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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



Nov. 



them. We are now 

 mile for willow fen 



The ciibs cost about one hundred and 

 ,'ty dollars, not half as much as some 

 my neighbors growing about the 

 same quantity of corn have lost in rot- 

 ton corn; and now from the advance in 

 material and labor have nearly doubled 

 in value, making a pretty little profit 

 for taking good care often cent corn. 



A farmer of our acquaintance in 

 Whiteside county has several thousand 

 bushels of ten cent corn, embracing por- 

 frost would reduce that small amount j tions of four crops, for which he made 

 one half. At this writing we would a large outlay in good, well covered 



screen, in addition to the two miles 

 maple belts now becoming of some val- 

 ue in the way of a shelter. 



The eorn crop is seriously damaged 

 by drouth and frost in almost all parts 

 of the State, and especially here. On 

 the first of last month we estimated the 

 crop of this county at fifteen bushels 

 per acre before the frost, and that the 



not give five bushels of old corn to the 

 acre, taking the whole county togeth- 

 er. The stalks are of little value for 

 fodder. Large quantities are being sold 

 for stock feeding in the field by herd 



cribs, on which he will make a small 

 fortune. 



The corn crop of this year being at 

 best soft, will not stand much rain, and 

 we trust former experience and the 



mg, 



at from one to three dollars an present high price will induce every 



acre. We have ten acres planted about 

 the 20th of May, that will sell for 

 about two dollars per acre to cut up for 



farmer to see that when husked, it be 

 housed from the weather. 



Wt> think there is less corn in the 



fodder, as we never allow cattle in our. State of the old crop, than is generally 

 stalk field to poach up the ground. The ; supposed, though an abundance for 

 remaining part of our crop we have cut home use, and we see no good reason 

 up and_ shocked for feed, and which ; for such high prices as is now foreshad- 

 will at best make indifierent fodder, i owed. As we have little to sell, and 

 Old corn is sold for seventy-five cents ' as that little will be wanted for seed, we 

 per bushel on the farms for home use, have no interest in the market save a 

 and Timothy hay on the farm at nine general one, that efiects the whole 

 dollars a ton for shipping. We consid- country, and therefore take a dispas- 

 er these •prices panicly and not sure to sionate look at the present state of 

 be sustained, though most people think things. Many fanners are holding for 

 corn will go at a dollar. We are for- a dollar — we can only hope that this 

 tunate in having a good stock of old class of men will hold on, until the 

 corn on hand, not by any particular price comes down to fifty cents, a very 

 wisdom or shrewdness on our part, but ' common occurrence in the grain mar- 

 for the simple reason that we could not ket. 



get it shelled during the summer, tho' j There are indications of tree plant- 

 ing at this writing, and we again take 

 occasion to say to our readers that all 

 autumn set trees should be banked up, 

 at least a foot high, for the purpose of 

 holding them in place against the winds, 

 to prevent them from being thrown out 



■we did get off some six hundred bush- 

 els in June, at what we then thought 

 good rates. We have some of the crop 

 of 1860, in as good order as when first 

 gathered, as is that of '61 and '62, all 

 of which would make excellent seed. 



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