disregard of tlie interests of volunteers depend¬ 
ent on their flocks for the clothing of their 
families. 
MISSOURI. 
Extensive injuries have been sustained by 
dogs in Missouri, yet the leislature has resisted 
the effort to procure legal protection. Instan¬ 
ces, not unt'requent, are reported of large flocks 
driven into the livers by packs of hounds and 
drowned. A correspondent, of the department 
is constrained to believe that some of his neigh¬ 
bors think more of their dogs than they do of 
their children. 
TENNESSEE. 
The Secretary of State for the State of Ten¬ 
nessee writes that no laws for the protection of 
of sheep exist in that State, notwithstanding 
the persistent eff orts of farmers for many years 
to secure such an enactment. Damages have been 
very serious here, affecting very materially the 
business of wool-growing. 
CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS. 
It has been shown to the satisfaction of the 
reasonable reader that a large portion of the 
dogs in the country are utterly useless: that the 
cost of their keeping, and the damages directly 
occasioned to farm stock, amount to an annual 
tax of at least thirty-three millions of dollars ; 
that they discourage sheep husbandry, and 
conseqnently woolen manufacturing, to the 
extent of many millions more, which would 
otherwise he added to our productive industry; 
that they are property, and therefore taxable, 
and In their excessive multiplication a nuisance 
to be regulated or abated ; and that, unfortu¬ 
nately, a weak hesitancy about inaugurating 
taxation, not indicative of the true dignity and 
proper independauce of statesmen, has too often 
existed among legislators. 
The laws of the several States indicate a trans¬ 
ition period between pioneer life, with its inev¬ 
itable dog companionship, and a state of perma¬ 
nent settlement and superior civilization. The 
silly prejudice that allows dogs to trespass upon 
grounds and destroy his sheep. 
end, so that, there Is no farther trouble with 
gouging the eyes out of the face-piece; then 
without farther separating of the parts, starting 
between the ears, saw up and down-wise, not 
caring to extend farther down towards the snout 
than to the saw-mark across the face, hut clean 
through at the other end. Mow, having done 
with the ears for handles, I cut tliaro off’, 
then take out the brains for pickling — skin the 
snout, and take off the flesh for scrapple, and 
throw the nasal organs away. The faces are to 
be corned. I use a saw but never an axe in cut¬ 
ting up a hog, consequently the meat is clear of 
splinters and chips of bones. In “ chining a hog* 
to cool. [ saw down the ribs instead of hacking 
them with a hachet. A small-sized hog-hook 
flattened answers very well for taking off the 
hoofs and toe nails of a porker; or you may use a 
pair of pincers.— Exchange. 
premiums be paid to sheep in a separate class, 
producing wool of a quality fine enough for the 
production of our finest woolen fabrics.” 
There may appear to be a vagueness about 
this proposed classification, which will render 
it difficult to carry it out in practice. But the 
distinction is already well understood in com¬ 
merce. Every wool circular and list of prices, 
includes “ Saxony *' and “ Full Blood Merino ” 
wools. These terms are conventional and inac¬ 
curate, but they pxpress the precise distine- 
tiou which it is proposed to recognize in our 
prize lists. If viewing committees are at fault 
in making the distinction, let them have the aid 
of a manufacturer, or wool stapler, or expe¬ 
rienced wool buyer, among their number, and 
the difficulty will at once disappear. 
You ask me to suggest such changes or addi¬ 
tions in the classification of the Illinois State 
Society as may seem desirable. If your Society 
contemplates no more extensive classification 
than the present one, I propose that it strike 
out the third class (French Merino) and insert 
in the place of it “ Merinos bearing wool 
adapted to the manufacture of broadcloths and 
other finer fabrics.** In the 4th class I would 
strike out the word “ Spanish,” and in the place 
of it Insert “ American.” And I would exactly 
transpose the order of the above four classes, 
placing the American Merino first, according to 
its relative Importance. This will form a sim¬ 
ple and consistent classification—based partly 
ou blood and partly on characteristics—and with 
equal premiums in each class it will give equal 
encouragement to the fine- and coarse wooled 
races of sheep. In your remaining classes and 
sub-classes, I have no changes to propose. 
But if your Society desires to increase its 
number of sheep classes, you have, in respect to 
the coarse wooled varieties, the English mode 
of dividing them already prepared to your 
hand: and then, to be fair and consistent, you 
must increase your flue wool classes and premi¬ 
ums proportionably, by some principle of classi¬ 
fication which has been adverted to, or is yet to 
be devised. I confess that I am still unpre¬ 
pared to express a final opinion ou the subject. 
