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THE ILLIKOIS FAEMER. 



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quested G. H. Baker, of Cobden, to send us a hun- 

 dred trees one to two feet high. These came and 

 all grew well ; that was some years ago, since then 

 Mr. J. A. Carpenter has sent us thousands of plants. 

 These have been from four to eight inches high, 

 and have cost three to five dollars a thousand. — 

 The first lot came in the spring of 1859 and w^re 

 bedded in under the shade of some large peach 

 trees, and the following spring replanted in the 

 nursery ; those of 1860 were treated in the same 

 manner. Those of 1862 will go out in nursery rows 

 and timber belts this spring. Those of 1863 were 

 put out in the open ground in nursery rows, and, 

 notwithstanding the severe drouth, are more than 

 half alive ; hereafter we shall put them at once in 

 the open ground. 



In taking up Mr. Carpenter puddles them and 

 encloses the roots in a ball of clay, which is found 

 to be the best mode. When ready to set these" 

 lumps of clayed roots are soaked to dissolve the 

 cliiy, when they are ready to set out 



We believe this would be a safe way to send out 

 all young evergreens, and here suggest to Mr. Doug, 

 las that he try the experiment on some of his seed- 

 lings, side by side with the moss. As the season is 

 80 ranch in advance of other parts of the State 

 where the cedars are grown, they can be sent out 

 in time to set them very early, which is important. 

 If we could have a set of men as industrious as the 

 willow peddlers to distribute these seedlings over 

 the State, it would be a great boon, but we must 

 have such careful men as Mr. Carpenter to take 

 them up and pack them for shipment, or few of 

 them will grow. The roots of the cedar, like all 

 evergreens, must not be exposed to the sun or 

 wind. 



The Storage Question. 



We understand that the Legislature of Wiscon- 

 sin, at its late session, passed a bill requiring rail- 

 roads terminating in Milwaukee, to deliver grain 

 to the warehouse to which the shippers may con- 

 sign it. Heretofore they could deliver where it 

 best pleased them, as is now the course pursued in 

 Chicago, which, whether lawful or not, is unjust to 

 the shipper, whether farmer or dealer, and capable 

 of great abuse as in case of combinations with 

 warehousemen. Unless some of our roads adopt a 

 little more common sense by discharging certain 

 general freight agents the Legislature of our State 

 will step in and compel them to toe the mark. The 

 trouble, we apprehend, is with the percentage that 

 is divided with certain managers. Of this we may 

 have more to say. 



The Marsh Binders. 



Fifty of these machines are being made for the 

 next harvest, enough to test their value. If they 

 succeed as anticipated, they will produce a vast 

 saving of labor in the harvest field. With it two 

 men do the binding the same as on Burson's binder, 

 saving the cost of wire. We shall endeavor to see 

 a machine at work during the harvest, when we 

 can the better judge of its merits. 



Flax Fibre Manufactokt at Aroma. — Th«; 

 Northwestern Flax Co., of Chicago, Messrs. Belch- 

 er, Gould & Hodges, have purchased power of Mr. 

 Beardsley, of the Aroma Mills, and are about put- 

 ting in machinery for the manufacture of Flax 

 straw into fibre and its conversion into cloth. — 

 They expect this season to manufacture bags, and 

 for that purpose are securing workmen and ma- 

 chinery. H. N. Corey, the agent of this Co. offers 

 to loan peed on favorable terms, and makes favor- 

 able propositions for the purchase of straw. He 

 also offers several liberal premiums for the best 

 fields of flax, varying from two to twenty acres. 

 We will notice their operations and propositions 

 more at length next week. — Kankakee Gazette. 



Thus one after another valuable interest springs 

 up about our country. Linen bags are worth more 

 than double thosj of cotton. Go ahead, gentle- 

 men, better thus invest your money than in wild 

 lands. 



Orchards in Wisconsin. — Last spring, in pass- 

 ing a large, finely kept farm, ws were struck with 

 the "pound foolish" economy of the proprietor in 

 the setting of his orchard. Two or three hundred 

 healthy looking apple-trees had been put out in — 

 his meadow ! Small holes, and barely dug through 

 the sward, were the graves into which he thrust 

 his trees ; not so much digging as would have been 

 needed for fence posts. And what the results? 

 But three trees were alive, and those on their "last 

 legs" — dying. By this time, probably, the man 

 has come to the conclusion that apple-trees don't 

 pay ! Uis fence posts will be as likely to bear 

 fruit, for they were better set. — Wis. Chief. 



Well, that is the way they do up young orchards 

 sometimes hereaway. The practice will answer for 

 the rich who have the money to spare for the trees 

 and — fruit, but a bad one for the farmer of mode- 

 rate means. 



Ruta Baga Turnips. — Mr J. B. Kendall, reports 

 to the Middlesex, Mass., Agricultural Society, the 

 following as his method of growing the crop the 

 past year. 



"Sowed about the 25th of June, on land broken 

 up last fall. I manure with green barn manure, in 

 rows three feet apart ; cover with plow, and rake 

 off enough to run the sower. When of proper size, 

 thin the plants to within ten or twelve inches of 

 each other. By this method I seldom fail of a good 

 crop." 



