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Live Wind-Breaks.

Travelling through the woodless regions Of
the level and level-headed West, one will fly
past fields with fringes Of young timber
growing finely along their northern borders.
As soon as the trees come to be of any size
they furnish an effective barrier to the freezing
Influences Of the destructive billiards. Rail-
way lines in the Northwest have also taken
the hint, and have planted miles Of young
trees upon the northern edge Of deep cuts, as
snow fences. They prevent as nothing else
can the filling up Of the cuts by drifts Of snow,
and the consequent stoppage of travel. They
are, in addition, identifying the country and
increasing the moisture and rainfall, and
making the land more valuable.
Only hint to the wideawake farmer Is
needed.
He with a treeless farm will plant young,
growing saplings in all parts Of his place,
in lines along the roadside, in clumps
around springs and rivulets, and for shade
beside his gateposts. Where there are no
trees at all, the rapidly growing, soft-wooded
varieties may be planted at first. Or these
the soft maple, white pine, Norway
spruce and Scotch pine are among the best.
Even the much maligned silver poplar and
alianthus are very good for woodless farms.
Hard-wooded trees may also be planted, and
when the soft-wooded makeshifts have come
to maturity they can give place to their
slower-growthed nobler brethren. But there
is no finer sight anywhere than belt OF
thickly growing, splendid evergreens all along
the north side of farmers home, lawn, and
farmyard grounds. They are beautiful, and
of immense benefit.
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For Putting Soil on Worn-Out Ground.
Here is some practical advice written for
this column by one of the best farmers We
ever knew:
Plow early in the spring and sow plenty of
oats and red clover seed and harrow in thor
oughly. Let it stand Is months. Don't har-
vest the oats, but let it rot on the ground. 1t
will keep the clover from drying in autumn.
In the fall of the second year plow it up
again, SOW it in wheat, and in the spring fol-
lowing SOW clover again. After the wheat is
harvested and threshed spread the straw on
the same ground. Each time before the
ground is plowed l spread on a liberal por-
ton of manure over the ground. 1t will
bring it on much faster. If there are washes
put straw in the bottom so as to catch all
the fine dirt that hard rains wash down, then
brush and tramp it down, then put rock or
logs until it is nearly full. Next pillow up
and down on each side until the horses can
walk across it. But the best way when a
wash starts is to stop with handful OF
straw or weeds before it gets too large
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He was Not q Girl.

Ned belonged to political club of small
boys. They wore uniforms and carried torches,
and he was the great standard-bearer for
Blaine and Logan. His sister had supposed
she could march with them. When her eyes
were enlightened bitterness entered her soul.
Was she not eight years oldi and that was
two years older than Ned. The little woman
rebelled against her lot Between choking
sobs she CALCULATED: II can't march, nor have
q torch, nor anything pretty, nor any good
time, just because / am a girlr'
When she came to dinner her great dark
eyes were swimming in tears. She refused
consolation kindly offered her by her father,
and turning fiercely upon him, she ex-
claimed: "You are not a girl, you never
were girl, you never can be a girl, and you
never can know what suffer-"
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Wheat in Dakota.

