December 8, 1863. ] 



JOITRNAL OF HOETICtrLTTTKE AlfD COTTAGE &AEDENEE. 



463 



Messrs. Siddons was claimed at ilO 10s. Mr. Else's second- 

 prize hen merited her position. In both classes for Carriers 

 of any other colour, single birds, Mr. Eden and Mr. CoUey, 

 of Sheffield took all the prizes with capital Duns, the former 

 gaining both first prizes. 



In Powter cocks, Red or Blue, the prizes went to fine 

 lengthy Blues belonging to Mr. Fulton ; while in hens of 

 the same colour Mr. Eden was first with Blue, and Mr. 

 Potts second witli a good Eed. In Powter cooks. Any other 

 colour, Mr. Eden's famed White was first, Mr. Fulton being 

 second with a good representative in a slaty Black ; and in 

 hens. Any other colour, the same exhibitors reversed their 

 positions, with birds of precisely the same colours. 



Balds and Beards formed two fair classes. Many of the 

 birds, however, were rather defective in eye. 



Mottled Tumblers were good, more particularly the first- 

 prize Black Mottles. Tumblers, Any other colour, were an 

 average lot. 



Silver Runts took both prizes in the class allotted to them. 



There was a good show of Eed or Yellow Jacobins, Mr. 

 LawTence's fii-st-prize Yellows being excellent. Mr. Esqui- 

 lant's Eeds were also good. In Jacobins, Any other colour, 

 good Blacks were first, and Whites second. 



White Fantails formed a large class, both prizes being 

 awarded to Crested birds. In PautaOs, Any other colour. 

 Blues were first and Blacks second. 



Trumpeters were divided into two classes — Mottled, and 

 Any other colour. In the former class Mr. Shaw's extra- 

 ordinary pair again stood clear of everything, this being the 

 fifth successive year in which they have taken first prize at 

 Birmingham — viz., twice when sent by their former owner, Mr. 

 Mewbium, of Darlington, and twice by Mr. Shaw, a fact we 

 believe never achieved by any other pair of Pigeons ; and 

 weU they deserve theii- honours. In the latter class Mr. 

 Oakes's capital Whites were first, and Mi-. Shaw second 

 with exceedingly good Blacks. 



The Owl classes were, perhaps, inferior to none. That 

 for Blue or Silver, although not very large, contained good 

 birds, foreign Blues winning. In Owls, Any other colour, 

 th« collection of seventeen pens was characterised by the 

 Judges as " a beautiful class." They were principally the 

 small Whites, both prizes being awarded to splendid Whites. 

 One of the bii'ds in the first-prize pen was rather out of 

 condition. The second were remarkably good young birds, 

 and speedily changed ownership. 



Nuns were a fau- class. Black-headed taking the prizes. 



Turbits were divided into Eed or Blue, and Any other 

 colour. Eed took both prizes in the former, and Yellows in 

 the latter. Mr. Shawhad both first prizes with excellent shell- 

 ■crowned birds, while the second Eeds were point-headed. 

 A plain-headed yellow-barred pair received high commenda- 

 tion. Some good Blues and Silver were also exhibited. 



Black Barbs only numbered two entries, and do not 

 require especial notice. Barbs, Any other colour, were 

 better represented. Mr. Eden's admirable YeUows were 

 fii-st, Mr. Stuart second with Eeds, the hen rather thin, and 

 long in beak, while Mr. Lawi-ence received high commenda- 

 tion for two good pens of rather young Yellows. 



Dragoons, Magpies, and Antu'erps were average classes. 



In Any other new or distinct variety, Satinettes were 

 first, Swiss second, and Black-tailed Owls third, notwith- 

 standing the two classes for Owls — viz.. Blue or SOver, and 

 Any other colour, the latter containing Black-tailed Owls. 



It is rather difficult to understand how they can be called 

 Any other new or distinct variety merely from having black 

 tails, a variation in the coloi.ur of any part of the leather, 

 it would seem, taking them out of the category of Owls, 

 the properties of which they possess. We believe the same 

 exhibitor won with the same or similar birds at Collingham 

 ■a short time since in a like class, and as it places exhibitors 

 in a dOemma the point should be settled whether they are 

 correctly classified or not. 



In addition to the prizes given last week, the following 

 are the commendations : — 



Carrier (Black). — Commended, E. Snow, jun., Birmingham; Messrs. 

 W. Siddon.s & Sons, Aston. iTcTi. — Very Highly Commended, P. Eden, 

 Salford. Hi^'lily Commended, E. Sqovv, jun., Birn'ungliam. 

 Carrier (Any other colour}.— Commended, T. Colley, Sheffield (Dan). 

 Powter (Red or Blue). — Very Hi(rhly Commended, M. Stuart, Glas^o^, 

 PviwrER (Any other colour"}. — Very Hinhiy Commended, 51. S'uart, 

 Glasgow (Bhick), Commended, P. Eden, Salford. 



