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THE ILLINOIS FARMEK. 



September 



Illinois Natural History Socbett. — The 



second volume of Transactions is now being 

 printed. It will contain 300 pages, and will be. 

 beautifully illustrated with engravings on stone. 



The following are among the articles : 



1st. Prof. Turner's address on Education, at the 

 dedication of the Museum. 



2d. Dr. George Vasey's new Catalogue of tha 

 Plants of Illinois. 



3d. Origin of the Prairies, by Prof. Alexander 

 Winchell. 



4th. Trees in Winter, by Dr. Frederick Brendel, 

 with fifty illustrations. 



5th. B. D. Walsh's Papers on Entomology. 



6th. Natural Resources of our Commonwealth, 

 by C. D. Wilber. 



Yth. The Avalanche of the Ocean, by Prof. 

 Turner. 



M 8th. Limits of Aborescent Vegetation in Illi- 

 nois, by Dr. Vasey. 



9th. New Theory of Respiration, by Dr. J. A. 

 Sewal. 



10th. The Illinois Coal Fields, by C. D. Wil- 

 ber, with forty illustrations. 



11th. Chess and Wheat. 



12th. Miscellaneous Papers. 



13th. Secretary's Report. 



14th. Curator's Report. 



Address C. D. Wilber, Editor, Box 385, Bloom- 

 ington, Illinois. 



Cotton. — We have often asserted that cotton 

 can be grown as far north as latitude 40. We 

 think it will pay at 25c. a pound. Tlie plants can 

 as easily and as safely be transplanted as the cab- 

 bage. We have plants that were set out about the 

 middle of June that have been in bloom for more 

 than a week. The plants are not large but ihey 

 can be set close, and will thus produce a fair crop. 

 When the sweet potato was first introduced few 

 thought it would succeed ; now nearly every far- 

 mer grows them. In the next place they could 

 not be kept until January, much less wintered 

 over. Now this is done in our common prairie 

 housies by many persons, and soon it will become 

 a common thing to do it. When cotton plants are 

 grown in hot beds and set out the middle of May 

 in good, rich, well cultivsited soil, we shwll have a 

 good crop. Perhaps not every year, for even corn 

 has been known to prove a short crop at times, 

 but a good average yield. Thirty years ago no one 

 thought cotton a diflBcuU thing to grow. Perhaps 

 some other crops can be grown at a belter profit 

 and exchanged for cotton ; if so we have no com- 

 plaints to m; ke if it is not grown. We write this 

 June 25th, and have the plants in bloora to verrify 

 our position. 



The Temperature. 



THERMOMETER IN THE OPEN AIR. 



Dav of Month. 



1864. July. 



. 1 

 . 2 



. 3 

 . 4 

 . 5 

 . 6 

 . 1 

 . 8 

 . 9 

 .10 

 .11 

 .12 



13 

 .14 

 .15 

 .16 

 .17 

 .18 

 .19 

 .20 



21 

 .22 

 .23 

 .24 

 .25 

 .26 

 .27 

 .28 

 .29 

 .30 

 .31 



9 P. M. 



72 

 70 

 64 

 68 



78 

 84 

 80 

 76 

 80 

 78 

 74 

 75 

 71 

 80 

 77 

 80 

 82 

 75 

 76 

 70 

 62 

 64 

 74 

 70 

 72 

 74 

 74 

 80 

 85 

 76 

 78 



Means 



70 



84 



70 



Mean for the month 66 



The average of the month has been high, with a 

 sudden change on the 21st, occasioned by heavy 

 rain at the north. On the 6th and 18th we had 

 rain ; in some parts quite heavy, but light with us. 

 The month closed dry and hot. Corn is doing well; 

 the early planted is very fine, but the late is feel- 

 ing the effects of the drouth. Without rain soon> 

 the potato crop will be short. Farmers are just 

 beginning to cut prairie hay, though they should 

 have been through with it at this date. Thousands 

 of acres of prairie hay will yet be cut in this 

 county. Our last new swarm of bees came out on 

 the ?5th. On the 30th we saw them for the first 

 at work on the buckwheat. Turnips sown the 5th 

 came up, but those of the 15th have not oppeared. 

 The apples are doing poorly, needing rain very 

 much. On the 30th and 31st showers went round, 

 as usual following the streams and groves, giving 

 us cloudy days with promise of rain, but to be bro- 



