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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Isa dorp .—Tho Patterns yon name can bo bad 
for 30 cents each at Rural office. 
Jaadore Dreamer. 108 Canal Bt„ JV. 3".—I 
have seen a plant called “ Cyo.au revoluta.” 
Would you please inform inn where 1 could ob¬ 
tain Htioh a plant, and whether it will thrive in 
the house, or not ? 
Ans —It will thrive in the house during the 
winter, and makes a (ino specimen in a mixed or 
tropical bed during the summer. George Such, 
Ron Hi Amboy, N. J.; Peter Hkndkbson, N. Y,; 
Gamrwkll linos., Hackensack, N. J., andindeed, 
of alnt ok t any flrut-claas florist. 
U li , IJighlarul , A'. 3'.- I write to ask if some 
of the correspondents or readers will inform me. 
through the columns of your valuable paper, how 
to trap and make traps for the calohing of par¬ 
tridges. 
Ans. —In reply to the above, we would say 
that wo do not approve of trapping birds of any 
kind that are not known to be destructive to the 
farmers’ crops. 
Dr. A. C. Williams. —When those largo yields 
are obtained from one pound of seed potatoes, 
sometimes amounting to 30 bushels to a pound of 
seed, bow is it done? A pound of potatoes will 
make from 75 to 100 eyes, and it looks to me out 
of the question that 30 or 35 bushels can be 
grown therefrom. I have been told that the 
eyes can be divided, if so, to what extent, and is 
anything thereby gained? I never could get 
more than two or threo bushels from a pound of 
seed. 
An:* —The quantity of fertilizers used in pro¬ 
ducing the largest yield is quite astonishing to 
all who have not previously examined into the 
matter. Wo can refer to one instance in which 
to an already rich soil about ($0 two-horse loads 
of manure, nearly 200 bushels of wood ashos and 
21 bush els of lime per acre, together with bone- 
dust and other fertilizers in smaller quantities 
were added*. In another instance after covering 
the laud three inches thick with rotten farmyard 
manure, and threo bushels of wood ashes per 
square rod, a large shovelful of rotted hen man¬ 
ure, and two handfuls of ashes to each hill were 
applied. One pound of potatoes has been divi¬ 
ded Into upwards of 300 sets. Great stress in 
such experiments should be placed upon j udi- 
cions application of water. 
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•Report of Messrs. Qcruw, tiiUrbeii and Hkx- 
AMKlt. 
Communication's received for the week ending 
Saturday, 3n inst. 
•I. H. Podge—Mlntwood — Henry Hales—C. H. 
Dann-Mrs. M. (l. Rand-Wm. Falconer—P. L. 8.- 
Loretu E. K. Turner—S. A. L, see bpxi week, 
thanks -C. H. Reed—Mary Ringgold—C, A. M.— 
W. C. L. Drew—T. 11. Miner—L. C. B.—S. B. Peck- 
Chftrlcs B. Deckuer—A. W. Mangum—F. D. Cur¬ 
tis—Prof. W. ,T. Beale—Mary G. Rand, No. 2- 
J. Leroy Nixon—Mrs. Bort—Lester A. Roberts.— 
R. E. W.—Dr. Goodonough—Enoch Bnencer. 
Uftus of fljt Mtth. 
HOME NEW8 PARAGRAPHS. 
The President has designated November 29th as 
Thanksgiving Day. 
The Chester. N. Y. onion crop this year will be 
about 150,000 bushels. 
One hundred and thirty-seven Mormon converts 
arrived from Liverpool, Monday. 
The total debt Of Virginia Is over forty millions, 
and or West Virginia twenty millions. 
Owing to h id weather the Texas State Fair a: 
Austin lias been postponed to November 13. 
The Providence Tool Company’s contract with 
the Turks, calls for $17,000,000 worth of arms. 
Who cares for Ohio ? says tne Rochester Dem¬ 
ocrat. Haven't the Republicans carried France 7 
Dnder the present regime In Brooklyn, it cosh 
ss cents to expend 12 cents of public charities Id 
one district. 
Farmers and teamsters In New England have 
found out. that yellow turnips are better than car¬ 
rots to toed to horses. 
Judge Kelley 13 the senior Republican ant. 
Speaker Randall the senior Democrat In the Houst 
—both from Pennsylvania. 
