The National tribune., 1882-08-12

capable of terminating and thus be danger
Gus to the tubers when they are taken out
of the ground.
The author gives the results of various
experiments where he has succeeded In pre-
venting the disease, while adjoining planta-
tions of the same kind treated in the ordln-
ary way were badly affected. The averages
of several tests showed that the losses IN
plants under ordinary culture amounted TO
about twenty-three per cent, while the losses
in those managed in accordance with the
protective system were but little over one
per cent.
PRESERVING EGGS. The following is
said to be an excellent mode of keeping
eggs: Take fresh eggs, put dozen or more
into small willow basket, and immerse
this for five seconds in boiling water con-
tanning about five pounds of common brown
sugar per gallon. Then pack, when cold,
small ends down, in an intimate mixture oil
one part of finely powdered charcoal and
two of dry bran. In this way they will last
six months or more. The scalding water
causes the formation of thin skin of albu-
men next the inner surface of the shell, and
the sugary solution closes all the pores.
PROTECTION OF Song AND INsECTIvEE'
Gus BIRDs.-Michigan is great fruit grow
ing State, and the farmers and fruit growers
oh IN Into p1
and enforced in the protection of their inter
ests.
They have very stringent laws for the pro-
lection of birds, which in turn protect the
fruit crops largely from being destroyed by
insects. Among the birds mentioned are
the nighthawk, robin, finch, thrush, wren
brown thrasher oriole, woodpecker and
whip-poor-will. The penalty is five dollars for
each bird killed, and for each nest robbed ten
days in the county jail.
EARLY PEAs.-The Rural Ne,o Yorker
gives the results of tests with early garden
peas, and for earliness and quality COM
bined, the new variety, American Wonder.
is awarded the highest place. The seed was
sown April Cd, beside McLean's Little Gem
Early on the other. The first picking was
made from the Extra Early June 21st, and on
June 23d from the Wonder. The vines of the
Extra Early grow four feet in height and
bear an average of seven or eight pods to q
vine, the best of them holding eight seeds
The American Wonder vines grow, on an av-
erage, about one foot in height. There are
often from ten to fifteen pods to plant. The
stems need no support, and generally branch
near the surface of the soil. The best pods
hold from six to seven seeds, the average
being not over five
McLean's Little Gem is scarcely less pro-
life than the Wonder, but the vines grow
taller and it is one week later. The pods
average fewer seeds, but the seeds average
larger, while the quality is much the same
it can hardly be better. The first picking
was made on July 1st. [
The Wonder may justly be classed as among
the earliest of all peas, and as the very
earliest of the wrinkled kinds. The Is so
little difference in the time of th FIRST
picking as between it and the aoth
earliest kinds, that all who apI as-
quality in peas and who raise them f. lEeir
own table will greatly prefer the 'anEal
after first fair trial, while it isaq .7r
whether it is not destined to take the place,
in great measure, of the old smooth kinds
as market variety.