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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ April 8, 1869. 



<BIack). 2, H. Yardley, BirmiDgbam. 3, 8. S. Mossop, LonR Sutton* 

 hcy H. Beldon (Scotch Greys) ; M, Leno, Dunstable (Gold-laced) ; W. Bro- 

 tlierton. Idle, near Leeds ; T. C Harrison, Hull. 



Turkeys.— 1, E. Leech. 2, T. Statter, Standhill, Whitefield. 8, Bury 

 and Rhodes, Accriogton. 



GEK9E.— 1, E. Leech. 2, J. Lancaster, Dineley, Cliviger. 3, J. Hub- 

 bersty, Longridge, near Preston, he, T. Houlker, Revidge, BInckburn ; 

 W. Baxter, Waterfoot, near Manchester ; T. Statter, jun., Whitefield, near 

 ManebcBter. 



Docks (Aylesbury).—!, T. Houlker ; 2. E. Leech. 3, H. Dean. 



Docks { Rouen).— 1, J. Stott, Quarry Hill, Rochdale. 2, E. Leech. 3, T. 

 Houlker. /«•, T. Houlker ; J. Hilton. Double Cop, Pennington. 



Docks (Anyother variety).-: and3, C. W. Brierlcy. 2, A.&J. Trickett, 

 Waterfoot, Rossendale. he, S. & R. Ashton, Motlram ; N. ilarlor, Denton, 

 near Manchester; C. W. Brierley. 



Any Variety (Except Game and Game Bantams, within three miles of 

 Accrington).— 1, W. G. Holt, Bridge House, Church. 2, G. & C. Furness. 

 3, J. Hargreaves, Lodge Terrace, Chiurcb. 



SINGLE COCKS. 



Game (Any colour).—!, W. GiUiver (Black Red). 2. C. W. Brierlcy. 

 3. H. M. Julian, he, L. Biney; H. M. Julian; W. Perrin, Nantwich ; 

 C. W. Brierley. c, P. Catterall, Uplands, I^reston (Duckwingsl. 



Game (Within three miles of Accrington),—! and 3, G. & C. Furness. 

 2, Eastwood & Hindle, Accrington. he, G. & C. Furness; W. Morris, 

 Accrington. 



Game Bantam (Any colour).- 1 and S, W. F. Entwistle (Black Red). 

 2, C. W. Brierley. he, J. W. Morris, Rochdale; M. Burniphrev, Liver- 

 pool ; W. H. Buckley, Accrington (Black Red) ; W. F. Eutwistle (Black 

 Reds), c, J. R. Robinson. Sunderland. 



Game Bantam (Within three milesof Accrington).—!, 2, and 3, W. & H. 

 Buckley (Black Red). 



PIGEONS. 



Cauriehs.- !, E. Horner, Harewood, Leeds. 2, J. Hawley, Bingley, 

 Yorkshire, he, J. Chadwiok, Park View, Bolton ; E. Horner, c, H. Yardley, 

 Birmingham. 



ToMELERs.— l, H. Yardley. 2, J. Fielding, jun., Rochdale, he, T. C. 

 and E. Newbitt, Epwortb. Lincolnshire ; J. Fielding, jun. 



Barbs.— 1, J. Fielding, jun. 2, J. Fielding, jun., Lark Mills House. 

 kc, H. Yardley; J. Hawley. 



Owi-s.— 1 and 2. J. Fielding, jnn. /tc, J. Hawley, Bingley ; J. Chad wick, 

 Park View, Bolton. 



Pouters or Croppers.—!. J. Hawley. 2, E. Homer, he, W. Harvey, 

 Sheffield ; E. Homer, c. J. Hawley. 



Famtails.— 1 and 2, J. Hawley. he, H. Yardley ; T. C. *i E. Newbitt ; 

 E. Horner, 



ToBBiTS.- 1 and 2, E. Homer. 



Dragoons. — 1, W. Harvey. 2, E. Horner, he, H. Yardley ; D. Bromiley, 

 Over Hulton, near Boltou ; T. Charnley, Blackburn. 



Tkomteters.— I and 2, J. Hawley. he, E. Horner. 



Jacobins.— 1 and he, E. Horner. 2, J. Hawley 



Nuns.— 1. H. Yardley. 2, A. A. Vander Meersch. Forest Hill. 



