1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



all at once, (or ab'ut 150 bushels in eight hours.) 

 I find the Independent Press best, as follows : 

 Two bed-pieces or sills, 8x10 inches, 6 feet long ; 

 two post-J, 8x16 inches, 8 feet long. The posts and 

 sills are joined together and bolted with two bolts. 

 This will firm the bottom and sides. The press 

 beam 16x16 inches is tenanted with two tenants 

 in the posts 5^ fe-t from the top of the sills, with 

 one screw through the center of the beam, four 

 feet long, worked from the top or in the second 

 floor. The bales from this are fourand a half feet 

 long, twenty inches wide, two feet thick. — C. W. 

 HiGBY, in Rural New Yorker. 



CONTENTS: 



Editorial: page. 



September „ ...255,256 



Poetry: 



Corn on the Prairies 257 



Agricdltdre : 



Stacking Hay 257 



True cause of the Potato Rot 258 



Illinois County Fairs .-...258 



Stacking and Drying Beans 258 



Yield of Grain in England 259 



Goood Suggestion in Regard to the Ozier 



Willow , 259 



Melon and Squash Vinea 259 



Horticulture : 



Carelessness in Nurserymen 259 



Illinois State Horticultural Society 259 



Alton Horticultural Society 2fi0 



The Pear Bli<rbt 261 



A Needed Reform 2B2 



Wilson's Strtiwberry — Two Witnesses 263 



The Two Gardeners 263 



Rot in Grapes 263 



Cultivating Orchards 263 



Orchards from New York 264 



Disinfecting Agents 265 



How to Make Cider Vinegar 265 



Salmagundi : 



Sweet Apples for Cider 266 



State Geologist 266 



The New Sheep Book 266 



Best Trees for Orchards 266 



Windfalls for Cider , 266 



Planting Sorghum in Autumn 266 



The White Willow 266 



Tanzy for Pt-ach Trees 266 



Hop Roots Wanted for Yards 267 



Depth of Cellars 267 



A Hog Tamer 267 



Lima Beans 267 



Domestic Economy: 



Valuable Receipts — A Delicate Dessert 267 



Boiling Potatoes 267 



Sirup for Cooking 267 



To Clear Brittania 268 



To Clear Pewter 268 



Stewed Peas 268 



Bread and Butter Pudding 268 



Good Way of Cooking Onions 268 



Molasses Beer 268 



For Stopping Mortification 268 



Cure for St. Vitus' Dance 268 



A Good Receipt for Vinegar 268 



A New Receipt for Making Soap 268 



Pickles, How to Make 268 



Use of Fruits and Vegetables 269 



How to Polish Shirt Bosoms 270 



Hutchins Cider Mill 270 



Dwarf Plums on the Prairies 270 



Saving Seeds 270 



Correspondence : 



Early Bearing Fruits 271 



Cheese Making 273 



Lombardy Poplar for Hedges 274 



Miscellaneous : 



By the Month or by the Year 275 



Jicicester Sheep 275 



Wool Growers' Meeting 276 



How to Catcb Rats .....276 



Prospective Prices of Wool 277 



New England Weather and Crops 277 



Editor's Table : 



The Season and Crops 278 



Wool Growers' Convention at the Fair 279 



Citizens' Prizes at the Fair 279 



The Implement Trial at Decatur 279 



The Coming State Fair 280 



The Lane Register 280 



Drying Hops 280 



State Pair — Annual Exhibition 1S63. 



THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE are gratified 

 in being able to announce to the people of the North- 

 west that the general arrangements for holding the 

 Annual Exhibition have never been more entirely 

 complete and satisfactory than at present. 



The central and accessible location — the beauty 

 and convenience of the grounds for both Fair and 

 camping purposes — the local pride and energy of the 

 citizens of Macon county, who are erecting buildings 

 and fixtures of tasteful and permanent character — 

 the liberality and hearty co-operation of railroad com- 

 panies throughout the State — together with the in- 

 terest felt and manifested on all hands in the im- 

 provement of labor-saving machinery, modes of farm 

 culture, and stock — all combine to give assurance 

 that this Fair will fee successful, not only in attract- 

 ing large numbers of our people to witness and en- 

 gage in in its competitions, but eminently so in point 

 of substantial usefulness to the cause of Agricul- 

 ture, Horticulture, and the Mechanic and 

 JSousEHOLD Arts. 



THE FIELD TRIAL 



— of — 

 PLOWS, CULTIVATORS. HARROWS, DITCH- 

 ING MACHINES, AC, 

 Will commence near Decatur on Monday, Sept. 21st, 

 the week preceding the Fair. Manufacturers will 

 confer a favor and enable the Board to make the best 

 possible preparations for the Trial, by notifying the 

 Corresponding Secretary as early as possible of their 

 intention to compete. 



WOOL GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



It is thought best by many friends that a wool 

 growers' convention be held during the Fair — the 

 precise time to be announced in the papers and pro- 

 gramme of the day, after consultation among those 

 representing this particular irterest. , 



EVENING MEETINGS. 



The Society's Tent will be erected on the Public 

 Square in the city for the accommodation of 

 such Convention and Farmers' Meetings for dis- 



cussion. 



TIME FOR ENTRIES. 



Entries for the Fair may be made at any Urie on 

 er before Tuesday, Sept. 29th. 



Entries for the Trial of Implements may be made 

 at anytime before Tuesday, Sept. 15th. 



^g^Premium Lists containing the Rules andReg- 

 tdations will he sent to all applicants. 





