1862. 



THE ILLINOIS FAKMEK. 



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be where it will, Chicago, Cincinnati, or New 

 Orleans, and on the average we haye been large- 

 ly the gainer. We load our own cars and thus 

 have only the freight and selling commission to 

 pay ; the profit that falls to the middle man goes 

 into our own pocket. Last month we saved over 

 forty dollars in being our shipper on a single 

 car load of potatoes. 



We would always advise parties selling for the 

 Chicago market, to ship to a reliable commisMion 

 house, on their own account. Two years since 

 we invested fifty dollars in grain sacks to enable 

 us to do our own loading and in which to ship 

 potatoes and select lots of grain, and we have 

 made at least fifty dollars besides the oost of the 

 two hundred sacks. This is not an occasional 

 occurance, but what we often see an opportunity 

 of doing. After harvest the grain stations 

 swarm with grain dealers, all of whom must 

 make a profit either in a direct margin, cheating 

 in weight, in grade, bad money, or dowright 

 stealing of the whole. There is not the least 

 necessity for this class of men. All you have to 

 do is to ship directly to some reliable house in 

 Chicago and have the nett proceeds returned by 

 draft or express. The warehouse men at the 

 stations, as a general thing, are reasonable in 

 their charges, and can assist you if you choose ; 

 we have always found them gentlemen, and op* 

 posed to this system of swindling. In shipping 

 we prefer to pay them for the work and take the 

 risk of the market ourself. If they purchase, 

 it is right that they should be paid for the risk, 

 and they often lose largely by holding for better 

 prices, thus attempting to speculate. There is 

 little risk in buy.ng and selling from day to day, 

 but always where held for an advance, when in- 

 terest and storage make fearful inroads into the 



profits. 



• i«i — 



American Fomological Society. 



In conformity with a resolution adopted at the 

 last meeting of this National Association, the 

 undersigned. President thereof, gives notice that 

 its Ninth Session will commence in the Hall of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, corner 

 of Washington and West streets, Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, on Wednesday, September 17th, 1862, 

 at 12 o'clock, noon, and will continue for several 

 days. All Horticultural, Pomological, Agricul- 

 tural, and other kindred institutions in the United 

 States and the British Provinces, are invited to 

 send delegations as large as they may deem ex- 

 pedient, and all other persons interested in the 

 cultivation of fruits are invited to be present and 

 take seats in the Convention. 



The present season promises to be the most 

 propitious for fruit that has occurred for many 

 years, and it is anticpated that the coming ses- 

 sion, which takes place at the same time with 

 the Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, may be made one of the most 

 interesting which has ever been held by the So- 

 ciety. All the States and Territories are urgent- 

 ly invited to be present, by delegation, at this 

 meeting, that the amicable and social relations 

 which have heretofore existed between the mem- 

 bers of the Society, may be fostered and perpet- 

 uated, and the result of its deliberations, so ben- 

 eficial to the country at large, be generally and 

 widely diffused. 



Among the prominent subjects to be submitted 

 at this session will be the Report of the Special 

 Committee appointed to revise the Society's Cat- 

 alogue of Fruits, and thus to ascertain what va- 

 \ rieties are adapted o the different sections and 

 districts of our country. The various State and 

 Local Committees who have not already made 

 their Reports on the Revision are therefore soli- 

 cited to forward them, without further delay, to 

 P. Barry, Esq., Rochester, N. Y., Chairman of 

 said Committee. And it is further requested 

 that all other Reports, which are by i he by-laws 

 made returnable to the General Chairman of the 

 Fruit Committee, now deceased, may also be ad- 

 dressed to Mr. Barry, as aforesaid. 



Members and delgates are requested to con- 

 tribute specimens of the fruits best adapted to 

 their respective districts — to furnish descrip- 

 tions of the same, their mode of cultivation, and 

 to communiaata whatever may aid in promoting 

 the objects of the Society and the science of 

 American Pomology. 



Each contributor is requested to come prepared 

 with a complete list of his collection, and to pre» 

 sent the same with his fruits, that a report of 

 all the varieties entered may be submitted to the 

 meeting as soon as practicable. 



All persons desirous of becoming members can 

 remit the admission fee to Thomas P. James, 

 Esq., Treasurer, Philadelphia, or the President, 

 at Boston, who will furnish them with the Trans- 

 actions of the Society. Life membership, ten 

 dollars ; biennial, two dollars. 



Packages of fruits may be addressed as fol- 

 lows, "American Pomological Society, care of 

 Mass. Hort. Society, Boston, Mass." 



Marshal P. Wilson, Pre«2rfen^ 



Thohas W. Field, Secretary. 



— The report on local fruit list for this State 

 will be ready noon and forwarded. We trust 



