ftlotres anir fflannsrs. 
MINT WOOD'S CONVERSAZIONE i 
BrnidiiiK Winter Suit, Winns, Etc. 
Fanny.— Braid t.lie “ blue flannel house ^ 
jacket” with shade of a darker or lighter ; 
blue. Use worsted braid. I cannot give : 
you the amount required. Use figure 3 
pattern in Rural of October 26. Shiit 
waists arc not particularly becoming to 
thick-set figures. Make the girl’s waist a 
basque. Put a bias flounce on the bottom 
of skirt, ruffles on waist and head them with 
the black velvet ribbon. Your samples of 
fringes arc very good and fashionable. I hey 
Avill trim any very dark worsted stuff, as 
merino, empress cloth, satin, dti chenc, etc., 
well. For a winter suit any of these fabrics 
will he suitable, only be sure to choose very 
dark shades. For a cloak, let me suggest 
black cloth. For shapes, see illustration of 
Prussian wrap shapes and of basque back 
paletot. “Those Beaver Brand alpacas’ 
cosL from 00 cents to $1.20 per yard. They 
arc arranged in numbers and priced accord¬ 
ingly. No. 40, at 77K cents, is very good, 
and anything above that is very nice. 
G'oifluro nml lint. 
Myrti.k of Menomic asks for the “ most 
proper \vn.y for an old lady of thirty to do 
up’ hair which is short, thin and constantly 
falls out—shall she cut. it or take to* rats?’” 
Cut it and cultivate what is left. If I were 
“ a poor farim riue with a husband trying to 
get out of debt,” and wanted “to get up a 
cheap winter hat,” I should buy the materials 
and make it myself. A black felt bound 
and handed with velvet looks well and will 
wear for several seasons. For a brunette 
pipings of crimson or orange brighten a hat 
agreeably. If you wish to obtain a little 
girl to adopt, write to Charles L. Brace, 
Children’s Aid Society, 19 Eiist Fourth 
street, New York city. 
Trimmed Hnr, Etc. 
Alabama has her request granted in cuts 
on preceding page. Hat untrimmed (Fig. 1) 
may be of straw, felt, or a foundation sim¬ 
ply, to be covered with velvet. Fig. 2 
shows hat trimmed in lhe regulation style, 
which may he varied to suit the taste of the 
wearer. The hat is bound with velvet, and 
the crown banded with a wide fold of velvet 
and gros grain ribbon, headed with upright 
side plaiting of either. At one side only is 
trimming massed, a how and feather, while 
at the back a fall of lace is held on with two 
bows, one on the top of the hat and another 
lower down on the brim; ends of ribbon also. 
llaHtiiio Hack L’aletota. 
We give herewith two drawings from a 
model furnished by McCheery & Co., be¬ 
ing part of a silk suit. Fig. 1 shows the 
front, which is loose, but if desired for the 
house, as a basque waist, may be made close 
fitting by adding darts. Fig. 2 gives the 
back view, close fitting, with deep plaits iu 
the scams below the wuist, giving ample 
fullness. The trimming consists of folds of 
silk, headed with narrow upright ruffle and 
bordered with fringe. It forms an excellent 
model for house and street wear. A strap 
sewed on the wrong side to the side seams 
and passing In front holds the back smoothly. 
Suit*, Clonk*, Clunking, Etc. 
Myrtle, Fairfield.—Black alpacas arc 
trimmed with the same, mostly in flat trim¬ 
mings, such as side plaitings and bias folds. 
A very slylish way is to alternate ruffles 
three inches wide with side plaiting the 
same width. The “ most stylish material” 
for cloaks is black Lyons velvet; “ tiie man¬ 
ner of cutting” the polonaise; the “trim¬ 
ming,” lace and jet passementerie, with 
bows of gros grain ribbon. Bows are very 
much worn on dresses and outside garments, 
on the back and shoulders. Cheaper mate¬ 
rials for cloakings and also stylish, are Iter- | 
sey and English heaver, one and a-lmlf yards 
wide, in prices ranging from $5 to $7 per 
yard. Aside from black, the choice shades 
are wine color, very dark blue, green and 
olive green. English suiting, otherwise 
known as basket cloth, used considerably 
for the cape cloaks, is one and a-lmlf yards 
wide, and costs from $6.50 to $7.50 pet- 
yard. Diagonal cloth, such as gentlemen 
wear, is also used fur ladies’ cloaking. For 
sacques from one and a-quarter to one and 
a-half yards arc used of the double width 
cloths. For l he capes, from two and a-fourth 
to two and a-lmlf yards. And one word 
about warmth. The material may be thick 
and heavy, and tiresome to wear, and yet 
not he warm. A wadded lining should al¬ 
ways be worn, and for convenience and to 
insure well fitting, should bo made distinct 
from the outside. 
