The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-20
THOUGHTS FROM CACHE.

| Editor Bulletin:
This weather is mixture of November
and April with no suspicion of balmy May
in it since last Monday morning. Sunday
was cloudy and cool closing with a sudden
rush of wind and inky clouds which were
watched anxiouSly till they moved away
to the east without doing any harm and we
remembered that this is not in the STERN
belt.
The next morning everything was en-
trancingly beautiful. Only enough ram
had fallen to frcshen up the verdure; the
shimmering oak leaves, the waving grass
and nodding flowers, sparkling with gems
of the purcst water, the delicious air, laden
with redolence Of the "angels of the grass"
and vibrating with the songs Of woodland
choristers-all this was enough to inspire
wooden man to dash off pastoral. Look
in what direction he might, out over the
fields Of bright, crisp wheat, into the
orchard across the way, or down into the
dark shady wood where the cotswolds infant
and baby Jerseys beguled themselves,
he must have felt las if il were new
and perfect world"
In the evening all that was past, lambs
and calves begged to be housed from the
impending rain, birds hushed their music
and rustlcd into the wsrmest nook on the
eeward side of the trees and by nine
O'Clock it began to thunder and Tighten
and rain as though it had to get through
with whole seasons work that night. To
sleep was impossible. When daylight
came the rain was seemingly inexhausta.
BILE, and from that time on to this, Friday
morning, we have been rained upon daily
or nightly, with a falling thermometer.
Young stock are bumped up like drome-
daries, two months old chickens arc shriv-
elcd to nothing but asthmatic heads and
bare trottcrs, and white flowers look as
though they wanted to come into the fire.
Sheep shearing is over with and
the wool is, in perhaps every instance, on
its way to the great factories, as ready
money is more desirable this spring than
usual. Two weeks from now clover cutting
will begin and shortly afterward the har-
vcsting of wheat, providing we have warm
bright days which accelerate the ripening
grain. Farmers were expecting fine crops
the coming season,but are beginning to
feel uneasy about the deprodations Of the
army worm and cut worm, and yet do not
make much if any resistance. If they
would work Systematically every field and
meadow could be hommed in by burrows
in WHICH the invaders could be crushed or
burned,
AS corresponding secretary Of the Cache
Immigration Society, composed OF one
member, it is my official duty to prevent
the publication of anything diScouraging
to colonies or families designing to settle
in our midst, and will here state that these
above mentioned pests are not local, and
that we arc exterminating them from the
gatiens with Paris green and knives. The
powder IS applied to the plants, the knives
to the worms.
In the lower end of the county, fruit
growers are jubilant over the prices receiv-
cd Tor Strawberries, and yet between the
shipments bemoan tho loss Of apples and
ashort crop of pears. With US apples are
=, plenty, pears peaches and plums are prom
Using and should be of better quality by
reason of the less quantity, unless the Pc
culiar bug will feel obliged to get in the
customary amount of spring work not
withstanding. Strawberries and grapes do
well hero; also all other kinds of fruit and
vegetables grown for market.
II is mystery to me why any man look
ing out a healthy location, favorable eli.
' mate for fruits, grass and cattle, and a
region positively and absolutely free from
. severe storms, should neglect us and gc on
!, to Nebraska to be eaten up by grasshop.
: pers, or to Kansas to be parchod, or to Da.
kotah to be frozen stiff, or across the cont
. nent to California, so fer from home HI
never can get back after he has spent every
=, cent in vain attempts to cultivate the grape
olive, or eucalyptus.
u The timofor Sabbath School conventions
has arrived. Last Sunday one was held a
Caledonia, where Mr.. VIM Hartman, a mos
active worker in such meters, has a Sab
bath school. Owing to threatening cloud