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THE ILLINOIS FAKMER. 



Oct. 



■what she calls harvert beer, son e of which we 

 sampled several times during our stay, and for 

 this style of weather found it very agreeable. It 

 is made as follows : One gallon of water, a half 

 pound of sugar ; oil of spruce to flavor to taste ; 

 add a little yeast, shake it well and put in jug 

 and set in cool place. In from six to twelve 

 hours it is ready for use ; it will keep about two 

 days. 



THE GARDEN 



Occupies one and a half acres, and is the best 

 farm garden that we have seen thus far in our 

 journeyings. Rhubarb, asparagus, onions, beets, 

 peas, Lima beans and early potatoes were all in 

 their glory. From these the boys had sold at the 

 Tillage, to the amount of seventy-five dollars to 

 this date, and that without having apparently 

 lessened the stock. In a year or two more the 

 long rows of small fruits will add to their income 

 in no small way. For the first time except in 

 our own grounds we find the Lima beans growing 

 ■without poles, and the boys say they do quite as 

 ■well. Other farmer boys will do well to make a 

 note of this consoling fact, for it will save them 

 no small amount of labor. The garden is ar- 

 ranged for working the long rows of vegetables 

 and small fruits with a horse. Here we again 

 meet with large sized dwarf apple trees without 

 fruit, while dwarf pears of the same age are 

 bending beneath their loads. The Louise Bonne 

 de Jersey, White Doyenne and Bartleit stand 

 again at the head of the list. The Black Cap 

 raspberry is a favorite, as it is in all prairie gar- 

 dens where it has had a trial. The garden is 

 protected by belts of locust. 



THK ORCHARD 



Has been set but two or three years and contains 

 two hundred and twenty-five trees, to be re-in- 

 forced with five hundred more uext spring, which 

 are now in the garden ready for the transfer. The 

 Lombardy poplar is to be extensively used about 

 the orchard to break off the winds. 



THE STOCK 



Consists of two span of horses and brood mares, 

 three colts, four cows and twelve head of young 

 cattle. The piggery is more extended in propor- 

 tion, and contains fine specimens of a cross of 

 Suffolk and Essex. They are all fed on meal, 

 the slops from the bouse and refuse of the gar- 

 den. The stable, sheds and tool house are cheap, 

 yet efficient structures, waiting the development 

 of the mine to present more ample buildings. — 



The fences are of the class before noticed, with 

 the addition of an abundant supply of good well 

 made gates. 



THE FRONT YARD 



Is well laid out and filled with fruit, ornamental 

 trees, shrubs and plants. To those who say they 

 have no time to atttnd to these things, we will 

 point to the well made walks, grass plats and 

 flower beds of this farm house. The time will 

 come ; in fact, is not distant, when to be entitled 

 to be a good farmer there must be a good yard and 

 garden as the first requirement in the creed. — 

 The side of the yard is flanked with twenty-five 

 dwarf and the same number of standard pears, 

 many of them loaded with fruit, but like all se- 

 lections of pears, containing too great a propor- 

 tion of poor varieties. A half dozen fine ever- 

 greens are not the least of the attraction in these 

 grounds. 



Mr. Arnold is a direct descendant of Roger 

 Williams of Quaker memory, and like his pro- 

 genitor, with Quaker proclivities. Hebe'ievesin 

 using brains as well as muscle, in farming, and has 

 demonstrated their value. There is no overwork-, 

 ing, no driving or fretting, but a steady persever- 

 ance and to save as he goes. With a library well 

 stored with useful works and a good supply of 

 newspapers, himself and boys find ample time to 

 read. Their home is beautiful and attractive, con- 

 sequently the village store nor the village grog- 

 gery have no attraction for them, and they will 

 yet write their names in the history of the agri- 

 cultural progress of the State. 



At two o'clock we took the train for Cottage 

 Hill to take a look at the large orchard of 



J. W. WAKEMAN, 



Situated about one and a half miles northeast of 

 the station. The readers of the Farmer will re- 

 collect that Mr. W. is the owner of the large or- 

 chard of the May Cherry at this place, of which 

 we have before made mention. Mr. W. was not 

 at home, and his son Bradford, one of the most 

 industrious and practical young orohardists in 

 the State, showed us through the extensive 

 grounds. The hot wind before alluded to done 

 uo small amount of damage to the cherry crop, 

 and the fruit fell from the trees as though a hard 

 frost had cut them loose from the footstalks. The 

 cherry orchard is protected on the south and 

 west by a heavy belt of locust and other trans- 

 planted forest trees, now twenty to thirty feet 

 high, while the slope of the land is to the north- 

 east. The trees are apparently perfectly sound 

 and making a good growth, and next season ■*« 



