NOTICES OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

teristic features. It has taken prizes in competition with other machines in nearly all the grain-growing states, and last year took the Great Silver Medal at the International Agricultural Fair, at Hamburg, Germany.

FISHER & REYNOLDS, leading manufacturers and dealers in Cabinet Ware of all sorts, at Fair Madison, are advertised in this No. dealers, with a good stock always on hand. THE QUAKER Reaper and MOWER is advertised in this No. anew by Tabers & Co., Salem,

THE CONTINENTAL INSURANCE Co.'s advertisement is elsewhere noticed. See and read. RANDALL'S GREAT SHEEP BOok is advertised in this No. We have received a copy and are prepared to give it a most cordial endorsement. It is unquestionably the best work on practical sheep husbandry hitherto published in any country. It is profusely and beauti-0. This machine is popular in Ohio, and it fully illustrated, and the mechanical execu-mend it for use everywhere. possesses many points which should recomtion is remarkably good. Let every farmer who pretends to keep sheep send his $1.50 to D. D. T. Moore, publisher, Rochester, N. Y., and procure a copy at once.

See also Mr. Moore's advertisement of the Rural New Yorker-one of the best farmer's family papers in the country. Likewise the advertisement of A Manual of Flax Culture, &c. A valuable book. Price only 25 cents. THE ROCK RIVER IRON WORKS Co., of Janesville, advertise Threshing machines and Sugar Cane Mills. Their machinery has the reputation of being of the very best sort, and we feel warranted in strongly endorsing them. K. P. KIDDER'S Compound Movable Comb Hive appears to be gaining a wide popularity.. We like the construction of the hive very much, and think that it merits the popularity it enjoys. See advertisement.

SEE Advertisement of Westcott's Churn and Butter Worker. Sherwin & Co. have it on exhibition at the office of M. E. Fuller & Co, on King street, Madison.

[Advertisement.]

SPECIAL PREMIUM.. Believing the Sorghum interest to be a great and important one to this State and the Northwest, and wishing to do what we can to develope it, we offer the following premium to all, who are disposed to compete for it, in the State.

For the best twenty-five acres of cane grown in the same neighborhood, by one or more parties,

A complete set of our most improved Two Horse Sepa rate, Geared Sorghum Machinery, with Bagasse carrier, evaporator, heater, smoke pipe, skimmers, and all the fixtures complete for setting up and operating, worth at the shop $260, cash, and capable of making from 150 to 200

gallons of syrup per day.

Parties proposing to compete for the foregoing premi. um will need to send to me for entry blanks and circular

of instructions, &c. The earlier attended to the better. D. J. POWERS. Madison, Wis., Feb. 20, 1864.

WESTCOTT'S

CHURN AND BUTTER WORKER!

Patented April 29, 1863.

MADISON SEED, GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE.-See Huntley & Steensland's advertisement. They keep a large stock of articles of the best quality and at the lowest prices, it to the public confident of is posssessing features enand being straight forward, reliable men, de-tirely new and of such practical utility as necessarily give

serve the large patronage they enjoy.

of above churn tor this State, and we present

Whave obtained the right of manufacture and sale

it a superiority over any churn hitherto invented.
We are now prepared to show by practical exhibition-
First That it will churn cream or sweet milk in from
two to six ininutes.

Second, That it will gather the butter and work it over ́n bout the same length of time, by simply reversing the motion.

THE NEW YORK SELF-RAKING REAPER AND MOWER, advertised by S. L. Sheldon & Bro., with illustration on cover, is the result of a combination of the best points of the Seymour named time as if the process of churning was continued

& Morgan Reaper and Mower with the best of Palmer & Williams'. Each of these machines was popular singly, and, now that they are combined, it is believed that they constitute a self-raking reaper and mower that has no superior in the world. Strength, durability, ease of draft and management, adjustability and efficiency are justly claimed as charac-]

Third, That it will make as good butter in the above

for one hour or even more.

Fourth. We combine all these qualities in a churn at on e che p. simple and durable, and free from metallic substances inside the churn.

In spekig thus confidently of the advantages of this churn, we invite al those who either use or are in any way interested in such an article, to witness our practical exh bi ions, either with cream or milk, and see if these things be 80.

e are now prepared to furnish at short notice the above m ntioned churn, at wholesale or retail, and invite at the office of M. E. Fuller & Co., on King street.

all tho wishing an article of the kind to give us a call

Madison, Wis., May 2, 18C4.

A. SHERWIN & Co.

"Are we to have a State Fair this Year?"

Thanks to the enterprising citizens of Rock County, we are, at last, able to answer this oft repeated question with such definiteness as will warrant immediate action on the part of all the friends of Industry in this State.