Here is what NJ. w. Y. Beach cleared of
one crop, even with wheat at SIC. bushel
The first thing Mr.. Beach did, after building
a dwelling, was to erect barn for machinery
and horses, 30x40 feet, also barn 45x6l feet
with 20-foot posts, having a basement that
will accommodate 80 cows, and the barn will
store 100 tons of hay and 5000 bushels Of
grain. 1t is provided with means for feeding
and water so that the stock does not have to
go outside. Last year he raised 500 acres OF
wheat, which cost, for everything, including
interest, taxes, wear and tear of tools, etc,
IS, O15. Oh, or less than 37l9 cents per bushel.
This wheat was marketed at Duluth, and
netted the owner IS cents per bushel. This
gave him net gain of 81, Sl4.97.
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The Philadelphia Press says bad road is q
bad introduction to a ncighborhOod.
The agricultural products Of Illinois
amount to over $500, 600, 900 year.
The common, plain-leayed parsley is best
for favoring, the curly-leaved for ornament
ing dishes.
Well-sifted coal ashes kept dry will be val
liable next summer for use III mixing paris
green to dust on potato vines.
DR.. Sturtevant, of the New York Agricul-
tural station, has been experimenting on the
selection of kernels of corn for seed. lie
finds that the small tip kernels of an ear OF
corn are just as good for seed as any other.
An old poultry raiser. who believes in milk
for fowls, says: at is both meat and drink.
Some of the finest chickens ever saw were
raised upon the free use of milk with their
food. Hens lay as well, or better, when fur
nished with this than upon any other known
article Of food offered them"
The only true kinds Of ever-blooming roses
are tine monthlies, and, remember, they are
not hardy in the north without careful pro-
lection, and not always with it. The hybrid
perpetuals moss roses and climbers, are the
only hardy roses, and these bloom fully but
once in n season. Rural New Yorker
Meadows and pasture need refreshing with
new seed, as well as with manure, at inter
walls. The seed should be sown with each
dressing of compost. Repeated cutting and
pasturing weakens the grass and destroys
some Of it, and the thick, healthy sod is only
kept up by occasional reseeding.
An excellent relish for the farmers break
fast is young spring radishes. He ought soon
now to be enjoying them. They can be
raised in a box in the kitchen window, or in a
hot-bed covered with an old windOwsash
The children can raise them if they are
taught how, and they will delight to do it.
Plant the small, fiat, scarlet variety.
1t is much to be wished that every neigh
borhood Of farmers would institute and
maintain farmers club for the discussion
Of the countless questions which continually
come up relating to their business in oil its
branches, stages and connections. Definite
conclusions may not be often reached, but
all find both profit and pleasure in the in
terchange and conflict of views. The Isolated
life OF the farmer needs such encounters with
the faces of friends. 1t is platform on
which woman can appear with advantage TO
herself and all her friends and the oftener
she participates in the discussions the better
for all the interests in question.
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FARM zGARD|El9
Planting and Pruning Orchards.

We have mentioned among insect pests tho
apple maggot, which is adding new terror
to the battles the orchardist must fight. To
get rid of him, We say last, as we said first,
turn the hogs into the orchard during the
summer season. We give herewith picture
of this little villain, the apple maggot, in his
three forms-fy, worm, and pupa. Look out
for him.
In October the apple maggot goes into the
ground in the chrysalis or pupa state, and re-
mains there till the next July. Then, unless
the hogs have meantime rooted him out and
made morsel Of him, he bursts his shell and
appears as the fly. In this state he is two
winged, and looks like the common house-fy,
except that he is smaller. He is black, marked
with white, and has a red head and feet.
Here he is:
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II this apple could come into fashion again
some people would open their eyes.
This country is 50 large, however, that
each locality has its own favorite varieties OF
apple, which thrive better there than any
where else These must take first choice
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Get cion of the fruit you wish to propa-
gate 1t must have good bud on it. Cut
your stock square across, then split it down
one side with your sharp grating knife. Cut
your cion to long sharp wedge, leaving a
little bark on the outer edge. This is to knit
and grow to the bark of the stock, exactly as
physicians graft bit of skin over a wound
when the skin has been torn off, Plants and
people are much alike in some ways. Fit the
cion carefully into the split, wrap and tie il
around with yarn, and then cover the place
carefully with grating wax. The picture
shows the graft with the bud near the end OF
it, as it has been wedged into the cleft Of the
stock. Figure Q shows
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CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND g. PACIFIC R'Y


sno theW est,N ant
ofro dbetween he
Missouri and leaven.
villages ana
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A, is the cion; B, the stock. With sharp
knife carefully cut a piece of wood each out
of A and B, so that the spaces left will fit
into one another Then put A upon b and
wrap and tie with yarn as shown in c, and
cover with wax as before.
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nR. r.. w. WEBS, (Deutcher Doctor,) late
" Physician and Surgeon to the st. Louis Female
Hospital Office Stieels Clothing Store corner OF
Main and La Sale streets. Residence on south bluf
at Mrs. Ren2's. apps
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nR. r. NJ. McARTHUR, Ottawa, Ill.,
~ Office In the Opera House Block Open from 6
o'clock A. \. to O'Clock p. NJ. Residence on Benton
street. south of Illinois Avenue. jan22Te
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professional GarOa.
AT o r n e vs..

