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1861. 



THE ILLLN"OIS FAEMEE. 



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characteristic of the man that he should be as 

 much disappointed in the sending out of his pet 

 bantling iu such a sad plight ; as vre are, and as 

 he assures us, that hereafter all will be right, we 

 shall rest satisfied. Mr. Eno, the maker, we con- 

 sider a very estimable man, but this is a new bu- 

 siness to him, and of course he could be easily 

 imposed upon. He has been a large loser in con 

 sequence, and as he has been taught wisdom 

 through his pocket it will be a good investment 

 for all interested. As badly as this cultivator 

 was made, its work has given good satisfaction, 

 as compared with the old tools, and for some 

 kinds of work we deem it almost Impassible, and 

 when it shall be simplified and made durable it 

 will b ;come, in the culture of hard crops, what 

 the steel clipper is to the small grains. As sug- 

 geste 1, a cheap form of this machine can be made 

 for those who prefer to walk, but we do not think 

 they will become popular. It is tiresome work 

 to follow, day after day, the shovel plow, and for 

 boys it is particularly injurious to the system, 

 and should be abandoned the first opportunity. 

 We do rot think it will be found profitable to 

 make this cultivator with a view to lay by the 

 corn, as a good horse hoe cultivator will do it 

 equally well and as rapidly, and leave the ground 

 level and in fine order. 



Coal oil, coal (ar, turpentine SiT\d poultry for the 

 garden, the orchard andinsects in general. We can 

 fully endorse the v'ews of Prof. T. in the above, 

 and h.>pe our readers will profit thereby. That 

 aw/wZ 6/f^^(< is making sad havoc with the pear 

 trees along the Mississippi border, and we fear 

 it will spread over the State. It diflfers from the 

 leaf blight, wh-ch is a species of cholera coming 

 from the east and traveling west, but fire blight 

 attacks the trunks as if by a sun stroke, and it 

 suddenly di^s in whole or in part. Of this we 

 Bhall speak more at length in another place. 



Ed. 



My Garden. 



Ed. Fabmer — Dear Sir : At your request, and 

 according to promise, I herewith send you the 

 number and kinds of trees that I have on my 

 lot of 160 feet square, almost every one of which 

 is in bearing this season. I have 70 dwarf and 

 14 standard pear trees, 13 plums, 13 peaches, 2 

 apricots, 13 cherries, 18 apples, 2 quinces, and 1 

 hard-shell almond. In addition to the above list 

 of trees I have some ten varieties of grapes, the 

 Isabella, Catawba, Concord, and White Musca- 

 dine, all bearing. 



The Isabella have been very much aflFected by 

 the rot, which came on about twelve days since and 

 thinned them out very much. I thought that it 

 was caused by the work of a small, light colored 

 bug that perforated the leaves with a great many 

 small holes. I applied whale oil soap, one pound 

 to four and a half gallons of water, with a gar- 

 den syringe, on the foliage at night, and drove 

 the bugs off, and the rot ceased for a while ; it 

 commenced a second time, and I applied the soap 

 and it has stopped them again. My pears are 

 most of them very heavily laden and the fruit is 

 most beautiful. 



We are having a very warm and dry spell, not 

 having had any rain for over three weeks, and 

 unless we get some within forty-eight hours the 

 corn crop will in these parts be very poor indeed, 

 and in fact all crops will be much injured unless 

 rain comes soon, as everything is burning up. 

 Tours truly, 



C. A. MONTKOSS. 



Centralia, Auff. 1, 1861. 



Remarks. — We have before stated that the 

 garden of Mr. M. was the best arranged and 

 most profitable in the State, and for this reason 

 wo wish to present it to not only our railroad 

 employees, to the merchant and the mechanic, 

 but to the farmer, to show what can be done with 

 a judicious outlay of money and labor. Mr. M. 

 is well known to the traveling public as one of 

 the conductors on the I. C. R. R., and for the 

 past year his health has been such that he has 

 been able to do but little with his own hands, yet 

 he has by a judicious outlay of labor kept his 

 little Eden in order. The garden is well under- 

 drained and thoroughly enriched with common 

 barn yard manure. The grapes are in part on 

 an arbor, and the remainder against the north 

 and west side of the enclosure, which is a light 

 board fence seven feet high. Along part of the 

 north fence is a good supply of the Black Cap 

 raspberry. There is an abundant supply of cur- 

 rants under the standard pears and the dwarf 

 apple trees, which produce as well as any that 

 we have seen at the north, proving most conclu- 

 sively what we have often asserted that this val- 

 uable fruit can be grown abundantly in all parts 

 of the State by using a proper amount of shade 

 and underdraining. The trees are all trained 

 low, and with the exception of the cherris, in a 

 most healthy and luxunant condition. The cher- 

 ries are baing replanted with the Early May 

 cherry and other fruits, as they one by one give 

 up the unequal contest with the wide variations 



