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THE ILLINOIS FAKMEK. 



Atto-. 



The Great International Wheat Show. — Not- 

 withstanding the injury wheat has sustained in 

 some sections from the,midge and from rust, it is 

 thought that the International Wheat Show to be 

 held at Rochester, N. Y., September 8th, 9th and 

 loth, 1863, will be a great success. Competition 

 is open to the world. Premiums are oflFered 

 amounting to five hundred and forty dollars, and 

 the time of holding the show has been fixed so 

 that the wheat exhibited will be in demand for 

 seed. On the last day of the exhibition a public 

 auction will be held on the ground at which the 

 exhibitors can offer their wheat for sale. 



We are requested to state that parties from a 

 distance who cannot attend the exhibition may 

 forward their wheat and have it entered. Full 

 particulars can be obtained by addressing the pres- 

 ident of the society, Joseph Harris, Rochester. 



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Evergreen Seedlings. — The business of grow- 

 ing evergreen seedlings at the west, has not been 

 generally successful on any account of our dry 

 seasons. 



A few years since, Robert Douglass, of Wauke- 

 gan, made the experiment and has been very suc- 

 cessful. The combinations in his favor are sandy 

 soil, and the moist lake climate. Other points at 

 the south end of lake Michigan will doubtless 

 prove valuable for this purpose. We learn that 

 Mr. D. will have a great supply for his customs 

 next season, but was short 50,000 last spring. 



His prices are very low. Send for his catalogue 

 before you make your order. 



See his card. 



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Illinois Wool Growers Convention. — The Sec- 

 retary of the State Agricultural Society, author- 

 izes the announcement that a Wool Growers' con- 

 vention will be held at Decatur during the week of 

 the approaching State fair. The day will be an- 

 nounced on Monday or Tuesday of the fair. 



The Society's tent will be erected on the public 

 square in the city, for the accommodation of farm- 

 ers' meeting and this convention. 



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State Fair. — We learn that good progress is be- 

 ing made in regard to the State Fair, at Decatur, 

 and that the prospect of a good turn out grows 

 brighter every day. The trial of implements bids 

 fair to be a spirited one, and will doubtless be 

 largely attended. We notice a call to the corn 

 •ultivator men to plant a field of corn in which to 

 try the machines. Why not the society attend t<v 

 it themselves ? 



Buckwheat andTprnips make but a poor show, 

 as the soil is too dry for them, and they look like 

 failures. 



The Grape Crop thus far is very promising, we 

 hear of very little rot, while the vines are loaded. 

 Grape culture is receiving a liberal attention, and 

 the prospect is that most farmers will have the 

 grape in their grounds — the absence of it has been 

 the rule heretofore. 



CONTENTS: 



Editorial: page. 



August 225, 226 



Poetry : 



Life's Answer 227 



Spring Voices 227 



AGKrCTTLTURE : 



Culture of Hops 227 



Burson's Grain Binder 228 



Blood for manure 229 



Clover Hay — How to cure it 229 



Good Tillage is Manure 229 



Monthly Report of the condition of the crops 



for May and June, 1863 230, 231 



lowaSUte Fair 232 



Preserving Fruit in Cold Air 232 



HORTICnLTURE : 



Crops, Fruit and Birds at Dixon ...232 



Black Caps and Purple Cam Raspberries 233 



Peaches on Plum Stocks 233 



Wakeman's Orchard 234 



Renewing Blackberries 335 



Japanese Horticulture 235 



The Early Richmond Cherry 236 



The Plum Gouger — A New Foe of the Plum 



Gouger 239 



Fssay on Forest Trees 239 



The I^AIRT I 



How to Milk the Cows 237 



The Cow-Milking Machine 237 



Miscellaneous : 



Mustard 236 



How to Make Champaign Cider 238 



Conservatism among Mechanics 238 



Effects of Murcnry on Sheep 240 



Mutton Sheep at the West 240 



Chemical ErasiveHard Soap 241 



The Frost in Indiana 241 



How to Select Flour 241 



Machinery and Hard Labor 242 



The Crops for May and June 242 to 246 



Routes to the East 246 



Those Trees 246 



Seeds — ^Thickness of Sowing Seeds 247 



The Locnsta Gone 247 



The Way to Prevent the Ravages of the 



Chintz Bug 248 



Fall Plowing for and Culture of Spring Wheat248 



Editor's Table: 



State Fair 249 



Trial of Implements 249 



A Fruit Picker 249 



Marketing of Apples 249 



Culture of Blackberries 250 



Haines' Legal Advissr 250 



Culture of Blackberries 250 



Rain for June 251 



Ohio Pomologioal Society Report 251 



Early Wheat 251 



A New Blakberry 251 



Tree Protectors 261 



The Great International Wheat Show 252 



Evergreen Seedlings 252 



Illinois Wool Grower's Convention 252 



State Fair 252 



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