~ w. w. BLA Is f., Attorney and Counselor
". at Law. Room 3, second floor, Court House, Otta.
wa ILL., All legal business promptly attended to. an3l
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T Q. BOYLE. Attorney at Law Office with
y. NJ 7. Moloney, Opera House Block, Ottawa III.
feb2l.60
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nR. M. ZENDE.R, Homeopathic PHYSICIAN
~ Ottawa, III. Offers his services to the friends OF
the Homeopathic system In Ottawa in all branches OF
his profession Particular attention give. he treat
ment Of women and children ONCE In Glover a
COOKS BLOCK. febl6
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nR. j. 8. RYbC Ottawa, Ill. Office
~ IN the Opera House In office day and
night ianiT7s
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II M. GODFREY, NJ. d., l., r. c. 8.
III. Edinburg. Office, in Armours new building on
Madison street. Residence II Webster st. aHgll'71
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~ GRIGGS, Attorney and Counselor at Law
~. Office in Lynch's block, Main street, Ottawa, H.
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EFF. BULL. LESTER II. sTRAwN. 8. W. RUGRR,
RULL, STRAWN & RUGEtt, Attor.
ID neys and Councillors at Law. Office over CITY
Drug Store corner Of La Sale and Madison Streets Of
tawA, ILL., jan26S4
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r w. BREWER, Attorney and Counselor al
liz Law. and Notary Public. Rooms 8, 3 & ~, Opera
House Block. Ottawa, III.
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BUSHNELL & FULLERTON AT.
- torneys at LAW. Ottawa. Illinois Office In Bush.
nells block, west Of Court House. july2i-lys
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n McDOUGALL,A Attorney at Law, Ottawa
~ ILL., Office In Gedneys Block. dec2T6
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r. Y. 9RIGGS, Druggist, Bookseller and Sta
o.. ton err Ottawa, III. Second store in Nsttingert
Block, south side Of Court House Square.
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HIRAM r. 9ILBRRT. JAMES H. ICKKIR
GILBERT & ECKELS, ATTORNEYS and
" COunselors at Law, Futterer & Metzgers Block,
east Of Court House. sep2o. SO
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nR. @. MILLER, the well known Ocusr
- and Aurlst, Ottawa, H. Office, Il La Sale street.
up stairs. apr8-3mos'
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III G. TRENARY, Attorney at Law. once
4 with L. ": Brewer, Rooms 8, 9 l. 10, Opera House
Block, Ottawa, III. junS
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u 4. LINCOLN, Attorney at Law. Ofnce
-. over No 10 La Sale street, west side IF the
Court House, Ottawa, III. julyS'75
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nR. CHARITY SANDERS, successor
~ to DR.. AlCinda Auten Office over H. A. Buffers
grocery store, in Union Block, ottawa Ill. sepl3
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nR. VIM. ST. PPARD, Member Of the
" Royal College terinary Surgeons. England
Fellow OF the London yeternsry Medical Association
also Veterinary Ed or Duntons Spirit Of the 2uyr
can be consulted at his office, lafayette ST. sugs
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XCREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE"


coMMooioys WELL WEI.
COACHES; OF
CHAIR CARS built
FINEST
the iowra o sEvENTYFVE CENTS EACH
TRAM MISSOURI RIVER
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THASE FOWLER, Master in Chancery, At
~ torney and Counselor at Law. ONCE In Gedneyp
Block northeast corner Of court house square, Rooms
Sand 4, Ottawa, Illinois. jun1012
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MARKETS BIZ TELEGRAPH.
Produce Markets.

