THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKER. 
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four applications are sufficient to effect a cure. 
Lf the poison is on the face nearing the eves or 
mouth, this astringent wash may be constantly 
applied. It is a marvelous cure, and by watch¬ 
ing closely one can see the fevered blisters turn 
from white to yellow during the application. 
This remedy for ivy poison should prevent a 
great deal of suffering. It is well where a mem¬ 
ber of a family is easily poisoned to keep sugar 
of lead in the house all the time. Let it be 
labelled and kept where it can bo fouud the mo- 
meut it is wanted. Keep it well wrapped up, 
that it may not lose its strength. 
J Lou Billhimer. —(1st.) Last year the cabbage 
worm waB very destructive, and it has again 
made its appearance; if you or any of your read¬ 
ers know a remedy, yon will confer a great favor 
by making it known. (2d.) I have been told 
that the cabbago could be used with perfect 
safety three days after using Paris- 
Implements* unit Machine tit 
AND HORSE POWER STILL AHEAD 
7 he Judges of the Centennial Exposition awarded 
•green. What 
say you ? (Sd.) Two months ago or more I saw 
an engraving in the Rural of Plymouth Rock 
fowls; also an advertisement from Benson «fc 
Bvbpee of Philadelphia, Pa., saying thoy had 
eggs of that breed for sale. I sent $1.50, wait¬ 
ed a long while, got no eggs, wrote again, and 
got word that they would send thorn soon. Have 
not seen any eggs yet. Do you know whether 
they are reliable meu ? I notice their advertise¬ 
ment has been taken out of your paper. I wish 
you would inform mo of the truth. I am a 
widow with a family of children to maintain. I 
live on a farm, and I think I can make moro 
money raising hogs than in any other way. (4th.) 
I would like to know what kind of roots would 
bo the most, profitable to raise for feed ; or will 
it pay me to raise roots at all, when 1 have plenty 
of corn ? (5th.) f am also trying to raise small 
fruit; would like to get a book that would give 
me good, plain instructions on that subject. 
If you can refer rne to some work of the kind, 
you will confer a great favor on one who is igno¬ 
rant, but anxious to learn. 
1. Flour of sulphur, suphe: phosphate of lime, 
air-slaked lime, hellebore, are variously recom¬ 
mended. Hot water is good—as hot as cun be 
borne by the hand. Any of the above, or salt, 
tobacco, lye, added to the water increases its 
efficacy. 
2. Wo should not uso Paris-green upon cab¬ 
bages. 
;t. We know, or think we know, that Benson 
A Burpee are a perfectly trustworthy establish¬ 
ment. 
4. Use the corn in preference, as you bavo 
plenty of it. 
5. Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist, $1.50 ; Or¬ 
an 0 *! .Ttinn Co., Now York. E. P. Roe’s Manual, 
50 cts.; Comwall-on-tho-Hudson. 
J. G. Ji. K., Lon<‘tt&vUle, l’a.—Will investi¬ 
gate and answer next week. 
Dr. A. C. Williams. What ornamental climb¬ 
er has a seed similar to a bean ? A friend of 
mine, while on a visit to Lincoln, III., saw a 
climber running over a portico of an acquaint¬ 
ance's house, and the plant drawing his atten¬ 
tion, ho secured a few of the seed for me, and 
they are different from any seed of a climber I 
have over seen. Ho says they told him thoy were 
hardy. They look exactly like a largo, pale boan, 
and are the very color of some I have scon, be ieg 
an oily brown or butternut color, are very slow 
to germinate, and tbo leaves come in triplets 
upon one stem. Grows slowly, and does not 
throw up Its seed when it starts, and looks puny, 
having small leaves not an inch m diameter, as 
yet. I have over twenty-five catalogues from dif¬ 
ferent seedsmen, and in all their illustrations 
can find nothing like it. Answer me, if you 
please, in Bubal.. Ans. —We should guess Wis¬ 
taria. 
J. N. JMt. Vernon —Can you give me any 
information, through your column of “ Answers 
to Correspondents,” on the following point ? 
