JOUBNAIi OF HOETICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



[ June 27, 1S72. 



jjp^.^^ 1 P,-.,,, \ (i Brooke. 2, W. Croft. 3, A. A. Vamlerineersch. he, Key. 

 A.G. !;> '!■ 1 '■ i; iw.lon; T.,JackBon; T.Imrie; E.Horntr. 

 Dm.. I .11.. R. FuUou. 2, H. Yardlty. 3, J. Philpott. ^liole 



Dbv.'' ii. I r-i / How).—!. R. Fulton. 2 and S. F. Graham. - 



Dhagoi.ns (Any nihcr colour).—!, F. Grabam. 2, C. E. Duckworth. 3, H. 

 Allsopp. Whole class Highly Coramenfled. „ .^ , 



Young —1, P. Grabam. 2. W. H. Mitchell. 3. T. Waddington. he, H. Wade. 



ANTWEEPsfRlue)— 1, C. Gamon. 2. H. Yardley. 3, W. Bourne, he, W.B. 

 Mitchell; J. W.Ludlow, c. T, Morris. , „ „ ■™- - , ^ 



ANTWEKP3 (Dud) —1, R. P. Rylaud. 2 and 3. H. Yardley. vhc, H. R. Wn^M. 

 he, H. H. Bavrowe : A. Justice ; C. Gamon ; S. A. Taylor, c, W. Bourne ; G. F. 



ANTWERP3 (Any other colour).—!, 2. and 3, J. W. Ludlow, he, F. Woodhouse 

 H. P. Rylaud ; J.'W. Ludlow, c, E. C. Stretch : W. Bourne. 



Antwbrps (Homing).— 2, J. T. Galey. 3, D. Riddiougb, jnn. he, J. T. Galey ; 

 W. Eoui-ne. 



Swallows.- 1. C F. Herrieff. 2. H. Draycot^. 3, W. Choyce. 



Magpies,— 1, J. Watts. 2, P. H. Jones.^S, E. Horner, he, W. Kitchen, c, W. R. 

 Tomlinson. 



Akchangels —1 and 3, J. Bowes. 2. J. Thompson. 



Any otuer VARiETy.— Cup and 2, W. Banks. 3, 1. Jackson. 



Selling Class.— 1,T. Chambers, jun. 2, C. Gamon. S and 4. J. Watts. 



Selling Clals.-I, J. Watts. 2, H. Adama. 3, W. Choyce. 4, H. Yardlsy, 



Judges. — Poultri/ : Messrs. Hewitt aud Teebay, Figeons : 

 Messrs. Esquilant, Child, audBeardsmore. 



weather has be 

 like prudent f^i 

 Willi 



ithe I 



^ the drones because the 



.;: 1 Ml' better days, and 



\. Now the queen 



1. ymir bees will con- 



i dttid, which will most 



Bees are vei7 short-lived at 



of the year. 



getting full late for swarms now, so that 

 second out of your Hutt'B collateral. Rather 

 il-;,'la6S too on the stock hive. Of course your 

 they should swarm you must encoura; 

 cding later o 

 cir queen. 



Glass Super {Mrs. J. J. 

 uueh jan-iuf; or unuecessarj' disturbance to a 

 be darkened with the exception of a small part 

 avert the super, so that the bees may come out 

 avc slowlr, staud near with a feather, and brush 

 Tb(jse will crawl or lly to the light, and return 



^^. The presence of boe-hread will not make them more difficult to 



(UslodRethan that of mere honey, but brood in the super may. ^^ithvery 

 lai-ge glass supers we invert them on a table, njid di- 

 small straw hive, rappin; 



should adv 

 open the side 

 bees may givt 

 as much as yi. 

 after catL^hiii^ 



of open w li'.'-iV. . 



towards the li-ht. 

 off any that 



ut to make 



I shout 1 



When 

 utbuilding. 

 10 business 



OUR LETTER BOX. 



Cross Between Tuuke? and Brahma (B. S. L.). — We have never met 

 with the cross before, but we have known it tried many ycai'S ago. It has 

 succeeded abroad, and some of the cross-breds were to be seen at lai-ge in the 

 Jardin d'Acclimatation at the Bois de Boulogne, the year before last. 



