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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



Aug, 



they are making a tardy growth from a 

 baked soil, or when it is not convenient to 

 cultivate them with a horse. No small fruit 

 should be set where the cultivator cannot 

 reach it, unless it be strawberries, which can 

 be cultivated with the spade, out not so of 

 carrants, raspberries, etc. 



FLOWERS. 



The hoe and steel rake are the implements 

 with which to tickle the soil about the roots 

 of all flowering plants, to make them glow 

 "with gorgeous beauty, though the dahlia is 

 pleased with a good mulch of well rotted 

 manure ; soap suds from the wash tub is of- 

 ten useful, if not drugged with turpentine. 

 Flowering plants will now need staking and 

 tving up. Make layers on all such plants as 

 are adapted to this mode of propagation. 



FARM HEDGES. 



We enter our solemn protest against the 

 cutting back of farm hedges in summer, es- 

 pecially young hedges- Thousands of miles 

 of young hedges have been ruined with the 

 summer cuttings that they have received. — 

 After setting out the hedge keep them well 

 cultivated for two seasons, and early the fol- 

 lowing spring cut back to the ground, culti- 

 vate another season and let ^t alone, and the 

 fourth year you will have a good fence against 

 all kinds of stock. These hedge tinkers 

 have done enough mischief, don't follow their 

 suggestions. The making of a good hedge 

 is a very simple process, and cheap withal. 



SWEET CORN. 



The daily use of sweet corn is one of the 

 most palatable and valuable. See that the 

 ears are full grown and thoroughly cooked. 

 It should be planted so as to insure a suc- 

 cession of the crop until cut off by frost. — 

 The evergreen is the best for the late crop, 

 though this season we planted some of this 

 for a late supply, as a peck of seed purchas- 

 ed at a seed store in Chicago failed to make 

 a stand, and on the 13th of this month we 

 put in a supply of the early variety, hoping 

 that it would be in time for use. When a 



family are accustomed to the daily use of 

 this valuable food there need be no anxiety 

 on the score of summer complaint, it is its 

 occasional use that renders it dangerous. 



The Currency. 



We consider it our duty to have a word 

 to say in regard to our currency. 



Farmers and newspapers may preach a 

 gold currency until they become grey as rats 

 and then they will find paper money repre- 

 senting this precious metal, Banks have 

 rose and fell, fell and rose, and the whole 

 bus ness of the country has been convulsed 

 and deranged several times within the last 

 thirty years by this same paper money, and 

 if we live thirty years longer we expect to 

 see the same thing occur again. Bankers 

 will continue to abound, speculators and 

 brokers will be no more honest, and the com- 

 mercial newspapers will continue to play the 

 sensation game, get up bank runs after they 

 have been well paid for endorsing A, B and 

 C's bank as sound and reliable. Produce 

 buyers will go to the banks for funds to pur- 

 chase the far:Liier's produce, and the farmers 

 will take just such funds as is oiiered for 

 their products, whether gold, silver or cur- 

 rency, the same old routine will be pursued. 

 But few men hoard gold at this day, and 

 they will take and pass from hand to hand 

 just such funds as are furnished by the bank- 

 ers, This we say will be, but we do not 

 wish to be understood as approving of such 

 a course ; on the contrary, we have always 

 been opposed to a paper currency as detri- 

 mental to the best interests of the country, 

 and though we have never expected to see 

 it driven out, yet we have hoped to see it so 

 far improved as to make it less objectiona- 

 ble* A great proportion of our banks are 

 gotten up by borrowers instead of lenders, 

 and so long as these make it profitable so 

 long will their issues be good, but when they 

 meet with a loss it is at once thrown upon 

 the innocent holders of these notes. Banks 

 secured in part by State stocks and part in 

 coJDj with a personal liability clause, are 



