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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEK 



March 



■Winter NeHs, dwarf, market and fami v. 

 Promise Well— Beurre d'Aremberg, dwarf, mar- 

 ket and family. 

 Vicar of Wakefield, dwarf, market and family. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



General CuUivation — Wilson's Albany, market. 

 Macavoy's Superior, home market and family. 

 Longworih'w Prolific, market and family. 

 Mouroe Scarlet, M:uket and family. 

 Promise Wei! — Cremont's Perpetual or Imperial, 

 (a local name), market and family. 



BASBSERBIES. 



Promise Well— American Purple and Purple 



Cane, family. 

 Ohio Everb' aring, home, market and family. 

 American Native Black Cap, market and family. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



For General CultiTation— Lawton, market and 



family. 



It was on motion. 



Resolved, That inasmuch as many experiments 

 are being made to test the different varieties of 

 the grape, this See ety will not at this annual 

 meeting recommend a list of grapes for general 

 culiivatton — tit. Louis Democrat. 



— The above will be of value to our Egyptian 

 headers, as combining the experience of their 

 Missouri neighbors with soil and climate similar 

 to their own. Ed. 



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The Peach crop in central Illinois. 



At this writing, (February 22d) the peach buds 

 are badly injured. For some days preceding the 

 14th inst., the weather was warm and thawy. 

 That day we were at Quincy on the Mississippi 

 river; the streets were muddy, and the enow 

 slush made them particularly disagreeable. Soon 

 after we left on the 4 p. m. train for home, the 

 wind suddenly veered to the north, and before 

 midnij^ht the cold was intense, sending the mer- 

 cury at least ten degrees below zero. The re- 

 sult is a wide gap in the next peach crop. Upon 

 examining the buds in our own grounds this 

 morning, we find but few sound ones on the bui- 

 ed varieties, while on some of the seedlings a 

 tolerable supply remains. As the cold was less 

 intense in this section than further west, we 

 judge that the peach crop is nearly ruined in the 

 central part of the State. 



Our trees sheltered from the severe wind that 

 prevailed on that night are less injured than 

 others, and also on the southeast side of the 

 trees, there is a show of live buds. 



from the Chicago Farmer's Advocate. 



Sorghum. 



Seeing an arfcle from your Beloit correspond 

 ent complaining of the price of crude sorghum 

 simp, viz : 35 cents a gallon. I prupose to give 

 the expenses of raising the cane and preparing 

 it for manufacture. B-it if I prove that it can 

 be made a paying crop at present prices, I do 

 not see as it will aflFect Mr. C, as he claims his 

 home market as 15 cents higher than Chicago. 

 Unfortunately we have no such homs demKnd 

 here in Central Illinois, but we think if the price 

 will remain stationary in Chicago, we can make 

 it pay even here, as facts and figures are what 

 we want: 



Rent of an acre of land 



Plowing 



Marking off and dropping seed . 

 Harrowing in ... , 

 Cultivating .... 



Stripping and topping 

 Cutting and hauling one mile 



Total cost per acre 

 He gives i for manufacturing, and al- 

 lowing 160 gallons per acre, it leaves 

 the producer 80 gallons 



$15-00 



— Small faults, indulged, are thieves to let in 

 greater. 



Barrels and freight to Chicago 



Total cost per gallon . 

 Market price 



Total profit per gallon 

 Gallons to the acreas above 



80)15,00 



18|c. 

 5 



2310. 

 35 



llic. 



80 



Total pr( fit per acre - . $9 00 

 It is generally considered to be more profita- 

 ble to raise the cane and buy the mills and man- 

 ufacture the sirup than to get it worked up on 

 the shares. This will give a greater profit than 

 the figures will show. 



At these figures itwill pay better than anything 

 farmers can raise, and if the refiners can take 

 all that is raised, we may consider that this 

 branch of industry as one of the leading 

 staples of our State. It will also help to curtail 

 the vast amount of grain raised, and help to 

 bring the price up to living figures. I should 

 like to see the experience of others on this sub- 

 ject, and would suggest that they give the names 

 of their post office, county and State, as the cir- 

 culation of the Advocate over so many degrees of 

 latitude, and what may be applicable to one 

 place is not to another. C. N. Milks. 



Galva, Henry Co., His. Feb. 1862. 



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— Jones lost his wife, and his friend Brown, 

 in the same sorrow, calling to condole with him, 

 to his surprise found him sitting with his ^eet 

 on the fender andcozily smoking a cigar. Jones 

 saw his surprise, and mournfully remarked, 

 glancing at his friend's hat — "It's a hard case, 

 Brown. You seem to take your consolation 

 out of one kind of weed, and I out of an- 

 other." 



