ommended. Tlic lime fills the pores of Hie 
eggs, and serves the same purpose that the 
grease did. But of all the materials that 
have been recommended for this purpose, 
water glass, or silicate of soda, is the most 
effectual and least objectionable.” 
of the Rural New-Yorker. We do not 
know where they can he obtained. 
JCeto Publications 
A NEW EDITION OF THE 
Chicken Cliolern. 
A writer in a late number of the Poul¬ 
try Bulletin says, mix tobacco or snuff with 
Indian meal and feed freely to the fowls. It 
is also said that a teaspoon fill of strong to¬ 
bacco juice occasionally, will cure them. 
PRACTICAL SHEPHERD 
PRESERVATION OF EGGS, 
Having had of late several inquiries from 
correspondents of the Rttrat. New-Yorker, 
far and near, relative to the preservation of 
eggs, we cannot do better than copy from the 
Scottish (Edinburgh) Farmer the following 
article, which fully answers their queries, 
and will undoubtedly prove of great value 
to them. The Farmer says:—” The subject 
of the preservation of eggs has recently at¬ 
tracted a great deal of attention, and many 
methods of effecting it have been published, 
though none are altogether perfect, for the 
simple reason that, the true cause of the 
spoiling of the eggs is either unknown by 
these who have attempted to furnish us 
with directions, or has been lost sight, of by 
them. There are two efficient causes for 
the spoiling of eggs, and unless one or both 
of these are avoided, we cannot hope for 
success. The first is exposure to a high 
temperature, and the other is access of air. 
It mav be safely affirmed that, at tempera¬ 
tures below 32 deg. Fab., nearly all change 
ceases in organic bodies, while very few 
organic substances will bear continual ex¬ 
posure to a temperature above 90 deg. The 
freezing point is rather too low for the pres¬ 
ervation of eggs in good condition, as freez¬ 
ing affects the flavor unfavorably; but if we 
desire to preserve eggs in the best manner, 
we must keep them cool—say at a tempera¬ 
ture below 50 deg. if possible, a temperature 
which is frequently maintained in good cel¬ 
lars. But it will be of no use to place the 
eggs in a cool cellar if they have been pre¬ 
viously exposed for hours to a temperature 
of over 90 deg. 
“ The collect ion or the eggs must therefore, 
in the first place, engage our attention. Now 
U has been well known that bens are most 
inclined to set in the months of May, June 
and July, and that, during these months, the 
eggs in the nest arc peculiarly liable to be set 
upon by brooding liens. On the other hand, 
'luring the month of August, and subsequent¬ 
ly, the teudency to brood is not so strong, 
and the eggs are less liable to be injured. 
Those who raise poultry, and especially 
those who keep fowls for the salat of their 
eggs, commit u great error when they fall to 
remove from their yards those birds that are 
inclined to set, and which consequently take 
every opportunity of warming the eggs in 
the nests. If any one will attempt to pre¬ 
serve eggs that have been subjected to the 
hatching process for one or two days, such 
person will discover the force of these state¬ 
ments, 
“ Kohler of Germany, who possesses an 
extensive poultry raising establishment, and 
who, every winter, preserves thousands of 
eggs without ever losing one, has recently 
published an account of his method of pro¬ 
ceeding, and has given the following rules 
for securing favorable results: 
“1. The nest must bo placed in a cool 
position. 
2. The fowls that show a tendency to 
set must be removed at once, and placed in 
separate inclosures until this propensity lias 
POULTRY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Priest Picronn. 
Of tbe many German Toy Pigeons, we 
think tbe “ Black Priest” variety one of tbe 
most singular and beautiful in its markings 
of these neat and trim-looking birds. They 
seuenoroj -V«y/ Husbandry in the South'' "Fine 
H ool SAee/> Husbandry f &v., and Editor of 
the S/itref Husbandry Department of the 
Rural New-Yorker. 
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and should ho in the library of every shepherd In tho 
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Tub Practical Situ thick 
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A Douhle-Bcuked Chicken. 
