1864. 



THE ILLmOIS FAEMEK. 



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will be some years before beet root sugar mills 

 will send up their tall chimneys in all our villages. 

 After ten years sorgo is beginning to assume com- 

 mercial proportions. 



Chicago Bank Note List.^How often is it that 

 the farmer is made the victim of wild cat and 

 counterfeit money, and how little he prepares him- 

 self to guard against these impositions. He seldom 

 thinks that a dollar paid for a monthly note list 

 will prove a good investment ; he can pay to in. 

 sure his buildings against fire, but he does not pay 

 to insure against these swindling operations. This 

 is bad economy and we recommend a change. This 

 bogus stuff is generally traded off for cattle, hor- 

 ses and farm produce, and is left worthless in the 

 hands of the farmers. It is impossible to keep 

 posted in all the variety of trash called moneyi 

 without such a list. Try it, for once. 



In the last No. we notice a large number of rag 

 money mills quoted one-fourth to five per cent dis- 

 count. Breakers are ahead and we advise our read 

 ers to stand from under. You can safely keep the 

 greenback, national currency and that of our sol v- 

 ent Illinois banks, but get rid of the other trash. 



Seeds from the Com. of Agriculture. — We are 

 ia receipt of a large package of seeds from the 

 above source. They have the appearance of being 

 good, fresh seeds that will grow. We shall plant 

 them and report the result. We had become dis- 

 gusted with most of the trash sent out from the 

 Patent Office, and are pleased to see a radical 

 change in the quality and variety of seeds that 

 Com. Newton is now sending to the country. 



Culture of the Currant. — This fruit needs gen- 

 erous treatment, thorough culture and plenty of 

 well rotted manure. No weeds or grass must be 

 allowed to interfere with them. If shaded in the 

 afternoon, so much the better, but give them the 

 morning sun if possible, and we will guarantee you 



large berries. 



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Clothes' Wringers.— A little over two years 

 since we purchased one of the first clothes' wring- 

 ers brought into this State. The frame was of gal- 

 vanized iron. A few weeks since the lower roll 

 gave out and we sent to the shop in Cleveland, 

 (Putnam Manufacturing Company,) and receivnd a 

 new roll, which makes the machine as good as 



new. 



We have several letters of inquiry in regard to 

 the place where these iron frame wringers can be 

 had in the State. One lady saya that her wooden 



frame is so difficult to adjust and fasten on to the 

 tub that she must have one of the iron frames. — 

 We suppose they are for sale in Springfield, but as 

 we have not been there for near half a year we 

 cannot tell who keeps them. The number of these 

 machines sold is astonishing. There are three va- 

 rieties of them, two of wood and one of iron 

 frames, the rollers being the same in all. Of the 

 iron frame, sixty thousand have been sold within 

 the past two years and yet only a small per cent, 

 of the whole number of farmers' families have 

 them. In the cities and villages they are quite 

 common ; but the farmer's wife, who is most in 

 need of one, must wait a little longer. Has she no 

 right to tlie labor-saving implements of the house- 

 hold ? Here are the points ; 



1st. It is a relief to the hardest part of washing 

 day. 



2d. It enables the washing to be done in one- 

 third less time. 



3d. It saves its cost by saving the clothes. 



4th. It helps to teasfi the clothes, as well as 

 dry them. 



6th. The rolls being of vulcanized rubber, will 

 bear hot and cold water, and will neither break 

 nor tear off buttons. 



Osage Orange Seed. — C. R. Overman, at Bloom- 

 ingtoD, writes us under date of March 21st : 



"Capt. Mimn has just returned from the frontier 

 army, having arrived to-day. Reports they were 

 500 miles beyond the region where the o.age is 

 grown, and that there is not the slightest chance 

 to obtain seed. Some 400 pounds have been sold 

 at St. Louis of lute, at $2 50 per pound, {$81 60 

 per bushel.") 



Thus it will be seen the prospect of osage seed 

 is not of the best. Capt. Mann had a permit from 

 the War Department to gather seed if an opportu- 

 nity occurred. As the Capt. has been on severa- 

 trips for seed in Texas, he was just the man to get 

 it, but alas, we must wait over the border another 

 season. 



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The Grape Culturist. — We are in receipt of 

 this work, but have had no time to give it a care- 

 ful reading. We therefore copy what the American 

 Agriculturist says of it, and will give our views in 

 full next month ; 



The Grape Culturist, by A. S. Fuller, the well 

 known practical harticulturist. This long promised 

 work is at length issued. It forms a neat volume 

 of over 200 pages, and is amply illustrated with 

 upward of a hundred engravings. This treatise 

 covers the whole ground of garden and vineyard, 

 culture, from starting the plants from eyes or cut- 

 tings, to the established fruiting -vine. The whole 





