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THE ILLmOIS FAHMEE. 



Feb. 



To the list of field crops was added $10 for 

 the best half acre of tobacco, and $10 for the 

 beat half acre of the sugar beet. The premium 

 on coffee you already know. On cotton, for best 

 five acres, $100; best half acre, $<25. Best bushel 

 of cotton seed, the growth of 1862, adapted to 

 this State, $10. 



The usual farm committees were not appointed. 

 The competitors in place of having the usual ex- 

 amination must make a full report in detail of 

 their operations, upon which the Board will base 

 their award at the annual meeting. 



The Board have adjourned to Tuesday, Janua- 

 ry 25th, for the purpose of considering applica- 

 tions for the place of holding the next Fair, cor- 

 recting the premium list, and other business that 

 may come up at that time. 



Peoria and Sandoval have made formal appli" 

 cation, and there are informal applications from 

 three others, but the whole subject will come up 

 at the next meeting. 



The Legal Adviser — We have received among 

 our exchanges a monthly journal by the above 

 title, edited by Hon. E. M. Haines, Chicago. 

 $1 a year. 



The number for January contains several de- 

 cisions of the Supreme Court not yet published 

 in reports. We clip the following that are of in- 

 terest to our readers : 



•'Money paid under a misapprehension of facts 

 may be recovered ; so, also, if there be a total 

 failure of the consideration for which the money 

 was paid." 



The above will be good news to all those who 

 have made advances on worthless implements, to 

 responsible dealers, and will be a caution and 

 show how far it is safe to recommend an imple- 

 ment for the sake of making a sale. 



"Highways. — Where a road, after its survey 

 and location, has not been opened for the use 

 of the public, nor the proper notice given the 

 owner of the land to remove his fence, neither 

 the commissioners nor any other person can re- 

 move a fence without becoming trespassers. If 

 parties over whose land a road has been laid, 

 having notice, real or constructive, fail to claim 

 damages at the appropriate time, they will after- 

 wards be estopped. 



"The purchase of land and payment of the 

 money, followed by possession by the purchaser, 

 and the making of lasting and valuable improve- 

 ments upon the premisps by him, takes a verbal 

 agreement for the sale of lands out of the statute 

 of frauds, and entities the purchaser to a specific 

 performance of the agreement." 



" Railroad Corporations. — The act approved 

 14th February, 1855, requiring all railroads then 

 completed and open for use, to be fenced, and 

 imposing as a penalty for non-compliance, the 

 payment of all damages which may result to cat- 

 tle thereby, although such requirement was not 



exprpssed in their charter?, does not conflict with 

 the 17th section of the 13th article of the Con- 

 stitution. 



Acts of incorporation are subordinate to gen- 

 ernl police regulations. 



The act to regulate the duties and liabilities of 

 railroad companies, passed in 1855, applies to 

 companies previously incorporated. Since the 

 passage of that act railroad companies in IlUi- 

 Eois are liable foi injuries to cattle that may have 

 strayed on to their tracks, through the want of 

 the required fences or cattle-guards. If a rail- 

 road company has erected and maintained suffi- 

 cient fences and cattle-guards, then the onus is 

 on the claimant to show a negligent or willfulact 

 by the company, before he can recover." 



It is probaWe that the above decision under the 

 Act of 1855 only refers to cattle on farms adja- 

 cent to the track, for it hardly appears right to 

 compel the railroad companies to protect them- 

 selves against all the vicious cattle that people 

 might turn out into the common or highway. We 

 believe in compelling people that own stock to 

 take care of it, and to the holding adjacent own- 

 ers to a strict accountability to each other, and 

 compelling all others to fence in their stock, or 

 take care of it both as against farmers and rail- 

 roads. Where farmers gain seme undue advan- 

 tage against the railroad it is but natural that 

 they should retaliate in seme way. 



"Books of account are admitted in proof un- 

 der certain circumstances, as secondary evidence, 

 but not where the partly efi"ering the proof had 

 clerks or servants in his employ who could have 

 been called to prove the delivery of the goods and 

 the fairness of the entries." 



Farmers would do well to act on the above 

 hint, and when they have dealings with others to 

 any extent in the way of look accounts, get a 

 good sett of blank books and make their entiies 

 in a clear, intelligiV le manner, and not, as is too 

 often the case with farmers, in some little mem0"« 

 randum book in a slip-shod manner without date. 



Recipes for Cooking. — Not having bet ourself 

 up for a good cook we are not enabled to give our 

 readers whole pages of recipes for cooking, either 

 fancy or plain ; taking it for granted that every 

 family of any pretensions to good living are in 

 possession of a good cook book with its thousand 

 rccices for goodies, we have concluded that our 

 pages could be more profitably filled than with 

 reprints of these works, and not being a judge 

 we should be liable to make very many bad selec- 

 tions. So GOon as we can obtain a good lady edi- 

 tor who is posted in all manner of household du- 

 ties and has a charming style, we shall engage 

 her — for the Chief Clerk in the Farmer office. 