Absence from home and illness have pre¬ 
vented me from replying earlier to your letter. 
I remain. Yours very truly, 
Henry S. Randall. 
Cleaning Lead Pipe. 
Like a good sensible man, that he evidently 
is, Stephen TOnv, of Caton, X. Y., bad found 
something that had proved of service to him, 
aud came into our office, the other day, to give 
it a Rural circulation. His lead pipe through 
which bl» house, barns, or cattle-troughs—we 
don't remember as he told us which—were sup¬ 
plied with water, had got stopped up with sedi¬ 
ment from the spring, and he could devise no 
way to clean it—was on the point of taking it 
up and replacing it with new pipe, when it 
occurred to him to employ a natural aid. He 
caught a small slate-colored lizard, common 
about springs aud among stone, took the strainer 
from the upper end of the pipe and thrust the 
animal In head first, putti ng on the strainer 
again. Mr. Lizard could not back out; neither 
could he turn around—the pipe being only five- 
eighths of an inch in diameter. He must pro¬ 
pel : aud he did, at the rate of three or four feet 
per minute, emerging from the lower end of the 
pipe heralded by the muddy sediment aud fol¬ 
lowed by a stream of spring water, which has 
continued to flow uninterruptedly since. Per¬ 
haps the suggestion may be useful to somebody. 
AYRBHtBE CATTLE FOR MICHIGAN.— Mr. SANFORD 
Howard, Secretary of the Michigan State Board of 
Agriculture, has (says the Country Gent ) lately pur¬ 
chased of H. n. Peters, Esq., of Southboro, Maas., 
several Ayrshire cattle to go to Michigan. A hull and 
heifer calf are for the State Agricultural College Farm; 
a heifer for Prof Miles of the College; and a bull 
calf and heifer calf are for E. S. Moore, Esq., of Three 
Rivers The C. G. understands the demand for Ayr¬ 
shire? has been good the present season—Mr Peters 
having sold, since the first of January, thirty six head, 
consisting of two year olds, yeariings and calves. [The 
Rural correspondent who has Jost written us asking 
where he can find Ayrshircs, is referred to Mr. Peters, 
and O. Howland of Auburn, N. Y., who took most of 
the prizes ou Ayrshire? at onr late State Fair 1 
Annual Register of Rural Affairs —We are 
Indebted to tbc publishers. Measr-. Luther Tucker 
& Son of Albany, for an early copy of “ The Illustra¬ 
ted Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator 
Almanac for 1865; containing practical suggestions 
for the Farmer and Horticulturist,—embellished with 
about one hundred and thirty heanUful Engravings.’’ 
From a cursory examination we infer that this issue 
equals that of Us predecessors, and that is high praise, 
for tbu previous volumes of the Register have surpassed 
any thing of the kind ever atteqipted in a country noted 
for its patronage of Rural publications. The Register 
will be a good investment at its price (80 cents) to any 
one engaged or interested in Rural Affiirs. 
latter. This was actually the case in our 3Setv 
York State Society this year. That the English 
sheep are exceedingly valuable—that in many 
situations they are more profitable than Meri¬ 
nos—that they meet special wants of a class of 
producers and consumers which the Merino can 
not as well meet, is freely conceded; but I need 
not say that the consumption of their products 
in our country bears but a small comparison to 
the consumption of the products of the Merino— 
and consequently that they are. in the aggre¬ 
gate, far less numerous and less valuable. Is 
there not, then, a great inconsistency in giving 
them the first place in our prize lists, and in 
offering them a greater amount of premiums? 
This might be obviated by paying higher pre¬ 
miums to the Merinos, or by offering double the 
usual number to animals of each respective age : 
but while neither of these courses are free from 
grave objections, even to meet the special end in 
view, they would do nothing to remove the 
essential inequality of compelling all Merinos to 
compete in a single class. 
The Executive Committee ol our State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, composed of able, experienced, 
and impartial men, having tried the above sys¬ 
tem experimentally and found it I suppose un¬ 
satisfactory, instituted the “ discussion ** at 
Rochester which has been so ludicrously tra¬ 
vestied by certain reporters. 
