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THE ILLI^'OIS FAKMER. 



Nov. 



caution farmers to watch its effect in the direc- 

 tion mentioned. 



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Hand Exgine. — II. M. Austin, of Chicago, 

 has sent us one of theae valuable implements. 

 The wife can use it to wash down the windows, 

 the gardener uses it to syringe the plants in the 

 green house ; to wash ofi" the shrubbery; and the 

 boys delight to fire into the nests of worms on 

 the apple trees ; in fact, it has become an indis- 

 pensible article of household furniture — even 

 for washing potatoes and dishes with almost as 

 much ease as an ordinary " biddy." One person 

 manages it with ease, but in case of a fire, it be- 

 comes invaluable. It is generally the case that 

 when a fire is first discovered, that a pail full of 

 water T»ell directed, wiil put it out if rightly ap- 

 plied, but it is difilcult to apply it from the pail, 

 and the fire soon spreads beyond control. In all 

 such cases, this little engine would prove effect- 

 ual, for the water can be forced around the 

 flues, behind ths chimney, or other secret place, 

 where fires delight to kindie. If the fire takes 

 in the roof, with this a'd, you can throw on the 

 water before you could get up a ladder, even if it 

 was at hand. As a preventative of fires, it had 

 ought to be in every house, and kept ready for 

 use. The cost is but a trifle, and it will save 

 thousands of dollars. The gardener will find it 

 valuable, the koose-keeper will be pleased with 

 it, the fruit grower cannot do without it, and the 

 farmer may often save his buildings from the de- 

 vouring ek-meut by its use. 



American Pomological Society. — The under- 

 signed, President of the American Pomological 

 Society, congratulates the cultivators of fruit 

 and the public generally upon the gratifying pro- 

 gress which the science of Pomology has made 

 in our country. This advance is main'y to be 

 attributed to the establishment and influence of 

 Horticultural and Pomological Societies. Prom- 

 inent among these is the American Pomological 

 Society, embracing, as it does, within its organ- 

 ization all the States and territories of the 

 union, the Canadas and the eastern British Prov- 

 inces. This association held its ninth session in 

 the city of Boston, during the last month. The 

 attendance was large, embracing nearly two hun- 

 dred delegates and members, and in which four- 

 teen States and territories were represented. 

 The contributions of fruit were numerous, and 

 the discussions of a highly interesting character. 

 These, like the former proceedings, are to be 



published in the vclumes of the Society, and in 

 which will a'so appear the new catalogue of 

 Iruits, together with a list of the various States 

 and districts to which they are best adapted. 



All persons who are desirioua of obtaining 

 these Transactions, are respectfully solicited to 

 become members of the Society, by forwarding 

 to Thomas P. James, Esq., Treasurer, Philadel- 

 phia, or to the undersigned, at Boston, the req- 

 uisite fees. Ten dollars constitutes a life, and 

 two dollars a biennial membership. Life mtm- 

 bers will be furnished, as far as possible, with 

 the back volumes of the Society's publications. 



Persons dosirious of responding to this circu- 

 lar will please do so immediately, that their 

 names may appear in the forthcoming volume. 

 Marshall P. Wilder, 



Boston Mass., Oct. 25, 1862. President. 



Cutting Back Tkees. — We have a note from 

 Col. Bainbridge, now of Desota, Mo., late of 

 South Pass, and former owner of the magnificent 

 fruit farm of the Bro. Evans, just east of the 

 station at South Pass, (Cobdcn). The Col. is 

 making a new fruit farm at his new home, forty- 

 two miles south of St. Louis, on the Iron Moun- 

 tain Railroad. He has set out 7000 fruit trees, 

 4000 of them in ISGl,— the other 3000 the past 

 spring. Mobt of these peach he cut off all of the 

 side branches and the trunk to within two to 

 three leei of the ground. He has not lost half 

 a dozen trees in the entire setting, and now has 

 the finest growth that he has ever seen of cewly 

 set trees, and those of the second ytar are most 

 magnificent. 



Planting in Blocks — Each Variety — In set- 

 ting out his orchard, the Col. has set each var- 

 iety by itself, so as to facilitate the picking. la 

 a peach orchard this is important, and wiil save 

 a large amount of labor in gathering. We have 

 no doubt that the Col. will soon have one of the 

 largest fruit farms in M'ssouri. 



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I^^The Ohio Valley Farmer says : 



" It is not certain that we shall issue any more 

 numbers till the war is over." 



Our Ohio neighbors have been particularly 

 unfortunate. Cne reason, we think, has opera- 

 ted against them, is their attempt to make news- 

 papers instead of agricultural journals, thus 

 coming in compeiition with the blanket weekly 

 and daily papers filled with war news. 