Yesterday wo had a box of strawberries, the 
finest I ever ate. I do not know who raised them 
or where they grow. I selected a few fine ones 
and washed out the seed. What 1 wish to know 
is this :—1. Will those seeds produce the same 
fruit as they were taken from? 2. When should 
they be sown, to bear fruit soonost ? 8. If sown 
now, and transplanted in tho fall, will they boar 
next year? Ans.- 1. Not at all. 2. The sooner, 
tho better. 3. No, not so as to prove the value 
of tho fruit. 
MARSH MALARIA 
The following, whioh we take from Harper's 
Weekly, gives some interesting facts with regard 
to a theory first broached during the war by Dr. 
J. H. Salisbury, then a resident of Cleveland, 
O., pending investigations as to tbo origin of 
chill* and fever, whioh were much talked of at 
the time. We believe ho succeeded in cultivating 
this disease in ordinary fiower-pota. and propa¬ 
gating it also by bringing persona within the in¬ 
fluence of the disease-producing plants : 
One hypothesis in regard to tho origin of 
marsh malaria refers this to the development of 
certain microscopical growths, which are sup¬ 
posed, by their dissemination, to effect a lodg¬ 
ment in the human system, and tliero sot in 
motion organic changes, producing the various 
phenomena of disease. 
The subject baa been elucidated by the recent 
researches, in Rome, of Messrs. Laugi and Tor- 
rigi, who have been studying the microscopical 
fauna of the Roman marshes. They find, in tho 
cells of the algio collected there, certain dark 
granules penetrating into tbo cndochrome, or 
into tho chlorophyll of algie having this sub¬ 
stance. These become more and moro devel¬ 
oped with the death and decay of the algie, and 
finally turn blac.lt, and either cause or accom¬ 
pany a condition of putrofaction which results 
in their extensive dissemination. 
According to tho authors mentioned, the 
marshes of the Campagna, in the winter season, 
develop large massoH of this algto, which become 
decomposed by the drying up of the ground, 
afterward producing phanerogamous land plants. 
Toward autumn the marshy portions of the un- 
dried land exhibit a corrupting layer of slime, 
abounding in the dark granules referred to, and 
various animal infusoria. These aro fouud in 
abundance in the atmospheric dust of tho Oam- 
pagna, and are largely doveloped from it by cul¬ 
tivation. 
The pigment granules found in tho liver and 
spleen of individuals suffering from malaria, 
have similar properties to those of the ferment 
granules in question, and they can bo developed 
quite similarly. Terrigi has found that tho best 
method of preventing the decay and develop¬ 
ment of these granules is iu the application of 
chloride of limo, of lime, or of chloral. A filter¬ 
ing of the atmosphere several huadrod feet 
above the surface of the earth, revealed the pres¬ 
ence of these bodies, which also appeared iu tho 
liver and spioon of guinea-pigs that had been 
kept for some time at the level of the marsh. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
Mrs. P. Schmeck. —IIow shall I find out where 
to get the seed of tho Cow-horn Turnip, a pict¬ 
ure of whioh was published in the IIuhai, ? 
There are many nice plants spoken of iu the 
Rukal, though you never teli where to get 
them. This I would often like to know. 
Tuohuubn A Co., 15 John Bt., Wsr. H. Car- 
son. 25 Chambers Bt., B. K. Buss, and, in fact, 
of any of our seedsmen. Generally the plants 
about which we write may be had of any well- 
known florist or nurseryman. Wo could not turn 
our horticultural articles into advertisements by 
furnishing names. 
W. 8'. Teator. —What causes the blue, oily 
scum so often seen on the surface of standing 
water, in swamps and marshy places ? 
Wo would like to, and may auswer this ques¬ 
tion at length, since it is one of groat general in¬ 
terest. At present wo reply : Decayed vegetable 
or animal matter or both. Iu water which is not 
“ standing.” there is no aggregation of such par¬ 
ticles, and no generation of sulphuretted hydro¬ 
gen, carbonic acid gas, etc. 
8. S. Otis .—Your question has been submitted 
to one of our most experienced nurserymen for 
answer. 
Mrs. Armstrong. —I send you to-day a flower 
I would like to know the name of. It grows 
about six feet high. The lower leaves are much 
larger than those I send. The flowers are pure 
white. 
Spine aruncus is the nearest we can make it 
out from the specimen. 
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