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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



Apeil 



THE PEACH BUDS. 



On examining the buds to-day, Feb. 27th., we 

 find that, as a general thing, they are little in- 

 jured — not enough on any of the leading sort to 

 create any alarm. A variety purchased for the 

 Columbia, but not true, is the worst off. Sev- 

 enty-five per cent, killed ; Early Crawford, say 

 ten per cent. ; Early Tillotson, fifty per cent. ; all 

 others about five per cent. 



ORCHARDS AT MAKANDA. 



Makanda is next in importance to South Pass 

 in the way of fruits. Messrs. T. J. and F. Evans 

 Bold their home plantation to a gentleman from 

 Maryland, for $10,550, all cash. This plantation 

 ' has on it 7500 peach, 500 apple and 400 of the 

 pear, one to three years set. These brothers 

 have another farm at this point, on which they 

 are to set sixty acres in the spring. Messrs 

 Deo & Co. have 200 quince, 50 of the May cherry' 

 1500 peach, all three years set and fruiting lasf. 

 year, and 400 of the apple, three years in the 

 orchard. B L. Wiley, 3000 apple, a large nura 

 ber of which are the Newton Pippin, and which 

 promise to prove valuable. Messrs. Hadley & 

 Harkehode, 450 peach, six years set, and produc- 

 ing large crops the lat^t season. Dr. Peltoni 

 200 peach. Mr. Shaw, 300 peach. These are 

 but a few of the planters at that point. 



COTTON CULTURE. 



"We learn from Col. Ashley, that all the cotton 

 seed produced at the Jonesboro cotton gin, has 

 been disiributed m the immediate neighborhood 

 of the gin for planting?, without c! arge to the 

 farmers, but it cannot be purchased at any price 

 as the owners of the gin ma'' e it a point to in- 

 crease their own business at home, insist that 

 the seed be retained in the neighborhood. If 

 seed is furnished at the stations along the rail- 

 road in time fcr planting, a large breadth would 

 be put in. 



SORGHUM 



is at this point the great crop ho'^by ; but (he 

 prospect of an early opening of the river south, is 

 throwins cold water on it, and if the cotton seed 

 comes to hand, less of this will be planted, if not, 

 8 large breadth will be planted This season is 

 very favorable to the sorghum and its growth 

 has been thus far highly satisfactory. 



-<••- 



— Wh^n a fellow is abf^ut to be burned by the 

 •avktres. Ills very existence is at stake. 



[For the Ulinols Farmer.] 



Some Things That I Have Learned. 



I have learned that a farmer who leaves his 

 legitimate business and embarks in merchandis- 

 ing or any outside speculation in no wise con- 

 nected with his farming, is in danger of losing 

 his farm. Nine»fenths of those who have lost 

 their farms in the last five years in this county, 

 may attribute their losses to the mistaken notion 

 that they could make money easier and faster in 

 some other business. 



I have learned that a man who is in the habit 

 of trading at one store and at another store, and 

 at half a dozen stores during the season, on cred- 

 it, and thinks in the fall he owes about fifty dol- 

 lars, will be more likely to find when he settles 

 with all, that he owes the fifty with a figure one 

 at the left hand of it. 



I have learned that the only safe way for a poor 

 man is to pay for everything he consumes in the 

 family at ihe time of purchase; he will then be 

 more capable of judging which will do him the 

 most good, the merchandise or the money laid 

 out some other way. 



I have learned that there are many things that 

 we think we need, which, by adopting the above 

 rule, we are forced to do without, and we get 

 along just as well and are just as happy. 



I have learned that it will do sometimes to buy 

 seeds and farming utensils at reasonable prices, 

 on credit, when the probabiliiy is tha' the use of 

 them wili be worth several times the interest. 



I have learned that nine tenths of the agricul- 

 turJ machines offered for sale are of no use 

 whatever, unless it be to line the pockets of the 

 sellers, and some even fail to do that. 



I have learned that whoever buys a machine or 

 any oth<r thing on credit and pays for it when 

 he agrees to, can buy again on credit when hehas 

 occasion. 



1 have Iparned that men who pursue agricul- 

 ture merely for the purpose of supporting them- 

 selves and families, and not from any love of 

 the business, seldom do more than accomplish 

 the primary object. 



I have learned that what people can do well 

 they generally like to do, and wtiat they can- 

 not or do rot do well, is irksome. 



I have learned that a farmer who takes two 

 or three good agricultural papers, like the It- 

 Li>ois Farmer, and p' ys *'>r them in advance, 



invests his money wheie i: brings him an enor- 

 mous interes . S W. Arnold. 

 Cortland, DeKalb Co., Ills., March 1, 1862. 



— The above is most excellent advice, and 

 some of our readers will do well to heed it. — 

 Mr. Arnold has promised us further instalments 

 of the same sort. Send it on, we like this 

 kind of talk. Ed. 