Keeping Geese (Tyro).—Beiore you decide upon Toulouse Geese, you 

 •will do well to ascertain the assistance you can depend upon in your im- 

 mediate neighbom-hood in sitting. The TouloUse are vigorous layers, but 

 thev will not sit. Geese do not want a house to roost in, unless you fear 

 foxes or thieves. They genei-ally roost a gi'eat part of the night on the water, 

 You must not endeavour* to keep them in the same house as fowls, 

 they want to sit make some houses of sods against an old wall or < 

 The orchard would be enough for the thi-ee birds, and they have 

 in the fields till they go with then" young into the bai-ley stubbles. 



Chinese Pheasants (A. M. H.). — For full instructions what to do with 

 Pheasant poults when first hatched, we advise you to buy Baily's book, 

 *' Pheasants and Pheasantries." When first hatched they require bread and 

 milt, egg, dough, cui'd, and sometimes a little cooked meat chopped fine. It 

 would occupy more space than we can afford to answer the whole of your 

 question. 



Canker in a Fowl's Mouth (H. M. T.).— We know nothing better for 

 canker in the mouth of a fowl than powdered camphor and sulphur- ointment. 

 The latter should be applied just before or just after they roost. We prefer 

 going in and taking them off the perch, and applying the ointment freely, 

 especially in the cauliflower cracks. The c;u-ing process goes on during the 

 night, while if it is done in the day, feeding and drinking carry off the 

 remedies. If powdered camphor is not at hand, two pieces each the size of a 

 garden pea may be given whole. 



Kjeeping Eggs foe Sitting (W. E.). — You should now have no lack of 

 broody hens. In most poultry houses they are nuisances at this time of year. 

 Your eggs will keep thi-ee weeks or a month and still be fit for sitting, but as it 

 is unquestionable the fresher the egg the stronger the chick, we do not advise 

 keeping. Buy, boiTow, or exchange a hen with some neighbom-, and the sooner 

 the better— the season is getting on. 



Management of Brah^ias [A Sub.). — You may wait two months longer 

 before you sepai-ate them. Your hens laid again early, and the high feeding 

 may have to do with it. More frequently, however, they are old bu-ds that 

 so soon beeome broody again. It is not particulai-ly eai-ly for a hen to 

 moult. We have many in that state. If she is losing featheiing on her legs, 

 3 should think she picks her feathers herself. We suppose she is shut \x^, 

 " t a month old. 



{T. 0. J.).— The simplest is thus made. The articles 

 requu-ed are a flower- pot and saucer. Detach 

 apiece from the rim of a flower-pot, about 

 tlu-ee- quarters of an inch deep, and 1 inch 

 wide, plug the hole in the bottom of the pot 

 ■\\'itb 11 piece of cork, fill the pot with water, 

 placing' the saucer on the top, then quickly 

 turn the whole upside down, when the watei 

 will fill the space in the saucer around the 

 pot. The hole in the rim of the pot must 

 not be quite so deep as the height of the side 

 of the saucer, and the plug must be au-- 

 tight— that is the secret of success. It is 

 easily cleaned, simple, and cheap, and no 



'.s her chickens c 



Poultry Fou> 



out the bees into a 

 , .-i^^.^o "" tiie table instead of the glass ; hut this is seldom 

 notwithstanding yom: precautious and the darkened room, 

 other bees show a disposition to rob the super, remove it to some other part 

 of your premises, proceeding as before. \ -nr i ^ 



Securing a Swakm from Bees in a Chisinev (Ignoramu8).~\\ e aonoo 

 think you will succeed in inducin- a swarm to take possession of a hive fixed 

 up in the way vou describe. Possibly if you could procure a hive with empty 

 combs of a stock tluit hail perished in vhe whiter the swai-ms might choose to 

 mnVfi nsP. nf it. Y..:.! ..u. i ^ riuac too late for reply in the next issue. _ 



) — We know of no cheap book which will give 

 atural histoi-y and physiology of bees than our 

 have. " The Honey Bee^'_' by Dr. Beya ■ "'" 

 ^■ar, out of print; " "" 



;," by L. L. Langstroth. would gi'. 

 latter work could be obtained thro" 



't^BKlT'LSIs^XH'i'avrfk F. HA-^Ve do not knew of any 

 u bees who much understands the number of di-ones which 

 an ordinai-v stock. Langstroth says, " The number of di-ones 



,, y,-,,.,. .".,.r|i, riTU'-.untiug not merely to huudi'eds, but some- 



' 1 ■ ' i" i ■ .' 1)1 tnyy, '''There are the drones, or males, to the 



;■■■,, ■M'ii)\u-cordiug to the strcii-th of the family." 



