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BACINE THRESHIRG MACHINE WORKS,
RACINE, July 11, 1864.

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MESSRS. HOYT & CAMPBELL: - Enclosed

The Sorgho Journal says: "The WISCONSIN FARMER is an excellent monthly of 48 pages, published by Hoyt & Campbell, at please find $2 00, on account of my subMadison, Wisconsin, and comes to us regu- scription to the Farmer. I do not know larly. It is conducted with marked ability, how my account with the Farmer stands. the style and execution of the highest order, Please inform me; and if this amount will and the subscription price only one dollar a not pay arrearages and one year in advance, year, with premiums 'o single subscribers, I will remit again. It will not do to let and extra inducements in proportion to the Famer suffer for want of patronage. clubs. These North-western people surprise Our farmers, gardners, fruit, grain and The Indian trails are hardly obliterated wool growers, and manufacturers cannot from their prairies before splendidly built afford to lose its benefits. cities, long lines of railroad, agricultural Yours, truly, journals, and metropolitan dailies spring into existence. If the agriculturists of Wisconsin and the demesnes adjacent do not patronize the FARMER liberally, they do not appreciate their privileges."

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"Cannot Make Tree-Seeds Grow.”

J. W. HOYT, Esq-Dear Sir: I cannot make tree-seeds grow-evergreens, maples, beech, &c. Shall I soak until they sprout, or shall I freeze?

I am told that white clover will salivate sheep and horses. Is it true, or can I venture to sow with blue grass?

Yours, very resp-ctfully,

W. H. TODDER. SOUTH LAWRENCE, MINN., June 20, 1864.

Tiring of all Wheat.

J. I. CASE.

MR. EDITOR:-We farmers in the La

Crosse valley are going to sow less wheat, and cultivate a greater variety of agricultu ral products than we have been wont to do heretofore. This one crop of wheat, wheat, we begin to think won't pay.

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Yours, truly, S. N. ALDRICH.

WEST SALEM, Wis.

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[Sound-eminently sound! We've been preaching that doctrine for over seven years. Glad the farmers are beginning to believe it. -EDITOR,]

"Uutil Death.”

We have been receiving your valuable paper. Please continue to send it until

BERLIN, WIS.

Yours,

J. F. BROWN.

[Tell us just what kind of evergreens you want to grow, and we will endeavor to give death, unless ordered stopped. you the modus operandi. As a general rule the seeds will be benefitted by the soaking The cedar, Scotch pine, larch, &c., should be sown in April. Potting for a year or two before putting them out is a good plan. Soil should be light and friable. Seeds should be covered about half an inch deep.

[All right. We will send the Farmer right along to you, and your posterity after you!

State Fairs of 1864.

Wisconsin, Janesville, September 26th to 30th; Iowa, Burlington, September 27th to 30th; Illinois, Decatur, September 12th to 17th; New York, Rochester, September 20th to 23d; Michigan, Kalamazoo, Septem

The seeds of the beech, maple, &c., should be gathered in October, mixed with double their bulk of light earth or sand, in a box, and planted about the first of April. White clover will usually salivate the ber 20th to 23d. hosse.-EDITOR ] Evergreens.

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The Sorgo Journal and Farmer Ma

chinist.

It is gratifying to the offloers, as it must be pleasing to the members, to exhibit the foregoing evidence of

rivals

This useful and popular journal, devoted the rapid increase of business, and the present conto the sorghum and sugar beet culture, etc., dition of the Company. The public faith, at first is now in the midst of its second volume. awakened by our able and untiring agents, and conPersons to any considerable extent interest-firmed by the unwavering fidelity of the Company, to ed in the subjects of which it especially its professions, has matured into a confidence which treats ought by all means to have it. Price cannot be shaken by charlatan opponents or jealous only $100 a year Send your subscription to Pubs. Sorgo Journal and Farmer Machinist, 122 Main street. Cincinnati, Ohio. Short Horned Durham Cattle For Sale. I have for sale, on reasonable terms, several cows, heifers, and one yearling bull, all hundreds to whom property and home have been rethorough breed.