I attempted to show in that discussion that 
French, Saxon and other Merinos constituted as 
distinct varieties as most of the English ones 
which the Society recognized In its prize list : 
but for the reasons already given, I did not 
recommend their arrangement into separate 
prize classes. I aLo attempted to show that 
the different Spanish cabanas had been kept 
longer separate and distinct from each other 
than the different varieties of either the English 
Long or Middle "Wool breeds, and hence that it 
was, in itself, considered as proper to give them 
separate places in a prize list as the former. I 
declared that one of those cabanas, believed to be 
the Infantado, exists pure in the United States; 
that another, the Paular, though it has received 
some dips from the blood of other cabanas to 
effect certain Improvements, has maintained its 
character as a separate variety; that the so called 
Silesian sheep, composed of a cross between the 
Negretti and Infant&do cabanas, constitute a 
third well marked variety, &c.* If I am cor¬ 
rect in believing that the above named or any 
other Spanish cabanas axe represented in our 
country with no other or greater admixtures of 
blood than above stated, it is at least apparent 
that they now constitute quite as unrelated va¬ 
rieties as the much crossed English ones: and 
that I am correct in that belief, I am willing to 
attempt to prove on any suitable occasion. I 
consider them also as distinct in characteris¬ 
tics. I did not, however, definitively propose to 
form them into prize classes, for I saw great 
obstacles, In the way of this, growing out of 
prejudices, interests, and the real difficulty in 
the case of many excellent flocks, of ascertain¬ 
ing how far they partook of the blood of the 
different varieties—their owners having bred 
without any reference to the distinction between 
the Infantado and Paular. I satisfied myself 
with showing that it would be as consistent 
and proper, in itself, to classify our Merinos 
thus, as to adhere to the present classification of 
English sheep: and I threw out the facte for 
further investigation without committing my¬ 
self to any ultimate conclusion. 
I made one definite recommendation, how¬ 
ever—that at least Merinos be divided into two 
classes, having reference to the fineness of their 
wool. As the viewing committee on Merinos at 
our State Fair subsequently made the same 
recommendation in their report, I will give it 
in their own words. After announcing the 
basis of their decision as between the American 
and the .Silesian Merino, in the words I have 
already quoted, they continue: — “But we arc 
aware that the demand for the finer Merino 
wool in our country is much larger than the 
production, and will continue to increase,f and 
we therefore respectfully propose that hereafter 
* I believe I mentioned the Silesians in this connec¬ 
tion, but I am not positive At all events I do so now. 
t It must continue to increase so long as the public 
debt auil expenditures demand a high revenue tariff 
like the present And there can be but little doot>: 
tlint. onr broadcloth manufactures will revive, under 
the same circa instance*, greatly increasing the demand. 
a neighbor's 
while enacting laws to restrain sheep from 
wandering from their owner’s pasture, is rapid¬ 
ly giving vvay to a common sense that would 
make restraint equal and just. 
In most of the States are certain provisions of 
a just law upon the subject, but a lack of com¬ 
pleteness. or want of penalty attached to neglect 
in enforcement, render them partly inoperative, 
or wholly inefficient. In Pennsylvania there is, 
practically, only a threat heid over the heads of 
the dogs, for which they seem to care very little; 
in Maine, each separate township has the option 
to ratify or nullify the genaral law—a non-com¬ 
mittalism that is far worse than no law: in Ohio, 
dogs are instructed that it is unlawful for them 
to run at large at night, but their owners are 
held to no proper responsibility for their effect¬ 
ive restraint; and in most other States some 
radical defect exists. Massachusetts has the 
best law. Jt taxes dogs from two to five dollars 
each; owners are made responsible, under heavy 
penalty, for their registry and taxation: assessors 
must make accurate lists, and evasions of the 
listing are heavily lined ; refusal or neglect of 
officers to execute the law incurs a penalty of 
one hundred dollars: and untaxed dogs are killed 
without mercy, and district attorneys are re¬ 
quired to prosecute officers who neglect to 
destroy them. 
Such a law, or one more guarded and efficient 
still, should be on the statute book of every State. 
How Levi Bartlett Keeps Cabbage. 
His method consists in catting the head from 
the stalk, removing the loose leaves and packing 
in barrels with damp moss, such as is used by 
nurserymen in putting up trees and shrubbery. 
The barrels after being filled are Kept in the 
house cellar during winter and in spring removed 
to an out-door cellar. He states that he has beeu 
able to keep them put up in this manner during 
the winter by placing them in barrels in the 
barn, and when the- cabbage has been slightly 
frozen, covering with straw, where they 
remained partly frozen until April and they came 
out without rotting or shriveling. When a head 
was wanted for the table, it was placed in water 
for an hour or two before using, and it then 
appeared as fresh as when gathered from the 
field in the fall. 
