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The Illinois Faemer 



VOL. IX. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JULY, 1864, 



NO. n. 



DEVOTED TO THE ; 



FARM, THE ORCHARD AND THE GARDEN, 



PUBLISHED BY ; :\ 



BAKER & PHILLIPS, 



SPRINGPIELD, ' - - - - ULINOIS. 



MI. Xi. DXnsriLi-A.I», Editor. 



All business letters should bo 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. ■ ■■. ■ . 



July- 



The "heated term" is now at hand, 

 and the sweat from the sun-browned 

 brow of labor must be poured out in 

 copious streams. Harvesting and hay- 

 ing are the order of the day ;, the corn 

 is being laid hy, and the small fruits 

 mainly marketed. The sun glows like 

 a furnace and the heated air shimmers 

 and waves in dizzy brightness ; the days 

 are long, with short, unquiet, heated 

 nights. When the rain falls it comes 

 in torrents and is quickly licked up by 

 the burning sun. The larger fruits 

 and the grape begin to round up their 

 forms, while the earlier apples are hav- 

 ing their rinds pencilled ready for. the 

 village and city market. 



Farmers often overwork themselves 

 during this and the succeeding month. 

 This is bad policy and should be 

 avoided. Keep out of the dew at night 

 or in the morning. Early rising is all 

 well enough, but Poor Richard's advice 

 to be up with the early bird, will not 

 always pay, especially if you go into 

 the wet grass. - '^ v 



In sharpening your sickle a good 

 sharp file is better than a grindstone. 

 Keep your tools in good order ; don't 

 drive yourself or hands, but make ev- 

 ery effort count. Fussing around and 

 growling at your hands will not pay ; if 

 they do not know how to do their work 

 to the best advantage show them how ; 

 be patient and persevering and lay out 

 your labor to the best possible advan- 

 tage. It is not the farmer who doubles 

 himself up with hard work who accom- 

 plishes the most, but the man who 

 works both his brains and his hands. 



Gomstook's £otary Spader. 



On several occasions we have made 

 mention of this new implement, but un- 

 til last week have had no opportunity 

 to see it in full working condition ; that 

 is, in performing its daily task in that 

 regular way to which all new agricul- 

 tural implements must sooner or later 

 come to the test of thorough trial. 



As intimated in the June "No. of the 

 Faemek, the machine was having a 

 thorough trial on the farm of Mr. M. L. 

 Sulliyant, near Homer, in this county. 



