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THE ILLmOIS FAEMER. 



^Sept. 



give attention to their irrigation. And besides 

 these, the Alpine varieties will furnish their 

 fruits from the closing of the Pines until their 

 growth is arrested by the freezing of the ground. 

 Yours, very truly, 



Wm. R. Prince. 



— For Transactions of Illinois State Agricul- 

 tural Society, apply to J. P. Reynolds, Secretary, 

 ak Springfield, Ills. 



Cannot give the list of strawberry cultivators, 

 but hope to soon. Most of those at South Pa=s, 

 (Cobden Station) will be found in the April num- 

 ber of the Fahmek. Mr. P. is a little sharp on 

 the Rev. Mr. Knox. We have no doubt Mr. K 

 has put his foot in it to some extent. Go ahead 

 gents, the strawberry is bound to win, but we 

 shall watch you all sharps, that is all of you who 

 have new sorts to sell us. We will soon have to 

 dab, the strawberry the Queen of summer fruits 

 — cheaper than potatoes and about the same size, 

 if we take into account the new sorts that are 

 soon to be produced. We are out with the "big" 

 strawberry for home use, but they will do for 

 market for sometime yet. We have no doubt 

 that many of the new sorts of Mr. P. will prove 

 valuable, and hope they will have a fair trial by 

 our growers. His climax we fruited the past 

 season and are pleased with it. 



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spading machine of Comstock & Glidden, should 

 have been tried bat was not, and an automatic 

 scale to weigh grain from the threshing machine 

 or warehouse, an ingenious and valuable inven- 

 tion. 



The Flowbr Garden. — When white lillies, or 

 any other spring flowered bulbous plants have 

 done flowerang, and the stems died away, they 

 should be taken up and re-set ; the disease in lil- 

 lies often met with is probably caused by their 

 being too long in one place. 



Most of what is to be done now in this depart- 

 mant consists of the routine duties of neatness, 

 tying up, pegging down, removing faded blos- 

 soms, collecting and destroying insects, etc. 

 Many suffer their flowers to produce seed, but 

 this injures the flowering. If it be particularly 

 desirable to saVe seed of some things, allow only 

 just as much to ripen as will be needed. In 

 some cases, cutting off the flowers as fast as 

 they fade, doubtless the season of flowers. 



Auriculas, Polyanthus, Pansies, Daisies; and 

 other of these flowering, half hardy plants, com- 

 mence their root growth about the end of this 

 month, when the time has arrived for re-plant- 

 ing. Good, fresh, and yet half decayed; and 

 from a pasture field, is the best to grow them in. 

 Those who have the advantage of pots and frames 

 cannot re-pot at this season. — Gardener'sMonihly. 



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Side Shows at the Beaper Trial. 



The Board had advertised for all kinds of im- 

 plements to be present at Dixon, but the show 

 was not large, in fact it was but a poor place 

 aside from the specialtty, as the rasult proved, 

 and wo think the manufacturers made nearly a 

 dead failure of it. 



H. A. Pitts & Co., Chicago, had one of their 

 superb threshing machines ; P. B. Hubbord, of 

 Sterling, had one made in Ohio; James "Vaughn, 

 of Magnolia, and M. L. Gillman, of Ottawa, 

 power corn shellers. P. W. Gates, of Chicago, 

 a sorghum pan and crushers. Messrs. Clark 

 & Alter, of RocSford, Mr. Cory, of Lima, Ind., 

 Mr. McFarlane, of Ottawa, all had sorghum 

 pans. 



T. A. Gait, Sterling, grain and seed sower and 

 a band cutter. This last is to be attached to the 

 feed apron of any threshing machine, and will 

 cut the bands as the bundles enter the cylan- 

 der, thus saving considerable labor. Mr. Spaf- 

 foid, of Decatur, had a fine well made sulky two- 

 hose corn cultivator, doubtless a valuable im- 

 plement. To this, we add churns, washinfi ma- 

 chines, clothes wringers, knitting machines, 



Stamping Fruits. — A German journal pub- 

 lishes the following : 



*' At Vienna, for some time past, fruit deal- 

 ers, have sold peaches, pears, apples, apri- 

 cots, etc., ornamented with armorial bearings, 

 designs, initials and names. The impressions of 

 these things are effected in a very simple man- 

 ner. A fine fruit is selected at the moment it is 

 begining to ripen — that is, to take a red color — 

 and paper, in which the designs are neatly cut, 

 is affixed. After a while the envelope is removed 

 and the part of the fruit which has been covered 

 is brilliantly white. By this invention the pro- 

 ducers may realize large sums. 



Elder Bushes vs. Curculio. — A man in Mich- 

 igan reports that for three years he has kept the 

 curculio from his plums, and raised good crops 

 by tieing elder bushes to branches of the trees. 

 It had to be done every few days, from the set- 

 ing of the fruit until full grown. 



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The Curl or the Peach Leaf. — The Ohio 

 Earmer says the remedy for the blistering of the 

 peach leaf is to sprinkle the trees, just before 

 opening of the flower buds, with a mixture com- 

 pounded of equal parts of lime, flour of sulphur, 

 and soot, dissolved in water. 



The British naval forces on the North 

 American and AVest India Stations now number 

 thirty-three vessels carying 821 guns. 



