1863. 



THE ILLIKOIS FAHMER. 



make them useful for fences we shall have accom- 

 plished an important result. There are 



OTHER WILLOWS - 



That will make good fences, in fact the whole 

 family of the tinber willow, such as the golden 

 so common thromghout the country is but little 

 inferior for this purpose, while its great beauty 

 should give it a place in the fence row. In put- 

 tinf out fences of this kind we should use it liber- 

 ally with the white and others for the sake of a 

 contrast. We do not call these hedges for they 

 are not, but more properly live fences. 



We have no doubt but that crab apple will make 

 a good fence, as will the common seedling apple 

 as we have samples of them now growing, not in 

 fences, it is true, but when they have been planted 

 in nursery rows for the past six years, now present 

 and impenetrable fence to all live animals except 

 hogs. 



OF HEDGES AND SCREENS. 



For a hedge or screen that will turn fowls, pigs 

 and stock of all kinds, the Barberry must stand as 

 number one. A hedge of this is absolutely bird 

 proof, and when planted about the garden or house 

 grounds, will effectmally protect it from approach 

 except over it or through the gates, for orchards 

 against bipeds it is very valuable. The prejudice 

 against it on account of rusting wheat is not well 

 founded, and it should be given a very important 

 place on the farm and about the gardea. It bears 

 shearing remarkably well, and the wood being soft 

 and twigs small is easily cut with the common 

 hedge shears. In May and the first of June it is 

 beautiful when in flower, ani its profuse crop of 

 delicate red berries makes it attractive during 

 the autumn and winter. 



Tke Privet will make a good screen and is also 

 highly ornamental when it will stand, but should 

 not be put in exposed positions. With us it loses 

 its leaves late in winter and thus becomes decidu- 

 ous. 



There are, doubtless, other trees that will make 

 good fences, but the list above is sufficient for all 

 practical purposes, and if we use them to advant- 

 age, we shall lessen our bills for dead fences which 

 are of no other value than to protect our fields 

 from unruly stock, while the live fence adds to 

 this great beauty, wards off drouth, and holds the 

 moisture in our fields when most needed. 



Advice Gratis. 



Out in a town not far from Hartford, Conn., a 

 lellow owed a neighbor a small sum of money^ and 

 agreed that when he killed his hog he wou^4i- 



vide pork with kim to settle the claim. When the 

 time for buthering came round he came to the con- 

 clusion that he wanted the whole hog himself ; but 

 how to get out of the bargain troubled him. He 

 finally consulted an acquaintance who was noted 

 for " strategy," and laid the case before him. Ac- 

 quaintance said — ^' It is easy enough ; I'll tell yoUj 

 how to manage it. You kill the hog in the after. ' 

 noon, and after it is dressed hang it out on a tree, 

 so that your neighbor can see it. Then, late at 

 night you go and take the hog in and pack it 

 down. In the morning tell yonr neighbor and ev- 

 erybody else that somebody stole it." 



"I'll do so," said the fellow. i J , 



He carried out the instructions, hung the hog out 

 and only waited for late hours to come, to finish 

 the business. 



In the meantime, however, the acquaintance 

 who had advised the movement, came round and 

 carried the hog off so that when the owner went 

 out after it, and looked where it was, it wasn't 

 there. This, of co«rse, was a state of things not 

 anticipated. The next morning he met his adviser, 

 and said to him : 



" I did just as you told me ; huqg out the hog, 

 but when I went out at midnight, somebody had 

 stole it." ' 



" That is right ; stick to it." 



" No, but honestly, somebody did steal it." .*. 



" That's it ; stick lo it." ' ~ V 



" D — ^n it, won't you believe anything ? I say 

 somebody did really, actually steal it." « 



" That's it, stick to it ; nobody will ever think 

 your carried it into the house. Big thing on your 

 neighbor, eh ?" 



Cure of Hydrophobia. 



We find the following remarkable case of the 

 cure of hydrophobia reported in the New York 

 papers : 



Oscar Bmrch, a shipwright, was bitten on the 

 10th inst., upon the right hand. The wound was 

 slight and he gave it no attention. On the Sun- 

 day night following, symptoms of hydrephobiaset 

 in, and it became necessary to bind him. He was 

 unable to swallow, was convulsed at the sight and ' 

 sound of water, and tried to bite. 



Four physicians called did not afford him any 

 aid. He complained of pains in the back of his 

 head and along the spine, radiating around the 

 body. On the ISth, Dr. Louis Baur, the Health 

 Officer of Brooklyn, took entire charge of the case 

 and actuated by the theory that the poison had 

 expended its violence upon the spinal cord, as it 



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