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Grand Detour Pljws. — In another part of the 

 Fakmer will be found the card of Messrs. An- 

 drews & Boswortb, the macufacturers. This is 

 one of the oldest plow making institutions in the 

 State, and of course have been long and popu- 

 larly known. We have used their deep tiller for 

 nursery and other purposes for several years, and 

 though owning and trying several others we 

 have found non.e that do the work of trench plow- 

 ing SO perfect as these. Their shovel plow we 



think cannot be surpassed. But few of the so- 

 calk'd deep tillers will plow over six inches deep. 

 These, instead of being called reep tillers should 

 be termed clippers or old laiid plows, and are only 

 adapted to comn)on stubble plowing. A deep 

 tiller or trench plow is of course a different thing, 

 and intended to run in the bottoms of furrows 

 made by another plow, or to plow a deep narrow 

 furrow, say eight to ten inches wide and ten 

 inches to a foot deep. It is therefore nonsense 

 to talk about a common stubble plow being a deep 

 tiller, or a deep tiller a cf^mmon stubble plow 

 the two are made essentially different, while a 

 deep tiller will plow six inches deep and do good 

 work, a stubble plow will not run afoot deep and 

 throw out the soil ; of course the deep tiller is 

 too narrow for a heavy team to work to advan- 

 tage in shallow plowing. A common stubble plow 

 is fourteen inches wide, and in running six inches 

 deep turns over eighty four inches, which is good 

 work for an ordinary team. Now run this plow 

 four inches deeper and you will have one hundred 

 and forty inches, and will need two more heavy 

 horses, and the plow is swamped, that is, it will 

 not lift out and turn over the henvy furrow. On 

 the other hand, the deep tiller of A. & B. is cal- 

 culated to go into the furrow made by a common 

 stubble plow ; of course the two teams are re- 

 quired, but the difference is that this bottom fur- 

 row is lifted out and thrown on to the other, so as 

 to incorporate the lower strata of soil with the 

 top soil, in the after culture. We will suppose 

 that you wish to use one team : you can then 

 make a furrow ten inches deep and eight inches 

 wide, which makes you eighty inches to move, 

 and you will have the same result as though 

 using two teams and cutting a wider furrow, 

 though with a saving of labor from the fact that 

 these narrow furrow slices are more readily 

 moved and more perfectly pulverized. AVe there- 

 fore take this occasion to say to our readers that 

 when they want a deep tiller with which to stir 

 the soil ten inches to a foot deep, they will do 

 well to order one of this firm, and if they only 

 want a stubble or old land plow they must so 

 designate in their order. 



Drain Tile. — We see an advertisement in the 

 Galena Courier. We want to see them advertised 

 in every paper in the State. They are wanted 

 everywhere on the prairie. Every new house 

 needs them to drain the cellar, the kitchen yard 

 and the garden, to say nothing of the farm. The 

 only wonder is why they have not been made at 

 every large town in the State. Not a village in 

 the St ite but what would use thousands of them 

 if they were on sale at hand. 



Delaware Grapes. — We ordered a dozen of 

 these of J. L. Stelzig & Co., of Columbus, )hio. 

 When they came to hand we found they hid been 

 been grafted. Persons wanting grafted vines 

 can send to them, but we wish to be excused. 

 Hear what they say as to the mode of getting up 

 their plants : 



"The vines we now offer for sale have been 

 prcpRgated iu the open ground — have remained 

 out, even to the feeblest point, all winter, are 

 well grown and finely rooted, and we can claim 

 with the greate-t confidence that they are at least 

 equal to any offered in any other quarter, and 

 that they are undoubtedly genuine. We have a 

 large number of one year old vines, chiefly lay- 

 ers of the smaller growth, which we do not in- 

 tend offering for sale now, but which^ will make 

 fine plants by the fall. " 



No intimation of grafting. Well, when we are 

 convinced that a grafted Delaware vine is worth 

 more than on its own roots, we may give another 

 order to these gentlemen, but until then we shall 

 be pleased to exchange with them and make no 

 charge for this advertising of their goods. When 

 we order woodchuck we don't want rabbit. Two 

 years since we paid six dollars for two plants of 

 this grape ; very small, of course, for that price, 

 and they remain so. We adn^ire the fruit of this 

 grape, and consider it second to no other, but we 

 must be allowed to consider it a slow grower un- 

 der ordinary circumstances, but perhaps we will 

 get the hang of it after awhile. We do not in- 

 tend anything discourteous to the gentlemen 

 above named, but they will allow us the piivilege 

 of putting a less value upon "grafted vines than 

 they do As we wanted the pbmts for our own 

 grounds and have been at considerable expense 

 in fitting up a border and a six feet high tightly 

 boarded trellis, we did not like to put in the 

 grafted vines, but hope they will conae out all 

 right. 



Sweet Potato Culturist. — T. W. Tenbrook, 

 of Kockville, Indiana,, editor and publisher ; 25 

 cents per mail. All growers of this valuable 

 root should have a copy of this work. It abounds 

 in practical information for sprouting, planting 

 and marketing. 