EDITOR.

No. 6.

This looks so much like a certainty that we feel disposed to regard it, now, as definitely settled that we are to have a State Fair, and that it will be held at Janesville.

A better point could not have been selected. Janesville is one of our most flourishing towns, Yes, we are to have a State Fair once more is readily accessible by railroad from all parts in Wisconsin. It was announced in the of the State and adjoining States, has ample March number of this journal that the Exec- and excellent hotel accommodations, and a utive Committee of the State Agricultural So-liberal people, able and willing to extend to ciety had determined to hold a Fair some- the great Fair-going public all the hospitality where, during the last week of September-required for the occasion.

Most of the other Northern and Western States have had successful exhibitions annually since the war commenced, and Wisconsin, whose territory is really the most remote from danger, and, therefore, better able to go uninterruptedly forward with all her industrial enterprises, ought to be ashamed to excuse herself from giving these important interests any special attention on the ground of "the agitated condition of the country." What if the country is agitated? What if there is in progress a war such as the world has seldom if ever seen? Shall we who remain at home

provided the people of any suitable locality would offer sufficient inducements-and that a Premium List had been prepared and would be printed and issued, just so soon as the question of locality should have been fully determined. Since that time, urgent appeals, by letter, by editorials, and in person, have been made to the people of the whole State, and especially of certain cities where it was believed a Fair could be most successfully held, but owing to an apathy which it seems difficult to explain, and which can hardly be explained at all upon grounds very complimentary to the enterprise of the citizens of—who go not ourselves in armor to battle Wisconsin, when the May number of the FARMER was issued we were so utterly at a loss what to say, that we said nothing what ever on the subject.

Leading citizens of Janesville and Rock County now tell us that we must by all means have an Exhibition somewhere, and that they will take the responsibility of accepting the terms proposed by the officers of the Society.

against the enemies of the Republic-shall we fail to do everything in our power to advance the interests of that Industry on which our success in the prosecution of the war, and our ability, as a nation, to pay off the enormous debt that is piling up against us, so essentially depends?

A good general deems it a matter of just as much importance to have guns, ammunition

and supply trains, as to have men. And are not all these the product of Industry? The truth is, in a struggle like this, the whole people should consider themselves members of the Grand Army. We who are farmers, mechanics, manufacturers and merchants, must look to the supplies—must furnish, in a word, the materiel of the war; yes, and pay the soldiers who do the work of fighting down the rebellion. The responsibilities of the commissary, quartermaster's and paymaster's departments are upon our shoulders. Therefore it is that we insist that it is our bounden duty to encourage every agency whose office it is to so inform and stimulate the industry of our State and country as that it shall be able to yield the largest results possible. It is the office of Industrial Exhibitions, whether of town, county, State or Nation, to both inform and stimulate, and this is why we should be determined to keep them up, and make them largely successful.

The farmers have never been in a better

Speaking of the cultivation of the white bean, the late Judge Buel wrote thus:

"They are a valuable crop, and with good care are as profitable as a wheat crop. They leave the soil in good tilth. I cultivated beans the last year in three different ways, viz: in hills, in drills, and sowed broadcast. I need not describe the first, which is a well known process. I had an acre in drills which was the best crop I ever saw. My management was this: On the acre of light ground, where the clever had been frozen out the preceding winter, I spread eight loads of long manure, and immediatety plowed and harrowed the Drills or furrows were then made ground. with a light plow, at the distance of two and a half feet, and the bans thrown along the furrows about the 25th of May, by the hand, at the rate of at least a bushel to the acre. then guaged a double mold-board plow, which was passed once between the rows, and was followed by a light one-horse roller, which flattened the ridges. cleaned of weeds by the hoe, but not earthed. The crop was twice The produce was more than forty-eight bushels by actual measurement.”

Farm Work for June.

I

The crops, of course, are mostly in; though condition, since the date of our first residence the sowing of Hungarian grass, turnips, &c., in Wisconsin, than they are to-day. Succes-is yet to come. The great business of this sive years of abundant harvests, and better market than formerly, have enabled them to pay off their debts and to plant their feet on the highway of prosperity; while mechanics of almost every sort, manufacturers and merchants, have been doing still better. By the last week of September the farmers' most pressing work for the season will have been done, and he will feel the need of the recreation and advantage to be derived from the Exhibition. There is no good reason, therefore, why the State Fair of 1864 should not be a great success. Let every friend of the prosperity of Wisconsin begin now to do everything in his power to make it so.

Beans as a Field Crop.

