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1862. 



THE tLLmOIS FAIIMEK. 



iH 



THE ILLINOIS FAEfflR: 



A MONTHLT JOtJRNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTiCULTURL 



IS PTTBUSHED AT SPRINGilBLD, ILfcS, 



BY BAILHACHE & BAKER, 



AND IS 



EDITED BY M. L, DUNLAP, 



(the "eural" op the chibaoo iBiBmn.) 



TBBMS IN ADVA* CB.— $1 a year; two copies 1 50; five 

 copies $3; ten copies $6, and one to getter up of the club 

 twenty copies $10. 



It is not necessaey that the club should all be at one office 

 — we send wherever the members of the club may reside. 



The postage on the Paemer is only three cents a year in 

 he State of Illinois, and six cents out of it. 



Specimens numbers sent free on application. 



Subsciiption money may be sent at the risk of the pub- 

 lisher. 



Exchanges and communications for the eye of the Editor 

 should be addressed, Iitiifois Faemeb, Champaign, Illinois 



All business letters are to be direcied to the publishers, 

 Springfield. •;; 



. U BAILHACHE & BAXER: 



THE ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL 



JS CONFIi ENTLT 0''PERED TO THE PEOPLE OF 

 Illinois as the best and most reliable neira, political, 

 'ind commercial paper within their reach. It is published 

 at Springfield, the Capital of the ^tate, and is the medium 

 of all official notices, published by State authority. Paitic- 

 xilar attention is given to commercial afbiiB and every 

 number contains copious reviews of the markets in the 

 principal cities. 



TERMS: • -. . ' '- 



Onecopyone year. ..» |2 09 



Three copies one year „.;. 6 00 



i Six " " , 7 60 



, Ten « •« „.J2 00 



Twenty " " , ....„......20 00 



Payable always in advance. Persons aendlng dubs of ten 

 8Uid up-^vards shall be entitled to an extra copy. 

 Address BAILHACHE * BAKER, 



, E^ringfirld, niinoia. 





THE 



ILLINOIS FARMER 



TERMS OP ADVERTISING : 



1 mo. 3 mo. 6 mo. 12 mo. 

 One page, or two columns. %% $20 $35 $50 



Half a page or one « „. 6 12 20 30 



One fourth page or half column.. 3 7 12 18 



One eighth or one fourth " jt 2 4 7 10 



One square of ten lines .'.... 1 2 4 T 



Card of five lines one year $7 00 



Ten cents a line for less than a square each insertion. 



All worthy objects advertised, and those of importance to 



the Parmer will receive, from time to time, such editorial 



notices as the Editor may consider them worthy of, without 



additional chuge. 



Implements and seeds to be tested should be sent dkect 

 to the Editor, at his residence, Champaign. , ,. ..-> 



We have put the price of advertising within reach of all. 

 It will enable those who like to freely adrertise their goods, 

 to do so at a cheap rate, 



Terms, cash. Yearly adverti4er8 will pay semi-annually, 



and all transient advertisements must be accompanied with 



. ■ . -t , - : 



the cash to insure insertion. •■ :>; />v«-r',.-», 



• -^ ' -^ 



BAILHACHE k BAKER, PubHshers, 



Sprm.field, Ills. 



PRINCE & CO.'S '^ 



LINN.®AN BOTANIC GARDENS & NURSERIES, 

 Flashing, Long Island, near New York. 



Priced Gatalosues, which are sent to purchasers 

 of trees, and to applicants who inclose stamps. 



No. 1 — Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamen- 

 tal tirees and shrubs, raspberries, currants and other 

 small fruits. No. 2 — Roses, carnations, chrysanthe- 

 mums, phlox, iris, double sweet Williams and other 

 berbaceoas flowering plants. No^ 4 — Wholesale cat- 

 alogue for nurseries and dealers, comprising trees, 

 shrubs, roses, plants, bulbous flower roots, scockg for 

 engrafting, etc No. 6 — Wholesale catalogue of veg- 

 etable, agricultural and flower seeds, and tree and 

 shrub seeds, etc. No. 6 — Descriptive catalogue of o«r 

 unrivaled collection of 160 select varieties of straw- 

 berries, with a "rejected list," and directions for cul- 

 ture. No. 8 — Wholesale list of native and foreign 

 grapes. No. 8 — Catalogue of bulbous flowers of every 

 class, together with tree and herbaceous pseonies, 

 dahlias, primroses, poleanthus, cowslips, auriculas, 

 daisies, iris and other rare flowering plants. No. 10 

 — Wholesale catalogue of the same. No. 18 — Cata- 

 logue (^greenhopse plants. No. 14— Descriptive 

 cataloguef of 400 native and 120 foreign varieties 9 

 grapes. 



