June 1, 1904.] Supplement to the ''Tropical Agrieuliurist." 
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Bpring the same number (about 80 per acre) of 
new culms are spared from being dug out when 
small for market, and each autumn a similar 
number of 9-year-old stems are cut and sold for 
timber. These are only a small proportion of the 
total number of bamboos on an acre, for this 
ranges from 640 to 680. If this system of thin- 
ning out is followed a plantation may be kept in 
bearing almost indefinitely. Near Kyoto the 
practice is followed of cutting off the top of every 
shoot left standing, before it is fully mature, to 
a height of from 12 to 14 feet. This prevents 
the wind from moving the culms too much and 
induces the formation of a bushy mass of luxu- 
riant foliage and a great number of medium- 
sized shoots, which are more profitable than the 
few larger-sized ones that result if the mother 
plants are not topped 
The tenderest shoots and those which bring the 
highest prices are the ones dug up before their 
tips have pierced the surface of the soil. These 
bring, early in the season, as much as one yen per 
" kwan " (about 6 cents gold per pound), while 
the later product must sometimes be disposed of 
for a tenth of this price. The market season in 
Tokyo begins in December and closes in June, 
Although bamboo shoots are very nutritious, they 
are not easily digested, and many Ameiicans do 
not like them for this reason. Old residents 
in Japan, however, often grow very fond of them 
and have adapted them to their Western menu. 
Miss Fanny Eldredge, of Yokohamn, has very 
kindly furnished the following recipes for cooking 
bamboo shoots : — 
1. Bamboo sprout.^ with cream sauce. — These 
sprouts are cut when about a foot above the ground, 
by digging down to the riiizomes v;hich bear them. 
After being gathered, the outside sheaths are 
removed and the shoots are soaked for half an hour 
in cold water. They are then cut in thin srces, 
about 3 inches long by one inch square, and thrown 
into boiling water containing a small tenspoonful of 
salt, and are boiled from an hour to an hour and 
a half, or until tender. The pieces are then 
drained and a white sauce is poured over them; 
which is made in the following way : To a half 
pint of cream or milk add a teaspoonful of butter, 
season with salt and black pepper. Allow this to 
boil up and serve at once. If desired, this sauce 
may be thickened with flour. 
2. Bamboo shoots in butter. — Slice and cook as 
in the previous recipe, uniil tender. Into a sauce- 
pan put three table^poonfuls of butter, seasoned 
with pepper, salt, and a little chopped parsley. 
When heated, put in the bamboo. Shake and 
turn until the mixture boils ; then lay the bamboo 
on a hot platter, pour the butter over it, and 
serve at once. 
3. Bamboo shoots, Japanese style. — Slice and 
cook the bamboo until tender, as in recipe No. 1 . 
then I. ut into a sauce made as follows: Take 
one coffee cup full of soy sauce (this is the basis of 
Worcestershire sauce and obtained only at Chinese 
or Japanese grocers or at some of the largest gro- 
ceries in our large cities), one-fourth cupful of 
water, one heaping teaspoonful of sugar ; let boil 
for hftlf an hour jn this sauce, and serve. 
V^ETERINATlY NOTES. 
Adrenalene is an alkaloid obtained in 1901 
by Dr. Toliichi Takamine being the active 
principle of the suprarenal and adrenal gland, and 
its physiological effect is to cause a contractiou 
of the arterides, rendering the part it affects 
bloodless. It is a white crystalline jjowder with 
a slightly bitter taste. Messrs. Dupuis ami 
Vanden Eckhart of the Brussels Veterinary 
School have contributed an account of the new 
drug, and Capt. Sullivan of the Poona Veterinary 
College also writes a short note — both appearing 
in the Veterinai'y Journal, Tiie latter mentions 
the value of the chloride in conjunctivitis, 
enabling the operator to detect foreign bodies in the 
eye as the result of the blanciiing it induces. 
Internally it is said to exert the same influence 
on the muscles of the heart as digitalis, but is 
non-irritating and non-cumulative. 
Professor Owen Willing?, Principal of the New 
Veterinary College, Edinburgh, proposes to remove 
that establishment to Liverpool from the Univer- 
sity of which he has received an invitation to 
establish the College there. Professor Williams 
thinks the change of venue will be to the ad- 
vantage of the college and the students, most 
of whom come from the North of England. 
It appears to us to be a good idea and likely 
to advance the interests of the college, though 
we shall always think of it as the Leitli Walk 
institution presided over by Principal William 
Williams, who while he lived was the Old Man 
of the profession, 
Experiments on the presence of a toxine in 
internal parasites have been made by Professor 
Perroncito, Mingarrini, and Messrs. Messinio and 
Cilamida, with the result that the truth of the 
old theory has been proved, viz., that the noxious 
effects of tapeworms are due to a toxine produced 
by the parasite itself, not to mechanical irritation 
or structural alteration, that their presence causes 
in the intestinal mucous membrane of the host. 
Nocard has experimen tally proved that Nagana 
and Dourine are in reality different diseases. -Major 
H.T. Pe ise of the Indian Veterinary Department, 
in a contribution to the Veterinary Journal for 
May, states that hia own experiments have gone 
to prove thut Surra and Dourine are entirely 
different diseases, 
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A CHEMICAL MANURE FOR THE BANANA. 
In the article on manuring the banana, trans- 
lated from the French of M. A. Couturier, of 
Paris, it was stated that M. Teissonuier had 
promised a formula. M. Teissonnier is Director 
of the Experimental Garden at Conakry, in 
French Guinea, and his oflicial report has been 
published in the ofticial journal of the colony, 
from which the following has been extracted: — 
The banana is a plant which requires a large 
quantity of potassic salts ; according to Muntz 
and Marcano, the ashes of the stems contuin 
55 per cent of potash. 
