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THE ILLmOIS FAJSMER. 



July 



— It is only those who have done nothing, who 

 fancy they can do everything. 



— Few persons are worth loving who have 

 not something in them worth laughing at. 



— When is a man thinner than a shingle ? 

 Ans. — When he is a shaving 



"Crive the devil his due." This may answer 

 very well for an apothegm, but practically, it 

 would carry off more than the plague. 



CONTENTS: 



July 193 



Life in the Sea 194 



Preaching vs. Practice 194 



HarvesitDg , 195 



Care of Trees 197 



Hay Makiug: 198 



Farming in Marion County 198 



Discovery of a New Planet 198 



Receipt for Raspberry Wine 199 



Eifects of War on Agriculture 159 



The Tornado in Champaign County 199 



The Army Worm 201 



The Time to Sow Wheat and Rye 203 



Keep out the Chess 204 



The State Fair 204 



Bee Moth and Swarming 205 



Rye for Sheep 206 



The Curculio...... 206 



Great Excitement ! — Gold Discovered on the Co- 

 lumbia Slough 1 207 



The Price of Wool 207 



From Home — The Grain and Fruit Prospect in 

 Central and Sountheru Illinois — Coal Mines — 

 The Army Worm — Mode of Farming — Camp 



Defiance 208 



Naval Cadets 212 



Pension to Col. Ellsworth's Mother, etc 212 



Poetry— " Yankee Doodle" 212 



Is Corn Smut Poisonous to Cattle? etc 212 



Editor's Table 213 



Our Hail Storm 213 



New Music — Young's Cultivator — The Value of 

 the "Iron Roller"— The Crops 214 



C. D. Bragdon — Exterminate Them — Apple Par- 

 er — Cherries and Blackberries — The " Manny 

 Prize "—Madison County Fair 215 



The State Fair — Agricultural Papers and the 

 War — Personal and Apologetic 216 



Prepare for your Cane Crop — Buckwheat — Tur- 

 nips — Handling of Bees — Horticulturist for 

 June — Farm Premiums — The Poultry House — 

 Two-horse Cultivators — Gardiner's Modthly — 

 Bees 217 



Water Drawers — Freaks of the Mails — Mole 

 Draining 218 



New Wheat — How to Increase the Size of Fruit 219 



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EDUCATION IS THE BEST LEGACY. 



SPRINGFIELD FEMALE SEMINARY. 



REV. B. C. SUESSEROTT, Ptincipal. 



INSTRUCTORS. 



Rev. B. C. Su( sserat, A. M.. 



Meutal and Moral Philosophy, etc. 



Rev. S. W. Harkey, D. B., , , .. , 



German Language and i iterature. 



Miss H. A. Hamilton, 



M ithematics, Rh tone, French, etc. 



Miss Alice Schmucke«-, 



General Hirt.ry, English Grammar, etc. 



Miss Mary F. Stark, 



Vocal and Instrumental Mugic. 



The course of instrnct'on is »8 extend d and thsrcugh as 

 our best beminariei. Particular attenti< n is puld to the 

 ElementHry Bie: chcg. Th-- number tf pupils received iaio 

 the family of the l rincipal wil be limi'ed to ten, and aiipli- 

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 to the P. iucipal. July 1, '61-3m. 



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Chicago, Oct. 1, 1860-ly* JOB M. LABHART. 



