1863. 



THE ILLIS"OIS FAEMEE. 



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the necessity of paying out $100,000 for this fruit, 

 because they had not the article at home. Peaches 

 and plums we may be able to get along without, 

 but apples we must have — ^for the desert, and for 

 the dinner basket of little boys and girls who can- 

 not come home from school to dine, and for many 

 other usea. We say then to every farmer plant an 

 orchard of at least a hundred trees. The trees are 

 all ready for you in the nursery, well grown and 

 grafted, two or three years from the bud. Get 

 thrifty trees, of varieties that you know will flour- 

 ish in your locality, and in four years you will be 

 eating fruit from them. Do not fail to plant an 

 apple orchard this very month. — Scientific Amer- 

 ican. 



Raspberries. 



" Of all things !" 



The friend was in our cellar by invitation, of 

 course — and taking a critical view of some cans of 

 Brinckle's Orange, their peach-tinted sides lying 

 up against the glass most aggravatingly, as much 

 as to say, " Don't you wish you could get at us ?" 



" Brinkle's Oranse, you call 'em?" 



"Yes." 



" How do you raise 'em ?" 



" Set them out; the good Lord grows them, and 

 we pick the berries." 



"Prolific?" 



" Very, and a long time in bearing." 



" Hardy ?" 



" Not entirely, we cover them winters." 



" Oh ! that spiles it all— I never can bother with 

 such things." 



No, he never bothers with them, and never, of 

 course, has them. The berry — "fit for the gods" — 

 draws on the cultivator for a little kindness during 

 the winter, and rewards the favor— how abund^ 

 antly and lusciously' in the summer. Can't botlier! 

 Now, just below the house at the foot of the hill, 

 our Brinkle's are snugly abed for the winter's rest, 

 cozy under a light coverlid of earth and mulch! 

 The process cost us a few hours of brisk exercise 

 with the spade, and a few drops on the brow. For, 

 as the Scripture hath it, "in the sweat of thy face" 

 Shalt thou eat Brinkle's Orange Raspberries, The 

 job was a pleasure, for while we put down the canes, 

 we conversed quietly, and thought gratefully of the 

 goodness of Him who gave us such luxuries "in their 

 season ; thought of the cans sealed and ranked in 

 the cellar and shortcakes in mid-winter ; of the 

 reward of the coming season if spared to enjoy it, 

 when the canes, reinvigorated by their sleep, shall 

 nod with luscious freight and drop the melting 

 cones into the basket by the bushel. 



We have time— a few hours each season— to 

 cover and care for the Brinkle's Orange. The 

 investment pays. So of the strawberry, the Law- 

 ton and the grape. Let others whine about the 

 bother ; we'll suffer that, and the punishment of 

 navmg and enjoying the ■ berries.— IFis. Chief. 



Luxuries of Home Production. 



Mr George Taylor, Gardner and Nurseryman 

 well known to all our citizens, has demonstrated 

 tbe present season what may be done in the wav 

 ot producing a variety of luxuries on a single acre 

 ot ground, mostly used as a garden and nurlerv. 



We have seen occasionally that he had a few 

 grape-vines growing, but the idea that he had a 

 vineyard never occurred to us until a day or two 

 since, when we had an opportunity to taste a bottle 

 of delicious wine of his manufacture the present 

 season, made from grapes of the Clinton variety. 

 He informs us that he has made about twenty gal- 

 lons of the same sort, and we have the authority 

 of some of our first physicians for saying that for 

 medicinal purposes it cannot be excelled by any 

 foreign article. 



Mr. Taylor, too, has gone a little into tobacco 

 growing, and we have seen a dozen cigars made 

 from a portion of his small crop, manufactured by 

 himself, which looked equal to the best Havanas 

 — we never test the weed by use. He has also 

 manufactured a plug or two. This is promising 

 for the lovers of the universal narcotic while the 

 war puts an embargo upon it, and may be encour- 

 aging to any one who chooses to grow it as long 

 as the manufactured article sells for a dollar a 

 pound. 



Mr. Taylor has also experimented with chickory, 

 and we have before us a prepared sample, not un- 

 like Rio CofiFee, in looks, taste and smell. It is 

 largely used, as most of our readers know, in the 

 adulteration of the inferior kinds of ground coffee, 

 and some people prefer the mixture. At all events 

 it is much cheaper than the Arabian berry^ and in 

 these hard times may be worth cultivating. Mr. 

 Taylor can furnish seed to those who may desire 

 to try the experiment. 



In this connection we may mention that Mr. 

 Thomas Hodgson, a neighbor and relative of Mr. 

 Taylor, has raised some well-developed balls of 

 upland cotton, the fibre of which, to us, looks as 

 well as that grown at the South. With the pres- 

 ent huge prices of the raw and manufactured arti- 

 cle, it may be worth while to see if it cannot be 

 raised extensively hereabouts. We believe it can. 

 — Henri/ County Dial 



Large Yield of Corn. — The largest yield of com 

 we have heard of this season was produced by Mr. 

 Adam Dutter, living three miles northwest of "this 

 city. Mr. D. informs us that he has raised this 

 season, on a piece of land that he has taken a con- 

 siderable trouble to manure and prepare for that 

 purpose, one hundred and fifteen bushels per acre, 

 measured corn, and thinks that if weighed it would 

 overrun that amount. His corn was planted in 

 drills, and thoroughly cultivated. This illustrates 

 one fact that should be noted by all farmers — ^that 

 Illinois land will bear manure ; and if they would 

 do this and cultivate a less number of acres, they 

 would get larger yields, which, undoubtedly, would 

 be more profitable, and also strengthen and in- 

 vigorate the land for after crops. If there are any 

 other farmers who have been experimenting, and 

 can show a larger yield of com to the acre, we 

 would be pleased to have them report. — Peru (HI.) 

 Hercdd. -X-- 



Illinois Cotton. — A firm in Chicago have re- 

 ceived a consignment of 459 pounds of cotton 

 raised by a farmer near DuQuoin. It sold wadily 

 at Chicago at 80 cents per pound. 'IhefJcurnal 

 says, "The cotton is just as good, perfect tod mar- 

 ketable as any we hate ever seen that was raised 

 in the Southwest." ' 



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