BARABOO, July 15, 1864.

Literary Notices.

CHAS. H. WILLIAMS.

110 ACRES ENOUGH. Published by This little book of 150 pages, 12 mo, purports to give the experience of a Philadelphian, who, becoming disgusted with city life, bought eleven acres of land, on the railroad between that city and New York, and made thereon a most comfortable living for his large family. It contains much interesting and valuable information, and if it were entirely original and reliable, and were not manifestly written in the interest of land speculators, would be entitled to commendation.

IOWA AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. Several volumes have been received from Gen. Wm. Duane Wilson, Secretary of the Iowa Agri cultural College; also, several other valuable documents. Iowa is a wide-awake, goahead state, and in her industrial interests is well represented by the officers of the Agricultural Society an Agricultural College. Wisconsin should look to her laurels.

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The Farmers of the State have built up a Home Company, which gives them ample protection, and precludes the necessity of sending their money abroad for a security which they give to one another. It needs no brazen trumpet to sound its praise; the

stored by its beneficence, and its immense and rapidly increasing business, are at once evidence of its guardianship and popularity.

Its best eulogium is its large home endorsement, and where it is most known it is vain for others to rolicit the risks which come within its rules. Its preseut unimpaired capital is considerably over $500,000, consisting of premium notes and cash assets; and while it combines security and economy in a degree hardly paralleled, it is believed that no Mutual Fire Insurance Company in the United States presents as large a capital and a business as great.

D. WORTHINGTON, Secretary.

Notices of New Advertisements.

THE MADISON MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. We have pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to the Secretary's report of the business of this eminently successful and popular Company, for the year ending June 30th, 1864.

The figures so happily presented declare the praises of the institution more forcibly than it is possible for us to do; and if anything further were wanting, the able and accomplished Secretary has so concisely and pointedly said it, that nothing need be added. The record presented is a noble one, and manifestly entities the Company to the confidence and cordial support of the people of the North-western States.

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

See a communication from Col. Hastings, General Agent, relative to redemption of scrip, with editorial 6,618 comments thereon.

.$6,158,118 33
88,784 17
69,150 30
13,179 13

Statement of the business of the Company for the cor-
responding term of the past four years.
Polici-s Premium

1860, to June 30.....1.763

Cash

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1861,
1862, to July 31. ...
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1863, to June 30.....5,277
1864,

..2,960

51,479 44

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59,417 42
88,704 17

POWER CANE MILLS Are advertised by the Rock River Iron Works Company. This Company has repeatedly been indorsed by us in recent numbers of the FARMER.

GREAT WESTERN NURSERIES.

We have heretofore warmly endorsed Messrs. Reiter 42,946 08 & Maddocks, and have seen no reason to retract our 69,150 30 good words.

THE TOLEDO NURSERIES

Are advertised by George Baker.

SEPARATE GEARED SUGAR CANE MILL, By D. J Powers.

BADGER STATE NURSERIES,

By Messrs Laudon & Robinson. These gentlemen are believed to be competent and reliable nursery. men, worthy of a liberal patronage.

SNYDER & WALTER

we shall be glad to furnish them any number
which they think can be used advantageous-
ly. We have several hundred of the Apri',
May and July numbers, which we should
like to have go into the hands of those who
do not read the FARMER.

Address, stating the number wanted,
HOYT & CAMPBELL, Madison, Wis.

Have a word to patentes. They are endorsed by BADGER STATE NURSERY.

some of the best business men of New York.

PUBLISHERS' CORNER.

Thrice Earned.

Hearken, oh ye delinquents, and give ear to a tale of business life.

We have advanced cash to pay enormous prices for labor, paper and other material, to continue the publication of the Farmer, which has been going to you for one, two, and perhaps three years, and for which you are still in arrears. During this time we have called upon you, once, twice, and perhaps three times. Possibly we may not have found you at home on either of these visits; we may have found you, and received a promise to call and pay, or remit soon. You have forgotten, accidentally, of course, to redeem this pledge. Now, gents, can you for a moment imagine that the reward which the patient are expected to receive is available for paying paper and printer's bills?

