A Prolific Bean Tree.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 4

A Prolific Bean Tree.

Wi: give an illustration, taken from an American farming journal, of this bean, no*because w e know anything about the plant ourselves, but that our readers may know of a new bean which is spoken of by the Western Rural as wonderfully prolific. It

has only been generally known in the States for a few years, and is a white bean suitable for field cultivation. Nearly half a bushel of beans has been harvested from only thirty seeds planted. The beans should he planted only one in each place 18 inches apart in the row. The bean is small and white, and the habit of growth is shrubby like a little tree.

t~ Dkau Poultry at the Paris Show. — The exhibition of dead poultry at Paris was this year one of the finest we have seen for all-round merit. Perhaps it may be true that there have been shows at which birds of higher merit were on view, but the average quality was, in our judgment, better than previous years. Last year there was a wonderful pair of La Fleche, and no one pair at this show was equal to them, but they were exceptional. The number on exhibition was 371 couples, comprising 192 couples of fowls, 51 do. of turkeys, 20 do. of ducks, 29 do. of geese, 39 do. of pigeons, 23 do. of guinea iowls, and 11 do. of rabbits. The arrangements were much the same as we have noted before, and the display was very fine indeed, one of the large rooms being entirely occupied. For fineness of flesh and skin, for plumpness and distribution of flesh, the Paris Show stands easily at the head ot all exhibitions. As is usually the case, moct of the winning fowls had been purchased by the proprietors of leading hotela and l'estaurants, and would doubtles3 be disposed of with great gus^o by the guests at these establishments on Tuesday last. Nearly all these birds were capons or poulardes, and until this system of emasculating the fowls for fattening be adopted we may not expect to rival the French in their dead poultry. The La Floche poulards won prix d'honneur, and were a fine pair. La Bresse were beautiful. La Fleche, good all through, and the most numerous ; while turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, and rabbits were splendid. — Live Stock Journal.

In the Supreme Court, Wallace Gordon, charged with being in unlawful possession of a still, was fined £300, or nine months' imprisonment j and an ordor was made for the confiscation of the plant, comprising a steam boiler" and worm.