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Peddlerb Trees. — To show how peddlers get their trees, 

 we Insert the postscript of an eastern nursery firm. Should 

 you desire trees of the same firm, by sending them your or- 

 der, we have no doubt that you will get good well grown trees. 

 In fact this is almost guarantied by selling all the refuse trees 

 to peddlers. Now it is well known that large numbers of 

 poor varieties are worked, these grow freely and make fine 

 showy trees. Of course these go into the 'peddlers bundles. 

 We again advise airthose who purchase trees either at the 

 East or West, to send to the nursery or order through a well 

 authorized agent. Never give your order to a peddler, one 

 who has his order filled at the nursery, at wholesale, or who 

 purchasesjtc/tera he cpn do t?ie best. The most of our dwarf 

 pears for sometime to come, must '.be' drawn^from the East, 

 but we need not pay freight on all.the refuse trash that they 

 have, and to this end make up your lists, and give directions 

 to send such as ordered and none others. i.Uere^is the 



"Postscript. It is usually the case that we have a con- 

 siderable number of fruit trees, which, (either because they 

 are not strictly first class,[chiefly through some fault of form, 

 or because they occupy ground which It is necessary for us 

 to clear off,) we would sell at a very material reduction from 

 our regular prices. We have at present, under these circum- 

 stances, a quantity 7of standard and dwarf pear trees, two 

 and three years old, equal to the best in health and vigor, and 

 certain to prove as satisfactory to the planter in the end as 

 those now more aymraetrical in shape, to which we invite the 

 attention of nurserymen and tree dealers. They may rely 

 upon obtaining these trees at a much greater per cent, dis- 

 count from tlie regular stock prices, than actually exists be- 

 tween the real value of the trees of the two classes. The 

 varieties are mostly^ well known, popular and desirable. 



Bbbs om^the'Priirib. — If is often stated, that bees will not 

 do well on the prairie; but there is no good reason for this state- 

 ment for the very thing which is needed to make a good farm- 

 orchards and timber belts will make the proper condition to in- 

 sure success. We started in the spring with four swarms, and 

 have now July 14th, six new swarms and expect Imoro,'and alj 

 doing well. The first planting [of trees on our farm was the 

 spring of 1857.° There is but little wiiitejcloveryithin two miles 

 but we give them plenty of buckwheat. We have sown six 

 pounds of white clover, and intend to sow more of it along 

 the roadside and in other places. We ^use^both Thelps and 

 Langstroth's movable comb hives. 



Adams Cocntt Fair wiil^be held at'Qulncy, October 2d to 

 6th. The premium list is liberal and well arranged; there is 

 a live set of men in Adams county, and no one^need be at the 

 expense of breath to predict a failure, for ^no such thing is 

 laid down in their programme. We take pleasure In'acknow- 

 ledging a complimentary through the kind attention of Secre- 

 tary Woodruff ; we shall make it [our good pleasure to visit 

 as many county fair as possible, and shallj^hope, to spend a 

 day with our friends In Adams. 



School asd Family Readers. — Through the kindness of 

 Mr. 0. T. Chase, author of Chase's band books, we are in 

 receipt of a series of five readers by Marclus Willson, and 

 published by the Harpers, New 'Vork. 



The Primer (Introductory) contains over one hundred beau- 

 tiful illustrations, both attractive and useful to the young 

 beginner. No series of readers that we have seen, combines 

 so much of the useful as these. While learning to read, the 

 mind of the pupil .is being stored ;with useful (knowledge In 

 the natural sciences, the whole made attractive, and the les- 

 son so uniformly progressive that the young mind instead of 

 conning a task is at all times pleasantly entertained. The 

 Illustrations are numerous and Interesting. Much credit is 

 due Mr. Willson, for the care in the compilation as well as 

 to the publishers, who have so liberally embellshed the work! 

 the paper and printing is of the very best, no other set of 

 readers can compare with them in this respect, and then the 

 price is low. We hope an effort will be made to introduce 

 them Into oar fauilies and schools, they are worth the money 

 as text book of science. 



