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Show The Noble Giiti.s of Nevada. It is not often at the present day that we fiod young ladies soiling their very pretty hands with manual labor, thuir energies being more often exerted solely in securing the proper tension ten-sion of a "pin-back," or the proper adjustment, of their "back hair." Notable exceptions to this general rule are tho Missed Purdy, ot Long Valley. Besides being posted in all that pertains to elegance iu dress, they can aud do ollen harness and drive horses of their own breaking, and in case of emergencies, mount the reaper and draw as steady a line over a pair of colls as the best among the so-called lords ol creation. This year they are in the putato business On a small scale. Lust spring they procured live pounds of potatoes of choice varieties, to-wit: Snow tVikc, one nouinl; K tire kit, unu puutiJ; BrownWL'U'ii boauty, three pounds. They planted this seed, hoed it themselves, them-selves, and dug 517 pounds of splendid potatoes as the result. One pound of Snow flake yielded eighty-two pounds; one pound ol Eureka yielded 159 pounds; three pounds of Brownwell's beauty yielded 270 pounds. One hundred pounds of eacli of the latter varieties havo been placed upon exhi-tion exhi-tion at the Nevada slate fair, liight potatoes of one variety weigh ten pounds, and ten of the oilier weigh thirteen pounds. Mountain Mrsten jer. |