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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



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CONTENTS 



Editorial: page. 



November 328 



From Home 323 



Grape Culture 326 



Lands of the Illinois Central Railroad 327 



Trial of Implements 328 



Poetry : 



The Husbandman 330 



The Homestead 330 



Agriculture : 



Seeding Land to Grass — Turnips, etc 330 



White Purkey Lambert Wheat 331 



Large Sugar Works 331 



Horticulture : 



Nails and Peach Borers 332 



Egypt as a Forcing Country .';.....332 



State Horticultural Fair 333 



The Delaware Grape 338 



Fruit 338 



New York Apples 339 



Dairy : 



The Geauga Cheese Factories 339 



Cheese Making 340 



Miscellaneous : 



Death of a Celebrated Horse 329 



New York State Fair 329 



To Clean Canary Birds 340 



Bee Culture 340 



A Curiosity ....'.."^ 340 



Flesh in Vegetab?es 341 



The Hammer Mightier than the Pen 341 



Household Machines 341 



Ho'wto Keep Sweet Potatoes 342 



Tree Cotton 342 



The Cold Summer of 1816 343 



Stick to the Farm 342 



Orchard House at Hightstown, N. J 344 



Bodily Carriage 344 



The State Fair 344 



Editor's Table : 



Where are we Drifting? 345 



The Cotton Crop 345 



Card of Thanks 345 



Painful Bereavement 345 



Champaign Co.. Fair 345 



Vermilion Co. Fair 345 



Wheel Pi,evolving Rakes 345 



Illinois Cheese 346 



Frosted Corn 347 



The Latest Dodges on Tree Selling 347 



List of Entries and Awards on Implements 



at the Decatur Trial 347 



Macoupin Co. Fair 348 



The Practical Shepherd 348 



Comstock's Rotary Spader 349 



Gold Prodnctof the World 349 



A Difficult Question Answered 349 



Sanford & Mallory's Flax and Hemp 

 Machines. 



■•-' These celebrated machines are on exhibition and 

 in operation in a building adjoining the Chicago Su- 

 gar Refinery. For circular telling all about them, 

 price, &c., address NELSON STILLMAN, 



General Agent, Chicago, IlL 

 P. 0. Box 6823. Mayl'63.1y 



50 



BUSHELS PRIME APPLE SEED— 

 $Y 00 per bushel— $60 00 per 10 bmshels. 



TWO YEARS OLD APPLE SEEDLINGS 

 of superior growth, selected — $4 00 per 1000. 



EXTRA FINE STOCK OF STANDARD AND 

 DWARF PEARS, 



of varieties adapted to tho West, at reasonable rates 

 by the 100 or 1000. 



— ALSO — 



A general assortment of Fruit and Ornamental 



Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens, Ac. 



^^^Send for Catalogues. 



ROBERT DOUGLAS, 

 Nov. 1$63— It. Waukegan, 111. 



T 



IHE AMERICAN HOG TAMER— 



Invented by Reuben Hurd, a farmer of twenty- 

 seven years experience in Illinois. 



My Tamer will stop any hog on earth from rooting, 

 from a pig to an old hog by one simple application. 



By any one sending three dollars to Reuben Hurd 

 at Morrison, Whiteside county. 111., he will receive 

 one free of freight; and I will warrant them to give 

 perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. 



To those sending : Please name the railroad sta- 

 tion you wish them shipped to, as I keep a constant 

 supply on hand, and will be able to fill all orders 

 with promptness and dispatch. 



Directions for using will accompany all orilers. 



REUBEN HURD. 



Nov. 1, 1863— 6m. 



T 



HE PRACTICAL SHEPHERD, 



A complete treatise on the 



Breeding, Management and Diseases 

 of Sheep. 



By Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL. D., Author of 



"Sheep Husbandry in the South," "Fine 



Wool Husbandry," Ac, Ac. 



This work has betin delayed but is now completed, 



and ready for delivery to Canvassing Agents and 



persons ordering it by mail. 



GOOD AGENTS WANTED 



To sell the work in every Wool-Growing county in 

 the loyal States, Canadas, etc. For terms, which 

 are liberal, apply to the Publisher. 



THE PRACTICAL SHEPHERD 

 Comprises 454 large duodecimo pages, is well illus- 

 trated, and by far the hsat and most complete work on 

 Sheep Husbandry published in America, if not in 

 Europe also. Price, $1 50. Copies sent by trail, 

 post-paid, on receipt of price. Address, 



D. D. T. MOORE, Publisher, 

 Nov. 1873. — Im Rochester, N. Y. 



AGRicumF mkmm 



AND 



SEED STORE. 



Has one of the best selected stock of implement! 

 andseeds to be found in the West. 



A. H. HOVEY, 

 Novtfl862 No. 194, Lake st., Chicago IlL 



