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Scientific American. — The paper has become a 

 necessity to a large class of readers, and none more 

 so than the agricultural community. In it we have 

 a history of the inventive genius of the age, which 

 go to cheapen our goods, take the wrinkles from 

 the brow of care, or add to our pleasures. Every 

 farmer who has a family of boys should not fail to 

 take it ; every farmer who would be posted as to 

 progress made in agricultural implements and ma- 

 chines, should take it. In fact, it is to the farmer 

 invaluable, and should not be dispensed with. 



Address Munn & Co., New York city. $3.00 a 



year. 



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The Horticulturist. — The April No. of this in- 

 dispensable journal is at haad. It contains a col- 

 ored platt of the Delaware grape. The subject of 

 grape culture is continued ; and at this time when 

 this fruit is attracting so itiuch attention, is partic- 

 ularly valuable. 



The work is clubbed with the Farmer at $2,50 ; 

 or send $2 to Mead & Woodward, N. Y. 



Flax Culture has become something of mania 

 among our farmers. It is now too late to give ad- 

 vice in regard to it, further than weed it if very 

 foul for this will be found to pay. Weed out the 

 cockle and other ruinous weeds. 



A few days since we saw a lot of seed that was 

 more than half cockle. The owner attempted to 

 clean it, but gave up the job in disgust and sent it 

 to market. 



Mt. Pulaski, March 10, 1863. 

 Dear Sir : — In your next number of the Illinois 

 Farmer, give an article on the subject of raising 

 sheep ; their feed, and especially whether or not 

 parsnips are good for them ; and also, wbat are the 

 principal preventatives and remedies for their dis- 

 eases, and oblige yours truly, 



Subscriber. 



— ^We shall give stock growing more attention 

 soon — Ed. 



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Show a Copy op the Farmer. — Those of our 

 friends who wish to do a good deed will show the 

 Farmer to their neighbors, and thus add to the 

 general stock of knowledge, by increasing its cir- 

 culation. Several subscriptions have of late been 

 received from this cause. Roll on the ball, and 

 roll up a big list for the paper, and then each indi- 

 vidual sit down and give us his experience in farm- 

 ing. 



He who kindly loves, loves warmly. 



Transactions of the Illinois State Houticul 

 tural Society. — This work, a pamphlet of one 

 hundred and forty pages, is at hand. It contains 

 a vast amount of valuable horticultural lore, not 

 otherwise accessible. Price forty-five cents. Ad- 

 dress 0. B. Galusha, Lisbon, Kendall Co., 111. 



The Horse Owner's Hand Book. — By Dr. G. H. 

 Dodd. This is a practical work, and deserves a 

 place in the library of every owner of a horse, and 

 especially the farmer. We shall draw from it oc- 

 casionally. In mean time our readers should order 

 it of Emery & Co., Chicago, III. 



Peaches in Egypt. — J. A. Carpenter writes us 

 from Cobden, that the prospect for peaches on old 

 trees on high land is good. The last of July rich 

 men's peaches will be plenty here at two dollars a 

 bushel. The third week in August poor men's 

 peaches at twenty-five cents a bushel at the ex- 

 press office. 



— A lady, upon being told a friend wished to 

 see her, desired her little daughter, about eight 

 or nine years of age, to say that she was not in ; 

 upon this, the friend being anxious to have an 

 interview, asked the child when her mother 

 would be hkely to return. The little thing very 

 innocently said, calling up stairs, "Mamma, the 

 lady wishes to know when you will be in !" 



— A soldier who can get oflF a laugh over the 

 loss of a hmb, must be of pretty good stuff. 

 Passing along one of our thoroughfares a few 

 days since, we met a poor soldier who had lost 

 one of his limbs in battle, slowly walking on his 

 crutches. A friend meeting him cried, "I say, 

 Jim, how is it that you went away with two legs 

 and came back with three ?" Oh, bedad, I made 

 fifty per cent on it !" was the reply. 



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— The first, the most important trust God has • 

 given to any one is himself. To secure this 

 trust. He has made us so that, in no possible 

 way can we benefit the world so much as by 

 making the most of ourselves. 



f^"Col. Ooburn, of the 33d Indiana, who 

 was captured some months since with his com- 

 mand at Franklin, Tennessee, and has been re- 

 leased from the Libby prison at Richmond 

 since the Stoneman raid, has been appointed by 

 Gen. Hascall Commandant at Camp Carrington, 

 Indianapolis. 



