VOLUME V. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SEPTEMBER, 1860. 



NUMBER 9. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY 



BAIIiHACHE & BAKER, 



JocBNAL Office, Spbikgfield, Illikois. 



M. L. DIJNLAP, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



September 141 



A Trip to the Wabash 141 



ANew System of Corn Otilture 148 



A Talk with the Editor 144 



Bnainess Prospects 144 



Hybrid Perpetual or Monthly Roses 145 



The Honey Bee 146 



Where are the Plowboys of the West? 146 



Artificial Swarming of Bees 146 



Different Hives adapted to different bee-keepers under ■ 



E. W. Phelps' patents 1852 and '58 147 



The Oriun Trade of Chicago 148 



Shiftless FarnJng— Bye and Chess 149 



Growing of Winter Wheat 149 



When shall we Break Prairie ? 150 



The Black Cap Raspberry 160 



Red Astrachan— Fallawater 151 



Premium Corn 151 



Fairbanks' Scales 151 



The Fair Grounds 151 



A few hours in social chat with Prof. J. B. Turner at his 



home 163 



Spaulding'B Prepared Glue 163 



Correspondence 153 



American Pomolojrical Society 154 



Western Printing 154 



EDITOR'S TABLE : 



September 155 



A Proposed Excursion 155 



The Raspberry 165 



Fair at Dixon 156 



Champaign County Fair 155 



■ Sugar Mills 165 



Raipberry Jam 156 



Dunlap's Nursery 165 



Warder on Hedges and Evergreens 165 



Indiana Farmer 165 



Rock Island County Fair ; 156 



Acknowledgement 155 



Bees 166 



Edgar County Fair 155 



Catalogues 156 



Political 165 



Blackberries 156 



Indiana State Fair 156 



Wisconsin 155 



Hogs 155 



Berries and Health 165 



Crops in Michigan 156 



Smut in Seed Wheat 156 



Chicago Bank Note list 166 



Stone Coal for Swine 156 



Bark Lice 156 



The Potato Crop and a Market 166 



Purple Cone 'Raspberry 156 



Scotch Hybrid Rhubarb 166 



Wisconsin Fruit Grower's Association 156 



Drouth in Egypt 166 



Crops in Wisconsin 166 



Mrs. Kirkland's Memoirs of Waihlngton 156 



Maryland Agricultural College 166 



Mouth Trap 166 



Immense Movement of Grain 156 



Sangamon County Fair 156 



Pleuro-Pneumonia 156 



Amalgam Cast Iron Bells 156 



Greene County Fair 156 



The Hand Book 156 



Chesnuts 156 



Personal and Peachful 156 



A Deep Tiller 166 



Concord Grape Vines 156 



State and County Fairs 167 



MARKETS 157 



:« September. 



** Thrice happy time ' .. 



Best portion of the various year, in which 

 -^ Nature rejoicetb, smiling on her works, 

 Lovely, to full perfection wrought." 



Summer has just yielded up her gifts 

 and passed them over to the keeping of 

 Autumn. Away to the north the hue 

 of the many colored hill-sides show that 

 the active duties of Summer are closed, 

 and the time for the garnering has come. 

 Not so under our more genial skies, 

 September takes up the burthen of 

 summer and ripens up the immense fields 

 of yet succulent corn, that fructifies in 

 the haze like mildness with which 

 Autumn takes up the task. The heats 

 grow more mild, and the gifts of Sum- 

 mer, one by one, are ready for our use. 

 September is the cornucopia of the 

 months for the orb like fruit, in which 

 Pomona is crowned with her richer gifts, 

 it is then that the tree and the vine vie 

 with each other in their mellow oflerings, 

 and call forth the joyous shout of 

 childhood, appreciating her bounties. 

 September, we love thee, for thou doeth 

 perfect and pass over to us the gifts of 

 Summer ; we love thee for thy etherial 

 mildness and soft haze like days, in 

 which we have leisure to meet and 

 mingle, to sing the joyous harvest home, 

 to show thy most bounteous gifts and to 

 gather strength to garner up the labors 

 of the year. In September the farmer 

 goes forth with his seed for the winter 

 grains ; he prepares his cellers for the 

 reception of the vegetables, that the 

 winter shall be filled with abundance. 

 This month is the great month of State 

 and county fairs, and thus made one of 

 the most pleasant of the active, busy 

 months ; and one in which we can re- 

 veiw our past plans and compare 

 them with those of our neighbors. 

 And now, when the full tide of prosper- 

 ity is pouring in upon us, let us not for- 

 get Him who made the seasons and 

 placed them in their course. 



/; A Trip to the Wabash. : 



Character of th^ Soil — Climate — Adaptation 

 to Fruits — Wabash Valley — Old Indian Com 

 Fields — Interesting facts in Geology. 



Tolono, as all know, is at the crossing 

 of the Great Western with the Illinois 

 Central, and five and a half miles south 

 of our home ; to Danville, the seat of 

 the vast deposites of coal in the east 

 part of the State, is twenty- eight miles ; 

 thence, to the State line, is six miles. 

 Here an Osage hedge marks the division 

 of the States. A change of cars is 

 made, and a few miles brings us to the 

 timber lands that skirt the Wabash — 

 we cross the stream, and Attica, one of 

 the prettiest of villages is before us. 

 The Ohio and Wabash canal winds along 

 the river, and on its banks are several 

 large warehouses, a grist mill and other 

 manufacturing shops. You are not long 

 in the place before yoa see that it is an 

 active, busy town, and with the excep- 

 tion of a rather exuberant growth of 

 stramonium on the streets and vacant 

 lots near the canal, is neat and clean. 

 The woolen factory of J. C. Lebo & 

 Co., is located on the main business 

 street. They have one hundred and 

 fifty spindles, card for customers, make 

 two thousand yards of satinet, one 

 hundred pairs of blankets, six hundred 

 yards of woolen goods and five hundred 

 yards of flannel. They formerly made 

 four times this amount, but Shoddy and 

 and the sewing machines have givei^^ 

 trade in woolen goods into the hands^aWir 

 Jewish friends, who now purchase the 

 yfooX of the farmers and ship it east, 

 /thus, the small western manufacturies 

 of woolen goods yield, one after another, 

 to the skill and capital of the east; but 

 this cannot long continue, the west, with 

 her cheap food and abundance of coal, 

 must soon be a manufacturer on a large 

 scale, and with macbiodry for working 

 their waste, they can make goods as 