A late number of tbe Loudon Field gives 
an account of a monstrosity in the shape of 
a chicken of the Bantam breed. The dunli- 
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are known among the German fanciers as 
Toy pigeons, or household pets. The en¬ 
graving, which we copy from a drawing by 
the celebrated English artist Wiku, is said 
to lie as near a fnc ximite. of these birds ns 
possible, In speaking of the Priest Pigeons 
Neum Hester, a well-known Gorman orni- 
l hologist, enumerates the following varieties: 
“ 1st, The Black Priest pigeon ; both with 
and without the white wing bars, and occa¬ 
sionally with the spangled shoulders of the 
Buabiait pigeon cross; 2d, The Blue Priest 
pigeon, will) either black or white wing 
bars; also occasionally spangled like the 
foregoing ; 3d, The Brown - red Priest, 
pigeon ; these rarely have the white wing 
bars, hut when they do, the flight and tail 
are usually strawberry colored. The chief 
point is to have them of an uniform dark 
brown-red; 4th, The Yellow Priest pigeon; 
lias markings similar to the red, and is equal¬ 
ly rare with white wing bars; 6th, The 
Wild Blue Priest pigeon; their color is a 
light or mealy blue, with the white head, 
like all the others, but without any other 
mark whatever, not even the black wing 
bars so common to blue pigeons. These 
are, however, not very plentiful.” 
BINDER FOR PERIODICALS 
COJIXMJVT’S, 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 
Sit iv-dust for Cur-Worm*. 
A correspondent of the St. Louis Jour¬ 
nal of Agriculture has discovered by ex¬ 
periment, he claims, that a handful of saw- 
dnst, placed around the n^t^f a plant, will 
protect it effectually from cut-worms. 
The Three-I.iued Potato Beetle. 
E. S. S,, who gives no other address titan 
“Pike," sends us a specimen of the above 
insect, (Lana tnlineata), and asks whether it 
is a potato bug. It is one of tho old-fash¬ 
ioned potato bugs, always found in the East¬ 
ern States, but by no means the Colorado 
Potato bug, which it somewhat resembles 
in its colorations! pattern. An account of 
it is given on page 99 of Mr. Riley’s first 
Missouri Report. 
Borers in Apple Trees. 
E. A. F., Oswego, N. Y., says that lie iins 
prevented the attacks of apple tree borers by 
putting a bushel of tan bark around tbe stem 
of each tree. The lanharlc answers the 
double purpose of keeping out the borers 
and ;us a mulch. No weeds grow through 
it, anti Mr. F. says that he lias never known 
a tree to be allocked around which a heap 
of tanbark was constantly kept. Quince 
trees treated in the sumo way thrives ad¬ 
mirably, and are free from borers. 
Cure* for <*npe» in Fowls. 
Seeing an inquiry in a late Rural New- 
Yorker asking how to cure the gapes, I 
send my way of doing it:—Take :t horse 
hair and with the fore huger and thumb 
double it and twist it, leaving a loop in the 
end. Hold the tip of the tongue in the left 
band and run tbe hair down the wind pipe 
as far as you can and untwist it, and when 
you draw it out you will see a worm catched 
to the hair; that is the cause of the chickens 
gaping. There is a full description of the 
disease in a back number of the Rural 
New-Yorker. Cun somebody tell me 
what ails my chickens, they seem to droop 
and stand around for two hours and then 
they die? I feed them corn meal.— Farmer 
Bov, Frankfort , ,¥. Y 
1 have found the use of carbolic acid very 
efficacious in cases of gapes. My course of 
treatment is us follows:—1 place five or six 
birds in a small box, and cover the top with 
a piece of carpet. I then place a hot brick 
in a pot and set the pot in the box, pouring 
fifteen to twenty drops of carbolic acid on 
the brick. Tbe box soon becomes filled 
with tbo fumes of the acid, which, being of 
necessity inhaled by the birds, comes at 
once into contact with the worms. I keep 
the birds in the box until they are in danger 
of suffocation. They soon recover from tho 
effects of the treatment on exposure to tlm 
air. The box should he kept well covered 
to prevent the escape of the fumes of the 
acid. My reason for putting the brick in a 
pot, is that the chicks may not burn them¬ 
selves by coming in contact with it.—F. 
Mussulman, Quakertovm, Pa. 
left them. 
“3. If many liens be confined in the same 
inclosure, or use the same nests for laying 
their eggs, the eggs ought to be removed 
front Hie nests several times a day. 