Hnt Ornaments. 
C. K. S.—From one to three short ostrich 
plumes are worn on bats, with the heads very 
much together, and the tails flying in differ¬ 
ent directions. Wings and quill feathers of 
bright plumage, are stuck at one side. Ladies 
prefer wings of native birds, and young men 
who go gunning are pleased to bring home 
the plumage of beautiful birds for their fair 
friends. Hats and bonnets grow high and 
higher. The fashionable bonnet looks very 
like our great grandmothers’ caps, stuck on 
that part of the head where the top meets 
the hack. Imagine a full, round piece of 
velvet, gathered to a straight band two inches 
wide, and the whole ornamented in a crazy 
way with tufts, folds, hows, jet, feathers, etc., 
and you may have a fair idea of the fashion¬ 
able bonnet. 
(flic jfpoxtsman. 
NOTES FOR SPORTSMEN. 
IIn\v Co Rliiko n. Iluntiiiic Boat. 
Tell W. W. M., Laporto, Toil., that my 
plan for building a boat fbr hunting purposes 
is this:—Take a Lime or Cottonwood log, 
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at it rather hard, and soon find that they are 
caught. If there is more than one of them 
the rest will fly around their unlucky com¬ 
panion and make a terrible noise; if the 
boy is near lie may get a lew good shots as 
the others light on Hie trees that are near. 
The Blue Jay is rather smaller than it 
looks to be on account of Us having a great 
many feathers, hut what there is of him 
make a first-rale stew.—w. u. b. 
How Co Tail Dok Skins. 
H. G. A., in the Rural New-Yorker, 
asks for a recipe for tanning a dog skin. I 
will give mine, which I have used on cats 
and woodchucks with great success. It is 
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Fig. 1.—Front View of Wrap. 
Cost of Winter Good*. Trimming*, Etc. 
Mrs. Sarah L.—Satin and satin ducheuc, 
costs from 60 cents to $1.50 per yard. It 
wears well, presents a fine appearance and 
is much improved in quality over that, in the 
market last year. Satin proper is silk faced, 
while satin duchene Is all wool; but the two 
are often confounded. Imperial serges, in 
all the dark fashionable shades, costs from 
$1 to $1,50. French merUtoes the same. 
French poplin from $1 to $L.50. Irish pop¬ 
lin from $3 to $2.25. French veloucs from 
$1 to $1.75. Empress cloth from 40 cents wide, and make a paddle, and you hav 
up. Fringe is a very fashionable trimming, the best hunting boaf^ui my opinion 
and a fair article can be bad for 60 cents, can be made. PlnctryPfT seat in the 
Velvet is also much used, cut, on the bias about three inches from the bottom < 
from linen back velvet., which costs from boat. IL will carry about three person 
$3.75 to $4.50 per yard. Velvet is consider- you have got to get used to it, for 
ablu higher Hum last year. A handsome sometimes turn over when managed b 
fringe costs quite as much ns lace, and is experienced hands.—II. A. T., Indian 
never so satisfactory and useful. But for Ark. 
worsted dresses fringes, velvets and passe- T rapi>i.. K the Blue jay. 
mentcrie are used. I am very much interested iu the “ Sports- 
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-Back View of Wrap. 
WOLF IN THE TAIL.” 
Tiie diseases of hollow horn and “ wolf 
in tiie tail” of cattle, together with their 
causes, have attracted my attention several 
times during the. past few years. Several 
instances of lioth, and almost always con¬ 
nected, lias come under my notice. My ob¬ 
servations warrant me in saying that I can¬ 
not exactly agree with your correspondent 
of A ug. 12 th, as to the cause of“ wolf in the 
tail." 'flic causes that ho mentions cannot 
as follows: Salt the skin; roll up; and let j be fljQ rea i cause; at any rate not in this 
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say fourteen feet long and twenty-five or 
thirty inches in diameter, and split it in two 
in the center; then turn one-half round side 
up; maul it so it will run, and take the bark 
off; turn it over again, take a common chop¬ 
ping ax, chop it out so as to leave it. about, 
two indites thick on the top edge and four 
inches on tho bottom. Then take a cooper’s 
adze and dress it. down to one inch on top 
edge and I luce inches on hot tom, or thinner, 
according to how light you want it to run. 
