New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-25

.,v heat suffers sometimes from want OF covering N
winter When our farmers learn " prov, GeepeI aAd
hiring M the losm TO mix with the 'egeiaoe aoia on
60 S.ben they SOW with dnlls 40 that the young
So. come up in little iurrOws and that the snow
.ove, and the earth cTumble around their Toots,
ey viii be wei PAID or tneiT pans oeit o. ocuss
80 rod wide around I'll our large 90 acre fields would
f essily made and would give Us ornament p1ss shade
and sketey ell Of which need No region ~ the Union
4 better adapted to the production Of apples TIE
ln,,s.d, IA iust that wherein the NewtOHn pippln,
Rhole Island gTcening, EsOpus spltzenberg BALDWIN,
kelefeur grovensten and Aorthern sPg, aad AL the
Nest American apples originated and st flourish The
SOL eaeareons. cayey loam the best VI soils Tor
Tie apple tree The free winds and open exposure OF
the praires keep back the buds until the spring fross
have ceased. Mr. Harkness Of Northern Illinois, took
the frst premium apples at the United states Fruit
6rowers Congress- Syracuse, AID II IS understood that
he would have probably done 80 the next year at I'm
snnAt had bis apples arrived III time ior entry 81 FAC
Exhibition cor preniums lie Gays that ever since AIS
trees began 70 bear, twelve years ago, be mas Always
had good crops OF apPies ,, IN. ..io1
We are too far North for the best Peache. am
Pears and cherries and Pluins are HAey % 40 Ve'''I
,.ith ns than further South The most vigorous pear
srees IN the country growing near Detroit IL IL
not probable that the pear hig IS the result o. an a.
tempt TO cultivate the pear tree ID climate @l south
A. H rare habitat The paradise Of the pear tree IS
FLANDERS and that Of the Heart cherry Northern Ter
many. MAY not the summers o. sout ern ONO In
diana and Illinois lee too long aud too not Tor O''h inc
pear and the heart cherries Ineir leaves iiPeh ali
Srop off In early autumn, aud when the hu rams So
m their SAD starts again. and the tree during tae O
lowing winter, is injured and ultimately destroyed
This hypothesis may not be well founded but II seems
10 me quite as rational some others That nave Deeh
very confidently put forth
No gtate In the Union has greater adaptations for
;,,,rraI eomueroe than Illinois. Bounded on the east
Nv Lake Michigan the Wabash and the ONO ri'ersi
an the west by the Mississippi and traveTsed almost ltS
bole ieDgtb BIZ the Illinois and canal, II is sur
IA nd cd n streams
must be added the great Central Railroad IRON me
month of the Ohio 10 B0 Sale, with one branch 10 me
portbwest corner of the State opposite Da6HqHe ana
another TO the northeast corner OF chicago, Win the
Central Michigan, the Southern Michigan the Chicago
and Milwaukee, the Chicago and GAINESVILLE the Cbl.
eago and GaIens, Chicago and Savanna, Chicago ana
Fulton Chicago aud Rock Island, aud great number
Of other roads running across the state from east 10
west ere long 10 be completed
These Lakes rivers canals and roads will carry oil
our surplus productions and bring in return gfoce-
rcs from the South coal and iron from the interior %
fhe State lead from Galens, lumber iron and copper
from Fond du Lac and Lake Superior dry-goods from
the Eastern cities and, what is more important 10 our
true interests enable to develop our own resources
manufacture ourselves, furnish home market Tor our
fleming cumbrOus agricultural products
There are 10 lands TO enter in Winnebago County,
and all the vacant lands throughout the State, especial
" near 10 the projected lines oil railroads. are beng rap
idly taken up Fine lands at second hand may be
bought ~ from FIVE TO twenty dollars per acre near
Rockford
g. The phrase Improved Farm means something
in Ohio where it costs ten dollars an acre 70 c'eer
land. In Illinois it means pfacheay morning. lMoulu
much rather have quarter section "a 'Nsn do
n came from the hand Of the Almighty, TO MaAe
.rm of than enc that had been broken and cutVa'e9
lust long enough to take the cream out OIL he iao anu
Let the weeds in 1t costs but two dollars per acre ~
break up new prairie 1t costs one dolsr per acre 70
NAV Old land The first crop is quite as good as any
that follow and YOU then have the land fresh ch mel
low and free from weeds AS successful instance OF
the ease with which our praires may be made TO re-
spond to the hand of industry give you the following
facts: In June 1851, broke up 90 OF prairie
land the remainder of the ~ acre lot being covered
with grove II lay unienced until the ensuing winter
when the whole 80 were inclOsed with fence OF
POSTS and boards. In March, 1882, we sowed on tins
breaking" two bushels and peck OF oats per acre
and narrowed the land lenghwlse the breaking iurrOw
We then sowed peck Of timothy grass seed per acre
and narrowed the land the other way. The season
proved favorable, and at harvest, with McCQgmcAs
Reaper, at cost Of oO cent per acre. we cut OF very
une crop Of oats from 60 acres the other h'e acres
not being quite ripe, we aerward cut ana Threw 10
the cattle Last winter We threshed out from the o.
acres three thousand bushels. The timothy came up
finely in the stubbe and furnished abundant pasturage
for forty cattle and eight horses rsn the time pralre
Grass became hard until December. The oat straw
having been harvested without rain and before IL was
too rBe afforded great amount oil proFehder lot he
L
Maid for the land the fencing, breaking, seed harrow
ing harvesting and threshng, and now the land Is m
the best possible condition. You might plOw II all
day without touching stump,r or stone, were IL
not living under beautiful crop OF grass.
g. The usual mode OF breaking prairie has been TO
hitch strong team, say SIX pairs OF oxen, to large
plow with wheels that turns fuTrow two feet wide
This il done best in the month of june when the PiSl
RE grass is in full growth Two objects are aimed al
In breaking praireone is TO Kill the grass the olher
10 bring up loan TO mix with the vegetable mold Shai
low breaking effects the former object best but not the
latter Farmers are lately breaking more with smaller
plow drawn by pair OF good horses Fences are
made In great variety OF ways; but situated as ani
near railroad, and many are soon 10 De- prefer
enee of posts and pine boards, without which am
planting hedges Of Usage Orange 10 t"he the pace Vl
the fence as it shall decay.
2 HAVING been born South Of 40 degrees north ati-
fude | would myself prefer warmer climate, Just as
q New-Yorker or New-EnglSnder prefers tns lhete
are advantages and disadvantages on both s'des So1lh'
ein Illinois has q mdeT winter an earlier spnng she
canprodue more Indian better peaches grapes
and earlier melons and culinary vegetables On the other
hand she has more mud IN winter and more oppressive
sultry weather in summer, as well as more asues ana
levers in autumn. We have cold, bat dry ana pleas
nnt winter and delightful summer aud autumn
lenethcned somewhat perhaps By our prairie hres AM
consequent Indian Summers. March win Us Is th'
most boisterous aud unpleasant mon'h IN tae year
Rockriver has empbaticall! a salubrous climate.
In Winpebago County we have no agues. never
raw but one case in the country and thai down on tAe
brink Of the river. lnnammatcry and lung diseases
are thus far almost unknown. That great destroyer
COasumpiioH, may become moro formidable as We al
vance in wealth and luxury.
d. The mass Of the population is from New-tngiani
Hew.Nork and Northern Ohio. They read the b.el'
on Sunday and The NS'e- loT' Ir'SEne ana Ouo1e Tom
.N.e HnHr HnHN na. a