Balds. — Highly Commended, W. Woodhouse, Lynn, Norfolk (Black). 

 Commended, \V. Woodhouse (Dun). 



Bearus.— Commended, J. Fielding jun., Rochdale (Short-faced). 



Ti/MBLEHS (Any other colour, except Mottled}.— Highly Commended, 

 F. Esquilant, London (Yellow). 



Jacobins (Red or Yellow).— Highly Commended, J. T. Lawrence, Eyerton. 

 Commended, H. Morris, Kent. 



Fantails (^vhite).— Commended, G. H. Sanday, Pierrepont ; M. E. 

 Jobling, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; F. Else, Bayswater. 



Trumpeters (Any other colour, except Mottled). — Highly Commended, 

 W. H. Uenison, Woburn (Black). Commended, J. Baily, jun., London, W. 

 (Imported). 



Uwi.9 (Any other colour, except Blue or Silver). — Very Highly Cora- 

 mended, F. Else, Bayswater. Commended, Mrs. J. flaily, juu., London, W. 

 (Imporled). 



Nuns— Highly Commended, T. Ridpeth, Kusholme. Commended, H, 

 Yardley, Birmingham ; t. Elj-e, Bayswater. 



Turbits (Red or Blue). — Highly Commended, S. Shaw, Stainlind. 



Turbits (Any other Colour). — Highly Commended, F. H. Paget, Birstall 

 (Silver) ; H. Yardley, Birmingham ; F. Else, Bayswater. 



Barbs (Any other colour, except Black). — Highly Commended, J. T. 

 Lawrence, Everton. 



Dragoo.'»3. — Highly Commended, T. Ridpeth, Rusholme. Commended, 

 J. Heape, Birmingham ; F. Else, Bayswater. 



Any other New or Distinct Variety. — Highly Commended, H. 

 Yardley, Birmingham. Commended, S. Shaw, Staiuland. 



BRIGHTOJ^ POULTBi' EXHIBITION. 



This Show has proved itself a great success, it being 

 held just at the height of the Brighton season, and, conse- 

 quently, when it was most thronged with fashionable visitors. 

 Although taking place in the verj- midst of the great Poultry- 

 Show week at Birmingham, it appears Brighton is too far 

 removed from the inland counties to suffer materially from 

 that circumstance, although it has not unfrequently in other 

 places proved too truly that to hold a show at the Birming- 

 ham time risks most materially its success. At Brighton, 

 on the contrary, many of the classes were quite as well 

 filled as we find to be the case at the great majority of our 

 poultry shows. 



Through the kind and willing assistance of the Brighton 

 EaUway Company the poultry were exhibited in one of the 

 station buildings, than which, for such a purpose, we can 

 hardly call to mind one more suitable. Were such an object 

 desired, this building might be made to hold even a couple 

 of thousand pens commodiously. The light throughout is 

 equal to that of the open au', whOst it is comfortably secure 

 on all sides from every possible casualty of weather. The 

 good result of such being the case could hardly be more 

 strongly manifested than on this very occasion ; for on the 

 morning of the Show's opening, as is too weU known through- 

 out the land, a gale of unprecedented severity occurred, ac- 

 companied by driving rain, which it is as impossible to 

 describe as it proved to endure. Still, within the building 

 everything was as comfortable and happy as could be desired. 

 Most luckily, just prior to the hour of opening, the rain 

 ceased entirely, the gale abated to a health-giving breeze, 

 and thus visitors were enabled to enjoy the Exhibition with- 

 out discomfort of any kind. 



The Grej Dorkings were certainly one of the chief features 

 of the Brighton Show. They were almost all of high cha- 

 racter ; the Marchioness Dowager of Bath, and Mr. Wm. 

 Dolby, of Eotherfield, taking the principal prizes with speci- 

 mens of great merit. In the Game classes there were indi- 

 vidual birds of high quality ; but as being only the second 

 meeting of this Society, of coiurse the art of properly matching 

 their bii-ds did not seem at all understood by the Game- 

 exhibitors. Black-breasted Eed hens were shown with 

 Duckwing cocks ; Birchen Greys were exhibited with hens 

 of plumage that certainly would not match the feather of 

 any Game cock we ever yet met with, whilst being still in 

 very heavy moult told unfortunately on not a few others. 

 Experience will soon con-ect these shortcomings another 

 season. The Black Spianish fowls were better by far than 

 we anticipated seeing at Brighton, though more than half 

 of them lacked that great feature so very important to success 

 — viz., condition. Perhaps no breed shows to so great a 

 disadvantage as the Spanish when lacking this needful 

 qualification. The Pencilled varieties of Hamburglis were 

 the only breeds to which prizes were given; the equally 

 useful and beautiful varieties of Spangled ones being omitted 

 from the prize list altogether. In the Gold-pencUled a quite 

 new name as an exhibitor — Mr. Francis Pittis, of Newport 

 House, Isle of Wight — took all before him ; in fact, that 

 gentleman obtained aU three prizes by a mere " walk over." 