Please Compare Prices.— Those, if any there are 
who think the present, terms of the Re ral too high, are 
requested to compare them with the prices ol printing 
paper, wages, provisions—and Indeed all the essentials 
Of feeding and clothing people—and then figure what 
the term* should bo to correspond with the prices of 
other articles 1 By comparing prices now and before 
the war such wiseacres will discover that the Rural is 
now far cheaper than it was w hen furnished at $1,50 
in clubs and $2 per single copy. A little sense and 
ciphering wall readily decide the question. 
DOGS AND DOG LAWS, 
BY J. R. DODGE. 
Concluded from page 374, last No. 
MICBIGAN. 
A law approved March 29, 1850, authorizes 
the destruction of dogs attacking any kind of 
domestic animals except on the premises of the 
owner of the dog, and such owner is liable for 
double the amount of damages done by the dog. 
When notified or such damage, neglect of the 
owner to kill the dog is punishable by a fine of 
5*3. and SI,50, additional for every forty-eight 
hour# thereafter until such dog shall be killed. 
Supervisors, upon complaint of a citizen, verifi¬ 
ed by his oath, are required to prosecute and 
recover the fines imposed by this act. 
Au act was passed March 20,1863, requiring 
township assessors to acertain the number of 
dogs liable to be taxed and the names of their 
owners; and if such owners refuse for ten days 
after demand to pay the taxes assessed, it 
becomes lawful to kill the dogs eo taxed, 
WISCONSIN. 
By the law of 1800 dogs are required to be 
numbered, collared, registered, and licensed 
on pavmant of one dollar for males and three 
dollars for females: and police officers, consta¬ 
bles, and marshals are required to kill and bury 
all unregistered dogs, and to receive twenty-five 
cents for such service. A person may be fined 
fifty dollars for removing a collar. Persons suf¬ 
fering loss from dogs are paid full damages at 
the first of April If the tax fund is sufficient: if 
not, pro rata: and the owner of the dog is liable 
to the town lor the full amount. The fine for 
keeping unregistered dogs Is five dollars. Offi¬ 
cers neglecting or refusing to obey the law are 
fined §20 for every twenty-four hours of such 
neglect. Towns may -increase the license not 
more than one dollar, and the penalty not more 
than ten. 
MINNESOTA. 
The following is an epitome of the law of 
March, 1863, which repeals previous enactments 
on the subject: 
Every owner or keeper of a dog shall cause 
such dog to be registered, numbered, described, 
and licensed, paying one dollar for each male 
and t wo dollars for each female. The township 
or city clerk shall conspicuously post a list of 
all licensed dogs, uud furnish one to constables 
and chief of police. Failure to license shall make 
one liable to a penalty of ten dollars. Stealing 
or poisoning a dog is punishable by fine not ex¬ 
ceeding fifty dollars, and killing subjects, to 
liability for damages double the value of the 
dog. Constables and police officers shall, and 
any person may. kill any unlicensed dog : any 
one may also kill a dog assaulting him, or wor¬ 
rying sheep out of the enclosure of his owner. 
Within thirty days after suffering injury or loss 
of sheep by dogs, proof ol damage tuay be pre¬ 
sented to the county auditor, who may draw an 
order upon the treasurer, payable from the fund 
accruing from taxes of dogs, when the city or 
town may sue and recover full damages from 
the owner of the dog. It Ls made the duty of 
the mavor and aldermen of cities, and the 
supervisors of towns, to require the destruction 
of unlicensed dogs, and officers refusing or neg¬ 
lecting to perform these duties are liable to a 
fine of twenty-five dollars for the benefit of 
schools. All of these penalties may be recover¬ 
ed, on complaint by any householder, before 
any justice of the peace of the county. Money 
remaining after the yearly payments from the 
tax fund is turned over' to the school fund. 
IOWA. 
A law was passed iu 1 stiff by the Iowa legis¬ 
lature for the protection of sheep against the 
ravages of dogs. At the following session, call¬ 
ed with reference to legislation in the interest 
of the soldiers, the law was repealed In utter 
Devon Cattle. — We learn that Mr. Walter Cole 
Of Batavia, N. Y., who took the first prize on Devon 
balls at the recent State Fair in this cit y, has purchased 
the bull calf “ Sbakspenre " from the herd ol Arthur 
Gilman, Lcr, Mass. Mr. C. is evidently bound to have 
a superior herd. 
