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1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



347 



nois, Wisconsin and Iowa, as there is no wholesale 

 market here for Eastern cheese. 



Large numbers of our Illinois cheese now go 

 directly into the hands of the retailer and the 

 consumer, and will continue to do so until the 

 trade is a little purified of its obnoxious terms and 

 practices. 



Feosted Corn. — The damage by the frost of 

 August is footing up more disastrous than was at 

 first feared even by the most ultra alarmist. The 

 city papers insisted that the clearing up would 

 make a brighter show, but it has gone from bad to 

 worse. Late Spring frosts are to a large extent 

 overcome by a good growing season, while early 

 Autumn frosts have a retrograde tendency. 



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The Latest Dodges on Tree Selling. — The last 

 dodge that we have heard of is selling bearing 

 trees to be delivered to the customer at twenty- 

 five cents each. The sales are limited, as most 

 farmers are not quite so big fools as to swallow the 

 bait. Two men have been canvassing Champaign 

 county as agents for the Bloomington nurseries 

 having a Toledo catalogue, and one of ours. They 

 pi'opose to fill all orders. At our County Fair we 

 asked one of these worthies (by the way he has 

 lost one arm) to show his authority, but he had 

 none, and from his general ignorance in regard to 

 the nurserymen of Bloomington we put him down 

 aa bogus. We trust the fool killer will not come 

 this way until the people take to reading agricul- 

 tural journals. The game of this kind is nearly 

 up, and these scamps will have to go to work or 

 steal for a living. 



If people would dispense with peddlers of all 

 kinds they would save an average of twenty-five 

 per cent, on all they purchase of them. 



Last week we heard of a man selling strawberry 

 plants from China(?) He had three of the berries 

 in a bottle, which common people pronounced 

 Willson's Albany, but which he said were not so, 

 and that they would yield not less than four hun- 

 dred bushel to the acre, and that a bushel of them 

 could be picked in fifteen minutes by one person. 

 A friend of ours endeavored to persuade him to 

 make us a call as we were sure to invest in all new 

 and valuable things, but it was no go, and we have 

 lost a famous opportunity to sketch a live humbug. 



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List of Entries and Awards on Imple- 

 ments at the Decatur TriaL 



Plows — Gold Medal. 

 John Dement, premium, Dixon, III. 



C. H. Dever, Moline, 111. 



Dickinson & Orahood, Clinton, De Witt County. 



Gang Plows — Silver Medal. 

 Jacob L. Runk, premium, Nashville, Washington 

 County, 111. 

 W. L. Black, Lancaster, Cass County, 111. 

 J. G. Robinson, Springfield, HI. 

 J. & G. Leibut, Ashley, Washington County, 111. 



Trench Plows — Silver Medal. 



W. J. Blaek, premium, Lancaster, IlL 



J. G. Robinson, Springfield, 111. 



Both of the above were attachment to gang 

 plows, by taking off one of the plows and attach- 

 ing the trench plow behind the other. 



Two-Horse Cultivators — Gold Medal. 



Barber, Hawley & Co., premium, (Stafford's pat 

 ent), Decatur, IlL 



Pratt & Parker, (Morton Cultivator), Morton, 

 Tazewell County, 111. 



Faust & Bradley, Chicago, lU. 



A. J. Sparks, Wyanett, Bureau County, HL 



W. D. Dorsey, Decatur, 111. 



C. H. Deere, Moline, 111. 



Gilbert & Hamilton, (Brown's patent), Kewan- 

 nee, Henry County, El. 



2orn Plantere — Silver Medal. 



Selby & Elder, premium, Peoria. 

 J. Armstrong, premium, Elmira, Stark County, 

 Illinois. 



J. C. Moore, Peoria. 

 Haworth & Co., Springfield. 

 McGoffey & Co., Chicago. 



One-Horse Com Plants and ^^tivator. 



Maple & Co., Chicago. 



No competition. Commended. 



Field Roller. 



C. D. Roberts, Jacksonville. 



Wood drum, in two sections. Not commended. 



Covlter Harrow, 



G. P. Lawrence, (B. W. Speers' patent) Pana. 

 Not commended. 



8e«d Drill and Roller. 



W. B. Quarton, Carlinville, Macoupin County. 

 This is a corrugated roller. Not commended. 



Broadcast Sower and Cultivator. 

 Allen & Warren, Chicago; 

 Sows corn. Cultivators clog. Not commended. 



Jfazarine Com Plow and Drill. rv ; 



J. Parsons. 

 Not commended. Not entered for a premium. 