Get apiece of ash five feet long, five inches 
wide, and make a paddle, and you have got 
the best binding boatful my opinion, that 
can bo made. Plac«?yP!7 -rat in the stern 
about three inches from the bottom of the 
boat. Il will carry about three persons, but 
you have got to get used to it, for they 
sometimes turn over when managed by in¬ 
experienced hands.—II. A. T., Indian flay, 
Ark. 
it lie four days, when take and stretch on 
a board, and let it. dry straight and smooth ; 
then take an old shave, or something simi¬ 
lar, and flesh tho skin clean; next, take salt, 
and pulverized alum each one tablespoon lid, 
dissolve in warm water just enough to wet 
tbe mixture; put it on the skin warm ; roll 
it up, and let it lie from two to four weeks; 
then partially dry and scrape it some; then 
take sand paper and rub till dry, when it 
will be ready for use.—G. II. 1)., Grafton 
Co., N. II., 1871. 
A Hiintlnu: ChnlleiiKe. 
Mu. Bogaiidus, Elkhart, 111., challenges 
any man in America to shoot against him 
any two weeks in November or December, 
Llie party accepting the challenge to choose 
the kind of game to ho hunted and each 
mail to select his own gun. Tho conditions 
arc from $500 to $1,000 aside,each party to 
furnish a judge and companion for the other, 
to see fair play. The party killing the most 
game to take all I lie stake money and the 
game of the other party, or the proceeds 
thereof. 
More About Crow Trauititiir. 
Henry H. Smith requests that. Mr. Russ 
should tell more about trapping foxes, coons, 
Ac., in the Rural New-Yorker. 
Wants to Know IIow to Make a Kite. 
Will not some of tho boys tell me how 
they make a first-class kite ?—s. A. 
;ntomol00ical. 
BEAN WEEVILS. 
I send you a bean infested with insects. 
Please give mo the name and how to pre¬ 
vent iu the future.—G. T., Atco, AT. J. 
Tms very destructive Bean weevil is bc- 
country, as will be indicated in the following 
facts:—In the fore part of the year of 1869 
I discovered that onc-luilf of the five yoke 
of oxen iu use on the farm were failing very 
fast under the labor that was required of 
them. Being induced to believe that there 
was something ttiO matter (thestrongest and 
best food that Lcould give them failing of 
its object, together with Ihcir eating bill lit¬ 
tle, and lliat apparently without relish), l 
examined them for hollow horn. Some of 
them showed symptoms of it and the others 
did not. On further examination I found 
that all of them had “ wolf hi the tail.” I 
made an incision in the tail tho length of the 
affected part. Some of them bled so freely 
that 1 had to bind up the wound, fearing 
that some evil might result. On the head of 
those that showed symptoms of hollow horn 
l applied turpentine. In a very short time 
they began to improve, and before Liu: plow¬ 
ing was finished were in very good working 
order. 
The next most marked instance was last 
February, when l noticed a calf that was 
less than a year old, to be in a very poor con¬ 
dition; and thinking that it needed a little 
extra feed, which I gave it, and thought, it 
would live until grass grew ill the spring 
sufficient to recuperate it. The feed did not 
appear to do it any good. During a cold 
“norther” it wandered off into a thicket of 
brushwood for shelter, and when found was 
down and could not get up, On examina¬ 
tion I found that it had “ Wolf in the tail.” 
Fearing that the other calves, ten or eleven 
in number, would go the same way, I exam¬ 
ined and found every one of them to be a fleet¬ 
ed in the same manner. I split the affected 
part of the tail, putting nothing whatever in 
the cut, and in a short time a very marked 
difference for Hie better in their general ap¬ 
pearance was noticeable. 
During Ihc latter parts of winters that 
have been marked with greater scarcity of 
coming quite common all over the country. I fKibsistanco lot stock, 1 have invariably no- 
We have found it among beans purchased 
at tho seed stores of this City, Boston, Phil¬ 
adelphia, and presume that it might be 
found wherever largo quantities of beans 
are stored, collected from widely separated 
localities. There has been considerable dis¬ 
cussion among our entomologists in regard 
to the name—some supposing it to he the 
Bruclim obsoletus of Say, while others assert 
that it is an entirely different species. Mr. 
Riley considers it different from the insect 
referred to by Say, as B. obsolelus , nml he 
has therefore described it in his “Third 
Annual Report ns State Entomologist of 
Missouri” page 55, under tiie name of Bru- 
chits fain/} or American Bean weevil, by 
which we hope it, will hereafter bo known. 
