VOLUME V. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., 0CTG15EK, 1860. 



NUMBER 10. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



PUBLISHED MOXTHLY, 



BY 



BAILHACHE & BAKER, 



Journal Office, Spkingkield, Illinois. 



M. L. DUNLAF, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



October , . 161 



Proceedings of the Illinois Stat* Agricoltural Fair, fi«14 - ' 

 at Jacksonville, September lOtb, 11th, 12th, 13th and 

 14th, ISGO 1G2 



List of awards made at the Illinois State Fair at, Jackson- 

 ville ITl 



Meeting of Delegates for the Election of Officers of the 

 Illinois State Agricultural Society 17G 



Fairbank's Scales 176 



Spaulding's Prepared Glue 170 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



The Grove Nursery 176 



What can be made of a county fair 176 



Darrow's Colored Fruits 176 



Fall Plowing 177 



Broom Corn 177 



Potatoes 177 



Beans 177 



October, 177 



" The Seminary Bell." 177 



Premium List 177 



Tree and Shrub Seeds 177 



State Fair 177 



Cook's Nursery 177 



Watermelons 177 



Flower Pots 177 



Hammond Ditching Machines 177 



Bryant •& Stratton's Chain of National Commercial 

 Colleges ^ 177 



MARKETS. 



October. 



" But see the many fading color'd woods, 

 Shade deep'ning over shade, the country round 

 Imbrown ; crowded umbrage, dusk and dim, 

 Of every hue, from wan declining green 

 To sooty dusk." 



The change from summer to autumn 

 has now grown more and more apparent, 

 the air feels imhuod with frost as thougli 

 old Horcas had commenced Avhistlinir 



down from his icj fastness in the north 

 where summer has had him pent up 

 doing penance in the *' open polar sea," 

 or clinn-ing to the iceherg. 



Where the sunlight reflected, ■ 



From iceberg and clilT, - " 



Sends his banners of light far up the blue sky, 



Where his rays grow paler as they 



Float far away, and at last are but 



Glimpses of pale " Northern Light," 



C0I4 frozen spears on the Earth's northern verge — ■ 



Great banners of llanie frozen cold, 



Like the cliff's where they hover . '' 



And wave to and fro, as the world surges onWard, 



Through the season of changes. 



The great corn zone has been gently 

 touched bj frost, but his frostship will 

 soon cover us with a denser mantle of 

 white, and the parti-colored wood will 

 bo brown and bare, and the groat 

 streatches of prairie will but move to 

 the . sighing of the autumn winds as it 

 'siveeps uowrt the vast slopes, leafless 

 and bare of summer herbage, 



" The pale decending year, yet pleasing still, 

 A greater mood inspires ; for now the leaf 

 Incessant rustles from the mournful grove. 

 Oft startling such as, studious, walk below^ 

 And slowly circles thro' the waving air." 



A\\ is atrain stirring activtiv, the last 

 products of summer must be placed safe 

 beyond the reach of frost and rain, the 

 stubble land must be turned over with 

 the plow, the drains must be cleaned for 

 the passage of the winter rains, the 

 barn yards must be scraped to the bot- 

 tom and their rich doposites scattered 

 over the fields* tools must be housed 

 that are no longer needed for out-door 

 use, the garden carefully looked over 

 and the rubbish taken out or burned, 

 the borders of the flower garden will 

 need looking to, and such plants as re- 

 quire protection attended' to before a 

 sharp frost shall ruin them. All 

 grape vines will be benefi:jted by being 

 laid down and slightly protected, more 

 especially the Isabella and Catawba. 

 On the whole, October is a month of 

 rich enjoyment, and of deep intcrestj it 

 is the month in which the first frost crisps 



the tender vegetation in this latitude, 

 and when the golden ears of Indian 

 corn is ready for the harvest, a busy 

 month for the farmer, a month of prepa- 

 ration for the leisure of winter, much 

 of the pleasures of which will depend 

 upon the fidelity with which you dis- 

 charge your duties to October. 



October, in the Xorth-west, is a beautiful 

 niontb, the air is always soft and balmy 

 with the Indian summer. The first sharp 

 frosts liave passed, loosening the footstalks 

 of the leaves which now fill the autumn 

 eddies, an emblem of man, but the bud is 

 left tliat shall burst in spring and re-clothe 

 inanimate nature, so man shall again rise to 

 immortality, '''"' .\ "' ■ 



No farmer can afford to neglect the many 

 duties that thia monl^h imposes, many qf 

 Ihem, scen^irffjf'' «mftlJ, ytA of large impor- 

 tance, when winter sweeps over the land- 

 scape and cuts short the privilege of retro- 

 spect of time lost. The farm, the orchard, 

 and the house need a careful looking after, 

 tools should be put up that are no longer 

 wanted J thousands of dollars are wasted 

 every year in the loss of tools by exposure 

 to the weather. "We will not attempt a cata- 

 logue of all that will require your attention, 

 but simply ask you to look through your 

 premises and see what needs your immediate 

 attention, you cannot safely delay, for you 

 know not how soon " Jack Frost" will lay 

 an euibargo on your work and bring all 

 your good intentions to nought. Be up and 

 doing, work while the pleasant days con- 

 j tinue and when the storms come you can sit 

 } by your fireside and take your ease. "We 

 ^ beg of you not to forget the district school, 

 [ give it your presence and your encourage- 

 ment, it is the great sheet anchor of our 

 progress, the main pillar of our success. 

 Strike it out and we would soon be in the 

 condition of the serfs of Europe, tenants at 

 will of grinding landlords, with it, we are 

 I freeholders, cultivating our acres intelligcnt- 

 I ly and successfully, carving out our own for- 

 I tunes and pursuing liappiness in our own 

 8 way. I>o not forget the district school. 