OoLB CouHTT Fair.— The Eight Annaul Fair of the Ogle 

 County Agricultural Society will be held near Oregon, on the 

 25th, 26th, 2Tth and 2Sth days of September. Nearly f 1,000 

 are offered In cash premiums. 



Fawke'8 Stiam Plows.— The Steam Plow, recently built 

 in Cincinnati for this State is thus described in the Commer- 

 cial : 



The Cinclnnatus has been built as a model for those re- 

 quired by Mr. SulUvant on his broad estates in Illinois, 

 Whither it was shipped last evening. The engine is of forty 

 horse power, weights nine and a half tons, and draws eight 

 large prairie "breaking plows," each one of which is quite 

 equal for performance to one of the ordinary Illinois fashion 

 drawn by six or eight oxen and accomplishing its acre per 

 dieir. The boiler is, of course, vertical, to enable the loco- 

 motive to ascend hill-sides, and has a tender carrying ten 

 barrels of water, that being about one-fourth the amount re- 

 quired for a day's steaming. The machine is so arranged as 

 to be entirely under the control of the driver or Engineer, 

 whose "cab" or standing room is admirably plaeed for over- 

 looking all parts of the "Plow," as well as the Prairie Sea, 

 whose fertile face he ti to "vex with his iron heels." We shall 

 await the report of the first practical performance of "Oin- 



cinnatus" In a field every way worthy of this grand concep- 

 tion. 



Rather a funny fellow that who pened the above paragraph. 



He must know a deal about prairie plows to say, "to one of 



the ordinary Illinois fashion drawn by six or eight oxen and 



accomplishing its acre per day." Why bless your dear soul 



Mr. Commercial, them are ploica was made in Illinoy 



by Messrs. Deere & Co., and are two horse breaking plows, 



and with which a good team can break two acres a day, mak' 



ing the cost of breaidug about one dollar and a quarter per 



Thb Best Tomato Pickles. — Take one peck of green to- 

 matoes, sliced, one dozen onions, sliced also, sprinkle them 

 with salt, and let them stand until the next day, when drain 

 them. Then use the ^following as spices; One box of mus- 

 tard, one and a half ounces of black pepper, one ounce of 

 whole cloves, one ounce of yellow mustard seed, one ounce of 

 allspice. Put in the kettle a layer of spices and one of toma- 

 toes and onions alternately. Cover them with vinegar, wet 

 the mustard before putting it in; let the whole boil fifteen or 

 twenty minutes, and you will have pickles so good that you 

 will be pestered by all your friends and neighbors asking you 

 for a taste of them and a receipt. — In Ohio Cultivator. 



G. W. aoBLB. 



A Small, clean potato, with the end cut ofi", is a very con- 

 venient medium of applying brick-dust to knives, keeping it 

 about the right moisture, while the juice of the potato assists 

 in removing stains from the surface. A better polish can be 

 obtained by this method than by any other we have tried, 

 ahd with less labor. 



.. Tekntsssbe, AIcDonough Co., July 12, 1860. 

 Editor Illinois Farmer : 



I see In the Farmer for July a noticejof a'sale of land for 

 the first crop, and that other tracts could be purchased on the 

 same terms; should you he&r of any good lands offered on the 

 same terms, please inform me, for if I can get a like chance 

 to get a piece of good land, I will try to do my part faithfully, 

 for the sake of getting a home. 



Yours truly, J. K. 



Remarks. — We met the gentleman alluded to at Decatur in 

 the State Chronicle office, but have [forgotten his>ddress. 

 He is quite a large holder of prairie lands. There may he 

 others willing to sell lands on the same terms, if so they 

 would do well to make it manifest in the Farmer. 



Exhibition of the United States Agrioultpral Soci- 

 ■TT. — The telegraph announces the fact that It has been posi- 

 tively determined that the next fair of the United States Ag- 

 ricultural Society will be held in this city from September 12th 

 to the 20th. 



