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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



Jan* 



Golden Sircp from Sobghdm — At the meet- 

 ing of the State Horticultural Society, in Chi- 

 cago, the first week in December, the Chicago 

 Sugar Refining Company exhibited a sample of 

 refined sorghum sirup, equal in all respects to 

 the best Naw York golden sirup, and superior to 

 the Chicago golden sirup. The gentlemen hav- 

 ing it in charge reported that one hundred 

 gallons of the crude sirup makes ninety of the 

 refined, but as it is rebelled, the refined is thicker, 

 that is, will weigh more to the gallon. The real 

 loss of foreign matter is about five per cent. 

 The cost of refining of large a lot would be about 

 five cents a gallon. The amount would stand 

 ■with the farmer located one hundred and 

 twenty-five miles from Chicago, as follows : 



To freight to Chicago at 25 cents per 100 lbs .03 

 Refining ...... .05 



Return freight .03 



Cartage .01 



Value at home ..... .35 



.47 

 Nine-tenths of a gallon returned — cost per gal- 

 lon ,62} 



This sirup is sold at fifty-five cents per gallon, 

 which leaves a profit to the dealer of about three 

 cents the gallon. It is certainly the cheapest 

 sirup in market, as is proved by the demand, 

 which is much beyond the supply. One thing is 

 now a matter of fact, the West can bo in- 

 dependent of the South for the entire amount 

 of sirup used, thereby retaining at home some 

 millions of dollars annually. We do not say 

 they are independent, as yet, for even the large 

 amount made will Lot fully supply the demand, 

 though Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa will come 

 pretty well up to it. The stock is nearly out of 

 first hand?, but the retailers hold a good supply, 

 as yet. This is the first season that the sale of 

 it has become a regular business. Next year the 

 States indicated will doubtless make more than 

 they can use. All that can be made will find a 

 ready sale, as the extra consumption will absorb 

 a large amount. Of its culture we shall have 

 more to say in our next. 



Chicago Bank '^ote List — la the great va- 

 riety of paper money, one is in danger, as the 

 saying is, of heing sold. To avoid this, the abo^e 

 paper is of use. For §1 50 we have it semi- 

 monthly, often enough to guard against probable 

 loss. We have saved many times its cost, by a 

 timely consultation of its pages. 



Agricultural College, Chicago, Ills. — The 

 Board of Directors of this institution are : Zadoo 

 Casey, of Jefi"erson county ; James W. Singleton, 

 of Adams, Cyrus Edwards of Madison, Wm. H. 

 Van Epps of Lee, John P. Reynolds of Marion, 

 G. E. Walker of Union, Cyrus Thomas of Jack- 

 son, H. Blackstone of Shelby, Timothy A. Young 

 of Clark, M. L. Dunlap of Champaign, R. H. 

 Holder of McLean, Jas. N. Brown of Sangamon, 

 J. B. Turner of Morgan, H. C. Johns of Macon, 

 Wm. Roddick of LaSalle, H. Capron of Peoria, 

 Tyler McWhorter of Mercer, Wm. Gooding of 

 Will, Lewis Ellsworth of DuPage, S. M. Chnrch 

 of Winnebago, C. H. Rosenstiel of Stephenson, 

 E. H. Beebe of Jo Daviess, F. P. Brown of Hen- 

 ry, John A. Kennicott, John B. Turner, Cyrus H. 

 McCormick, Solomon Sturges, David A. Gage and 

 Henry Smith, of Cook. 



"For the benefit of farmers, young and old, 

 who cannot pursue an extended course of study, 

 a series of winter lectures, of a month's duration, 

 is contemplated, to be delivered by gentlemen 

 from the ranks of science, and from the farm, 

 the garden, the nursery and the vineyard, distin- 

 guished in the various departments ot husbandry. 

 This course will consist of from one to two lec- 

 tures daily, each lecture being followed by a dis- 

 cussion of the topic of the lecture, in which all 

 present will participate; thus eliciting from prac- 

 tical men much information which has not yet 

 taken the form of science. 



For adnsission to the winter course a fee of ten 

 dollars will be charged, except to contributors of 

 an amount not less ihan fifty dollars to the endow- 

 ment of the college, to whom perpetual free ac- 

 cess will b« granted ; and to contributors of 

 twenty-five dollars only half the admission fee 

 will be charged. 



This enterprise was inaugurated in June, 1860, 

 by the Trustees of the University of Chicago, 

 pursuant to its charter, procured in 1857; and 

 subsequently the foregoing Board of Directors 

 was appointed. Lands for the experimental farm 

 have been selected at Cottage Hill, fifteen mies 

 from Chicago, on the Galena and Chicago Union 

 Railroad, and the officers of the Board have gen- 

 erously secured to the faculty and students of the 

 college free access to and from the city. 



These lands, consisting of nearly three hun- 

 dred acres, present a'variety of topography and 

 soil, adapting them in a high degree to the pur- 

 poses for which they are designed. From the 

 most elevated point, nearest the railroad, they 

 descend southward, in beautiful undulations, to a 

 stream of living water, on a level at least sixty 

 feet below. The soil is of four distinct varieties, 

 all of which are highly desirable. These lands 

 are nearly all under cultivation and have on them 

 a house, barn, orchard and over two thousand 

 ornamental trees. In the choice of this location 

 for the farm, its proximity to the railroad and 

 the city, the character and variety of its soil, the 

 great beauty of the landscape, and the rich and 

 tasteful country seats adjacent, have had an in- 

 fluence. 



