New-York tribune., 1868-06-06
FARM PRoSPEcTS ~ ILLINOIS.

Prom SPECIAL Correspondent
LINCOLN, Logan Co, Juro o 1sts.
On Sunday evening at about o or 10 o'clock,
this vicinity visited with Of the hardest
years For an hour more Il fell In torrents raising
some OF our smaller streams nearly high as at any
time this Spring Northeast OF Lincoln toward Bloom
ington hail came down with sufficient force 10 break
many lights I'm the northern side OF houses The young fruit
also badly beaten from the trses Win the eAcep
tiOn OF peaches. which have no donht the a hnucd
only much A. the of orchards ought 10 have
dome dome aG m sere os I1 s @ nome TOO much fruit Although
we had much bloom. ru set badly Dclhy plsI,d ti,'I
week from that point. else by the general wet ana
GOODNESS of the weather. ,-. ,
the County heard majority Of tue members speak OF
their being still engaged ia planting neo l Noittai
day when the weather aud the state OF the ground VIII
permit Many Of them are Eey from Preisnt - NJ appear p
ance. TO run until the middle Of TINS MONTH II not oug'r
soe much Nat land which the stalks are only Just
raked Far the benefit OF Eastern readers VIII say mat
where piece Of ground was IN corn the year previous
and the corn gathered from the stalk he staks hie
broken down IN cold weather In the Winter win long
pole TO each end Of which a PAIR OF horses Is at-
tached, and raked into WlnrOWs ana DnInea,
preliminary to plOwinc. TIE wet weather Il likely 10
prevent the planting Of much land, but IN acres tnk
we shall still get In our quota More new anu hns peeh
brokeu an through Central Illinois. and particularly In
the section OF Ihois Central Railroad lana the present
Spring than for the three previous years ihs
new land Is mostly "ied out prairie which can De broken
easily with two three horses II is as dereh from
the original prairie as chalk Is om cheese ana yet
colners think IL altogether due 10 their superior Wis
dom and sk that prairie broken with two-horse
teams whereas the old settlers used Our ana hve Yoke OF
oven The greater part this new land is broken in
February and March, et any time when the surface IS
thawed out four Inches deep anH - ei,nsr sSw & ~ =
wheat or planted TO cover, producing rs ItEv OVP o
either AS any land we have ON the most oi .i' , h Va ~
land is up and looking hne ine oI Ai pnSS pa,gS
wherever the ground was little hattci tha coinion, &
see places Of two or three acres ia extent Noie y % e
been plowcd up and planted over inc Io"s UV'"e "N
Give us dry June, and have 20 fears n, s we shall
raise a fair average corn cop ~ innos and i'm any
event GOOD crop az or The two past years In 1855
which tns SEASON resembles somewhat i saw corn
corn al least corn s not to b. sDeeled at by calves
with poor teeth. ] remember that In 80 y many VINO
royed corn 10 plant None who did 80 were particularly
pleased with The experiment; for although u made
little sounder corn than as late planted western Ds,
vet our people tedious gathering that theV
left 10 out all Winter; and, IN my Immediate heJ Or
hood the cranes, ducks prant aud geese gahcrea o
the prico of corn had much 10 do with ~. a.,
orr small grain and grass crops looking splenddy
snTng wheat was not only got In earlythe whole Of tile
battle with Spring whcat-bn also wle inc GROUND was
~ n%cb OF IL has TO be mudGed in to have sown
eaTly We who inclined 10 cfOhh, Say, IN JSs, :.
m rnst Ono thing think certantha the wheat
WON'T be troubled by the chnch bug This wet weather
sIn% vi sowed about 100 acres with grassseed this
sfrine about half on wheat aud the rest on Hungarian
p Where have sowed 1t without any other
crop It looks as might cut good crop or nay "
s6eepshearing is going to be little later with those OF
ne Who wash We do not usually wash until nier corn
yiaufing / am washing my hrst lock To-Day MANY aro
shearipg without washing. Such nave Deeh ht IL Lor
hont ten days past particularly those VINO nave the
scab The feeling at present with iilhols Mo- @
S tbat they shall not put their wool In market tnS yehI
before October Should wool not be worth more tnr0ugn
,1 ear lsGs than last year there will not be many seep
% Eear u Is69-nOi II mutton can be sOld at any price III
iorge quantities With Western wool at only 80 70 Soo.
III oonnd through the present year. consumers IN your
~ Viii be able to get mutton as cheap as pun Deoi
neyt Winter However, the pluekiest OF US VIII tn na
49, a, and hang on, asking nothing OF any one except
pear IL alu aant % riN shali he LET alone.