Rural Notes an& Queries 
Color of Farm House- —What color is most suita¬ 
ble tor farm houses, and how la it made ?—f j 8. 
This is a question ol taste, simply; and It ls fortu¬ 
nately the case that all people do not think alike. We 
would not paint a rarm house a glaring white; yet 
nine tenths of the painted farm - houses an? white. 
Neither would we paint It red, nor yellow; but we 
often see them so painted. Oar taste la a slate color, 
or drab, or light brown—even a cream color Is better 
than white- There are eo many shades of color from 
which one may choose and consult good taste, that it 
Is difficult to say which Is the best; indeed a color 
should be selected whtch will cause the house best to 
harmonize with Its surroundings. We would not, by 
any means, choose the same color for all farm-houses 
and our opinion, in order to be worth anything, 
should be based upon our knowledge of the house our 
correspondent lives In, its architecture, location, eleva¬ 
tion, and the extent and character of the grounds which 
surround It. Having determined the color, wc should 
be compelled to go to some professional painter to get 
it mixed. 
The Season—Winter Coming !—The past two 
months have been most unpleasant—more stormy and 
unfavorable for out-door operations than experienced 
in this region, at the same season, for over a decade of 
years. Indeed, since the week of the Stale Fair, 
(which closed bept. 24.) the weather has been utmost 
continually wet and cloudy, with very rare visitations 
of bright sunshine, so that farmers found li next to im¬ 
possible to secure com, potatoes, root crops, etc., or 
perform other ordinary fall work. 'The result is that 
many fields of potatoes and other crops remain unhar¬ 
vested, and will probably be lost, as the cold weather 
and snow are likely to interfere with further field labors. 
We have had several snow storms—on uie 14th about 
2 Inches of enow fell, moHt of which remained on the 
ground several days. Last night (Nov. 21,) we had 
about one inch more, and as wg write the earth ts cov¬ 
ered with a wintry mantle. The wells and springs arc 
full, and we should not be surprised If Winter were to 
take possession at once. It behooves all who are not 
prepared to speedily make ready to give the grim 
monster a warm reception—or, rather, to keep their 
families, domestic animals, etc., warm and comfortable 
during his reign. 
flesli heated, just before lie is killed. I believe 
this is one cause of meat spoiling. Sometimes 
we drive a hog or two to a neighbor’s, so as to 
“ kill together,” as it is termed, making Use of the 
same force, same fire and other fixings; and we 
have known the hams and shoulders of hogs 
thus driven to come out a little short before the 
next summer was over. 
Let the hog be killed with as little noise,and 
worriment. and excitement as possible. A Jer- 
seyman has one man to go into the pen, selects 
his first victim, and shoots him, or with a broad¬ 
faced hammer (like a shoemaker’s hammer,) 
knocks down the hog, when other men come 
immediately and stick, others drag out, and 
go to scalding, and so on, with a large number 
of hog?. 
Scalding machines have become very common, 
and arc a good institution * but everybody has 
not got one, and still use tubs. 1 like the tub, 
and want nothing better for ordinary times ; 
but I want a rope and tackle, und one or two 
hands to help work the hog. I would not allow 
a hog put into hot water while there is a sign 
of life in him; but when dead, make an opening 
to the gambrel stringH and hook in, hoist the 
hog and dip head and shoulders into the scald; 
do not let him remain more than a second or 
two, lest his hair ‘ sets:’ hoist him and air him, 
and if needful, dip him again and again till done; 
then hook into the lower jaw, and scald the 
hinder parts. I like slow scalds the best, as less 
likely to “set the hair.” While the hind parts 
are getting scalded the face may be cleaned. 
Too little attention is generally given to clean¬ 
ing the head, as also the feet, leaving them for 
the women to worry over by the hour in some 
cold out-kitchen. As soon as the hog is hung 
up and washed off, let the head be taken off, and 
set upon a barrel or block, and regular ly shaved 
and cleaned. 
And now, while speaking of the head, I want 
to say how I cut up a head. I lay it on its side 
and take off the jowl (or lower jaw) I then saw 
down across the face, just above the eyes, but 
careful to run into the eye sockets, aud o( 
through, leaving the eyeballs with the snout 
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.—(S. H Alvord ) Ln 
IStSi wc gave the practice of a successful cultivator. 
