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1864. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



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The Vegetable Gyrl. - '' 



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Behind a market stall installed, I mark it every 

 day, stands at her stand the fairest girl I've met 

 with at the bay ; her two lips are of cherry red, her 

 hands a pretty pair, with such a pretty turn-up 

 nose, and lovely reddish hair, • 



'Tis there she stands from morn till night, her 

 customers to please; and to appease their appe- 

 tites, she sells them beans and peas. Attracted by 

 the glances from the apple of her eye, and by her 

 Jersey apples, too, each passer by will buy. 



She stands upon her little feet, throughout the 

 livelong day, and sells her celery and things — a 

 big feat, by the way. She changes off her stock 

 for change, attending to each call ; and when she 

 has but one beet left, she says, "Now that beats 

 all." 



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The Crops in Kankakee. — "We think from what 

 we can leam of the balance of the State, that Kan- 

 kakee county will be the banner county of the 

 State on crops this year. She has harvested or is 

 growing a full crop of all the staple farm products. 

 Wheat is a full crop, and has been harvested with- 

 out injury; oats a henvycrop, and the corn pros- 

 pect is truly grand. The ears this year are earing 

 up where the tassels have h-en in foimer years. — 

 Kankakee county is all right this year. — Kankakee 

 Gazette. 



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Salt for Sheep. — Salt is not, perhaps, quite as 

 necessary for the sheep in winter as in summer, 

 but still, all good shepherds regard it as indispens- 

 able. It should be fed as often as once a week, in 

 the feeding trough?, or by brining a quantity of 

 hay or straw. The "Vermont breeders almost uni 

 versally keep it standing constantly before their 

 sheep in boxes placed in the sh.ep houses. My 

 friend. Gen. Otto F. Marshall, of Stuben county. 

 New York, has an excellent and economical way 

 of feeding it. The orts when titken from the sheep 

 racks are thrown into a box rack wider and con- 

 siderably higher than the common ones and placed 

 under a shed. The orts are sprinkled with brine, 

 and the sheep when hungry for salt go to the ort 

 rack and consume them. Thus all the hay is sav- 

 ed. — Practical Shepherd. 



Mowing the Roadsides. — The law excluding 

 stock from the roadways of the States is inducing 

 a new order of cleanlinens. It is purchasing tidi- 

 ness. It is made the interest of the firmer to mow 

 the roads" des. Good crops of grnss are cut there, 

 and we notice they are biding harvested generallvi 

 We also notice that in some cases the weeds, this- 

 tles and elders are kept standing. While we would 

 not urge cutting them with the gra«s scythe, we do 

 urge for the farmer's sake, that the bush scythe 

 follow the grass scythe. Do not let the roadsides 

 longer remain nurseries of weeds for the farm; the 

 labor exp^-nded in cutting them is time and labor 

 saved in the end. Just now theoldersarein bloom, 

 the thistles are bending, the daisies are making 

 seed, and shou'd be cut at once to save the exten- 

 sion of this army of occupation. — Rural N. T. 



Crops in Champaign County."*" 



Grain. — The new crop of oats and wheat is 

 now beginning to come in quite rapidly, and the 

 enterprising farmers of Champaign county aie reap- 

 ing a rich harvest of Greenbacks for tbeir labor. 

 The horn of plenty has been emptied in glorious 

 abundance upon our people. Ceres has cast her 

 golden showers in lavishness on every hand, and 

 everybody is ffejoicing because of abundant crops. 

 Never in this State were farmers better paid for 

 their labor than now. All kinds of farm products 

 command high prices. Wheat at the present wri- 

 ting is worth $1 90 per bushel, oats 53 cents, flax 

 sesd $2, potatoes $2, apples $1, &c. Our ware- 

 housemen have all thrown open their ample grane- 

 ries, and ready and waiting with loads of Green- 

 backs for the farmers. — Champaign Gazette. . 



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Eg6s of the Bee Moth. — The eggs of Uie bee 

 moth are entirely round and very small, being 

 only about the one-eighth in diameter. In the 

 oviducts they are ranged together somewhat in the 

 form of a rosary. They are not developed succes- 

 sively like those of the queen bee, but are found 

 fully formed in the ducts, a few days after the moth 

 emerges from the cocoon. The female deposites 

 them in small parcels or clusters on the combs. If 

 any one wishes to witness the discharge of eggs, 

 he need only seize by the head a female two or 

 three days old, holding it between his finger and 

 thumb. She will instantly protrude her oviposi- 

 tor, and the eggs may be seen passing along the 

 semi-transparent duct. 



That the moth does not deposit her eggs in the 

 po lun of flowers as some imagine, but on the 

 combs in the hive, is very certaini I have repeat- 

 edly found little clusters of eggs on combs which I 

 removed out of the hives — Dr. Donhoff. 



New Stock Yards. — The new stock yards 

 of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 

 in Chicago, are being fitted up in the most ex- 

 tensive and convenient manner, and will add 

 greatly to the facilities for receiving and ship- 

 ping stock of all kinds. Four of Fairbank's 

 Stock Scales, forty-two feet long, and wid« 

 enough to weigh an entire car load at once, are 

 being built in the yards, so that all stock receiv- 

 ed or delivered can be promptly and correctly 

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SAifiTARt Commission. — We are in receipt of a 

 circular from Col. John R. Woods, agent of the 

 State Sanitary Commission, giving notice that a 

 building will be erected on the Fair Grounds to re. 

 ceive contributions for Sanitary purposes. We 

 hope every person attending the Fair will contrib- 

 ute something toward this noble object. Take a 

 bushel of onions, a sack of potatoes, a bushel of 

 dried apples or some ready cash ; let the amount 

 be something from each individual, and our soj. 

 diers will be all the better ofiffor the effort. 



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