\, . . ;>■ side box into whii.-h the drones of a hive had 



i-L aiv-i.'.i.--;i-i'-'U of the workers, "rather more than 2200, 

 ;w Lh;«t had escaped." Mr. 

 than this last number from c 



Good B^ 

 you more i 

 own little 

 second edition, which 



'The iECive and Honey 

 yau*all the requii-ed information. The 

 -h Messrs. Neighbour, of Regent Street, 



reliable author 

 may be found i 



times to th'>i; : 

 number of p* ' 

 Ml". Taylor t.K> 

 retreated to a\ 

 besides some 

 destroyed 



^_ Fox, of Kingsbiidge, 



me stock. With the improved 

 frame "hives, drones can to a certain extent be kept under control by removmg 

 drone combs, and substituting empty worker combs. 



Disposal of Surplus Bee Pkobuce (E. H.n.). -Thei-e ai^ vanoutf 

 Italian warehouses, and other estabhbhmeuts m London, which deal laigcly 

 in sui-plus honey of prime quality i 



'stored. We cannot undt: 

 honey in your immediat 

 the cottager-, auy more 1 

 which, whether you send 



prefer. Dry foud wUI n<.t d, 

 grass. Two females and one 

 needed in summer as well 

 is gi"eat cold. 



_ with 



, ,, I,; i;; i, . \ ■. ■ i ■-■ i.ir'-ic quautlty 



ird aniiuaily into EDi^land. We have 

 leat profits which, according to some 

 u this country. 



coarsest green vegetables are what they 



They prefer the rankest weeds before 



1 best kept together. Good shelter is 



winter, for gi'eat heat is as injurious to them as 



fear of the chickens dabbl 



Andalusian Chickens.— " S^. Edmunds" 

 chickens vai7 in colour. I say this from my 

 during ten years. From eleven chickens the 



three pUes, and two blacks, "" "' "' "^^ ' 



he the sa 



will tilways find Andalusian 



wn knowledge of this variety 



iverage has been seven blues. 



The coloui- of the first down of the chickens will 



when full fledged. — H. Leworthy, 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIO^'S, 



Camden Square, London. 



Lat. 51° 32' 40" N. ; Loag. 0^ 8' Q" W.; AUitude 111 feet. 



Dead Duckling {C. O. L.). — It was in a state of offensive decomposition. 



Food foe Younq Canames (R. E. C.).— Feed with tard-boUed egg chopped 

 vei? fine, and mixed with its own bull: of bread crumbs. As the bii-da grow 

 add more cinimbs, a little crashed hemp, or a portion of scalded rape. But 

 what one hen will feed on, another in the next cage will starve on. It is a 

 question of health on the part of the hen— that, and nothing else. Should 

 she refuse to feed, it is a mercy to kill the young ones, and give her another 

 start.— W. A. B. 



Goldfinch and Can.ibt not Mating (H. M.).— Your Goldfinch most 

 likely had given his affections to one of his own kind when at liberty, refuses 

 to listen to the seductive calls of the pretty Canary damsel who is imprisoned 

 with him. There is no remedy but to separate the ill-assorted pau-. and in- 

 troduce another bird who may not be proof against the blandishments of the 

 charmer. She evidently shows a very laudable desire to have a family, and it 



s a pity a suitable spouse should not be had for her. Birds take strangr 



19th.- 



REMABKS. 

 Beautiful morning, but storm-like soon after 11 "'■, an* '?°l\?}„ 

 so all day ; sUght shower at 7 P.M., and another at 8 p.m., fine aftei. 

 aOth.— Fmc morning though much cooler; and 60 continued aU day. 

 21st.— Fkie but rather thick in tl 

 warm, and rather windy. 

 22nd. — VeiT fine 



cool. ,., . 



23rd.— Splendid mornmg; rather heavy an^dBtorm-hkcL^.^^^ ,inrl more aud 



fair all day, but less bright and 

 t wind rather high; the day lovely, bright, and 



1 afternoon, 

 oitb — Fme morniu" ; getting storm-Uke between 4 and 5 P.M., and i 



ZreTtuf 8.60 P.M., when vivid lightning commenced, and contmued 

 at mtei-vals till 10.0 P.M., accompanied by thunder and very heavy ram. 

 Between 9.22 p.m. and 9.45, 0.53 inch feU. 

 25th.— A rather dull day ; looking 

 but Uttle then. 

 A veiy similar week to the previous ( 

 one near London "" ^ '" 



n-like, but not raining till 7 p.m., and 



, frequent distant storms, but only 

 Temperature nearly the same as last week.— Q. J.Si-MOKS 



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