The coming exhibition, next September, will be held at the 

 Cincinnati Trotting Parli, about four miles distant from the 

 city. This is a most beautiful and judiciously selected loca- 

 tion, and Is capable at a moderate expense of being admira- 

 bly fitted up for this occasion. It is very accessible by rail, 

 omnibus and carriage, embraces over fifty acres, and is in- 

 Closed with a board fence eleven feet high, having a graded 

 track of fifty feet in width and a mile in length (said to be 

 the finest in the United States) around its outer verge. 



By the liberality of citizens toward further improvements, 

 we are safe in sajing this will be a finer fair ground than any 

 upon which the Society has held its former exhibition; and it 

 is the purpose of the managers to make upon it the grandest 

 exhibition ever held in the United States. By the smiles of a 

 good Providence, from present indications, we shall have the 

 riches of Pomona and Ceres in large measures, and of fine 

 quality. Cincinnati mechanical industry is proverbial, and 

 its exhibition will be there made conspicious and attractive. 

 The stock of Kentucky and surrounding States will challenge 

 competition throughout the world. Indeed, it is confidently 

 expected that all our industrial interests will be fully and 

 favorably represented. 



To this end it is proposed to offer a schedule of premiums, 

 which. In the aggregate, shall amount to $20,000. There will 

 probably be a number of liberal premiums offered by the citi- 

 zens. A premium of $1,600 will be paid by the Society for 

 the best horse. It is impossible here to give details, but no 

 labor or expense will be spared to make this exhibition an at- 

 traction sufficient to summon the attendance of North and 

 South, East and West. — Cin. Enquirer. 



We hope the Society will bo better managed [than'at Chi- 

 cago, as every thing jwas mosl completely, at loose ends.— 

 At best it is but a traveling Agricultural -Menagerie, travel- 

 ing about the country eating out the supplies of the State 

 Societies, none of whom bid It welcome, but come It will- 

 The Oincinnatians should get up a Fair ^of their own on the 

 plan adopted at St. Louis. They are now at the whole ex- 

 pense while this old fogy institution reaps the benefit. 



Hancock CotrNTV Fair will be held at Carthage, Septem 

 ber 19th, 20th, and 21st. M. Couchman, President, Geo. W. 

 Batchelder, Secretary. 



The Next &rbat Fair. — It is now adnfitted by all, that 

 the greatest fairs in the United States are held at St. Louis. 

 No other society offers such a list of Premiums. No other so- 

 ciety has made such splendid arrangements — no other society 

 has erected suce magnificent buildings. The next Great Fair 

 will commence on the 24th of September, and continue six 

 days. Over twenty -two thousand dollars are offered In pre- 

 miums ! I No other society in the word has offered anything 

 like It. The able, energetic and efiicient President, Captain 

 A. Harper, is devoting all his time and energies to the inter- 

 ests of the Association, and will make the next Fair by far 

 the most successful one that has yet been held in all Its vari- 

 ous departments. Captain Harper is a gentleman of large 

 experince, ripe judgment, and having been a Director for 



several years, and being a practical agriculturist and stock- 

 breeder, and, withal, a most enterprising gentleman — yet 

 keeping within the bound of reason — he is well fitted for the 

 position of President of this Society, and our friends every- 

 where can rely that everything relating to the Fair will be 

 conducted in the most honorable and satisfactory manner. 

 We expect to see such a crowd in attendance as we have 

 never before witnessed. — Vall-ei/ Farmer. 



We hope to be there to see whether these things are so or 

 not. — Ed. 



Thb Oattlb Disease.- By the report of Dr. McFarland, 

 extracts of which we have given, it will appear that the dan- 

 ger to our prturie herds is remote and {not alarming. The 

 disease being contagious and not epidemic, requires only iso- 

 lation to cut it off. It can only reach us by importation, 

 and we think no sane western farmer will allow an arrival 

 from the East, to mingle with his herd. We heard that the 

 disease had broken out at several places spontaneously, but 

 however fatal those cases might have been,"they could jnot be 

 the Pleura Pneumonia ExodoUne. We therefore hope our 

 farmers will prepare their animals for the [State and County 

 Fairs, in the well grounded assurance that if the danger is 

 not past, it is too remote to create alarm. 



