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1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAKMER. 



157 



CONTENTS: 



Editorial : page.. 



May • • • ..129 



A Chapter on Flower Seeds 130 



-Scientific Culture of the Cranberry 131 



Poetry : 



Spring 131 



Agriculture : 



Combined Roller and Corn Marker 132 



Seeds from Wasihngton i 132 



Sorgho — Past, Present and Future 132 



Farming in Union County 142 



Agricultural College — Grant of Lands to the 



State of Illinois 149 



F^eld Trial of Agricultural Implements, &C.150 



Horticulture : 



Coal Oil tor Fruit Trees 133 



The Kirkebridge Winter Apple 134 



Ecypt as a Fruit Country 134 



How to grow Early Melons 135 



Injurious effect of Pruning on the quality of 



Fruit 136 



Fruit Growers Society of Eastern Pennsylva- 

 nia 145 



Grafting Large Apple Trees 146 



American Pomological Society Transactions. 137 



Tree Planting. , 139 



The French Merino Sheep 147 



True Benevolence 147 



Apple Orchards — Planting New Trees be- 

 tween the Rows 148 



Stock : 



Care of Sheep— Foot-Rot, &c 1 40 



About "Certain" Jack Asses 144 



MlSCELLANEOtrS : 



Large Land Sales.. 141 



Caty-did _ 141 



To Destroy Mice in iSreen Houses 141 



Glue for Ready Use 141 



Opedeldock 137 



Theory and Practice 142 



"Oriental Sugar Root." 143 



Number of Seeds in a Bushel .146 



Growing Peppermint 146 



Wool — Productive Demand and Prices 147 



The Petroleum Trade 139 



Fences and the Cattle Law of New York. . . .139 



Flower Leaves in France 139 



Humbugs 148 



Fairbank's Scales .149 



Abuse of Curb and Check Rein 151 



Nutting's Fanning and Assorting Machine. .152 



A simple Method of Growing Celery 152 



Editor's Table : 



Book Farming not wanted in Tazewell Co. .153 

 Journal of the Illinois State Agricultural So- 



Sooiety 154 



Hog Cholera 154 



To Manufacturers of Agricultural Imple- 

 ments 154 



Pruning of Newly Set Trees 164 



Ditcher and Corn Cutter Wanted 154 



White Willow : 155 



Fencing 155 



Box Elder 155 



Season at the North 155 



Cotton Culture 155 



Scientific American -. . t« 1-66 



The Horticulturist 156 



Flax Culture 156 



From Mt. Pulaski 156 



Show a copy of the Farmer ' 156 



Transactions of the Illinois State Hortiaultu- 



tural Soeiety 156 



The Horse Owner's Hand Book 156 



Sanford & Mallory's Flax and Hemp 

 Machines. 



These celebrated machines are on exhibition and 

 in operation in a building adjoining the Chicago Su- 

 gar Refinery. For circular telling all about them, 

 price, Ac, address NELSON SKILLMAN, 



General Agent, Chicago, 111. 



P.O. Box 5823. Mayl'63.1y 



MALTESE JACKS. 



TWO just imported from the Island of Malta, se- 

 lected with great care for breeding purposes. 

 They are three years old, 14 and 15J hands high. 

 Address, S. B.CARUANA, 



71 Pine street. 

 E.C. ESTES, 

 New York, May 14.1m 73 Hudson street 



EYEKGKEEN SEEDLmGS. 



A very large stock of superior grown Evergreen 



Seedlings, at less than one-half the Eastern Prices. 



PER 1,000. 

 Norway Spruce, two years old, 

 three to five inches, $5,00 



Norway Spruce, three years 

 old, six to nine inches, $8,00 



Scotch Pine, two years old, ;- 



three to five inches, $7,00 



Austrian Pine, two years old, $2 per 100. 

 Balsam Fir, Red Cedar, Arbartit^, &c., Ac, . 



of large or small size, at very low rates. 



A large stock of CONCORD GRAPES, one of the - 

 best varieties for the West. 



A large stock of RED DUTCH CURRANTS, the V ' -■ 

 best for market, two to three years old, at half the -ia 

 isual rates. ' " 



STANDARD AND DWARF PEARS, of well 



tested varieties, together with a good assortment of : ', 

 Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Ac, &. . : ^^' 



Send for Catalogue. ROBT. DOUGLAS/ . > 



Waukegan, III. tf 



TO GRAPE GKOWEES. 



The subscriber has a large stock of the most vigor- 

 ous growth layers of the following desirable varieties, 

 which he will sell at very low rates, to wit : 



CONCORD. $55 per 1,000. , " 



A few thousand of bearing age, of large size at . 



$75 per 1,000. 

 These will produce a good crop the second year. 



HARTFORD PROLIFIC, $10 per 1,00, or 

 ten for a dollar. 



REBECCA, $10 per 100. 



DIANA, $10 per 100. V 



The above will be well packed, 

 to go any distance. 

 Teems — Cash, or approved bank paper of 

 short date. 



JAMES SMITH. 

 DssxoiNES Iowa, Jan^ 1, 1863. 



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