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Title: The Illinois farmer (microform) : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ..
Identifier: 5234459_3 (find matches)
Year: 1856-64 (1850s)
Authors: Dunlap, M. L. , ed
Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. , Bailhache & Baker (etc. )
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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YOL. III. SmiXGFIELB, OOTOEEK, 1858. NO. 10. T II E Uj3 ll»li»<)3J. f ^t uo^iyi ^-^ afr m' PUKilSIIED MOXTHL,^, LV I3ailh.aclie & (Bakc^r, Journal Buildings, - - Springfidd, Illinois. —•*- S. FRANCIS, Kditor TERMS OF SUBSCRll'TTON. One- copy, one yi;ar, in ailv.\iice j;T 00 five cupic's, " '• o TO Ten '• anJ one to tlip jicrson getting up club 7 oO Fifteen copies and over . 01)'^ cents each, and o«o to person getting np club. CA-n BATES OF ADVERTISING: Ouo dollar per sijiiaie often lines, each insertion. Market Garilejis. The rtext best tliinj; to a private .cardeii about tlie dwcllinu', is a inavket pirdcu in the ncighburhood, where veii'etablot! may be procured fresh on tlio day they are wanted for the table. "With all the iacilitics for Biuali gardens, witli room and means enougli, there arc multitudes too lazy and iirnorant to have them. You might set beibre theui a section ofparadi.se, and tell them that they have room cnoujjh, and time enouuh to real- ize more beautiful things than Adaui and )'jve saw, and it is nought to them. You may demon.strate to them, that it is the cheapest and best means of preserving health, and they will not be moved. You may con- vince them that they can procure vegetables and fruits in their ovrn yards, cheaper and better than they can be had elsewhere, ;ind they will coolly respond, "that may be so." You may bring your arithmetic, and sliow them that by a little mamigement, they can sell enough to get their own fruits and vege- tables for nothing. They arc not ineliiied to invest. You m:iy appeal t;- their parental s3-nipathies, and show them that a garden is a good school of industry for their"chil-h-. n. safeguard against vice, an excellent phvs,\ 1 discipline and means of health, and theV will triuiiipnantly respond that "mother "takes care of the children." You cannot crct them interested in soil culture by any of the ap- peals that move them on other .<ul)ieels. They have either no practical ac(juain(ance with gardening, or become disgusted with it early in life. It is associated in their minds with weeding onion beds, and back-aches with the dirt and sweat of their boyhood. They have an utter distaste for the hoe, and the pruning knil'e. Tiny do nut want the bother of a trarden, and would not CAre if tliey should never see a potato blossom or a cabbage growing again. t i i^ucli people are to bo ibund in all our i cities and villages, in great numbers, f'lr if ■ we add to tliem those, who have absolutely ; no facilities for gardening, we shall have the ' great majority. These unfortunate people arc to be cared for as a public duly, it is a matter of as much importance that they should be kept from feeding upon decayed vegetables and fruits, in which the sun has been gendering poison for ;i week, as tiiat they should bekcpt from sv/ill milk, iueijii- ent veal, a.nd other noxious articles. It were a lair field of philanrhrophy, if there were no other motives, to induce men to sup- ply this great public T?ai!t. He wlio iv.r,- plants the withcrijig and festerhig commodi- ties, imported from a distmice. that so gener- ally lumber the village hucksters' si.ills, and the corner city grocery, with iixsh home grown Aegetab'es and fruits, is a public liene- tactor. He is more worthv of a monun^eiit in a public square than the hero of a battle held, for his mission is one of Y'.l-; and health. But in our call to market gard'Siing, we arc not entering upon a niis.sionary enterprise, and calling upon candidates ibr this honor to disgorge for the public ber.ciit. The busi- ness is as lucrative to tlio g:;rdener, as it is bencticial to the consumer of liis products. The grov.'er of stniwberrios and oaboa.ge only gives the appreciating public a chance to dLsgorge for liis benefit, (i.ivdening, like godliness, is great gain for all panics con- cerned in it. The v.'ork in a mark^ i Liarden i.rojK :\\ begins in the fall. Tlicrc are rover;;! nge- tablos that must be started at tliis .-:eason, and all iheground sliould be n:anured either then, or during the winter. Much of the success of tlio garden., )e';n.*'-ivi!y doiioud-; upon having its products ai,;iv.-ii'aij the sta- tion a lit^^le. Potatoes early i^i the season are Avorth two dollars abusliei. Three weeks xattr they are down to a dollar or le.is. There is a like falling oft" from mo.'rto ber, to furnish cuttings in April and TUnv. Cabbr'ge is sown ;:bout the <ame tiu!e, to furnish plants for the cold frame, which, are kept thi-ough tiie winter, transplanted in April, a)):l furni-h h.cads in June. They are put into tl;e ihime in rows, very near together in Aovember, and when the wintei* sets in, are coAcred with boards, removing only in mild weather, and increasing light and heat as S))ring advances, until the open ground is in condition to receive them. These are called cold frame plants, and furnish heads al.iout two weeks earlier than the hot-bed plants start.'d in ^iardi. The best varieties for tills earlv croti. are the Jv.irlv York and the Wi^niigstad, whicli usakes a very solid head of excellent quality. )jeitu2..' i.': al.so i^own In the Fall, and with a liitle prorrcHon, keeps well through the winter. Aliont the first of 3(arch operations coLn;ni-:n<-e with the hot-beds. These are preparod v.ith various quantities of manure according to the heat ret^uired. The beds are trciicrully from four to six, feet wide for eom--enicnce in alt-.ndin2.- totlic plants. They are covered Avith a .sasli about three fi'Ct wide, the g)a a great variety of plants itre Ibrwardt'd, cabbage, tomatoes, pei^iiers, egg plants, etc. The v.dioio grouni.l is covcrrd as .coon a.s it sr.llieientiy warm and arranged .so as to allow a succes.-ion crop. . In the first eour.se come radi.shcs, spinnach, lettuce, cabbage, potatoes, peas, turnip/, corn, Ivolil-rabi, etc. I'otatoes being well appreciated call for a large brcaulhci'land. Tiie varieties culti- vated are mainly tiie Carpenters. Stullcy's iSccdliiig, ibr early varieties, and the Dovcrs for the 1; ain crop. Tlie.-e varieties have all done well this f:i:ion, and have shown uoiu- dieati-.in oi'the rot. After the early potatoes are harvested, the ground is appropriated to late cabbage. liauisiu-s is auotliox early crop, and would be more Largely cultivated if there was a large denntnu. These come oft' early in June, and aix-fbilo\\-.d )>y eeleiy, or auy other cr<j)i that does not djinand the whole season. iSweet corn, cabbjige or carrots uiight follow, if any oxigeney of the cultivator, or of tlie market demanded them. In eultivatiiig radislies or any of the brassier tribe of plants, care must be taken to select ground that has not been fertilized with the contents of the stye. This induces diseased tubers. I'eas jric larg.-ly cultivated, and the main crop is a dwarf variety, of lage size, and very prolific, common in the Philadelphia market. '1 he use of brush is found to be troublesome and expen.?ive. The (.•hanijnou of England id cultivated; and is regarded as on the whole

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