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THE ILLmOIS FAEMEK. 



Aug. 



Weeds, and How to Get Rid of Them. 



DVJVLAP'S \NLED HOOK. 



Weeds are everywhere in the corn fields, in 

 the fence corners, in the garden, In the flower 

 border, and most luxuriant in the weied fallow — 

 here thej loom up in giant proportions. We have 

 a dozen acres or more of this unoccupied land 

 besides headlands and incidental patches, which 

 no common plow, unaided with other implement, 

 can turn under, but with the aid of our weed 

 hook are doing it so nicely that we can not resist 

 the temptation of again giving the cut to our 

 readers, as above. The cost of it is but little 

 over & dollar — perhaps two, if well made. From 

 the demand there must be in wet seasons like the 



present for weed killers, the plow makers would 

 do well to keep them on hand. They Ujust be 

 got up right or they are of little use. After sev- 

 eral attempts we have the pattern and will send 

 it to any plow maker who will return it and pay 

 the charges both ways. With it we can turn the 

 longest and biggest green weeds directly under 

 the furrow out of sight, where they will quickly 

 rot and thus fertiliae the land. For the turning 

 under of a crop of clover, Hungarian grass, or 

 buckwheat, it is jast the thing. No farmer will 

 do without one after he has once seen it at work. 

 It has not been patented. 



Dandelion Coffee. 



This preparation, made from the best Java 

 coflFee, is strongly recommended by physicians 

 as a superior nutritious bevfrage for general de- 

 bility, dyspepsia and all billious disorders. Thou- 

 sands who have been reluctantly compelled to 

 abandon the use of coffee, will find they can use 

 this combination without any of the injurious 

 effects they formerly experienced. The pure 

 dandelion coffee can be had at Wilson and Ir- 

 win's. — Attica Ledger. 



— That is cutting it rather fat, Mr. Ledger. 

 The idea that this preparation is made of pure 

 Java is all boeh, as there is not an ounce of Java 

 in a ton of it, but it is made of pure sugar peas, 

 and not even warranted against the pea bug, 

 which may possibly give it the flavor of dande- 

 lion, but otherwise there is neither dandelion or 

 Java about it, and any physician who recommends 

 it, is either a humbug or is sold himself. Should 

 the "fool killer" come around we fear some of 

 our M. D.'s would need to invest in pine coffins. 



Being at a village store a few days since we 

 observed on the end of a box "Pure Coffee, 16 

 Cents." On looking into the box we saw packa- 

 ges labeled "1 ft). Pure Boasted Coffee," Such 

 barefaced, downright swindling is almost too 

 bad, yet it reminds us of a principle in law in 



^regard to slander, it being laid down that charg- 

 ing a percon with doing an impossible thing was 

 no slander — calling a person simply a thief is 

 slander of the deepest dye, but to charge him 

 with stealing a saw mill is no crime ; so in this 

 case, should any of this so called coffee come up 

 missing, and some innocent person be charged 

 with the crime of stealing coffee, it would be no 

 slander from the fact that the thing was impossi- 

 ble. 

 It is astonishing that people will swallow such 



a transparent humbug. Pure ground and roast- 

 coffee at sixteen cents, at retail, when a common 

 article of Rio can not be purchased by the sack 

 for less than twenty cents. Can not our village 

 mechanics and other gentry avail themselves of 

 the use of figures. Will not some philanthropist 

 make them a present of a slate and pencil. 

 Great is humbug, and great the impudence of 

 the coffee roaster who has the boldness to thus 

 dupe an innocent and confiding people. The 

 army has lost a valuable sutler by his remaining 

 in private life. Dandelion coffee! how romantic 

 the name, how redolent of early spring, when we 

 are to eat bitter herbs to correct the bile that 

 lazy winter had gathered in our systems. Why 

 not add to this cowslip coffee, for a diuretic and 



