The 



Farmer, 



VOL. VIII. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., AUG., 1863. 



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August. 



Sultry and more sultry come the days 

 until August becomes seared, browned, 

 and many of the fields no longer wear 

 the deep green that so lately met the 

 eye on every hand. The barley, the 

 wheat, the flax and the oats, have gone 

 into mows or pyramids, taking a sweat 

 ready for the thresher. The timothy 

 and clover have long since been housed, 

 and the stubble is making a rally for 

 autumn feed. The orchard is just be- 

 ginning to turn over its ripened gifts. 

 The Ked June, Early Harvest, Ked 

 Astrachard, Sweet Jenett, and Yellow 

 Injestin, are among its orbe like flavors, 

 that find a place on the table and in the 

 capacious pockets of the little ones. 



Since the first day of July, the Keswick 

 Codlin has filled an important place in 

 the way of pie and sauce, and for two 

 months it will scarely find a reval in 

 that department. 



On the 29th of May, the first dish 

 of strawberries came upon our table — 

 no homoepathic prescription, but three 

 rounded quarts, and just one month, 

 to wit, on the 28th day of June, they 

 departed at the tea table — daily meal, 

 and after meal, had the heaping dishes 

 borne testimony that the little fingers 

 had been busy in the gathering. 



What next ; shall we come back to 

 to the dried fruits, and diet on tavern 

 fare ? by no means, for the next day 

 after the disappearance of the straw- 

 berry, the same dish was heaped as 

 high with rich and tempting black caps 

 and purple cams. The abundant yield 

 of the strawberry had corrected the 

 system as well as pleased the appetite, 

 and the change in flavor to the rasp- 

 berry is most acceptable. Grateful, in- 

 deed, to the five invalids suffering with 

 the whooping cough, in its worst form, 

 was the more mild flavor of this inval- 

 uable fruit, and during its season was 

 their almost exclusive food. 



The season of the black cap is short 

 — ^two weeks and the bushes were near- 

 ly bare, though a month's drouth has 

 doubtless hastened their short season — 

 not so of the purple cam which will 

 make up a full month, or far into the 

 season of the blackberry. 



