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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



April 



that we have seen from time to time, in which 

 we have confidence, but the above list will make 

 a good selection, at all events. We have five 

 acres of low headed trees three years old, but 

 all of them more or less injured by the hail 

 storms of July l9th, 1861. We intend to set 

 out twenty acres of orchard out of this lot of 

 trees during fbis month, and as they will be 

 severalycutbackin setting, the injured branches 

 will be out of the way. We sell these at eight 

 dollars per one hundred. Hereafter, our trees 

 will all be trained with low heads. We know 

 that the time is not distant when none but low 

 headed trees will be set. Nearly all varieties, 

 (perhaps all) will prove hardy, with low heads 

 and shelted by belts of trees so as to break off the 

 wind from all directions except the east. 



The Gkove Nursery. — The spring catalogue 

 of this nursery is on our table, and a card will 

 be found in the advertising columns of the 

 Fakmkr. His list of small fruits, ornamental 

 trees and flowering plants is not only extensive, 

 but the prices are remarkably low. In fact we 

 think his retail price will average as low as any 

 wholesale trade list of the east.. Those in want 

 of the beautiful, whether of trees, shrubs or 

 plants, will do well to consult the ' Old Doctor's" 

 catalogue. 



Chicago Board of Trade — Annual Report. 

 — We are in receipt of a copy of the above 

 through the kindness of Messrs. Hammil & Rey- 

 nolds, commission merchants. No. 161, Kinzie 

 St., Chicago. It is a pamphlet of one hundred 

 and ten pages, giving a fuU statement of the 

 trade of the city. Mr. Catlin, the secretary, has 

 shown himself an able officer in the tableting this 

 vast amount of statistical matter. The amount 

 of wheat received last year, was 17,385,002 ; 

 shipped, 15,835,953. The highest price paid for 

 spring wheat was. May 18th, $1 30, and the lowest 

 was fifty -nine cents the sixth of July, a pretty wide 

 range within a few days. The former price 

 was paid in stumptail and the latter in gold, 

 a wide range in the quality of the pay also. 



Humbugs — Illinois Coffee — Kendall's Tree 

 Cotton. — Some days since we sent a sample of 

 Mr. Hufi"man'8 " Illinois Coffee" to an eminent 

 botanist at Qermantown, Pa., to see if he could 

 piake out the plant. His answer is before us : 



" Your coffee is certainly a pea, very c'osely allied 

 to the sugar pea, but I do not think I have seen 

 the precise variety before. I will try and grow 

 a plant from the seed, and w'll then give you its 

 exact name." 



"Certainly it is a pea, and no doubt will make a 

 substitute for coffee, as hundreds of bushels of 

 "Java" coffee are now made out of peas. The 

 " Dandelion Coffee," now becoming so very pop- 

 ular, is made entirely of peas. Whether this 

 variety will be better than the •' Dandelion Coffee 

 Pea" I think doubtful. As your State society 

 has offered such handsome premiums for the new 

 pea, they should offer one for the old, that they 

 may have a fair and free fight together. 



I suppose you know the tree cotton humbug 

 has exploded ? (Kendall's plant, though in a 

 warm room when fire was kept twelve hours per 

 day, got killed with frost, as a correspondent 

 from his neighborhood writes me.) 



The Illinois Coffee has had a much shorter run. 

 Wonder what will come next ? Our people must 

 have something. Any one who "says he knows" 

 is sufficient authority for the value of any new 

 product, and "down goes the dust." 



Thus we sail on, one humbug succeeds another 

 in rapid order, and the general appetite appears 

 as fresh as ever. Knowing this, we regretted 

 the premature exposure of our "Illinois Coffee," 

 and we hope the next genius in this line will so 

 lay his plans that he will make a good thing out 

 of it. Alas ! poor old Huffman, he might have 

 been made rich, but his star culminated too soon; 

 his good friends the Hon. S. W. Moulton, 

 Cooper and the Hon. Sidney Breese have cut him 

 down, (all unintentionally) just as he was step- 

 ping on to the platform of fame, and just 

 ready to grasp success with his toil hardened 

 hands ; but such is the fate of genius. Mr. H. 

 is not the first great man spoiled in the making 

 up sic transit gloria humbug. 



DIED. — At Dixon on the 7th in«t., Kate Neva, 

 youngest daughter of Wm. H. and Maryanne 

 Van Epps, aged four years and six months. 



President Van Epps returned from the late 

 meeting of the board of the Siate Agricultural 

 Society, at Springfield, to close the eyes of his 

 little darling. We most cordially extend to the 

 bereaved family, our sympathies in their deep 

 affliction. 



Tobacco Culture. — In another part of the 

 Farmer will be found an interesting article on 

 the cultare of this plant. 