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Flour dull and unchanged.
Wheat quiet closed 1sc yesterday Sales ranged
078Iac. closed at 78Lac: April 1851 7sc, closed
at 7S7sc May, 1914 837sc closed at S324c; No. 2
Chicago spring, 777s@7s1sc; No. 3 Chicago spring
$50 6812c; No. 2 red. S0c No. 3 red, 7U67012c
Conn dull and eusier; closed nomnaliy unchanged
Sales ranged: Cash 36la037c; February. 3Gle0
1880 closed at 36lec; March. 36l4 036 asc. closed
at 40l4c Oats quiet closed UNCHANGED Sales ranged:
Cash and February, 270271sc March, 27ls 027 lac,
closed at 27s Ags Rvs ali ana eS
S3c Barley nornnally unchanged at 65c. Flaxseed
steady las: Pork IN fair demand Sales ranged:
SI3 o7ls0 I3 10; March, $12 92 lsO13. 10, closed
at ID. 10, May $I3. pig Is. 81 closed
\ at $I3.3O013.32 Lard duh and shade lower;
Cash 6.95 arc; February 697iac; March, ia
7O7loc closed at 7O507.O7 12c. Bulk meats III fair
demand; shoulders, so04 zoe; short Clear, 6.95 a
/ 7c: short ribs, 6s5006,60r Whisky unchanged.
/ Bntuer- dull; creamery 321A034c. Eggs strong at
29lac. Receipts-Flour. 1900 brls, wheat, 5000
corn 1lo GOO Op S oats oooo on rye 90o
bris wheat Ia, 900 bu: corn 81 600 bu oats, 3D.
600 bu; rye. none; barley, 1000 bu. On the after
i noon board: Wheat firm; advanced lac. Corn firm;
advanced 1sc Oats quiet and unchanged Pork firm;
\ advanced &C. Lard steady; advanced 02loc.
/ NEW YORK Feb. I2.-Flour duh and unchauged
/ receipts Ia 600 brls exports, 1890 brls. Wheat
Il 600 bu; exports Az 900 blu; No. spring. 32c; UNI
\ graded red 7409Ie No. 3 red &c., No. red, 89a
\ G9l lac; No. white. 9oc; ungraded white, sSc
No. 2 red, February, sales of "a 600 bu at $685.
\ 0S9lec closing S9Iac; March, sales of 424 00e
\ gu at 9e09ol2c closing at 90lac; April. sales OF
/ 1ao OOD bu at 9IaS092lsc. closing at 921sc; May
I sales tf I.l36000 bu at 93lo094c; closing a.
zee, june sales of 1S4 0o0bu at 94l9a947sc clos
ing at "a 4s. CornSpot lots shade better options
! firm: receipts, 1875 600 bu: exports, 100000 bu
ungraded 49 isle No. 3, 5O14 a5Ossc; steamer 40
p5ILoc: No. 2, 50ls051l2c; steamer yellow. 500
5rIoct steamer white. 56067c ungraded whire. Ste
Iow mixed sac; No. February, 1879 d50sc, closi
az 5Oatc Maruh 40 Sht9dac closing at 491ec; April
40 a45lac. closingat 49lac; May. AZ aa4ls, CLOSING
at 49lse: June 4sss 4Saoe. closing at 4saAc. oak
ashada lower aad quiet recepts d 600 ba exports
quiet Sugar quiet and steady far to good refining
5Iac refined quiet standard a, 5asa confectisners
s. Is 16a16c. AGoiassss quieti New 0rlenxss, 50t
/ test 20@2Ic Rice firm. Petroleum. firms Unite
certificates, 7O1sc Tallow arn,, Tnrnentina dull
3OQ3Oi2c. Eggs firm. Pork firms new mes:
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American Grasses.

