical nyinpth of the muse-tipping feet. 



To tliee the swift graces of motion belong, 

 Terpsichnrean queen of tlie fiddle and song ; 

 Nor bountiful bosoms and liberal hands 

 Are ready and willing to meet thy demands. 



No marvel it is that conventional rules 

 We.ar off their reserve in our old-fashioned schools, 

 Where men are seen hanging, with faces of hair, 

 To female balloons all inOated with air. 



Ah! well may the moralist trumpet his calls. 

 For speedy reform of the dancing at balls. 

 Where over-exertions, like pres.sure of steam, 

 Endanger the button and threaten the scam. : 



When cracking of hoops .ind collision of knees. 

 Are varied by sigbiiig reports of a squeeze, 

 All forming together a ludicrous sound, 

 Like snappity, rappity, hobbity round ! 



Away they go whirling, in twitter and twirl, 

 The stranger's cmbr.aee round the iinioceiit girl, 

 So close that she feels his hot breath on her cheeks, 

 ■Where the semblance of roses her purity speaks. 



On faster and dizzily f-oistcr they fly, 

 With a murmuring tone and a fVemulous sigh. 

 Till down upon seats they both staggering fall. 

 Quite drunk with a waltz at a temperance ball ! 



June. 



Th« Spring's guy promise mflted into thee, . 



Fair Summer ' and thy gentle reign is here I 



Thy emerald robes arc on each leafy tree ; 



In the blue sky thy voice is rich and clesr ; 



And the clear brooks have songs to bless thy reign, 



They leap with tuusic midst thy bright domain. 



Willis J. Clakk. 



June has been ityled the month of roses, 

 but thanks to the skill of the florist, these 

 gifts of love have been extended throughout 

 the entire year ; not in profusion, for through 

 the winter's cold, thro' the frost of spring,and 

 the storms of autumn, this noble flower, like 

 the tender plants of the household, must be 

 protected from the severity of the outside 

 world, and carefully shrined at the fireside. 

 But now through all the reign of summer, 

 through the mellow, ripening autumn, thia 

 queen of beauty glows with her unrivalled 

 colors, and pleases, ihe eye of the maiden, 

 the mother and he» child, \diile the boy, 

 whose bump of destruction has little regard 

 for beauty, will stay his hand and admire its 

 blushing tints ; nor will the sun-browned eon 

 of toil pass by without a passing tribute. 



June ! how we love thee for thy flowers — 

 for thy landscapes, clothed in verdure — thy 

 fields of grain, just beginning to wave their 

 blades to the touch of the suuimer zephyr — 

 thy deep-toned forests, full robed with sum- 

 mer's livery that canopies out the sun — thy 

 orchards beginning to show the embryo fruit 

 — thy strawberries rich in their scarlet of- 

 ferings, and thy gardens redolent with floral 

 beauties. June! we love thee for thy 

 feasts of the eye, we love thee for the 

 promise that thou giveth to autumn, and we 

 love tlioe that thou art June, for like some 

 fair maiden or loving wife, thou kisseth 

 the cheek of labor and soothest the brow of 

 qare — thou whisperst to the invalid of hope, 

 and he rouses up to feast his eyes on thy 

 beauties and gain strength from thy summer 

 gifts. How much of hope is wrapt up in 

 thee, leafy June. It ia in thee the integrity 

 of the farmer is displayed : for if he neg- 

 lects his duty, the promise of summer will 

 disappoint him m Autumn. Thus June has 

 a deep significance to the farmer, and it is in 

 thee that much of his hopes m'jst rest. — 

 June, thou coronal of love and beauty, we 

 welcome thee among the months of summer. 



