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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEK. 



To H0RTICUITUEIST8 EvBRTWHiBK. — I have in 

 my hands a quantity of volumes of the pro- 

 ceedings of the North-Western Fruit Growers 

 AsBOciation, which I will donate to the Society 

 for the purpose of aiding in printing the minutes 

 for the last two years, as follows : Any person 

 not a member of this Society, who will send $2, 

 shall receive per express, the " Transactions" 

 for four years already published, the foithcom- 

 ing volume and tho last volume of the " Trans- 

 actions of the Illinois Agricultural Society." 

 This will entitle the applicant to membership in 

 this Society for the year 1363. 



A. B.. MiNIER. 



Franklin Grove, Lee Co., III. 



The above liberal ofiFer I endorse fully, as 

 President of the Illinois State Agricultural So- 

 ciety. Geo. W. Whitney. 



All papers favorable to the cause of Horticul- 

 ture will please copy." 



— The above is a rare offer and one that 

 should be promptly accepted. The volumes 

 offered are exceedingly valuable and out of 

 print. No other person has full sets of the 

 North-Western Fruit Growers Association, and 

 we do not think the stock of friend Whitney in- 

 exhaustible. The Transactions of the State Ag- 

 riculturnl Society are worth the two dollars 

 without any other consideration. 



Sorghum. — A State Sorghum Convention is to 

 be held in Columbus Ohio, on the 6th of January 

 next. It it estimated that twelve millions of 

 gallons of eyrup have been made during the past 

 year. The Buffalo Commercial says : "We see 

 it stated that in the central part of the State, 

 parties are ready to buy up ^ the syrup that is 

 offered to supply the CinciAati market. The 

 retail price generally ranges from fifty to sixty 

 cents per gallon. la all parts of the State the 

 sorghum crop has been remarkably good this 

 year. There have been about 5,000 mills sold 

 in the State during the past summer, which, ad- 

 ded to those sold in former yeirs, makes an ag- 

 gregate of about 11,000. 



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State Fair of Oregon.— Simeon Francis, for- 

 merly Corresponding Secretary of our State Ag- 

 ricultural Society, is the President of the Oregon 

 State Agricultural Society, and which held a 

 fair in October last. In the address by Mr. 

 Boise, we clip a truth as valuable to the west as 

 to Oregon: 



" Farming here must be modified to sait the 

 climate and soil of the country. The farmer 

 who comes hither from Illinois must change hi» 

 corn to wheat and other small grains, and genu 

 erally adapt himself to his new circuttstances. 

 Fruit cannot be produced here in pasture and 

 meadow lands, as in tha Eastern States, bat 

 must be grown in gardens and cultivated in 

 fields. So we cannot rely on the publications of 

 farming in the east as a sure direction for farm- 

 ing here. A new system is to be developed, 

 and it is for the industry and talent of the peo- 

 ple of Oregon to develop it, and this is the proper 

 province of practical working men." 



— Here the farmer must adapt himself to new 

 modes of culture and make selection of new 

 staples. 



The Rural New Yorker. — This journal, hith- 

 erto so popular at the west, has become more 

 western, having taken editorial rooms at No. 69, 

 State street, Chicago, which are in charge of C. 

 D. Bragdon, for several years editor of the Prai- 

 rie Farmer. Had not friend Moore always shown 

 a sunny side towards the west, we might.be dis- 

 posed to take umbrage at his invasion of our do- 

 main, but as he has had the good sense to em- 

 ploy a western editor, and also in consideration 

 that he has always been agreeable and instract- 

 ive, we welcome him to a closer acquaintance. 

 Push on the good work friend Moore, there is 

 room for all, as we need the assistance of all 

 able pens to advance the great Agricultural and 

 horticultural interest of the north-west. 



Agriculturai. Papers op the West. — The 

 oldest of them is the Prairie Farmer, now in its 

 twenty-third year. It has been long acknow- 

 ledged as one of the valuable institutions of the 

 west. Weekly, $2. Emery & Co., Chicago. 



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Faruers Advocate. — This has been changed 

 to a monthly at $1. J. Bonham, Chicago. 



lo^A Homestead. — A valuable weekly agri- 

 cultural paper from the capitol of Iowa. Mark^ 

 Miller, Desmoines, Iowa. $2. 



Wisconsin Farmer. — A journal that the farm- 

 ers of Wisconsin could not well do without. 

 Monthly, $1. J. W. Hoyt, Madison, Wis 