Beans have been in great demand since the war has been in progress, and command high prices, and at all times they are most valuable as food for man and beast. Bean meal is said to be t very best food for milch cows.

month is simply to take good care of the crops
already growing. Of this work we need sim-
ply to say, poor culture poorly pays, and, of
course, makes those poor who unwisely practice it.
Make thorough work of stirring the soil and
rooting up the weeds. A better way is, not to
let the weeds get their heads fairly above the
ground. If once they get the start, they'll be
pretty likely to keep ahead of you.
as the corn makes the rows visible, and pota-
toes begin to peep through the crust of the
soil, a light cultivator should be put through.
You will thus have got the start of the weeds,
and will find it easy to keep it.

As soon

Hungarian grass, if sown at all, should be put in between the 1st and the 10th. Some farmers think well of it, but we think the mania for it, which had a general run through the State in 1856-58, has pretty much subsided.

One thing we would enjoin in relation to the cutting of grass and grain: Make ready to do it in season-before those crops are dead

FRIEND HOYT:-I have something more to say in regard to the cultivation of Chufa. You remember I gave you my last year's experience in sandy land, and formerly on prairie. This year we plowed up an old chip yard. The soil was yellow sand, enriched by the chip manure. We planted as much again ground as last year, with no better yield. The black sand produces better than any soil we have tried. This is our experience. People are slow to take up any new substi-readers the damaging advice which he gives. tute. I wish I could impress upon the minds of farmers that chufa is a good substitute for coffee. We have cultivated it for years as a

ing oats in it, usually claim that their oat bins have bursted, or that by some hocus pocus they got mixed on the barn floor. If it is oats they bring, with wheat in it, the bins have taken a reverse action, and spilled the wheat

barns are continually oscillating from side to side, and never standing within forty-five degrees of the perpendicular. But if we come at the facts of the case I apprehend, in

of the fanning mill has been oscillating instead of the barn, but that, in most cases, mixtures of grain are due to slovenly farming. If "the enemy had sown tares while the husbandman slept," there might be some justification offered; but, unfortunately for the credit of a majority of Wisconsin farmers, they have no such excuse, for they have sown them themselves.

If you will look at the printed circulars of the Chicago and other Boards of Trade, you will notice that all oats having in them a mixture of any other grain, are to be graded No. 2. Thus your correspondent, who prides himself on his agricultural skill, would re-into the oats. Indeed, you must conclude their ceive in the Chicago market, at the present writing, but 61@614c for his oats having in them an admixture of wheat, while his more judicious neighbor, sending his clean and unmixed oats to the same market, could realize | some cases, it will be found that the chess box 65@66, with quicker sales and better feeling. Hence the question arises, whether these several Boards of Trade find, in the main, a difference of 4 to 5 cents a bushel in the bona fide value between clean oats and those having some other description of grain in them; or are they governed by mere arbitrariness and caprice? But these associations cannot be governed by arbitrariness or caprice, for the moment they depart from a standard of integrity and honor in their transactions, their influence and the force of their rules and decisions become no more than ropes of sand. Now we will take another view of the case, and we shall see that no single buyer, no as sociation of buyers or Board of Trade, can do anything to govern these matters except to give sanction to established fact, and uniformity to what must of necessity be, in the main, the usage of business. For instance, Chicago,. (and the same remark applies to other places) is a free market, and any individual who chooses

to buy can buy what he chooses and where he chooses. In all these commercial places are to be found men with means and ability to operate in grain, and if oats, having some other description of grain in them were worth -I will not say more-but as much as pure oats, buyers would soon neglect No. 1 oats, and buy only No. 2; which they could readily get at 4 to 5 cents a bushel below the price of No. 1. Competition would soon advance the price of No. 2 oats to the price of No. 1, apd the distinction would be obliterated. The de

cisions of the Board of Trade would be as impotent as the Pope's Bull against the comet Farmers coming to market with wheat hav

I believe every intelligent farmer will agree with the writer in the importance of keeping every description of produce free from any mixture with a different variety or description of product.

For the want of an observance of this rule, many thousands of dollars are annually wasted in this State alone.

Nothing is more common than to witness a load of potatoes brought to market mixed red and white. If the farmers who bring these potatoes to market, mixed in this manner, were to plant the different varieties in separate places, the red potatoes would bring as

much per bushel as could be realized for the red and white mixed, but for the white potatoes they could get in all the leading markets 10 to 15 cents a bushel more than could be obtained for the red or red and white mixed.

It might not prove damaging to the general credit or material interests of Wisconsin

farmers, if they were even to take a step further and only plant such varieties as the Jersey Peach Blows, Prince Albert, or Mercer potatoes, which bring 20 to 25 cents a bushel more than any of the common varieties. But I believe I need to adduce no arguments to prove the damaging effects to the agricultural