1861. 



THE ILLINOIS FAKMEE. 



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sued by Mr. Wakeman, at Cottage Hill, and on 

 lands naturally as well drained as this, is a good 

 one. The trees all have low heads nearly upon 

 the plan of Mr. Coe, and like him, used two year 

 old trees. After planting, the trees were liber- 

 ally mulched with coarse litter. In planting the 

 corn an entire row was left out, for the benefit of 

 the trees, thus to some extent preventing too 

 luuch shade, wLile the trees are young. The 

 trees have made a fine growth, and in a half 

 dozen years will begin to make liberal returns. 

 The remaining sixty-five acres is in one field, but 

 is to be subJivided into two. The corn was work- 

 ed with one of Prof. Turner's two horse cultiva- 

 tors until the laying by, which was done with a 

 common one-horse cultivator. 



THB ARMY WOEM. 



We heard complaints of this worm as far north 

 as Rock Island, and here at Quincy every one has 

 had sad ex^ erience with them ; by being prompt 

 with the ditching they were kept out of the corn, 

 though they swept the timothy and blue grass 

 meadows aiid pastures clean, and as Mr. Turner 

 raises hay tor the city market he was a large 

 loser. He says that lie had at least a thousand 

 bushels of worms on his little farm, yet he kept 

 them strictly to the grass land. The clover they 

 would mt ea*;, and the result is he will have a 

 small fiupjily of clover hay for his teams. 



CLOVER LATS FCR WHEAT. 



Ten sicrea of his clover meadow as soon as cut 

 was turned over for wheat, and will be again 

 plowed bef ire sowing. By the way, a part of this 

 was let t for experiment, and will be turned over 

 the middle of this month and sown at once on the 

 sod. 



OAT STUBBLK FOR WINTER WHEAT. 



The oat stubble had been turned over three 

 inches <.ie>p. to kill the young weeds and to rot 

 the straw, it is to be plowed seven or eight inches 

 deep aa 1 sown to winter wheat about the middle 

 of September. 



THE LIVE STOCK. 



Seven head of horses, five of them brood mares, 

 five colts, three cows and a fine lot of pigs make 

 up the list. The brood mares do most of the 

 work. Among the out buildings is a good sub- 

 stantial granary and an ice house well filled and 

 whose cool blocks ar« highly acceptable this 

 heated term. 



THE GRAPERY 



Contains two hundred vines set to stakes six by 



twelve feet apart, but this is found too wide and 

 is to be filled in three by six feet. Vines grow 

 very rapidly in all this part of the State, and these 

 are not an exception ; they have a fine show of 

 fruit for young vines. A liberal supply of the 

 small fruits are set in the fruit garden. Mr, 

 Turner is a young farmer but he certainly shows 

 that he knows how to manage a farm, and we can 

 assure our readers that there are few as well reg- 

 ulated and profitable farms in the State as his. 



We spent one hour very agreeably with our old 

 friend 



K. K. JONES, 



Of the " Pines," and without going into particu- 

 lars we must say that we were highly pleased and 

 gratified with his success. He has demonstiated 

 that a man need not be born on a farm to make a 

 good farmer. Mr. J. is driving at the grapes and 

 other small fruits with his usual energy, and the 

 first attempt at a large orchard of the May cherry 

 since leaving that of Mr. Wakeman is on his 

 grounds. He has some two hundred of the trees 

 making a fine growth among his fifteen feet corn, 

 fed from his heaps of compost. He has dosed his 

 small fruits and grapes with the same, and they 

 are making a remarkable growth. 



Our next call, though like the last, was unoffi- 

 cial, on our friend J. H. Stewart, of the { 



QUINCT NURSERY. 



Mr. Stewart was born a nurseryman, bred a 

 nurseryman, and is a nurseryman and a horti- 

 culturist in every respect. His trees and plants 

 exhibit these facts on every hand, and if there is 

 twenty-five acres of nursery anywhere in the 

 West better selected, better arranged and better 

 cultivated, we have not seen it. The varieties 

 are selected in regard to this latitude and are 

 valuable. The May cherry islrgely cultivated, 

 being the only variety found valuable thus far in 

 this part of the State. Mr. S. is doing consider- 

 able in the way of grapes, and has se'ected the 

 Delaware as his favorite. We must think that in 

 some soils this grape does much better than in 

 others. Here it grows nearly as strong as the 

 Isabella. The vineyard contains a thousrnd vines 

 of Delaware, Concord and Diaca. 



GBAFTINQ THE GRAFB. 



Mr. S. has been very successful in grafting the 

 grape, for which he uses the Jlinton for a 

 stock. The scions have on two to three buds; 

 uses a waxed thread, but no wax otherwise; 

 clefts grafts in all cabes, and binds with the 

 waxed thread; covers with earth. Delawares 



