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1864. 



THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 





Thk Subsoil Plow. — No farmer should allow 

 himself to be without this plow. Deere and Co., 

 of M oline, make a most excellent one, called Mapes' 

 Subsoil Lifting Plow. It is of steel and just the 

 thing with which to prepare orchard ground ; and 

 all soils when you are in need of large crops. Is 

 a farmer in debt ? — get a subsoil plow and make a 

 larger crop, just enough more to pay it oflF. Does 

 he want that other piece of land ? — subsoil for the 

 required dollars. Does he want a barn or new 

 house ? — put in the subsoil plow. In fact, if you 

 want money pretty badly, use the subsoil plow. 



Kentttcky Nttrseeies. — Can fruit and ornamen- 

 tal trees come from Kentucky — fiom Westein 

 Kentucky, amid rebel hordes and Jeff. Davis sym- 

 pathizers ? In answer to this, we have the cata- 

 logue of Messrs. George S. Curtis & Company, 

 of Maysville, Kentucky, a pamphlet of fifty 

 octavo pages closely printed, containing a list of 

 all the heart could wish in the useful and ornamen- 

 tal. The trade list of the same establishment is 

 also extensive and worthy the attention of tree 

 planters and dealers. The mild climate, of West- 

 ern Kentucky offers advantages in the propagation 

 of many varieties of trees and plants. Among 

 these may be counted the Kentucky coffee tree, 

 the more hardy magnolias, rhododendrons, azelia 

 althea, etc. 



The Old Rochester Nursery. — In the advertis- 

 ing department will be found the card of this old 

 establishment. The agent, Mr Perkins, called on 

 us a few days since, and we are satisfied that he at 

 least is a simon pure agent, and not one of the tree 

 peddling humbugs that float from place to place. 

 We shall therefore expect that his customers will 

 get what they bargain for. He is making rather a 

 specialty of the more hardy magnolias, such as the 

 acumineta, tripelata, purpura and conspicua, of 

 which he is selling trees eight to ten feet high and 

 of blooming age. 



We are not prepared to say how well these mag- 

 nolias will stand on the prairie, but Mr. P. assures 

 us that he has found them in different parts of the 

 State doing well and appearing perfectly hardy. 

 In Indiana and Ohio we know the magnolia accu- 

 minata is among the most hardy of ornamental 

 trees, and we shall have confidence in it here. The 

 Country Gentleman says that this nursery occupies 

 250 acres. 



The Grape Culturist. — We have numerous let 

 ters in regard to this work. It is first rate. Send 

 to Andrew S. Fuller, Brooklyn, N. Y. The price 

 is $1 25. 



Agricultural College Grant. — We learn thafc 

 Gov. Yates has appointed the following gentle- 

 man a committee to report some plan in regard to 

 the above : 



Rev. T. M. Eddy, Rev. W. W. Evarts, Hon. J 

 H. Muhlke, Chicago ; Hon. C. B. Lawrence, Gales- 

 burg ; Kersey H. Fell, Bloomington; J. M. ?tur- 

 tevant, Jacksonville ; Hon. Cyrus Edwards, Alton ; 

 Gen. Haynie, Cairo. ' 



All we a?k is that the fund is not used to bol- 

 ster up some debt-ridden or sectarian institution. 



The donation was intended for the benefit of the 

 farming and naochanical interests, and it is due 

 these classes that the school to be instituted under 

 it, be free from iill other isms. 



Neither do we want model farms or model work- 

 shops, but schools in which to educate these class- 

 es in their respective callings. 



Chess in Wheat. — Now is the time to dispense 

 with chess in wheat : don't sow it. See that not a 

 grain of chess invests your seed wheat. The seed 

 will come u in the low ground, but unless the soil 

 is very wet it will not grow on the high land ; 

 hence, if the wheat is winter killed at all, it will be 

 more so in the low than on the high land, and it 

 is just there that the chess will be most sure to 

 come up ; and it is there it will tiller out the best 

 and make the bett show in the crop. That the 

 seed will lie in the soil for years and then grow, 

 we have the best of testimony. You can have 

 enough chess without sowing it ; birds scatter it 

 far and w'de, so you need not have it in your seed 

 wheat. We now have jjlenty of fanning mills that 

 will clean this pest out of the seed. 



Yellow Seed in Flix. — In some lots of flax seed 

 coming to market, we observe a large percentage 

 of this seed. This is taken out of the flax seed at 

 the ware house aid th own away ? No such thing. 

 It is sent Enst and brings a good price, but the 

 farmers get nothing for it. The oil of yellow seed 

 is an essential oil and valuable for burning and for 

 machinery ; but as it will not combine with the 

 paints and dry, is not only of no value for the pur- 

 pose, but a decided damage to it. Pure linseed oil 

 will readily unite with the paint and dry in, but a 

 small percentage of yellow seed makes it like lard, 

 and it will not drv. 



A Begasse Carrier. — In all corn mills a begasse 

 carrier should be used so as to load the refuse cane, 

 on a wagon rack, everj load of which should go to 

 the orchard or the pasture lot, direct from the 

 mill ; do not let it lie about the mill to sicken the 

 air where all should he sweet and clean. 



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