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THE ILLINOIS FAKMER. 



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The Lumberman's Advertiser — A weekly price 

 current, by Nat. A. Haven, editor and publisher, 

 Chicago, will be found useful to all using any 

 quantify of lumber. We discussed the lumber 

 question in. the January number, and until coun- 

 try dealers will take a reasonable course, we 

 shall recommend our readers to make their pur- 

 chases in Chicago. Last week we purchased a 

 car load of lumber at a saving of three dollars 

 on the thousand feet, and at the same time got a 

 better article. Our country dealers have a way 

 of selling all their culls with the common lumber, 

 and it would take a large premium to enable you 

 to find a cull, rated as such, among the lumber 

 piles of cur village dealers. 



Terms, %\ per annum. 



Fencing is quoted at $11 



Common boards 10 



Culls 8 



1st clear 28 



2d " 22 



3d " plank 18 



3d " boards 15 



The Horticultukist for Februast is at hand, 

 and a valuable number. Grafting the Grape, 

 Spring Hot-beds, Grapes, Shade Trees, each are 

 ably discussed. The Jagged Leaved Blackberry 

 is up for sale. The West has had enough of the 

 Lawton, and won't bite. If any one should want 

 this fine fruit, we can inform them where they 

 can be had in our own State for the cost of dig- 

 ging the roots and shipping. We will say the 

 fruit is valuable, but do not know how they will 

 do in tho open garden on our prairies. We have 

 several plants now well established which should 

 fruit the coming season. Perhaps our people 

 will know it better under the name of Trailing 

 Blackberry. We shall be happy to forward sub- 

 scriptions to the Horticulturist ; $2-25 will pay 

 for &ne copy of that and the Farmer, and $4 

 for two of each, for one year. 



Silver Maple Shade Trees. — We have a 

 large stock of this most valuable of all our shade 

 trees, from four to six feet high, which we sell at 

 five dollars a hundred, and a few hundred six to 

 eight feet high at ten dollars per hundred. 

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Thb Vegetable Garden. — In the next number 

 we shall give considerable space to the vegetable 

 garden. Our readers in the central part of the 

 State need a little stirring up on this point. The 

 cellar and the vegetable garden are two very im- 

 portant institutions on the farm — great pro- 

 moters of health and comfort. It is now time to 

 look after the hot bed. 



John Cook's Nubsebt, Cincinnati, . 0. — Mr. 

 Cook presents the readers of the Farmer an ex- 

 tensive list of nursery stock. We visited his 

 grounds last summer, and found him one of the 

 most thorough cnlturists that we have seen. Mr, 

 C. practices the heading back system, and thus 

 grows the most straight and symmetrical trees 

 that we have seen anywhere. Of this system 

 we shall have more to say as the season progresses. 

 Trees grown at Cincinnati have given excellent sat- 

 isfaction in the central and south part of the State, 

 and in the list of Mr. C, will be found desirable 

 articles for all parts of the State, and the North- 

 west. The new kind of Silver Poplar is quite 

 an acquisition, and much superior to the old. 



To Advertisers. — It will be seen by the rates 

 of advertising in the Fareer, that they are put 

 at am exceedingly low rate. This will give all 

 parties who have articles to sell, to reach the 

 readers of the Farmer at a cost that cannot fail 

 to prove profitable. 



Our nurserymen will see that it is to their in- 

 \erest to patronize the Farmer, if they would 

 make sales at home. The manufacturers of im- 

 plements cannot afford to loose such an opportu- 

 nity. Now is the time to Ipok to your interests. 

 Our farmers are in want of various goods, wares 

 and merchandis ', and they would like to know 

 who will best serve them. When practicable, 

 the prices should be attached. 



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Illinois and Indiana. — The aggregate popu- 

 lation of Illinois is 1,791,238, and that of Indiana 

 1,347,005 — giving to Illinois over Indiana a pop- 

 ulation of 344,238. The area of Illinois is 55- 

 410 square miles, and that of Indiana 33,809 

 square miles, making an excess for Illinois of 

 21,691. The population per square mile is a 

 fraction over thirty for Illinois, and a fraction 

 over 39 for Indiana, showing that, while Illinois 

 has a greater aggregate populatSon, it is con-id- 

 erably less in population to territory than that of 

 Indiana. In the last decade the increase per 

 square mile has been a fraction over 10 in Indi- 

 ana, and a fraction over 15 in Illinois. Relative- 

 ly, the population of Indiana is greater than that 

 of Illinois, and will likply remain so, as the 

 causes which have operated during the past ten 

 years to develop Illinois, will not influence its 

 growth so much in the present decade. — Ex. 



The March No. — We hope our readers will ap- 

 preciate our labors in this number of the Farmer. 

 They will find in it a large number of practical 

 facts, which, to gather and put in shape, has ta- 

 ken no small amount of labor, and with this par- 

 agraph, we commit it to oar readers. 



