An Illinois Farm

Sfa fjjitlúgau JUfp& Mr. L. Buliivant oi Champagne county, }i!liiKÍ, owns íi farm which is sevea miles lng ind live ;ind a hall wide; it ci-rttains lweiily tn thousand acres. ín Muy last, eleven thousnnd acres oi tni farm h:ul been encloaed, and subdivided uto fiulds df n section or two, more or loss, eaeh. ÍIo bad a largo forcé bnÖding ienc, and a month later ho expccted to havo Iwentv thousmd acres enclotíed wiih board fenoe. He dependa niftirly on raisi'ng corn and breeding c&tüe íor préfit and has r.t the pmteiit time over tívu thou3iuid head of entile. Of the eleven thonsnnd acres abova mentioned, eighteeti hunoied wcre devoted to corn, threts liundred to winter wheat, forty to oattí, and tífteen hundred to meadow. Thu rest are in posture. Twenty-two thousnnd busliels of corn were snia at iortytwo cents per bnshel thie spring, iimounting to over nine thousand dollars. Therè are aleo four thousand recruiting on this farm. Seventy-five epan of horses, sventy fve yoke oi oxeo, and Borne mules are used for working it. Each departtnent of this great furiD is under the charge oí an abb í:.r mer. A blackamhh shop repairs nll the iron parts of tl.e implemento, machines and too's; a carpenter shop is constantly oocupied wiüi the woodwoik ; a cook fèeda tho army of hands, and the grcat dining ha!! is under perifict systematic manaemeírt ; the gardeoer raises tons of vegetable for ihe niun; forty pluughs are under the charge of n mau constantly in 'he saddle, to pee that each plonghman has bis allotted work, and everything inin running order; and the whole 'u under tbe charge of a general superintendent, who reports daily to tho proprietor. Accounts are kept of everything, and at the end of the 3'ear i: is known with perfect accui acy what every bushei of corn has cogt, how ruuch labor every man has done, and in what directior. the greatest pruñ'.s aro mat!e.