In the Introduction TO new and elaborate vel
ume upon American grasses and their compost
ton appears the, following Every thoughtful
ton on his land of good supply of grass for
pasture or for hay. He who can produce the
greatest yield on a given number of acres, win be
the most successful man; yet this is a subject
which has been and still is gTeatly neglected.
SIN the United States we have many eli
mates, many kinds of SOIL, many geological
formations. many degrees. of aridity and moist
ure 1t must be apparent that one species of
grass cannot be equally we'll adapted to growth
in all parts of this extensive territory; yet
hardly dozen species of grasses have been sue
cessfuIly introduced into our agriculture. True
il is that this number answers with a tolerable
degree of satisfaction the wants, of quite ex-
tensive portion OK the country, chiefly the north
in other localities the sane grasses do not sue
coed equally well, and one of the most Mnpor-
tant Questions for those regions is how to obtain
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bride, ~ doz $6O065; fair bridle $60078 ~ doz.;
city kip 600S0c; French kip 85c 0$1 20; city calf
skins. s5cS$1 10: French calfskins, $I.150l SO
8O8loc; green sailed calf lfes dry flint, lie; dry
sailed 1Oc. Damaged eRe-third off the above prices.
SUPERINTENDENT
TALLow-Prime, 5L2c.
GREAsE-Brown, 4c white. 5054c
OIL CAKE.
Oh cake and oil neal 1000 fbs, $15; 2.O0o lbs,
$50. Bags and drayage extra
PRODUCE.
BUTTER-ereamery fancy, 2sc; dairy. selected. 18
02Oc; choice country 13UIoc; poor to fair. S0lOc.
EGGscShippers are paying 20022c; selling from
FEATHERS PYimegeese, Acc " ib; mixed duck goa
25 ~ tb.
HoNEY-2O@22c in and 2-fb cans
VEsIsoN-f4 0I5c ~ ID.
GAME-Rablits 40060c ~ doz.
PoULTRY-Hens, &c p tb; ROSTERS, dc; young chick
dog; hen turkeys, 9loc ~ ID, toms. Sc n ID.
CIDER-Duffy's Rochester. Sc u bril-
WooI-Tub washed, 28032c; unwashed: medium,
ZOc; unwashed, common, 19c; Cotswold, tic; bury
and understandable according to their value.
PROVISIONS.
WHOLESALE PRIcEs-Prime lard &c: short ribs
partlycured SOC; sweet plckled hams Sl4c; should
ers. 5lac: bulk shoulders, 4 l2c
hams 10 to 121e lbs average, II lac Is tbs average
lie, II lbs average 1os4c; 20 tbs 10lec; heavy
hams 7l9c English breakfast bacon, clear Ic: English
shoulders 7c; family shoulders pieces averaging to
10 fes 64c dried beef l5c: bacon (clear sidel ned
um weight Sac; backs. and bellies light weight, Sci
French fitch, lib pieces re. Dry Sailed and Picked
Meats-English cured clear sides backs (unsmokedl
71oc; bean pork (cearI ~ brl 200 fs $16; clear pork
s brl 200 RS $14; family pork (cfear) o. brl 200
lbs, $l2; family beef W brl 200 bs $IS; also in q
ors containing 100 t5s at half the price of the bar
rek, with SOC. added, to cover additional cost of
package. Lard-Pure ettlerendered in tierces, Slac
also in q hrls and 50-tb tubs 3sc advance price of
terces Ash tin tubs, and 20 10 pals, SIC advance;
i0-b pals, lac advance Sausage-Bologna IN cloth,
6i2c; in skin, &c.
SEEDS.
TIMoTHY-$1 50O1.75 Y bu; clover, S505 25
4S bu; bluegrass, extra clean Kentucky, $I01.25
" bu, red top 7oc0s " bu; orchard grass, S1.500
l.75 Y Du, owing to quality.
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HOrSeradish for Market.

New York Times
I'VE supply over two hundred hotels and res
taurants with grated horseradish. and we
ceive orders from great many cities had an
order the other day from New Orleans Oh, no:
we don't depend on truck farmers for our sup.
ply. We have it raised for US in New Jersey.
The demand is constant that we keep the
roots the year round. and, besides, the truck
farmers dent raise enough for us. 1t takes
whole season to grow, and Is gener+
ally due in September. There has
been as much progress in raising
herse raeislr as i'm raising strawberries almost
Here's root from our supply farm She how
long the end is and how round and full the head
That had to be cultivated. Thirty years ago
you couldn't pick out four roots like that in two
barrels. Heres are four without stopping to pick
This other root came from Pennsylvania.
bought lot to see what it is like. But they
don't know the business Of raising horse radish
out there. This root you see has four or FIVE
heads. It is hard to clean and there is a good
deal Of waste. The man who raised this ought
to have uncovered the head when it was just
shooting up and clipped off some of The lower
heads The wound would have healed and
the growth would have gone into the top
most head. Many persons think that
most of the roots sold grow wild. But it Is a
mistake or cour.e you and have seen them
growing Wild but they need cultivation to be
perfect They should be dug in the fan. but
they may be kept in the ground until spring.
Frost doesn't hurt them, but they are never so
good in the spring
There is one thing about horse-radish that T
haven't been able to find out in the thirty years
have sold it. and that is how to keep it after it
has been grated. 1t can't be done. It is moist
ened with vinegar bat that doesn't keep it. 1t
| must be grated fresh every day and be eaten
right away I'll sell enough to last few days
! and no more. IL it becomes fat l am accused
Of mixing IN turnips l Keep the roots
4 i'm pits in the cellar during the
| winter and spring That CRATER
have had for twenty- three years." pointing to
l an old-fashieued machine like hay-cnster,
/ "and have never seen another that suited 1t
was hat presser once. 1t has the easiest tpeadlo
\ motion have ever SEEM.
! Picking up a big root the dealer pressed it
/ against the rough surface of revolving CRATER,
/ and in few seconds it was gnawed to bits and
thrown into a receptacle below The pangeDt
| odor permeated the room
/ make your head acheF
/ mo indeed 1T cures headache; but ON foggy
| and sultry days it is almost impossible to work
/ the machine The odor almost chekes the men.
H But it's coed for sac health, and have known
physicians to send patients to me to be cured of
\ iaundice and rheumatism"