Senor Mata, Diaz’s representative at Washing¬ 
ton, lias gone home, having been unable to secure 
the recognition of the Diaz Government. 
The managers of the Philadelphia Permanent 
Exhibition say that, udIcss the people rally In Us 
support. It will necessarily be closed very soon. 
Mrs. J. W. Kinney or Alden. Iowa, upon break¬ 
ing an egg the other day, found within the shell 
a living snake four Inches long. It lived several 
days. 
In Virginia and North Carolina, the acreage 
planted In tobacco Is 50 per cent, larger than last 
year; the yield promises to be better In the same 
ratio. 
The decrease of the number of buffaloes on the 
Plains threatens the trade of the Hudson Bay 
Company, whose voyageurs feed on buffalo pero- 
mlcan. 
Rancid butter Is liked In Iceland And a commis¬ 
sion of Icelanders are In tills country to establish 
an agency for forwarding the article lu large 
quantities. 
Seven years ago Methodism was first Introduced 
Into the dominions of Brigham Young. Now there 
are six Methodist churches and llfteen Sunday 
schools In Utah. 
The liquor dealers of Virginia have sent out 
20.000 circulars as a preliminary step to an organ¬ 
ization for the purpose of doing away with the 
Moffet bell-punch. 
Senator Douglas's monument In Chicago Is to 
be pushed rapidly to completion. It Is sixteen 
years since the “ Little Grant of the West ” died 
In Chicago at the early age of 45. 
A Jolnbstock company is forming in Versailles, 
Ky.,to build a fish-pond <>oo feet long, 10 wide, 
and from 12 to 20 deep, to be fed by a big spring 
on the farm of Chas, Alexander. 
During the recent state Fair at Atlanta, Ga,. 
when the city wes overcrowded,-a clever hotel 
keeper made a considerable sum by renting three 
railroad sleeping cars, and putting his guests ill 
them. 
An expedition Is being organized In this city to 
find six million dollars In treasure sunk near the 
Island or cuagua, where the Spanish man-of-war 
San Pedro Alcantara was burned during a wild 
revel or the crew in ism. 
A Minnesota paper says, “ Marriage bells are 
ringing merrily all over the State—a most fitting 
and Joyous accompantmeut to forty million bush¬ 
els of wheat.” Jt Is but natural, of course, that 
good harvests should encourage husbandry. 
The Patent office receipts the past fiscal year 
were $709,000; expenditures, $ 001 , 000 . Patents 
granted, 18,629; registered trade-marks, 1.32-1; 
labels, 579. This Is a reduction of about 1,000 In 
Iho number of patents as compared wit h lastyear. 
Capl. Eads opposes le v ees along the Mississippi, 
on the ground that, they are unnecessary. lie 
asserts that by cutting through the bends and 
shortening the course of the river, It will keep 
within 1 he natural bank, and drain vast areas of 
marshy lands. 
The entire amount of money diverted from the 
Treasury of New York City from first to last by 
the Tweed ring is estimated at between $45,000,- 
000 and 150,000,000. “ From first to last” is the 
period between January 1, Isos, and July 1,1S71— 
three and a Half years. 
And now comes Charles Spllman of Milton, Ky., 
and claims to bo the champion sunflower raiser 
In the country. He claims to have a stalk in his 
yard fourteen feet four luehes in hlght and ten 
Inches In circumference. It contained thirty- 
eight flowers at one time. 
A Chinese company sent Chin Tl Chong to San 
Francisco as an agent, selecting him because ho 
had been Jo America long enough to learn the 
business ways of the country. lie has proved 
his knowledge on that subject by absconding with 
$ 5,000 of the eoucoru's money. , 
Canada barley raisers report the’barley crop 
good, but the color of the grain is dark. Almost 
all their export of barley and rye Is to the United 
States, and they fear that the temperance move¬ 
ment here will depress Canadian agricultural in¬ 
terests, us their customers are brewers. 
The Freewill Baptists, now in session as Tun¬ 
bridge, vc., say that, they have in this country 
165 quarterly meetings, 1 ,3i3 churches, 1,1SS or¬ 
dained ministers and over 75,000 communicants, 
together with colleges, seminaries and newspa¬ 
pers second to those of no other denomination. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has Instructed 
the customs Pincers to prevent the landing of 
Russian cattle hides, supposed to be Infected. 
