How To Protect Fruit From Birds

A correspondent of the London Field says that his methoJ has proven entiroly effieaeious, " And what, you will tbink, is my talisman F Simply a ball of gray or white brown linen thread. I take a ball of this in my hand, fasten the end of it to one of the twigs of the gooseberry or currant bush, and then cross the thread baokwards from twig to twig in perhaps a dozen different directions, fasten ofteu, and the thing is done ; and it. will last two years- the thread on the trees I mean. It is not necessary the thread should be white or course ; it ought rather to be fine and dark- a thing tobe feit notseen. I have watched the birds after performïug ths operation ; they come boldly to settle on the trees, and they strike these, to them invisible snares, for such no doubt they seem to be ; they fly off in a terrible hurry, and settle on,the vvalls and trees around abont. lnncrinc nnri mifu„ hungry till as they disappear, and you will see them no more. As regards peas and other seeds, whioh I alwaj-s sow in drills, I simply stretch a thread, sometimes two, alongeach drill at about two inches from the ground, supporting it at that height by litte forked sticks. Ifyou put it inuoh higher than this the birds do not seeiu to care for it- it does not touch them ; this is grand se cret, something they do not well s-;e, nor know what it means. I have seen peoplo put a thick white string with feathers tied to, and perhaps two feet from the ground. The birds soou understand these, and care little for them ; in short I know to niy cost it eometimes acts as a lure, as a notiue to the birds that there is something to be had worth looking after I will answer for it, any one adopting the plan I recorumend will never have cause to complain of the birds, however numeroiis they may be.