CCRINO Hat. — ^Most farmers cure their hay too much. 

 Hurd's grass cut in the fore part of the day should be put In 

 cock the same day towards evening, and next day bauled to 

 the barn or stack. In Central and Southern Illinois, when 

 the weather is very hot, it is even desirable to stack It the 

 same day. One of our neighbors who has a large field of 

 Hurd's grass, and which he intends sending 'South, cuts until 

 ten o'clock, he then commences raking and at two o'clock 

 commences hauling to the stack; a small quantity of salt is 

 sprinkled over a few of the first loads in the stack, this pre- 

 vents moulding when going through the sweating process. 

 Thus the hay is but little exposed to the scorching rays of 

 the sun. Every old lady who dries her herbs knows better 

 than to dry them in the sun. She would retain all of their 

 aroma and the active principles of the plant, and to do so, 

 dries them In the shade. Every farmer ought to know that 

 hay is more valuable when so cured, that it will retain its 

 aroma, and to do this, it must not be exposed for a long time 

 to the noonday sun. Hay cured in the cock or stack is cer- 

 tainly better than cured by exposure to sun and dews. 



Sdgar from the CSINE6B ScOAB Cane. — McssTS. Bly- 

 myers, Bates k Day, of Mansfield, O., send us a sample of 

 sugar made by 0. N. Brainard, of Marion, Iowa, on one of 

 Cook's Evaporators. It is sugar and no mistake, none of 

 your glucose, but genuine veritable sugar, equal to a good 

 article of New Orleans; the grains are large, sharp and well 

 defined. The sample is dry and would at once command the 

 respect and attention of any good housewife. Itjis by| far 

 the best sample of sorgho sugar that we have seen. Cook's 

 Evaporator has won its way to popular applause and If It 

 continues as we doubt not it will, it must work a small revolu- 

 tion In our sugar making. We know that it makes most ex- 

 cellent sirup by having the gum in the upper part of the pan. 

 Those having sorgho to work up, will do well to consult their 

 advertisement. »^ 



The State Fair.— The people of JacksonvHIe are making 

 most excellent progress with the improvements on the grounds. 

 They are fitting them up for permanent use, and therefore 

 spare no pains or expense. Nearly all of the buildings are 

 made larger than the requirements of the State Society. We 

 shall hope to see the largest turnout ever before had at a State 

 ^tit . The people of Jacksonville will make every person com- 

 fortable. The Great Western Railroad can carry everybody 

 and his wife, so come on and attend this great holiday of the 

 industrial classes, you shall have plenty to eat and a place to 

 sleep: come from the North and the South, the East and the 

 West, and see the great com zone of the State, with Its wealth 

 of agricultural products. Remember farmers that the pre- 

 mium are to be paid in cash, no leather medals, pewter gew- 

 gaws or pasteboard fiction, but the real cash, together with a 

 certificate of the premium, in a neat card suitable for a 

 farmer, which you cvi hang up Id your house or shop. An- 

 other thing you can put your name on the article exhibited, 

 80 that the world may know who is the owner, in fact the 

 oQicers are determined to make the exhibition useful to all. 

 What will be done with editors we cannot say, but no fears 

 that they will suffer for want of food and other comforts. 

 We have set down in our programme for the month to visit 

 Jacksonville, and see what is actually doing. We are going 

 on the ground with our own tent and camp bed, but we shall 

 need some cold vitUea during our stay, for which we «*"tii 

 be grateful, . .' 



From Nobth-Wbstern Missouri. — "The county is suffer- 

 ing for rain; farmers are almost disheartened. Wheat was 

 nearly a failure. An old fanner remarks, that the fields that 

 were considered worth cutting, would average about four 

 bushels per acre. Grass has been an entire failure; hemp 

 that is conadered worth having is very thin; corn — the only 

 dependence — ^after having been replanted, is very spotted— 



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