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We offer for delivery, during the fall, 100.000 Russell's Prolific Strawberry, which has proved, the pres ent season, to be a variety superior to the Willson, in point of productiveness and flavor. Also, the Doelittle Black Cap Raspberry, in quantities.

Persons desirous of purchasing of us can consult us by mail, in relation to terms.

Agents in every county wanted, to take orders for us, to whom liberal terms will be offered. aug-1 LANDON & ROBINSON.

TO PATENTEES. Valuable English and American Patents

Introduced; Manufactured, or Sold for Cash, on Commission.

Address

CONSIGNMENTS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. SNYDER & WALTER, 227 Broadway, New York. We, the undersigned, hereby authorize Messrs. conduct their business upon strictly honorable prin

We made a strong appeal to you in the July number, (which met with a hearty and liberal response from a few,) for the money which is our due, and which ought to have been paid long ago. We submit whether it will not be more satisfactory to you to remit your arrearages promptly, and help us sustain the Farmer, by means of advance payment in future, or whether you will oblige us to go to the trouble and expense of call-ciples. ing upon you, individually, for these little bills. We must have them, if it takes six months to look them up. We ask again, will you save us this trouble? Specimen Copies for those who do not Read the Farmer.

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If any of our subscribers think they can serve us by means of specimen copies of the FARMER, and have the inclination to do so,

Snyder and Walter to refer to us, believing they will

John McKewan, Jr., Importer, 55 Maiden Lane, N. Y

John Wilmot, Esq., Commissisn Merchant, No. 2
Bowling Green, N. Y.

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HI S. Arthur, Esq., British and American Exchange
Banking Company, 63 Wall street, N. Y.
H D. Smith, Esq, Chemical Rank,
J. W. K rby, Esq., Metropolitan Bank, "
C. U. Voorhees, Esq., Banker, 48 Pine street, N. Y.
Wm. S. Taylor, Esq., Banker, 76 Wall
Sheppard Seward & Co., Importers,214 Pearl st. “

31 Nassau street, N. Y

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Joseph Christopher, Esq., Manhattan Insurance Co.,
D. W. Brown, Commission Merchant, and Treasurer

of the American Manufacturing Company, 117
Maiden Lane, N. Y.
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The State Fair--A Word to the Wise.

The question was asked us this morning, (August 8th,) "Why is there so little interest manifested in the coming State Fair ?" Our answer was, "Because most people, like a shying horse, will look at but one side of the track of life at a time."

Further reflection strengthens us in the opinion, that our answer was a just one. The war, as such, at the present time, so fills the minds of the masses, that they not only forget everything else - starvation, bankruptcy, ruin-but are really quite out of patience with the thinking few, who, taking in a wider range, so clearly see that a war cannot be prosecuted indefinitely, nor a mountain load of debt removed, without work-that Labor must have its triumphs before War can have its enduring victories. In the recognition of this plain truth, and in the interest of that industry, without which we can hope for nothing, either as individuals, as a State, or as a nation, it has been resolved to hold a general exhibi. tion of the products of our agricultural, horticultural, mechanical, and household arts. The bare announcement ought to be enough to insure success. But society is sometimes slow to see what is best for it, and must be labored with. What we want, then, is this: that every reader of the FARMER should turn missionary, and stir up his heighbors. It is vain for the officers of the State Agricultural Society to labor day and night, as some of them are doing, to make the Fair worthy of the State and of the times, unless the people

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will take hold of the matter in earnest. Awake! then, oh ye friends of Wisconsin Industry, and of our struggling nation! There is need of a united and vigorous effort on behalf of all the arts of peace. If your country calls you to arms, in God's name answer her call promptly, in person or by substitute. But if not, then be it yours to strive, with unflagging zeal and devotion, in the work that is left you to do. In times like these, there should be no idlers, no men of leisure in the land.

