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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



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comiDg very popular, and among this 

 class of reapers stands deservedly high. 

 We "saw its working throughout the 

 great reaper trial at Dixon, in competi- 

 tion with several others, and there 

 could be but one opinion : that it was 

 the most valuable for ease of draft, su- 

 perior work, simplicity of structure and 

 durability. The combination consists 

 of detaching the reaping gearing from 

 the main driving wheels and attachir.g 

 the mower. Strictly speaking it is not 

 a combined machine, for none but the 

 driving wheels and seat are used in 

 common ; and as a mower or reaper es. 

 sentiaily two machines ; yet in this way 

 the two are materially cheapened; that 

 is, the self raking reaper costs $155, 

 to which is added $30 for the mowing 

 apparatus, making the two cost $185, 

 while the two separately would cost 

 $260, or a difference of $75. 



With a six foot reaper we can cut on 

 an average twelve acres a (^y, or about 

 two hundred acres during the harvest. 

 With a four foot mower and two horses 

 we cut about six acres of prairie grass? 

 or eight of timothy and clovtr. The 

 haying season for both of the above 

 grasses lasts from early in June to the 

 first of October, or over one hundred 

 days We know of one farmer who cut 

 three hundred acres of timothy grass 

 with one of Wood's mowers last season^ 



It is a matter of pride to the farmer 

 that we now have so many machines 

 for the harvest of such great excellence. 

 They make the haying and harvesting 

 comparatively easy, and it is no longer 

 to be dreaded for its sorry days of wea- 

 ry toil in swinging the scythe and the 

 cradle. The coming season is to test 

 further improvements in this direc 

 tion. 



Latter-Day Warnings. 



BT 0. W. HOLMES. 



When legislators keep tbe law, 



When banks dispense with bolts and locka, 

 When berries, whortle — rasp — and straw — 



Grow bigger downwardn through the box — 



When lie that selleth house or land 

 Shows leak in roof or flaw in right — 



When haber-dashers choose the stand 

 Whose window hath the broadest light, — 



When preachers tell us all they think 

 And party leaders all they mean, — 



When what we pay for, that we drink, 

 From real grape and coffee-bean, — 



When lawyers take what they would give, 

 And doctors give what they would take, — 



When city fathers eat to live, 



Save when they fast for conscience' sake, — 



When one that hath a horse on sale 

 Shall bring his merits to the proof. 



Without a lie for every nail 



That holds the iron on the hoof, — 



When in the usual place for rips 



Our gloves are stitched with special care. 



And guarded well with whalebone tips. 

 Where first umbrellas need repair, — 



When Cuba's weeds have quite forgot 



The power of suction to resist. 

 And claret-bottles harbor not 



Such dimples as would hold your fist, — 



When publishers no longer steal, 



And pay for what they stole before, — 



When the first locometive's wheel 



Hulls through the Hoosac tunnel bore, — 



Till then let Gumming blaze away, 

 And Miller's saints blow up the globe j 



But when you see that blessed day, 

 Then order your ascension robe ! 



The Fruit Prospect. — Mr Orson Rogery, of Ma- 

 rengo, 111., an old and experienced hoi ticulturist, 

 has just returned from Berriu county, Michigan, 

 (across the lake from Chicago,) where he spent two 

 days in the extensive fruit orchards of Judge 

 Henry Fuller and Silas Sawyer, Esq., to ascertain 

 the extent of the damage done by the frost and 

 cold weather of the present winter. After a very 

 careful, thorough and extended investigation, he 

 came to the conclusion that the peach buds have 

 been completely killed, and that there will be no 

 peaches next summer ; that the peach trees are but • 

 partially killed, and will be readj to bear next 

 year ; that the apple and pear trees are not seri- 

 ously injured, and that we will probably have a full 

 crop of apples and pears next summer. — Bureau 

 Co. Republican. 