This insect resembles somewhat the well- 
known Pea weevil tiruchus pisi), and its 
habits are similar, the female depositing her 
eggs in the green pods in summer, the 
weevils coming to maturity in the dry beans 
(iced tliis disease to prevail to a much more 
fearful extent than stock raisers are general¬ 
ly aware. It is to such scarcity that 1 have 
always attributed this disease. I may, how¬ 
ever, be wrong, but will agree that “good 
care and a plentiful supply of wholesome, 
succulent food will generally prevent tho 
disease, because it keeps the animal strong.” 
Being a young man, and this my first essay 
to public Consideration, 1 do not offer this as 
an attempt to question the more enlarged 
experience of others, but to show the results 
of my own observation. Gideon Noel. 
Soguln, Texas, 1871. 
|bc Stuinc-lfcrb. 
SWINE AT NEW YORK STATE PAIR. 
Col. Curtis, writing in the New York 
during the fall and winter, and escaping the Republican of the Swine Exhibition at the 
ensuing spring in time to attack tho grow¬ 
ing crop. 
But title bean pest is far more prolific 
than the Pea weevil; for while we seldom 
or ever find more than one of the latter in 
a single pen, of the former a dozen or more 
in a single beau is not at all uncommon. 
The bean you sent contained nineteen 
weevils, and we have them all alive (safely 
caged) before us at tins moment. It is only 
about ten years since this weevil was known 
to do any damage to the bean crop, but it 
lias spread in the last half dozen years very 
New York State Fair, writes the following 
sensible words:—■“ Of the larger while breeds 
the Yorkshire and Jefferson County filled 
the pens. We saw but one Chester White 
on the grounds. This once popular breed 
has been greatly injured by selling to the 
public an inferior grade of animals. Some 
of the breeders of the Cheshire or Jefferson 
County hogs are in danger of bringing that 
breed into disrepute by mixing them with 
hogs of different characteristics and points 
and still adhering to the name. In this way 
confusion arises and a difference in appear- 
rapidly, and is now found in nearly all ot ance w hicli is noticeable and which begets 
the eastern, southern and western States, clifeigust. A breed is a breed, and for why; be¬ 
lli a few of the extreme northern Slates, wc cause they (the specimens) have c.haruclcris- 
believc, it lias not as yet made its appear- tics which are similar and which are perpelu- 
ance. ated from parents to progeny ; they become 
We do not know any practical or econom- thorough-bred when their peculiarities are 
ical method of destroying this weevil with- transmitted in Hie blood without difference 
out at the same time injuring the vitality of or change. This principle is obviously upset 
About Silks. 
Society, Ky.—Silks are cheap, compara¬ 
tively. For walking suits, there are a num¬ 
ber of new shades—new to many people. 
Prominent among these, are mulberry, plum, 
olive brown, Loudon smoke (a sort of dove 
color), peacock (hluc-groen, very dark), choc¬ 
olate, crocodile (mignkinetic color), and all 
the cloth colors, including dark browns. 
They nre in gros grain, the price varying 
from $2 to $6 per yard. New York dress¬ 
makers use from twenty to thirty yards for 
a suit. 
re. I thought I would tell the hoys some¬ 
thing about trapping the Blue Jay. The Blue 
Jay is easily caught in the following man¬ 
ner:—Take a common steel trap and tie a 
small piece (about an inch long) of an ear 
of corn firmly on the pan of the trap. Set 
the trap in the snow oil a wall and press Hie 
trap down so that the jaws will he about 
even with the snow; put a, few kernels of 
corn on Hm trap; the birds come and pick 
up that near the trap and try to get the rest, 
and find that it won’t come; so they peck 
the beans. Beans that are to be used for when we see in the same litter of pigs some 
food may bo heated sufficiently to kill the w j( < ) l upright ears, a distinctive point in the 
weevil soon after harvesting, and then put Jefferson bounty breed, and others with lop 
away as usual; but tho idea of eating a ear8> w hich marks tlm Chester White and 
dozen or twenty grubs or weevils with every fl ie large Yorkshire. llumbuggery may 
bean is not a pleasant thought to be passing flourish for a season but the end will come, 
through ones’ mind at dinner time. There is nothing so important to a breeder 
Our people have become so accustomed )lfJ t<> know the points and features of the 
to eating pea weevil larva that they may breed he is raising, and to allow nothing 
take to this bean weevil with a sort of else to go out from his slock or to be intro- 
, , . ... . r „ . . .. diiced. If tlic breeder makes a change, it is 
natural Inclination. At present no can ufe {Q ( , () ^ buL kl him giye t J 0 » ncw 
only advise those who grow beans, oi have stoc j c a new name, or no name, or at all 
them in store, to look over their stock and events, not. continue a name when the breed 
destroy all infested specimens. 
has been mixed or changed.” 