If you can see that a great exhibition, such as we may have at Janesville, in the last week of September, would be of service to the State and country, then clearly it is your duty to prepare for it, to induce others to prepare for it, and finally to come, bringing your products, your families, and your friends with you. Will you do it?

Fallows.

The benefits arising from fallows (land at rest without any crop on it,) have been

much overrated. A summer fallow or a

clean fallow may be sometimes necessary in lands overgrown with weeds, particularly if they are sandy; but is certainly unprofitable as a part of a general system in husbandry. It has been supposed by some writers that certain principles necessary to fertility are derived from the atmosphere, and that these again are supplied during the which are exhausted by a succession of crops, repose of the land and the exposure of the pulverized soil to the influence of the air; but this is not a correct statement.

How the State Fair may be Made a
Great Success.

There are four classes of persons interested in the objects of the State Agricultural Society, who, if they will unite in making their best efforts, can make the success of the approaching State Fair perfectly sure, to wit:

First, the officers of the Society. The Executive Committee alone consists of fifteen members, well distributed over the State. Each of these gentlemen has large influence in his own district, and can, if he will, contribute very much towards awakening a general interest among the people; and inasmuch as the responsibility of suc. cess or failure rests principally with them, there can be no question but that they will do their duty faithfully.

Secondly, under the Constitution there is likewise a General Committee, consisting of the officers of all the County Agricultural Societies of the State. This Committee is quite numerous, and, in their double capacity of officers of county and State societies, should be able to do a great deal for the State Exhibition. Will they not bear in mind, constantly, up to the date of the Fair, their duty in this regard? At their respective county exhibitions, most of which will be held before the State Fair, they will be able, without much effort, to secure the attendance of many of the exhibitors, with their products, as well as of the people at large. Gentlemen, we earnestly hope you will do everything in your power.

Thirdly, there are hundreds and thousands of farmers, fruit-growers, mechanics, manu

objects are the advancement of those interests which determine the prosperity of the State. This class will not be so numerous this year as in former years, and, on this account, it is all the more necessary that all who are in condition to come should be sure to attend. We Americans are a dradging people, working ourselves, our families, and hired help, with too little regard to the natural laws in accordance with which labor can be made most truly profitable. A little recreation will do you good, and how better can you recreate than by devoting a few days to the State Exhibition?

To this class, also, and to the people of the whole State, we say, come one, come all! ·

Agriculture in North-Western Wisconsin.

MR. EDITOR:-Enclosed please find one dollar, to pay for the FAKMER for 1864.

Not being engaged in agricultural pursuits, I thought I would not take the FARMER this year; but as it continues to come, and its monthly visitation seems quite as interesting as ever, and as I am willing to contribute my mite towards supporting a good agricultural paper in our State, I pay cheer. fully.

Agricultural prospects are not very flattering in North-Western Wisconsin, this year, though fortunately the extreme settlements have been favored by occasional showers, and will realize a very fair crop.

L. C. STANLEY.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, July 15, 1864,

Green Manures.

facturers, and ladies skilled in the depart-Ing food for animals, should be applied to Land, when it is not employed in preparmeut of housewifery and ornamental work, the purpose of the preparation of manure who, if they will each do their duty, have for plants; and this is effected by means of the ability to make such a display of the green crops, in consequence of carbonaceous products of their industry and genius as will matter in the crbonic acid of the atmosattract multitudes of non-producers to the phere. In a summer's fallow, a period is always lost in which vegetables may be raised, either as food for animals or as nourishment for the next crop; and the texture of the soil is not so much improved by its

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Finally, there is this class last referred to, viz: of people who go to such great exhibitions for the sake of encouraging and enjoy ing them-people who have a little leisure and money to spare, and who are always ready to welcome a grand gala.day, whose

exposure as in winter, when the expansive power of ice, the gradual dissolution of snow, and the alternations from wet to dry, tend to pulverize it and mix its different parts together.

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