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VOLUME V. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., NOVEMBER, 1860. 



NUMBER 11. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



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BAILHACHE & BAKER, 



JOUBSAL OfFICB, SPRINGFIELD, IlLISOIS. 



M. L .DTJNLAJP, Editor. 



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 Springfield; and all communications for the eye of the Editor, 

 and the exchanges, should be directed — Illisois Farmer, 

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 bana has been changed as above.) 



CONTENTS. 



November 

 Bees 



181 



182 



Purple Cane Raspberry - 183 



Clark Cbatten and his Fndi, at tbe Btat«Fair.... 1S4 



Ventilation of the Apple itarret ...166 



A Good Receipt 186 



A Cold Grapery and Grape Ooltnre 1S7 



Legal iDtelligence 187 



The Dying of the Mount 187 



Crops in the Northwest 188 



Copeland's Broadcast Seed Sower 188 



An Artificial way of malclng Rain 189 



Constitution of the Illinois State Agricultural Society ... .189 



Wine Culture in Ohio 189 



Bread and Biscuit 190 



Useful Receipts 190 



Summer and Crops Ir Egypt 190 



Fairbank's Scales 190 



Spaulding's Prepared Glue 190 



More Humbug— Corn Planters acd Patents in General — 191 



Do not mix your Potatoes 191 



EDITOR'S TABLE : 



The Farmer 191 



Waukeegaa Nursery 191 



Seed Corn 191 



Iron Amalgam B ells 191 



Autumn Plowing , 191 



Sewing Machines 181 



Prince & Co.'s Improved Melodeons 191 



Woodburn Nursery 191 



Cook's Evaporator 191 



McQueston Corn Shelter 192 



The Carter Potato 192 



Stock Company Constitution 192 



New Grades of Corn 192 



Lee County Fair >>. 192 



Peach Pits, etc 192 



Apple Seedlings 192 



Rohrer's Commercial College 192 



Mice and Trees 192 



Essay 192 



Field Notes 192 



Langstroth's Patent Hive 192 



Fall Sown Wheat 192 



Subsoil Plowing for Spring Wheat 192 



Business 192 



Complimentary 192 



MARKETS 192 



NoTemtcr. 



Oh, Autumn! why so soon 



Depart the hues that make the forest glad ; : 



Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon, 



And leave thee wild and sad ! 



Ah! 'twere a lot too blest 



For ever In thy colum'd shades to stray ; 



Amid the kisses of the soft south-west 



To rove and dream for aye. 



— Bryant. 



October, in this part of the State, is 

 always a most beautiful month. From 

 the 10th- to the 15th of the month the 



a part of the autumn and winter there 

 is little to do. Laborers <;pme and go 

 with the birds of passage, and nothing 

 is established on a profitable basis. 

 When we adopt a rotation of crops and 

 build, tenant houses, we shall soon have 

 a better class of laborers. The men 

 who leave their families in the villages 

 and go out to seek work will rent these 

 tenant houses and board themselves ; 

 first frost of autumn that embrowns the ; this will be a great relief to the female 



landscape appears. Sometimes we have 

 light frosts during September that cheek 

 the tender vegetation in the low ground 

 and along the small streams, but this 

 seldom, if ever, occurs on the higher 

 swells of the prairie. A few of the for- 

 est trees begin to ripen up and cast off 

 their leaves without the aid of frost; 

 others more tenacious hold them until 

 compelled to yield them up. This gives 

 to our woods tfie "colored shades" 

 which so delights the eye. This season, 

 the com is very forward, and many of 

 our farmers commenced husking and 

 cribbing on the 7th of the month, which 

 is nearly four weeks in advance of the 



usual time ; and 



two weeks be- 

 , Some of the distillers were 

 half new corn in their works. 



portion of the farmers family, and a 

 vast improvement in the morals of the 

 population. Our villages are now filled 

 with an idle set of vicious children 

 with nothing to do, no aims in life 

 and they are fast being educated for 

 our prisons and poor houses. Take 

 these same families into the country, 

 give them a large garden, a cow, a pig 

 and a dozen hens, and they will have 

 something to care for, they will soon 

 begin to make themselves useful, they 

 will attend school in the district school 

 and will gradually rise to a respectable 

 position, and instead of as now becom- 

 ing pests of society, will soon become 

 useful members of it. We hope that 

 our large farmers will take this subject 

 into consideration, and we doubt not 

 that they will see its value, if not to 

 the country at large in dollars and cents 

 to themselves and in the relieving of 

 their wives and daughters of an immense 

 amount of drudgery in washing, in clean- 

 ing and in cooking ; for at present, the 

 female portion of the farmer's family 

 are mere drudges, and without Bome 

 change of this kind, there is no hope of 

 improvement ir their condition. , . , 

 The laborer will then have an interest 

 in society; he will be with and have the 

 care and control of his children; he will 

 have something for them to do, and in- 

 stead of being a tax * on his hard earn- 



fore this 



using half new corn m 

 This has forwarded the autumn work so 

 that those who wished»to fall plow could 

 do so. The rains have been sufficientlv 

 abundant for the new sown wheat which 

 has made a very fine growth. The land 

 is in fine order for plowing, and we 

 regret to see so little of it done in Cen- 

 tral Illinois; in the north part of the 

 State fall plowing has become universal, 

 and the farmer who neglects it, is con- 

 sidered but.a sloven. 



Spring wheat and oats must soon 

 take their place in a judicious rotation 

 of crops, and then the year's work will 

 become better balanced, now through 

 spring and summer all is hurry, while . ings they can earn something for them- 



