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are badly injured, but we presume enough-left for 

 a fair crop. With us the fruit buds are nearly all 

 sound. The prospect at the present •writing is, on 

 the whole, good lor all kinds of fruit, and as the 

 spring will open unusually late, we shall have less 

 than the usual misgivings on the subject. 



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White Willow. — We learn that the Saliz Pau- 

 pura, or purple willow, which was sold some half 

 a dozen years since for willow prices, has been laid 

 under contribution for the white willow. One man 

 of our acquaintance, we understand, has done a 

 good trade in the cuttings. So we go. 



CONTENTS: 



Editorial : page.. 

 April 97 



Flax Culture 9S 



Fruit at Cobden .....100 



Agricultural Implements 101 



Mo. State Ilort. Society 101 



Sugar and Sirup llefinery at Quincy 101 



Fruit Prospect 101 



Poetry : 



Winter Winds 101 



God Speed the Plow 101 



ACRICULTUitE : 



Substitute for the Common Hop 102 



Land Sales 102 



Cuuistock's Improved Patent Rotary Spader.103 

 List of Premiums for Winter Meeting, 1861..105 

 Cider and Ocher Wines 108 



IIoitTICL'LTURE : 



Proceedings of the Mo. State Horticultural 



^ Society 109. 110, 111, 112, 113 



Hardest Varieties of Grapes for Cultivation 



at the North 114 



Ohio Pomological Society 115 



Dwarf Apple Trees 116 



DoMEsric Economy : 



Plumb Pudding without Eggs 117 



Uoiled Potatoes 117 



A Plain Custard 117 



A Plain Pudding 117 



Vinegar Recipe. 117 



Dumplings 117 



Potato Crust 117 



Ginger Snaps 117 



Hair Oil JI7 



Editor's Table: 



Trial of Implements 117 



State Fair 117 



The Culture of Cotton .'.'.V.'.'.'.*.V.'.'..'".'.".'ll8 



Culture of the Sweet Potato '."".'.'."'.""."'.118 



Coal Mining Ug 



Pruning Shears 120 



DuPage County Nursery ,„ 120 



State Horticultural Society Proceedings 120 



The Prairie Farmer 120 



Sugar From the Beet 121 



Flax Cotton , i21 



Hovey's Seed Store !!.'.'.'.'.'.'. "!l 21 



Seed Lists Received , ..121 



Cook's Nursery „ ,'..!l22 



Our Advertisers 122 



State Agricultural Society '.*.'.'.'.!!.' 122 



Catalogue and Book Record 122 



Quarterly Journal of the 111. State Ag. Soci- 

 ety — Gratuitious 122 



Seeds from Wasbington....'.".'!!!."".'.".'.'".'."" '"i22 



Farmer Advocate ]22 



Prospect of the Peach Crop.!!*".'!!! 122 



White Willow .li^l!!ii!!!!!!!"lii[m 



Agents. — We do not appoint any agents — all are 

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 in any^ place. , 



Enlarge Yoi:r Club. — Will not the friends of 

 the Illinois Farmer inquire how many copies of 

 the Farsier are taken in their respective iffices, and 

 pass around among those who ought to have their 

 names added to the list? Our terms are so low to 

 clubs of ten and twenty that we ought to have ono 

 or the other made up at every office in the State, and 

 at every ofiBcc iu Central Illinois, one of twenty or 

 more. Will our friends, and the fi'iends of practical 

 agriculture see to it, and thus lay us under renewed 

 obligations? 



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