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The Illinois Farmer: 



VOL. IX. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SEPTEMBR, 1864. 



NO. 9. 



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September. 



lu many respects September may "be 

 counted among the most pleasant 

 months of the year. It is the cornuco- 

 pia of the fruit months, in which Po- 

 mona is more magnificently crowned 

 than in any other month of the year. 



The harvest of the cereals is over, 

 with the exception of buckwheat, 

 among which the bees are singing their 

 happy songs and gathering in the lus- 

 cious sweete. The music of the thresh- 

 ers comes over the fields where the com 

 is being shocked, not the sound of au- 

 tumn flails that were wont to beat out 

 the grain by single blows, but the 



steady buzz that sings its merry song, 

 as the feeder supplies the golden 

 sheaves, that follow each other in quick 

 succession, bagging the wheat and plac- 

 ing the straw in stack — a wonderful 

 worker that never tires, saving our 

 muscles from the steady toil of ' ' 



"The weary flinging tree." . / 



This is the month of I^airs; the 

 month that divides the heated term of 

 summer from the sharp frosts of au- 

 tumn. We begin to shock the com 

 the last of this month and to harvest 

 the potatoes. The apple crop is receiv- 

 ing its rich pencilling, r%ady for the 

 picking season. The State Fair is held 

 this month and is an institution that all 

 should attend, ^e can all learn some- 

 thing that will be of value to us. You 

 will find hotel accommodations rather 

 crowded and of the cheap order. To 

 avoid this try the soldier's fare and lie' 

 down in your blanket at night, 

 and enjoy yourself hugely. We intend 

 to try it again at the coming Fair. — 

 This will make us independent of 

 crowded hotels, and as meals can be 

 had at all hours, we will be as inde- 

 pendent as a wood-sawyer's clerk. We 

 attend fairs to take lessons, not to have 

 a nice time at a hotel ; hence the ac- 

 commodations are of but little moment. 

 It is a Very poor place for wedding parr 

 ties and the like, though these some- 

 times make the experiment. 



