1864:. 



THE ILLmOIS FAKMER. 



258 



Honey Bees — This season has been a remarkable 

 one, in regard to bees swarming in Central New 

 York. In some cuses not a swarm has issued, — 

 We have about 40 hives of bees and have not had 

 a single swarm; such a circumstance never before 

 occurring in our apiary. 



The reason why the beas have not swarmed ia 

 our apiary, is the fact that no drones have been 

 reared in in it this season. We never before in 

 twenty-five years' experience, knew of such a cir- 

 cumstance with our bees. Why no drones were 

 reared we cannot tell ; but without drones swarms 

 are useless, as the young queens cannot be impreg- 

 nated ; as the bees, knowing this fact, destroy all 

 young queees — if any are produced — and in the 

 absence of queens no swarms issue. — Rural Amer- 

 ean. 



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Index. 



August ..'. 225 



How a large farm is managed 226 



Notes on the Strawberry 228 



Small Emits 229 



ThqJBrairies in Summer 230 



Aboltt Evergreena 233 



The Useful and the Beautiful 233 



Circular of Am. Pom. Soc 234 



Culture of Buckwheat 225 



Stupidity of Farmers 235 



Sugar from the Butternut 235 



Seeds and Plants by Mail 236 



Why not take an Ag. Paper 236 



Convention of Plow Makers. 236 



Fruit Stealing- 237 



€rrape Culture 237 



Fairbanks' Scales 237 



Berry Culture 288 



Manuring ^ 238 



Seventeen Year Locust 238 



Drouth in Wisconsin 228 



Curtis' Prairie Mower ~ 238 



Origin of Mules in U. S 238 



The White Willow Controversy. 239 



Watching the Bees 239 



Postal Eegalations 240 



Tbe Franking Privilege 240 



Swarming Bees 240 



Paper from Com Husks 241 



Ice Period in America 241 



Legal Protection of Sheep » 242 



Cold Water Laundry Soap 243 



WhyHojgs Eat Ashes ^ 243 



Deterioration of Orchards 244 



Large Sale of Illinois WooL 244 



Bees in Louisiana 244 



Pratt's Ditcher „ 244 



Sweet Potatoes in Winter, 244 



Alton Horticultural Society 245 



The Purple Cane Raspberry 246 



Editor's Table 246 



Michigan Board of Agriculture — Comstock's 

 Rotary Spader — Pickles — Iowa State Agricul- 

 tural College — Iowa Homestead — Pumps — Ca- 

 nary Seed — Bi-Monthlj Report Department of 

 Agriculture— Shelter — The Coming State Fair 



Crops in Egypt 249 



The Crops 250 



Yield of Wool ~ 251 



HI. State Horticultural See - 251 



Ohio Pomological Society 252 



American Pomomological Society ;..... 253 



Advertisements 253—256 



Large Sale of Blooded Stock. 



Having associated with me in business my sons, 

 (William and Charles S. Brown,) I will sell at pub- 

 lic auction, at my residence. Grove Park, in Island 

 Grove, Sangamon county Hliuois, three miles 

 west of Berlin, on the road leading from Springfield 

 to Jacksonville, on Wednesdav and Thursday., Au- 

 gust 24th and 25th, 1864, (sale to commence at ten 

 o'clock,) 



Thirty or Forty Superior Short Horn CatOe, 

 consisting of Cows, Heifers and Young Bulls; also 

 South-Down Sheep and Berkshire Hogs, Irom the 

 importation of the Illinois Importing Association of 

 1857 ; also a number of valuable 



BROODMARES COLTS AND FILLIES, 

 of trotting stock. 

 Catalogues of Stock will be issued in due time. — 

 Persons desirous of obtaining them can do so bv ad- 

 dressing me at Berlin, Illinois. 



Aug-'64-lt JAS. N. BROWN. 



Swine ! Swine ! 



Those wishing specimens of the breed of Swine for 

 many years bred of the Illinois Hospital for the 

 Insane, and now favorably known as the "Hospital 

 Breed," can obtain choice animals at moderate pri- 

 ces. Apply to E. P. JONES, 



Farm Steward. 



N. B. — Persons having these Swine, if they wish 

 to effect sales, are requested to correspond as above 

 stating time and place of purchase. 



Jacksonville, HI. June, 1864. 

 Aug, 1, '64 



Cider Mills. 



KEY-STONE & HUTCHINSON'S CIDER MILLS 



for sale by 



A. H. HOVEY, 



194 Lake St, Chicago. , 

 Augl-1864-lt 



AGRICULTURE WAMHOUSE 



AND 



SEED STORE. 



Has one of the best selected stock of implemente 

 andseeds to be found in the West 



A. H. HOVEY, 

 Novtf 1862 No. 194, Lake st., Chicago lU. 



