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JOUKNAL OP UORTICULTUBE AN"D COTTAGE GAKDENEE. 



[ July 4, 1867. 



Titns Salt & Sons. This firm moat liberally had it made np 

 into cloth without any charge, and returned it. It has been 

 exhibited in the Intercolonial Exhibition, where it has been 

 nniverBally admired. These animals are, therefore, in a utili- 

 tarian point of Tiew most valuable, whilst the beauty of the 

 fleece at the same time renders them most pleasing objects to 

 the eye. That they are hardy is sufficiently proved by the fact, 

 that out of ninety-five shipped in London, ninety-three were 

 landed in Australia after an unusually severe and lengthened 

 voyage of 120 days. 



The Council congratulate the subscribers upon the complete 

 success of the salmon experiment. The "Lincolnshire," with 

 a shipment of ova on board, arrived out on the 1st of May, 

 1864, when a large proportion of the salmon and salmon trout 

 ova was found to be alive. The delicate task of trausshipping 

 the ova having been successfully performed under the super- 

 intendence of Mr. W. Kamsbottom, who had come over from 

 Hobart Town specially for the purpose, the hatching in Tas- 

 mania resulted in COOO salmon and 1000 salmon trout. The 

 galmon which were hatched two years and a half since have 

 gone down to the sea, and their return was looked for when the 

 report was written. Since that date, however, so many have 

 been seen by various trustworthy witnesses, including Mr. 

 Eamsbottom himself, ascending the river Derwent, in Tas- 

 mania, that their complete naturalisation is placed beyond the 

 Bbadow of a doubt. 



The brown trout, also, having now spawned, and fry having 

 been hatched from the ova, their acclimatisation may also be 

 looked upon as having been successfully accomplished. 



Two very interesting experiments were made by Mr. Youl at 

 the time he sent out the last shipment of ova. In the ice- bin 

 in which the ova were deposited was placed a bos, containing 

 cocoons of the Ailanthus silkworm, and some fruit trees and 

 heather. Upon arrival the cocoons were placed in charge of 

 Professor McCoy, and one of them produced a living moth six 

 months afterwards. The others on being opened were found 

 to have died in France, and never to have assumed the pupa 

 state in the cocoon, so that the voyage had no connection with 

 their death. The trees and heather arrived in as perfect a 

 state as it they had only just been lifted from the nursery. 

 The importance of this experiment can hardly be over-esti- 

 mated, showing as it does that all the vegetable world of 

 northern Kurope is placed at the disposal of Australia. 



During the past year twenty-two Axis deer have been sent lo 

 Longerenong, on the Wimmera, where they have been liberated 

 in company with thirteen others already in the possession of 

 Mr. Samuel Wilsou. The intention in selecting this spot is, 

 that the Grampians may become stocked with this beautiful 

 species of deer. 



With respect to the future, the Council announces its in- 

 tention to pay special atteutic»n to the Angora goat, and to the 

 Ostrich, and that since the date of the report four very fine 

 Ostriches have been received. 



In conclusion, the Council refers to the more prominent 

 results of the Society's labours during the past five years, and 

 which are thus summed up : — 



" The gardens at the Royal Park have been formed entirely 

 by the Society, and this of itself has cost a large proportion 

 both of the Goverument grant and also of the private sub- 

 scriptions of the members. 



"Deer of the Axis, Hog, Sambur, and Fallow species have 

 been set free in such numbers as to warrant the belief that they 

 are fairly established in a wild state in the country ; whilst a 

 few of the Manilla, Formosa, and Bura.^ingha species are being 

 kept at the Royal Park until there are sufficient of thtm to 

 render it advisable to turn them loose. 



" Several English, Cape, and Indian pheasants have been 

 set free on Phillip Island, as well as English and Ceylon par- 

 tridges ; Californian, Chinese, and Tasmauian quail, &c. 



" The great success which has attended the introduction of 

 the hare has been previously referred to. 



" In a country swaiming as this is with insect life, it was 

 one of the early objects of the Society to introduce biids that 

 would enable the gardeners and farmers to cope with this pest. 

 The house and tree sparrow and the chaffinch fiom Eugland, 

 the sparrow from China, and the mynahs from India, are now 

 completely established, and have been found to be most effec- 

 tive in destroying caterpillars and other insects. The Council 

 has received several letters from farmers and gardeners, giving 

 oonolufive proof of the great value of these insectivorous birds. 

 When these birds and their congeners have had time to spread, 

 it may be confidently expected that seme of the greatest draw- 



backs to successful farming in this country v;ill disappear. 

 The acclimatisation of the English thrush and skylark may 

 also be looked on as accomplished. 



" With fish the Society has been very successful. To th« 

 salmon, salmon-trout, and brown-trout, it is needless to refer 

 further. The Society has also introduced the Ceylon perch, 

 the English roach and tench, and now, thanks to Mr. Morton 

 Allport, of Hobart Town, a warm friend of acclimatisation, 

 the English perch." 



