1864. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



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ken promises. Every year adds its testimony to 

 the value of early planted corn over that late plan- 

 ted. Some day we shall learn to plow for this 

 crop in the fall and late in the eummer, and to 

 plant early. 



A bad season for grape cuttings and layers of all 

 kinds ; a good year to kill weeds, break up slough 

 land and prepare the line for willow fences. While 

 Phoenix and others are settling the veracity of 

 swamp vs. white willow, let every man who would 

 like a hedge in low ground, prepare the line, say 

 ten feet wide, and be ready to set the cuttings ear- 

 ly in the spring. 



LocKPORT Nursery, of E, Moody k Sons. — ^The 

 trade list of this nursery is at hand. We observe 

 the prices of trees have gone up. When we add to 

 the extra price the extra freight tariff, trees for or- 

 chards will cost a trifle to the tree planter. 



1863. 1864. 



Peach per m |80 |200 



Apple " 10 90 



Pear " 800 850 



Plum " 250 460 



Cherry" 150 250 



Rather important to those buying largely. Trees 



of size for retailing are much above these prices. 



Roses.— Every house must have its roses ; we say 

 must, for without roses a house is not a house. — 

 Every farm house must then have roses ; they can- 

 not and should not be dispensed with. A climb- 

 ing rose is a pretty thing in bloom, or when its fo- 

 liage is half grown ; but what we like most is a 

 bomantan) or monthly rose that gives as roses from 

 May to October ; — great round roses, with beauti- 

 ful, crimped petals, that laugh in the simshine and 

 gather the'dew into pearls. Such roses please us, 

 are hardy and require only rich, dry soil, cutting 

 back in autumn and a slight covering for winter. 

 By all means have them on their own roots and 

 they will never disappoint you. Grafted roses are 

 a fraud and a delusion, whatever may be said of 

 them bv those growing plants for sale. When 

 these roses have stood year after year in the same 

 place they become well rooted and send up strong 

 shoots that greet us with abundance of roses. 



Moss roses are beautiful in their season and can- 

 not well be dispensed with. 



All roses should be cut back in the autumn and 

 have some straw or coarse manure thrown over 

 them ; and do not take it off until late in April 

 Some of the Jime roses are very beautiful, and as 

 they are cheaply grown a few, such as George IV. 

 Aureti, Madam Plantier, &c. should be had. If you 

 have little time to cultivate roses, mulch the 



ground heavily in the spring, and in August take 



it off and dig up the surface. In this way you 



make strong plants, and strong plants make large, 



fine flowers. 



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State Horticultpral Socibtt. — This Society 

 will not hold a Fair this year. A meeting of the 

 members will be held some time during the State 



Fair. , 



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Illinois Fairs. 

 State Fair Decatur. Sept. 12 



County Fairs. V ; 



Champaign Champaign Sept. it — 80 



Cass Virginia. . . .Aug. 30 — Sept 1 



Marion . . ... ....... Salem Sept. 5 — 8 



LaSalle ;.. Ottawa Sept. 6 — 9 



Morgan Jacksonville. . . . Sept. 6 — 9 



St Clair Belleville Sept. 6 — 9 



Union Central Atlanta Sept. 6 — 9 



Lake Libertyvil.e. .... 



Kankakee Kankakee Sept T — 9 



Kane Geneva Sept. 7 — 9 



Bureau Princeton Sept.13 — 15 



Kendall Bristol Sept.20 — 22 



Hancock Carthage Sept.20— 28 



Ford Paxton Sept.21— 28 



McLean Bloomington. . . . Sept. 26 — 80 



DuPage Wheaton Sept.26— 28 



Pike Pittsfield Sept 27— 29 



Fulton Lewiston Sept.27 — 29 



Warren Monmouth Sept.27 — 29 



Whiteside Sterling Sept.27— 30 



DeKalb DeKalb Sept 28—80 



Carroll Mt. Carroll Sept 28— 30 



Schuyler Rushville Sept. 28— 30 



Ogle Oregon Sept.28 — 80 



Cumberland Majority Point Sep. 29 — Oct.l 



Washington Nashville Oct. 5 — 7 



DeWitt Clinton. Oct. 6— 8 



Macoupin Carlinville Oct, 1 1 — 14 



Vermillion Catlin. . ; Oct. 11 — 14 



Monroe Waterloo Oct. 12 — 14 



For the Illinois Farmer. 

 Sterling, Whiteside Co., 111., Aug. 8, '64. 

 M. L. Dunlap, Esq. Dear Sir: 



You ask what change in our railroad relations 

 since the union of the N. W. with the G. & C. U. 

 R. R. ? I would say, so far as I know, they re- 

 main the same, except a greatly increased tariff. 

 We had hoped for the permanent interest of 

 the road, to say nothing of those which belong to 

 Agriculture, that a more just and liberal policy 

 would have been pursued, that this unjust and odi- 

 ous warehouse monopoly might have been broken 

 up. If so it has not come to my knowledge. The 

 fanners of Illinois, if I mistake not, will sooner or 

 later awake to this subject and demand a law such 

 as other States have found necessary, to protect 

 and regulate its railroad interests, also the inter- 



