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Show PROTECTION AGAINST RAB- CITS. TUe Kural World suggests a simple mean, ul protecting young fruit trees aainai rail bm, which is to place a tew cornstalks about the stem with the lower enda lied near the ground, and Ihe other end tied as high aa the protection is needed. This application applica-tion is lound an good as paper, and more likely to bs ready at hand for j farmers. PKACU DleEAHB IN THE SOUTH. A correspondent writes of a mysterious mys-terious disease which attacks the peach tree in the oouth. As the lowest temperature is seldom more ihsn fitrf degrees below Ireeziug point in the art'tcted regions, the disease I e.innot result from co;d. He says: "Many of tho troeii are dead, root and brunch. 6omo ire dead down to the roots, from which a fow suckers are springing up, from each of which I mean to train -up one to-see what it will do. '; The trees thitf aro , no dead have a sickly and willed' look scarcely any-JeaveH and perhaps half . adom'u peaches W' the-;tree, iMy oretiard ie on' the ; watm . southern slope ot a sandy bridge 1 or tongue -of high land, projecting -into-, the jSalt nmrslv, with, water on both sidce, and sheltered on the --nortlm by heavy growth of live oak and magnalia. ;The bap flows early,:: hut; -1 1 have never kuown'the fruit germs killed; by frost. And this season s X- hav'said, two-thifda two-thifda of my trees haw-exhibited. ' no signs oMile- ati any 'tiroes and now Stand leafless and sapless. - - ' ' Thus writes :-to .v his; Times a Ghicagoan who went along dowh to New Orleans, with Uie commiaeion to : see that quadroons bati:: "L hava never seen ' more' symmetry of' J form or comeliness of feature gutheredi iutp one small space. i-It would have been impossible to tell nine-tenths oUue women present! there - .from pur white. 1'-' Many .of thoux. were almost prfoct : Uloados, witn not - enough ifuilncea 61 the eyes and 'kindness' of 'the.hair to carry a suspicion of color. A fewwero quite dark, but had per:-feet per:-feet futures, and tdreir looks black as thei-wing .of a raven, 1 entwined with tlowera- .of the ,aunnyi. south,- and crowning .their stately '. heads- Hike cdrouets-of sparkling, jet.'. Some of the braids- got loose in.waUimgr 'and tumbled down .tbeir Waoka in graceful profusion. And then their eyes! They shone hke , the stars of a southern nicbt, blazing withubeauty and champagne.: 'Isis and Oairis guard me.'-but.I never saw such eyesl . I remembered: Marie Antony and hia 'glorious, sorcoressof the Nile.'. Here I could see the. justification of his follies and the enchanting expla-' nation of his flight from Actium." |