It is pleasing to learn that the great services of Mr. Edward 

 Wilsou, the former President of the Society, but who is now 

 resident in England, have been gracefully acknowledged by the 

 Acclimatisation Society of France, which has presented him 

 with its gold medal as having used the greatest efforts in the 

 cause of acclimatisation. His success in transporting the Li- 

 gurian bee from my apiary to Australia may piobably yet dwell 

 in the recollection of the readers of " our Journal." — A Devon- 



BHIBE BeE-KEEPEK. 



Importation or Eggs. —The imports of eggs into the United 

 Kingdom appear to be still extending, having amounted in the 

 four months ending April 30th this year to 142,220,760, as 

 compared with 140,188,560 in the corresponding period of 1866, 

 and 107,821 440 in the corresponding period of 1865. In April 

 alone the prodigious number of 58,731,480 eggs was imported. 

 The progress of our egg imports has been extraordinary of late 

 years, the number imported in 1866 having been 438,878,880, 

 as compared with 304,013,280 in 18(55 ; 335,298,240 in 1864 ; 

 266,929,680 in 1803 ; 232,321,200 in 1862 ; 203.313,360 in 1861 ; 

 167,695,400 in 1860; 148,631,000 in 1859 ; 134,685,000 in 1858; 

 and 126,818,000 in 1857. 



OUR LETTER BOX. 



Preventing Hens Sitting {R. T. Yaxletf).—Jf you refer to our Number 

 published on the 13th of June, you will gee a suggestion bow to induce a 

 ben to abandon her sitting propensity. 



Dorkings at thk Brighton Show. — Mr. F. Parlett. Leatbercnts 

 Lodge, Great Baddow, near Chelmsford, has written to U9 that the se- 

 cond prize for old birdB was awarded to him, and not to Mr. Clift. 



Food for Yocng Turkeys .( Forest Hill, E S.). — After your pouUa are 

 hntched keep the hen iu confinement. If allowed to bo at liberty she 

 will drag her unfortunate ofifspring through dew and rain till none 

 remains. If she starts with a dozen, she is quite content if she brings 

 home two. Nothing is better to put her under than on empty china crate. 

 It affords room for the poults to be fed, and protects Ihem from other 

 poultry. Curd, and bread and milli, and boiled eggs chopped fine ara 

 excellent things at first. They may be continued as changes afterwards, 

 but the staple food should be oats, pe.is, and beans ground up tugether, 

 Bliiked with milk, and mixed with onion tops chopped very fine. 



Ducks at Brighton Show. — The first prize for Rouen Ducks was take^ 

 by " H. Dowsett," not " Deusett." 



Pigeons Diseased C'arricrj.—We fear your Pigeons ure suffering from 

 the disease called "going light." It seems to resemble the atrophy of 

 the human subject. Try pellets of cod-liver oil aud flour, complettly 

 change their food, and add a little henipseed. Put anything into their 

 loft you can think of which Piu'eons like, such as salt, chnlk, muitar, 

 growing lettuce and cress, &c. If possible, change their hnbitntion, as a 

 place becomes contagious, or at any rale remove the birds for a few 

 days to some sunny abode while you limewash and cleanse their loft 

 thoroughly. 



Camphor in Water Fountain (K,)-— The qunntity of, camphor in the 

 fountain for chickens is immaterial. AVe put a lump about the size of a 

 walnut into a two-quart fountain. 



Bees Deserting their Hive (R. Beilby).~The denth of the queen at 

 ft time when they are unable to supply her Iops, is the usual cause of beeg 

 dwindling awiiy. or deserting their hive. Nearly the eame effects may, 

 however, sometimes bo produced by foul brood; but in these cnststhe 

 foul and fetid condition of the combs renders the cause sufficientlj 

 apparent. 



Breaking up a Hive (W. B. E., Co. Du&Wn).— Tweniy-one days after 

 the ibsue of the f^rst swarm is the best time for driving the bees out of a 

 hive and a]'i-'ropri>itiug its conttnts, which will then be foui d to be 

 nnaily free fiom brood. Our correspondent informs us that swarms in 

 Ireland have this season been very late. 



Prepaying J. F. C). — It is quite certnin that you hflve been unfairly 

 treated — as we have not heard the other party we use a mild term— but it 

 is also certain that you acted indiscreetly, if the dig had died or been 

 stohn after yon pind you would not have befn nble to have recovered 

 ^onr money. We should proceed against the vendor without delay, and 

 without any f jrbearanoe. 



_ POULTRY MARKET.— JuiT 3. _ _ 



Ocr supply increases. The time is arrived when we may expect an 



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influx of yuung poultry, 

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Liirgft Fowls 3 



Snelier do 2 



Chickens 1 



Goslings 6 



Ducklings 2 



FieeoDS 



PbeaEniits 



Pnrtridisea 



GloUFe 



Guinea Fowls 



KiibbilE 14 15 



TVilddo 8 9 



