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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



Aug 



that this State will be represented at the meeting. 

 It will probably be out of our power to be pres- 

 ent on account of the business relation that we 

 hold to our State Horticultural Society, but the 



fruits must go forward from Chicago at all events. 



Ed. 



Growing Black Walnut Trees. 

 HoMKR, III., June 27. 



Ed. III. Farmer, Sir: — I conclude to say a 

 word on the subject of raising walnut groves, as 

 it is a subject in which every farmer living a mile 

 or more from the timber should be deeply interest- 

 ed as the time required to raise a grove is not so 

 long but what most any man, let him be ever so 

 old, may rersonably expect to see it grow to its 

 most beautiful, if not useful, proportions. It is 

 true that I have not bad much experience, but 

 what I have had may be useful to others. To 

 commence : Last fall I engaged my walnuts (in 

 the hull) at fifceen cents per bushel, and received 

 fifty-two bushe's which I had poured down in the 

 field near where I wish to plant them and throwed 

 a few armfuUs of fodder over them to keep the 

 Bun from drying them out too much. The ground 

 in which I intended planting them was in corn, 

 and had been laid by with two furrows in a row. 

 I dropped a walnut to every hill of corn, and on 

 the right hand side of the row so that it would 

 be convenient to break the middle out and turn 

 it over the walnuts. I planted in October in 

 lands of about sixteen rows going up on one side 

 and down on the other so as to have the mole 

 board next to the walnuts all the tinde. In drop- 

 ping, the foot should be placed on each one press- 

 ing it into the ground so as to prevent it from be- 

 ing rol'ed out of its place by the horses' feet. 

 By this process two hands will plant about three 

 acres per day — nine or ten bushels to the acre 

 My object in planting ^o thick is to get rid of 

 cultivating as early as possible, which will be in 

 about three years ; also the ticker they are the 

 straighter they grow. If they are well covered 

 about two-thirds will grow. I committed one 

 error and thav was in not getting the stalks off 

 the ground last winter while the ground was fro- 

 zen, as I find it very troublesome to cultivate 

 among them. 



So far as the qality of the timber is concerned 

 there can certainly be no question as to its pre- 

 ference. It will stand as much trapming as 

 any other and is never injured by plowing,and I 

 know of no timber which is more useful for all 

 purposes than the walnut. 



Yours, &c., 



P. C. MOSIEB. 



— We would recommend in all cases of timber 

 planting on the prairie, that itbe planted in belts 

 rather than in groves, thus adding shelter to its 

 other values. Black walnuts are certainly a val- 

 uable timber, and wiH make a good orchard or 

 belt in a few years. Ed. 



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Kindness to Animals. 



Visiting a large Dairy and Stock Ranch in 

 Marion county lately, we were exceedingly grati- 

 fied to listen to listen to the practicol remarks of 

 the proprietor upon the utility and value of kind- 

 ness to cattle ; and having often urged this mat- 

 ter in our columns, we take this oportunity to 

 call the attention of all Dairymen and Stock- 

 owners, especially those who are Dairymen, to 

 the remarks of this humane man : 



"In the first place," said he, "I never allow 

 any man in my employ to whip, beat, kick, or 

 abuse, any animal on my farm;| as it is inhuman to 

 beat or maltreat a dumb beast, I will not allow it 

 on principle. And again, 1 wish everybody 

 would act on the same principal, and (hose who 

 have no humanity, if they would lock at the cost 

 of beating cows, they wo^uld desist. For exam- 

 ple," said he, "let a coarse rough man go among 

 thirty or forty cows at mills ing time, and begin 

 to speak loud and harsh to the cow he is to milk; 

 or, as puch a man will often do, thump or kick 

 the cow, or strike her with the stool, as unfeel- 

 ing men often do, aud that cow and every cow 

 within his influence will hold up her milk ; s^me 

 more, some less. This is an established fact; 

 and every such man among a band of cows will 

 thus take away from the products of the Dairy 

 from three ro five gallons of milk daily in a band 

 of forty cows. 



"As it is customary for one man to milk 

 twelve or filteen cows as his portion, these cows 

 will be scattered over the yard or in different 

 stalls, and as he will have to pass among nearly 

 the whole band, they will all feel and fear his in. 

 fiuence, and I am confident a man of this charac- 

 ter will always lose his employer more than his 

 wages. With this view of the case, I never will 

 keep a man on my premises who is of this char- 

 acter." 



We would plead with all Dairymen, and ask them 

 to review these facts, give us their opinions, and 

 copy the example of this humane and wise man, 

 whose words are here quoted, and they will find 

 themselves the gainers largely by a decisive ac- 

 tion. If our Dairymen and Stock-raisers would 

 discharge all men who are harsh and cruel to 

 their stock, they would have better stock, more 

 butter, and be in a better condition everyway. — 

 Stock Journal. 



Locusts. — These pests have made their appear- 

 ance again, in this county, and are more plenti- 

 ful than they have been within the memory of 

 the "oldest inhabitant." The timber is literally 

 freighted with them. They will undoubtedly do 

 a vast deal of damage to the young timber. — 

 Paffe Co. Herald. 