When lie dug his sweet potatoes, ho piled them in long, 
narrow, roof-like heaps, and covered them two Inches 
deep with dry dirt, where they are allowed to “sweat.’' 
Then they are opened, allowed to dry perfectly, and are 
put tn boxes or barrels and stored In a dry. "'ell ven- 
tfllated room, that ls kept at a temperature of about 50 
degree*. No sand, leaves or other material Is used 
to pack them In. An equable temperature and dry at¬ 
mosphere arc tbc essential* In keeping sweet potatoes- 
They must always be handled carefully. 
Price of tue Rural —Last week an Illinois wool 
grower called to subscribe for the Rural. “ What Is 
the price for a year?' 1 " Three dollars.” “Blazes!— 
that Is too much—guesB I won’t take It.” “ Very well— 
we urge no one to take the paper, but can not afford it 
lor less at present prices of paper, provisions, etc 
Good day, Sir.” ‘'Good day.” Mr. Illinoisan left, but 
returned ln less than two minutes, saying—“ Here’s 
three dollars; I'll try your paper ft year, uud reckon the 
Sheep Department, will be worth the money.” We 
reckoned so too, for some wool growers say that what 
is given Iti the Rubai, on Sheep Husbandry Is alone 
worth to them more than the subscription price of the 
paper. People have often sftld to us that the matter tn 
a single Department of the Rural (the Agricultural, 
Horticultural, Domestic, etc., —some naming one and 
some another,) was worth more than the subscription. 
Seeding with Grass —I wish to inquire If land 
which has failed to take seed can be seeded In the 
spring (without a crop of grain.) and secure a good 
crop of hay the same season?—w. e. 
It can be seeded, but the crop of hay must depend 
upon Us fertility. We have seen a very good late clo¬ 
ver crop taken from land seeded In March; but the soil 
was rich and the season favorable. 
Tanning Small Skins— (C. H. Bacon ) We know 
nothing of the man you refer to, nor hla patent. We 
suppose you refer to the “ Excelsior Tanning Process” 
exhibited by C. H. Perkins, Wyoming, N. Y., of 
which the awarding committee said:—“A valuable 
discovery; the process expeditious and cheap.” 
A Caution — He ware of Pretended Agenti /—Though 
Jt may be useless, we agnin state that we do not employ 
Traveling AgmU for the Rural, and repeat our caution 
to all not to pay money for the paper to any stranger. 
We frequently receive letters from people who have 
been swindled by strolling sharpers, protending to be 
authorized agents of the Rural. Recently many con 
tiding persons ln Michigan, Illinois, and other purts of 
t he West, have beeu gammoned and defrauded by these 
villainous scamps. Beware of the dopers, everywhere 
for, like bad weather, they often appear all over*the 
country,—and remember that, the safest way to secure 
thu Rural la to remit $8 direct to us, or join a dab 
forming by some one known to be trustworthy. 
Pulverizing Limestone.— (Young Inquirer, Can 
astota, N. Y ) We do not know of any mote econom¬ 
ical mode of preparing limestone for the field than by 
borne of the quartz crushers might be used 
burning 
to pulverize it, but of their comparative economy we 
cannot speak. 
->-n--—— 
Sewerage Manure —Professor Likbio has written 
a letter warning agriculturists against too entire a reli¬ 
ance on the virtues or manure derived from the sewer 
age of cities. Ho says that Its continued use, without 
a due supply of phosphates, will only impoverish the 
soil 
Disbanded —We notice the Committee of Clergy¬ 
men and others interested in Sectarian and Literary 
Institutions, appointed by Gov. Yates of Ill., tosuggest 
a plan for the disposal of t he Agricultural School Fund 
of that State, have, like the good honest men they un¬ 
doubtedly are, submitted to the; Will of the People, und 
disbanded, deciding the question to bo one with which 
they had nothing to do, as they had not. And so Illi¬ 
nois Farmers and Mechanics will probably be left to 
use the Congressional appropriation as in their wis¬ 
dom they may decide it will best subserve their Inter¬ 
est*. Good! 
Cusco Wnures —(H K Beach) Wo cannot Inform 
you “ of some reliable mau of whom you can procure 
a barrel of Cusco Whites for seed;” for we do not hap¬ 
pen to know who is growing these potatoes 
Mixing Lime with Manure.—(J ohn Robel.) We 
would not mix fresh lime with strawy manure; but you 
can add your old lime and mortar safely and profitably. 
