1862. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



349 



-.. ■■••TO FARMERS. 

 Ask your hardware men to send for the Steel Coni- 

 cal Husking Pins. At wholesale by the trade in Chi- 

 cago, ordeliyered at my office in the city at $5 per 

 gross, by ' - .0. SHERWIN, General Agent, 



P. 0. Box 722, Chicago, III. 



COTTON LANDS 



TO 



f ? 



The undersigned has 500 acres of the best cotton 

 lands in the State, under a good state of culture and 

 well inclosed, which they propose to lease for a term 

 of years from one to five. 



CONDITIONS : 



The renter will keep in good repair all fences, and 

 will pay as rent one-fifth the crop if of cotton, if com 

 ten bushels per acre, if wheat one-third of the crop, 

 the renter finding seed and deliver the rent in ware- 

 bouse on the premises. 



STEWART & CO. 



Clear Creek Landing, Union Co., 111., Oct. 1362. 

 3mo 



A NEW THING IN 



AGRICULTURE !! 



The undersigned has now perfected their 



BOTAKY SPADER, 



and are able to announce that they can produce im- 

 plements for next springs use — simple and durable — 

 that with two pair of horses and a driver, will pre- 

 pare grain and corn stubble for the seed in one-third 

 the time, and at one-half the cost of ploughing. The 

 width of cut being equal to three furrowa of the plow. 

 The action upon the soil the same as by a fork in the 

 hands of a man, 



rULYEKIZING THOROUGHLY, 



and leaving the surface leyel. Farmers that can 

 afford the instrument to seeure such advantages, will 

 get full particulars by addressing us at Milwaukee, 

 Wis. Price will not exceed $3.00. 

 Octf2m. COMSTOCK & GLIDDEN. 



D 



R. JOHN A. KENNIOOTT. 



THE GROVE P. 0., COOK CO., ILL., 

 Will retail, at only 25 per cent above cost of produc- 

 tion. Nursery Trees, Shrubbery, Flowering Plants, 

 Small Fruits, Large Evergreens, etc., of 600 sorts — 

 warranted good, true, and like to live. Price list and 

 infoemation, by mail, free. • , . ^ 



marSt 



PROSPECTUS FOE THE 



JOURNAL OF THE 



Illinois iState Agricultural Society. 



The Executive Committee of the Illinois State Ag- 

 ricultural Society believe the time has arrived, when 

 the publication of a Journal of the Society is impera- 

 tively demanded. Pursuant, therefore, to the duty 

 with which they are charged by the 5th section of the 

 Constitution of said Society, revised and adopted by 

 the meeting of delegates from County Agricultural 

 Societies, held on the Pair Grounds, at Jacksonville, 

 Sept., I860, they have made the necessary arrange- 

 ments for the issue of such Journal, monthly, com- 

 mencing with January, 1862. 



Each number will contain at least 32 pages (octavo) 

 of reading matter, composed principally of such por- 

 tions of the Transactions of the State and County 

 Societies, and communications on the subjects of 

 AGRICULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, 

 Mechanics and Natural History, as may require early 

 publication. 



All premiums offered and awards made hy the State 

 Society will appear in its columns. 



All pertons, and especially Secretfiries and other 

 officers of County Societies, are respectfully requested 

 to communicate to the editor any matters of general 

 interest to the industrial classes, as may from time to 

 time arise in their respective localities. 



To place the Journal within the reach of all, the 

 subscription price has been fixed at 



FIFTY CENTS A YEAR ! 

 Barely sufficient to cover coat of publication, payable 

 invariably in advance. 



Back numbers for the current year will be furnish- 

 ed untU. the edition is exhausted. 



All subscriptions and communications may be for- 

 wai ded to the undersigned, Springfield, Ills. 

 : JOHN P. REYNOLDS, 



Cor. Sec. and Editor Journal. 



STAND AKD 



SCALES 



OF ALL KIXDS. 

 ' Also, Warehouse Trucks, Letter Presses, Ac 



FAIRBANKS, GREENLEAF & CO. 



172 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO, 



Sold in Springfield by 



,, ^^ , *,, E. B. PEASE. 



Be careful and buy only the genuine. junel-ly 



THE YELLOW NANSEMONO~ 



IS THE ONLY VARIETY OF SWEET POTATO 8 THAT 

 has given entire satisfaction in the northwest.- Our stock 

 of the above in store for next springjs unusually large, and 

 of the best quality — propagated from the 



BEST LARGE POTATOES 



Selected from many hundred bushels ; and the completion 

 of our railroad to Eockville will enable us to fill and forward 

 promptly all Cash Orders with which we may be favored, at 

 the very low price of if 5 PER BARREL for eastern funds 



Responsibib Agents Wanted in every county, town, and 

 village, to sprout small lots on halves, farmers can club 

 together and buy or sprout our potatoes in shares, and thus 

 secure good plants for themselves free of cost. 



The Sweet Potato Cultueist, giving full directions for 

 Sprouting, Plantinu, Cultivating, and Keepiug, will be fur- 

 nished gratis to Agents and Customers ; and to others by 

 mail, jJOit paid, for twenty-five cents in stamps. Aderess, 



;. W. TEM OK, 