“ ’* The eggs ought to he assorted accord¬ 
ing to age, and preserved in boxes with tire 
covers always partially open. These boxes 
must he kept in a cool, airy, and perfectly 
dry place. 
“5. At the commencement of winter, the 
store of eggs is placed in some room that is 
not heated by a fire, but that is, at. tiie same 
fim^ thoroughly protected from frost. 
packages are so arranged that 
the oldest may be used first. 
“ kggo treated according to these rules do 
not acquire the peculiar taste which is gen- 
cinlly the result of the receipts in vogue for 
preserving eggs. The number of these re¬ 
ceipts is almost unlimited. Some recom- 
101,11,1 l| se of lard or butter, which, when 
rubbed over the eggs, fills the pores, excludes 
f ‘c air, and prevents the eggs from drying 
cmt. I hat there are powerful causes in the 
spoiling °f eggs is easily proved, for the lime 
mi lus elapsed since an egg was laid may 
m roughly estimated by taking its specific 
M guv. Ii w0 dissolve common salt in wa¬ 
rn i «it the rate of three ounces of salt in twen- 
\ \e of water, it will he found that freshly 
.iu egi r s will just sink in this solution. An 
( ,~f. >!l> * Jfls 1,e cn kept for one day will hard- 
Z?.* t0 . u,e bottom; at three days old it 
n . Mt l * ie fifiuid, and when five days 
■ ' 1 '' 1 011 the surface, more of it be- 
to iu c ' uboye the surface, in proportion 
ti,n *1 * *‘ Gi5e Phenomena are caused by 
whin? i'i' 1 * ° U , ° f ll,e e Sgs, and the extent to 
pend o l y h ? e p,ace in a S iven time de- 
Uie tl ° n tlie Smearing 
but iT« 8 ." ‘ * ar<1 or hotter prevents this, 
cid a n ,n 1 °' n,:itters ilre a Pt to become ran- 
H ms destroy the flavor of the c™®. 
mg the eggs iu lime water is alsorec- 
l‘o t a to Burs. 
Can you give me the name of the inclosed 
hugs? The tops of our Scbec potatoes arc 
covered with t hem. There are other kinds 
planted each side of them which they do not 
trouble. The Sebcc are mostly killed in 
both garden and field.—O ld Subscriber, 
Martinsburt/h , AT. Y. t .July, 1871. 
There were no bugs in the box, but a 
few small dried up larva) of some kind of 
beetle. It is barely possible that the Colo¬ 
rado potato hug has reached Lewis county, 
N. Y. Put a few of the full grown hugs 
into alcohol, or kill them with kerosene, and 
send them to us by mail. Inclose in a 
wooden match box or elder stem. 
AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIST 
By JOHN J. TllOitlAH, 
Containing Practical Directions for tlio Propagation 
and Culture of 
FXITTIT TREES 
In the Nursery. Orchard unit Garden, with descrl|>- 
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llellngrnmuiite Fly —(Corydalis Carmans). 
Inclosed, find a species of insect. I 
found it flying about on my farm. It is 
something new in this section. Perhaps it 
"Ml be of interest to you.—T. D. M., Union, 
Tiie common and scientific name of the 
insect is given above. The larva of this 
insect is found in rivers and smaller streams, 
where it feeds upon the larva) of other 
aquatic insects. We have also found them 
under stones in wet. situations on the hanks 
ot streams. The fly, with its two immense 
horns, looks as though it might he a terrible 
and dangerous enemy; but we believe that 
it is enlirely harmless; at least, we have 
often captured them without, injury. This 
insect is not uncommon in the Eastern 
States, but is far more abundant at the 
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the Horse; and Reminiscences of the 
Trotting Turf. 
By HIRAM WOODRUFF. 
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ii E w i: w 
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Dark Rralimu Fowls Wanted. 
Will anybody who knows, answer me 
through the Rural New-Yorker whether 
it is profitable, and if so, where can he ob¬ 
tained about, one dozen full-blooded Dark 
Brahmas—eleven hens and acock. — W. 
C. A., Sharon , Pa. 
Under any ordinary circumstances, Brah¬ 
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Those having the birds to sell, should inform 
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