This order is in consequence or a dispatch from 
the United States Consul at Odessa, stating that 
disease has broken out among the cattle In south¬ 
ern Russia, from which thousands have died and 
are dying. 
Chickasaw county, Miss,, 13 distinguished as a 
place where juries are bribed In open court Into 
rendering iniquitous verdicts. At the last term, 
the Jury rooms were Invaded, and whisky and 
cigars furnished the jurors, while they made up 
verdicts of “not guilty ” In the face of the most 
posltlvo evidence of guilt. The Judge finally 
closed the docket and adjourned the court, de¬ 
claring that he would “try no more cases before 
these Juries.” 
The City of Baltimore Is somewhat of a stock¬ 
breeder, she possessing the finest flock of South¬ 
down sheep In the United States. Ten years ago 
the park commission purchased of cx-Gov. Bowie 
twenty-five thoroughbred soutkdowns, and great, 
:are has been taken to Increase the excellence of 
the Increase. The young rams aro sold at a mod¬ 
erate price to stock-raisers, and the money added 
to the park fund. Last week two celebrated 
Southdown rams, sent to this country by Lord 
Walslngham, were added to the Druid Hill Park 
flock. 
The San Francisco Chronicle says that Cali 
fornla would be better off without her golf 
mines, and argues the point as follows:—“Then 
aro 3,000 people in Ban Francisco alone who liv< 
directly or Indirectly from the purchase and sal< 
of stocks, averaging in their expenses $3,000 0 
year. Here are, then, $9, 000 , 00 a which the posses 
sors do not earn, but which Is earned by their 
victims. Mining is no unproductive Industry 
but the value of its products are more than eatei 
up by the gambling speculations which It stimu¬ 
lates." 
The report or t he chief of the bureau of statis 
tics shows that the total commerce of the United 
States for nine monl bs, ending September 30. in 
merchandise was $796,000,000, an Increase of $58,- 
000,000 over the same period last year. The ex¬ 
cess of export, of specie over the import this year 
is $24 300,000 ; last year it was $37,roo,ooo. Tbf 
balance of trade remains largely in favor of the 
United States. Upon merchandise the balance 1> 
$53,900,000 In our favor In the nine months; 
balance during the same period last year, $ 77 ,- 
700,000. About live-eights of the foreign trade ol 
this country appears to have been transacted 
through the port of New York. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Porte has Issued an order prohibiting the 
exportation of grain. 
The number of emigrants who left Liverpool 
last month was 0,503. 
Since the Crimean war Great Britain has reduc¬ 
ed her National debt from £900, 000,000 to £ 712 , 000 - 
000 . 
The building for the proposed International Ex¬ 
hibition at Melbourne, Australia, will cover ten 
acres. 
In lsoi Great Britain bad 10,000,000 people, Ire¬ 
land 6 , 000 , 000 . Now the former has 2T,ooo,ooo, the 
latter 5,500,000. 
The 8lames') Government has prohibited the 
exportation of rice from September 28, 1877, to 
September 13, 1878 . 
Forty years ago a missionary was not allowed 
upon the Fiji islands; now 40,000 young Fijians 
attend Sunday School. 
Last year the Australian provinces and New 
Zealand exported 763,sss bales of wool—twice as 
much as ten years ago. 
Since the Franco-German war the German gov¬ 
ernment requires a knowledge of the Russian 
language from all officers m the army. 
We learn from the Hawkeye that the name of 
the potato hug in Germany, la Pnbchtendlriwech- 
tenlawbedenachtosohooptenschaflllclitJielt. This 
Is what makes tt so hard to kill them, 
Lord George Hamilton, the Undcr-Seeretary for 
India, lias made a speech In which ho admitted 
that Lhe cost of the famine to the Imperial Gov¬ 
ernment would be $-‘>3,900,000, or double the origi¬ 
nal estimates. 
The hydromerc Is the latest French invention. 
It resembles a hen in every particular but one— 
Instead of a warm heart, there Is only warm 
water. The young chickens repose under It as 
naturally as under a real hen. 
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It Is now well established that the disease 
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similar to that which causes the Itch In man ; in 
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and the disease will disappear. With sheep, the 
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parasites, will not njure the sheep or the per¬ 
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