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THE ILLINOIS FAKMER. 



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borhood. They are easily moved from place to 

 pUce. These machines have for a long time 

 been manufactured at Albany, New York, by 

 ■\Vheeler. Melick Ji Co., whose card, from time to 

 time, Las appeare I in the Farmer. Of late, 

 they have attached a self-acting break or gover- 

 nor, that in case the band runs off the the ma- 

 chine is at once stopped. Tliis has been a long 

 netded improvement, and now there is littln more 

 to ask of genius in this line. For grinding or 

 sawing wood these machines are valuable. 



Ed. 



Blooded Stock. — Last Monday commenced 

 the sale of the personal property of Thomas 

 Si'"pkins, deceased. We attended on Tuesday 

 ]a>t, and found a large crov^d present. There 

 were several buyers from a distance. What 

 we saw sold went pretty high, with but one or 

 two exci'piions — considering the tightness of 

 the tiaifs. A three year old filley went for 

 $139 Twenty-five two year old steers sold for 

 over $30 a piece. Simpkins' culebrat'-d bull, 

 MMrshall P llissier, was bid off by A. W. 

 B "'.wn, near Perry, at $460. We presume this 

 noble animal has not his equal in the State. 

 He took two premiums in England; and he has 

 taken county and State premiums wherever he 

 has been exhibited. He cost Mr. Simpkins 

 aboui $3,000. We are glad that the Marshall, 

 as well as several other fine animals from the 

 iHimpk ins' estate, do not leave Pike county. — 

 Pike Co. Democrat. 



Singular French Trial. — At an assize court 

 lately held in Calvados, France, M. Leprevost, 

 the postmaster of Courselles and a retired 

 army captain, a man of good reputation hither- 

 to, was tried for stealing money from letters 

 and fur foigery. His daughttr, who was origi- 

 nally included in the indictment, ccmmitted 

 suicide in prison by sticking pins and needles 

 in her chest. The case was complicated by an 

 accu-ation against Captain Leprevost for geduc- 

 , ing I his daughttr when she was only 13 y ars 

 old; and by a counter charge of the prisoner 

 that one of the principal witnesses against him 

 was a postotiice inspector, who was a lover of 

 Mdlle. Leprovost, and who brought thi-se 

 false charges against the father. The Captain 

 was acquitted of all the charges but that of 

 forgery, and was sentenced to imprisonment 

 for life. 



— The Charleston Mercury tells its country 

 readers to save their goose quills, as the supply 

 of steel pens will soon give out. If all the 

 gee'p i" the South have quills, the supply will 

 be ample. 



Sorghum Molasses. 



No great revolution of its kind probably has 

 ever taken place than the intrO'Juction ancl suc- 

 cessful culture of the Chinese sugar cane in the 

 Western States. But five or six years ago it 

 was almost totally unknown am ng us, now it 

 ■ has become one of our staple products, dtstined 

 to hold as important a place as corn or wheat. 

 It would not at all be difficult to detect the hand 

 of Providence in it, for now, since we are shut 

 oflF by a necessary blockade, from our former 

 sources of supply, we are not only manufactur- 

 ing it in quanties sutficient for home consiimp- 

 tion, but actually shipping it cff to other mar- 

 kets. 



Neirly every farm in this county of any con- 

 siderable size, has its mill and evaporator, and 

 we may say tbat, almost without exception, every 

 farm has its patch, greater or les-", of sugar cana. 

 The quantity of moiasses made this year wil far 

 exceed that of any previous year. The quality 

 is also far superior. 



Mr James ^c^ipps & Sons up to this period, 

 have made nearly two thousand g illons. Mr. 

 John McCreery, Juhn Harrington, Henry Kirk- 

 ham, James Ellis, and many others are manu- 

 facturing largely. 



We are iutormed that the cane this year is 

 largely adulterated with broom corn. We would 

 advise farmers to send abroad and procure'a pure 

 article of seed for their next crop. Otherwise it 

 will certainly prove a failure. — Schuyler Citizen. 



la this county of Champaign, the increase is 

 likewise great, and doubtless full up to the local 

 demand, at the same timg the consumption is 

 double, on account of the abundance and cheap- 

 ness of the supply. Just now, when sugars and 

 all other sweetnin^ has grown dear, this comes in 

 good time to fill up the deficiency. In one di- 

 rect'on we saw four mills within a distance of 

 four miles, three of them wooden, with an average 

 capacity of one hundred and fifty gallons a week, 

 each, and the other of iron, of three hundred, 

 in all seven hundred and fifty gallons a week. 

 This, at thirty-five cents a gallon, is worth two 

 hundred and fifty dollars, multiply this by six, 

 the boiling season, and we have fifteen hundred 

 dollars of sirup in less than six miles square. 

 This may not look large, but multiply it by the 

 number of townships in the county, and we have 

 a respectable sum saved to the county, or at least 

 adding so much to the health and comfort of 

 living. We will guarantee that these one hun- 

 dred casks of over forty gallons each, will save a 

 deal of qainine, calomel and rhubarb that is taken 

 for ague and fever, that the sirup will ward off. 



Ed. 



Insects which Destroy the Army Worm. — 

 The Ohio Farmer mentions the discovery in that 

 State, bf iwo insects which feed upon the cater- 

 pillars ol the army worm. Success to them. 



