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1861. 



THE ITXIKOIS FAEMEK. 



175 



oast about the 25th of this month to as late 

 as July 10th ; in this latter case we deeply 

 plowed wheat stubble. 



LIMA BEANS. 



The culture of Lima beans is supposed to 

 be attended with difficulties of no ordinary 

 character among which is a lot of smooth, 

 nice poles, some eight feet high, giving 

 them the appearance of a hop yard, but this 

 is not necessary. No doubt that the Lima 

 will do best on a pole some five feet high, 

 but it will do well without any at all, as 

 we havK proved. We plant in hills three 

 by four feet, and give them good culture, but 

 no poles, and we get a good yield. Of course 

 it is too late to plant, but not too late to try 

 this plan. 



NEWLY PLANTED TREES. 



If the wind sways over your trees, either 

 stake them up or place a mound of earth 

 around them ; we would prefer staking and 

 a good mulching. Thousands of newly 

 planted trees are lost this month for the want 

 of a little care. While on this subject we 

 would say, look out for worms and caterpil- 

 lars, destroy their nests as fast as they ap- 

 pear. 



The Locusts. — We learn that there is every 

 prospect that our country will be visited this 

 season by the seventeen year locusts, swarms 

 of which are now making their way through 

 the earth. They may be expected to appear in 

 full force in three or four weeks, when our 

 farmers may look out for music and mischief. 

 We are rather sceptical about these locusts ap- 

 pearing but once in seventeen years, for we 

 soem to remember that many of them were 

 seen but five or six years ago, and great dam- 

 age was then done to the twigs and young trees. 

 —Ex. 



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Death of Col. Feed. Kennett.— We have 

 received the sad intelligence that Col. Fred. 

 Kennett, of Selma, died at his residence about 

 12 o'clock Sunday night. Mr. Kennett has long 

 been a prominent politician in this State, and 

 was universally esteemed for his many gener- 

 ous and noble traits of charater. His remains 

 have bf>en brought to the city. — St. Louis Dem- 

 ocrat^ 21st. 



An Interesting Letter from Oregon. 



Portland, Oregon, March 8, 1861. 

 J/. L. Dunlap, Ed. Ills. Farmer : I have oftfn 

 thought I would write you, and give you some 

 notices of this country, its varied productions, 

 present condition and future prospects ; subjects 

 in which yoa may feel an interest. But other 

 matters have monopolized my time, and even 

 now I feel that from haste I shall be unable to do 

 these interests justice in a hurried letter. 

 ***** 

 Oregon is an interesting country ; it would 

 look to you as it does to me, that it was made af- 

 ter the balance of the world was completed, with 

 a great deal of stock on hand. We have high 

 mountains and plenty of them — more volcanic 

 peaks — beautiful valleys — vast numbrrs o"' hills 

 — beautiful streams and an ocean at our door. 

 The first impression in getting into the livabls 

 part of Oregon, (a new word, but quite signifi- 

 cant,) is that the country is small, because the 

 valleys, look which way you will, when on a 

 slight eminence, appear as if surrounded by 

 mountains. But when going south, the valleys 

 spread out, you find prairies, gentle eminences, 

 hills all cultivated, when you soon begin (o think 

 there is land enough here to give homes to two 

 or three hundred thousaud people. 



This country is a very productive one. The 

 inequalities of surface g ve a variety of soils — 

 but they are all good — some better and some best. 

 Everything 1/021 attempt 10 raise can be grown 

 here with very grent success, except corn and 

 sweet potatoes. Corn is produced at the rate of 

 thirty and forty bushels an acre, sometimee even 

 sixty, but these are rare cases. We don't have 

 that kind of weather, of summer nights, that you 

 have, when it is said sheets are a burtht^, and 

 which I used to be told was necessary to make 

 corn. But wheat — why God hah made this a 

 wheat country, and the prospect seems to be that 

 the volcanic hills will produce heavy crops of it, 

 year after year, for a long time to come. The 

 farmers are becoming great admirers of June 

 wheat. You will ask what this is ? Well, they 

 sow large fiel<is of wheat in June, it comes up 

 and grows on till fall and through winter, covers 

 the ground with a heavy crop of blades which 

 are fed dewn in winter by stocV, and then this 

 wheat makes great crops. Wheat thus sown is 

 worth as much for feed as the crop is when har- 

 vested. And then again, the farmers commence 

 sowing wheat after the rains in the fall, and con- 

 tinue plowing and sowing all winter, and in spring 

 until April, which makes a good crop the same 



