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The Illinois Fakmee, 



VOL. IX. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE, 1864. 



NO. 6. 



DEVOTED TO THE 



FARM, THE ORCHAED AID THE GARDES, 



PUBLISHED BY 



BAKER & PHILLIPS, 

 SPIILNGFIELD, ----- ILLLXOIS. 

 I^. Zi. J:>JJNJL,A.F, Editor. 



All business letters should be addressed to the 

 publishers. 



^^^"ExcHANGES and all matters pertaining to the 



editorial department, must be directed to Illinois 



Farmer, Champaign, 111., as the editor resides at 



that point, and is seldom at the office of publication, 



from which he is distant over eighty miles. 



%* For terms see prospectus and special notices in 

 advertising department. 



June. 



June is a glorious month. Spring 

 has just turned over to her use the 

 small fruits, the strawberry, the cur- 

 rant, the gooseberry, the May Cherry 

 and the raspberries, — a list of goodies 

 that, would have' pleased, the old epi- 

 cures, but alas, they had to leave this 

 world without feasting on them ; but 

 we, a more fortunate race, may enjoy 

 them to any extent that heart may 

 wish. 



Beautiful and pleasant and full of 

 luxuries as June may be, yet we must 

 mix labor with the enjoyment, for June 

 is the great weed killing month. If she 

 is crowned with roses, and her walks 



flanked with the acid fruits, yet the 

 corn rows are filled with weeds that 

 must be smothered with the cultivator 

 or wed out with the hoe. 



Labor ought to be pleasant amid such 

 an array of use and beauty as is now 

 presented ! Ah, well, the picture is at 

 fault, after all, for roses bloom only 

 when planted and cared for. The 

 strawberry does not grow on bushes or 

 weeds, but in the garden, with good at- 

 tention ; the currant and gooseberry 

 must be well tilled, and the May Cherry 

 must needs be out of the reach of the 

 farm stock. These things come only 

 by the sweat of the brow, and^are best 

 enjoyed by him who has planted and 

 cultivated them. They please him from 

 the first opening of the leaf buds, the 

 expanding of the flowers, the gradual 

 swelling of the fruit, and at last when 

 the good wife puts them upon the table 

 the measure of his hopes is full. He 

 who buys them in the market has but 

 one feast, while the grower has been 

 feasted along the growing way, with 

 their foliage, their flowers and the ma- 

 turing fruit. 



June begins to reap of the labors of 

 spring, and is making great preparation 

 for the autumn. 1^'ever can we see a 

 more busy, hard working June than 

 the present. The last twenty thousand 

 for the army have left us their work to 

 finish up, will give us little time for 

 play. It will be work early and work 



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