New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-07
arv .,ster in which 20 be folded st night, believe
any well managed nock VIII yie'd a. HA'' '"eN'''
FIVE DER cent Of lie. profit per annum.

e ru;,o;. farmers who were quite ture that thar
lands did not need draining, have somewhat mcdl-
sod their tone since their sore experience OF the
eoods Of Ie5s. A. FIRST, Of course, they viii con-
te,t tbsmselves with a few open slOugh bitches,
bicb carry off little Of the wster and good deal
Of what is beit in the SOIL but even these Vicious
and clumsy as they are, are decidedly better thSn
nothing. Drain.tle manufactures bave been
e,tabh,bed at Chicago and Joliet, ard every tile
properly put down in 1859 will create demand for
II least four more in 1860. But thorough drainage
with tile is slow and expensive, SO that II cannot be
expected to extend far beyond the shadows OF
steeples where land is so cheap and abundant as
in Uliros. / rejoice, therefore, to hear that the
fashion Of draining, uithOat tiie which poorly de-
scribed in an account Of my visit 10 Maj. Diekln-
sons farm last September, is making headway
here. heard at Aurora Of this plan Of drain
makng-by simply rerforatiDg the earth at depth
Of three TO FIVE feet, and leaving there sort OF
mu. kIst hole so gauged that tie water which
fhers into il viii fDd uniform descent from the
upper side Of the field to an outlet at tie lower.
OF course, this is inpractcable on stony and
losm or hard pan, such as ia generally found on the
prsiriet, where the lay Of the land is at al IN
clned or rolling it pill work well; and drains thus
made Al depth Of four feet, may be plo~et over
and over without materially damaging them. II
they last even ten years the owners OF the land
will be ready to tile when it they gve way.
believe too little account has yet been made
here of large open drains by wsy Of fencing. Taat
the heavy fro,ts Of Winter will impair such fence
i. very true; but then the material is sways on
hand, and repairs cannot be difficult If the Steam
Pow slall ever become a realized tact-and there
are not less than thousand persons to-day at
work on IT, each confident that his Plow is destined
to eclipse al the rest and bring him fame snd for
tune: viii soon be gTdling each fed with an
open feDce.dran three or four feet deep whose
banks Will be so sloped and erased as TO defy the
attacks Of frost A slight hedge on one bank VIII
render these fences catt!e-and-hogProof, and thea
a few good underdrains dschsreDg into them from
the lowest depressions Of the adj scent fields will
clear the land of "sloughs snd provide the farm
with water. i hear quite generally that wherever
a tOlerable commencement of thorough draining
has been made the dreaded and damaging want OF
water so generally felt on the more level prsiries
is fc.t no longer. Half dozen deep drains Of
even forty rods each will secure TO slmost any farm
q copious supply Of water far better for any aai-
nal than that found on the surface, tasting Of
It's decay ing vegetation.
Ard, speaking Of fences, hear with pleasure
that the Ossge Orange is justlfying the hopes of
ts advocates, and conquering the skep.icism which
has found frequent uttersnce through The TRIB-
rNE. The recent hard Winters, while cutting il
down at the top have thickened it at the bottom,
so ths, almost every fence tye years old, that has
been deoenily cared for, is now in excellent condi-
tion. And then, animals fad It among the few
things with regard 10 which familiarity does not
breed contempt-they learn to dread and shun It's
poisonous thornt-so that no hog of average gump-
ton likes to run his snout into this Of slender
bushes for third time. | cannot be mistaken in
my conclusion that the Usage Orange is growing
rapidly in favor even in Northern Illinois. Fur.
ther South, It's utility has hardly been questioned.
As TO Timber, the uniform testimony is that 1t is
on the ipcrease-thst many more acres Of Illinois
former period within the knowledge of civilized
man. As The annual fires are restricted within
narrower and Jet narrower limits, the woods en-
croach upon the prairies, so that though there
may be no tuns of live timber in the State to.
day than formerly, there are very many more
trees and much larger annual increase BY growth.
Yet, too few of the settlers on the prairies sur
round their habitations with young trees, and the
consequence is lock Of baroness and bleakness
about thcse prsirie homes especially in Winter,
which an Eastern Nan cannot be expected % note
without shiyer. Ii ls sheer nonsense to say that
trees viii not grow on the prsiries, when SO msny
are teen growing there in thousands of different
places That they are started with difficulty 10 doubt
less true; and that there may be kind. that will
not live at all, is quite possible, though do no.
think il yet proved. I do not pretend to know
which il the Evergreen best adapted 10 brave the
prairie gales and breezes; but am very ture there
must be one, il no more, Diynely intended for this
very end and il cannot be too soon designated and
multiplied An average prairie quarter.s4:tion
farm, surrounded BY belt or screen Of thrifty
Evererecns of almost any species, would sell for
sluot any price that the owner could in conscience
a.k. believe the time must come when the great
Pniries viii be inter'eeted, grdrsned, eAeekered-
with belts aud groves OF planted timber, partly es
frgreen, sensibly modifying their climate and d.
miLi,hins the ferceness OF their winds; and ,ha.
thereby they will be rendered capable Of producing
usny Of the Fruits 20 which they are now inho,-
pitable.
That the Peach VII mo-. flourish in Northern II.