1862. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMRE. 



281 



|^°The wheat crop of Ohio is one of the 

 largest ever grown in the State. The Cincinnati 

 Gazette of a late date says : " The wheat crop 

 hab just been gathared in the Miami country, 

 and for the most part throughout the State. It 

 is the best and largest crop of wheat produced 

 ia Ohio since 1850. The crop of that year was 

 the largest ever grown in the State, and the lar- 

 gest average per acre. It is probable that the 

 crop of this year will be equal in amount to 

 that. The crop of 1850 was 21,500,000 bushels. 

 That of this year may safely be put down at 

 30,000,000." 



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United States Agricultural Society. — This 

 profound institution seems to be in the last sta- 

 ges of a collapse. It has determined that its 

 nest annual exhibition shall consist only of a 

 wine fair — to be held at the city of Washington, 

 on the second Wednesday in January, 1863. 

 Premiums are offered on Catawba, Herbemont, 

 Isabella, Scuppernong, Delaware and California 

 Mission grape vines. In all cases the awards 

 are to be silver or bronze medals. The United 

 States Agricultural Society is great on medals. 

 Why didn't the managers include Lager Beer ? 



Catalogues Received. — Wholesale of E. Moo- 

 dy & Son, Lockport, N. Y., an immense stock of 

 pears and other fruits. W. R. Prince & Co., 

 Flus^iinsr, Long Island, New York, several 

 specialties including strawberries, bulbous, 

 flowers, and ornamental trees and plants. 

 N. R. & M. D. Willson, West Bloomfield, N. Y., 

 a general assortment of fruit trees. Messrs. 

 Elwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., an im- 

 mense stock through the whole range of nur- 

 sery products. 



Iowa Agricultural Society Report. — This 

 report is just at hand. It is highly creditable to 

 the State, as well as the Secretary, Geo. Willson. 

 Last year the Society spent nearly a thousand 

 dollars for seeds, which were distributed through- 

 out the State. 



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Field Notes and the Ohio Farmer. — These 

 have now been consolidated, and S. D. Harris is 

 editor. 



The Field Notes is discontinued, and the Ohio 

 Farmer published at Cleveland as usual. The 

 Col. has given up going to the war for the present. 



New Elevators. — Ii addition to the present 

 extensive facilities in Chicago for receiving grain 

 we learn that two first class Elevators are being 

 built on the South Branch by two of our leading 

 warehouse firms.to be completed in a few months 

 and to be furnished throughout with the most 

 approved machinery including twenty-three of 

 Fairbanks' 500 bushel Hopper Sales which is 

 a sufficient guaranty that currect weights will 

 be given. Besides these, the Messers. Fairbanks 

 have set in this city in a little more than a year, 

 about seventy 500 bushel Hopper scales and a 

 dozen o: so smaller ones making over a hundred 

 in all. So perfect is the machinery, that each 

 scale may be loaded and unloaded in ten or twelve 

 minutes which gives some idea of the enormous 

 amount of grain which may be weijrhed upon 

 them all in a single day. Let the farmers of the 

 Northwest raise their immence crops of grain 

 and the railroads and canal transport it to Chica- 

 go ; there is no doubt but our means for reciv- 

 ing, storing and shipping it will keep pace with 

 thefdemand — Chicago Evening Journal. 



contents: 



September 255 



Planting and Cultivating Corn 255 



A Visit to Dr. Pennington, etc 255 



Frog Hunting in Cayuga County 258 



Report of Fruit Committee of Illinois to Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society 259 



Report of Fruit Committee 261 



Depth for Planting Seed 262 



Potatoe Yeast 263 



Chicken Pot Pie 26.'? 



Clover will Grow in Egypt 264 



Loss in the Battle of Cedar Mountain 265 



Hard Ways of Doing Things 265 



The Great Reaper Trial, etc., etc 266 



Communication ....273 



Side Shows at the Reaper Trial 274 



The Flower Garden 274 



Stamping Fruits 274 



Elder Bushes vs. Curculio 274 



The Curl of the Peach Leaf 274 



Culture of Bees — Ventilate Your Hives 275 



The Ever-Blooming Rose 275 



Summer Chickens 27 



Leaf-Curling Caterpillars 276 



A Successful Ice House 276 



Hints on Manure 277 



Value of Hay Compared with other Milk Produc- 

 ing Substances 277 



Editor's Table: 



When to Dig Diseased Potatoes 277 



Strawberries 278 



A New Use for Kerosene Oil 278 



Butternut Stock for Peaches 278 



Corn Stalks for Mulch 278 



Horticultural Fair at Chicago 278 



Premium Lists of County Fairs 278 



North Western Fruit Growers Companion 279 



Peaches in Egypt 279 



Is the Pig a Grazier? 279 



Jerusalem Artichokes 279 



Bursons' Binder 280 



A Hint to Sugar Beet Growers „,..280 



Coal Tar for Fence Posts 280 



Horse Fair, Chicago 280 



United States Agricultural Society 281 



Catalogues Received 281 



Iowa Agricultural Society Report 281 



Field Notes and the Ohio Farmer. 281 