Antwerp.^.- 1, E. Horner. 2, W. Harvey, he, H. Ynrdley ; J. Hawley. 



Any otuer Variety. — 1. E Horner. 2, H. Yardley. he, J. Hawley ; 

 H. Yardley ; Kenyou & lliley, Accrington (Magpies) ; T. C. & E. Newbitt ; 

 J. & W. Kitchen (Black Magpies) ; E. Horner. 



Any other Vabihty (Witbio three miles of Accrington). — 1 and 2, H. 

 SEaden, Church (Black Carriers). 



Judges. — Poidtri/: Mr. Thomas Chaloner, Barlbro', Chesterfield ; 

 Mr. Simon Fielding, Trentham Park, Stafford. Piijtoiis : Mr. Henry 

 Beldon, Goitstock, Bingley. 



BUTTER AND EGGS FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND- 

 The butter and eggs exported from France to England have 

 largely increased since the treaty of commerce came into opera- 

 tion. Thus, in the years 1857, 1858, and 185!), the value of 

 the French butter exported to England averaged £132.480 per 

 onnam. In 18(35, the corresponding value was £1,807,080 ; 

 in 18C0, £2,276,480 ; and in 1807, £2,265,100. The value of 

 the eggs exported from France to England averaged £293,500 

 per annum in 1857, 1858, and 1850. In 1865. the value was 

 £850,960 ; in 1866, £1,010,960; and in 1867, £839,640. 



RABBITS EATING THEIR YOUNG ONES. 



I READ with much interest the replies to " H. A. .J.," as to 

 giving water to Rabbits, but could not see that they confirmed 

 your remarks that a doe only eats her young when suffering 

 from thirst. I have several does under my care, and, like 

 "H. A. J.," have given them a sauoerful of water a-day — and 

 yet one always eats her young. I believe when E;ibbits take to 

 that the only remedy is to break their necks. I should certainly 

 do 80 were the doe my own. — A. Foiieman. 



[The doe you mention is a cannibal and should be killed. 

 A good supply of water usually prevents the habit being ac- 

 fiuiied. — Eds.] 



APLVRIAN GLEANINGS. 



The CENTKiruGAL Honey-extracting Machine. — This 

 machine appears to be coming into very extended use both in 

 Germany and America, and wherever it has been fairly tried 

 its employment has been attended with most favourable results. 



Mr. Lee, of Windlesham, Surrey, is, I believe, the principal, 

 if not the only, manufactoier of these machines in England, 



and I have now before me a letter from a gentleman who speake 

 most favourably of one which he purchased from him. There 

 can be no doubt whatever that the production of honey in this 

 country might be almost indefinitely increased by the use of 

 these machines, and that they require only to be better known 

 and understood to bring them into general use amongst us. 



LiGuitiAN Bees. — At a recent meeting of Hanoverian bee- 

 keepers at Celle, Mr. Lehzen, who had all along professed to 

 regard the Italian bees as in no respect superior to the common 

 kind, stated that he had been induced to change his mind by 

 observing that a rape field situated at a great distance from any 

 apiary was visited exclusively by Italian bees — thus demonstrat- 

 ing that these enjoyed a wider range of flight than other bees, 

 and could consequently command greater and more diversified 

 resources.— A Devonshike Bee-keepeb. 



HEATHER HONEY HARVEST. 



The various accounts of the honey harvest that I have read 

 in The Journal of Hoeticdltdf.e, since I wrote on the North- 

 umberland flower honey harvest, induce me to send you a short 

 report of the Northumberland heather honey season of 1868. 



My party went out on July 27th, a fortnight earlier than 

 formerly, and they might have been a week sooner, for we 

 found the heather in fine bloom and a few hives, out before 

 us, to all appearance doing well. The taking-out continued for 

 a week after, and, as I predicted, the usual stands were far 

 from being filled up on account of the bad swarming season 

 which was general all over Northumberland. Many considered 

 the heather too dry for a time to produce much honey, bnt 

 the end of the season was too wet, which circumstance brought 

 the labours of the bees to an early clsse. 



On the 31st of August my party drove off to bring home the 

 bees. After a twelve-miles drive we halted at a roadside inn to 

 rest and feed our horses, before encountering the three miles of 

 fell which lay between us and our stand, and having to pack bees 

 for a fifteen-miles drive home over rough and hilly roads with 

 our precarious cargo in the dark. All out-goers inquire at the 

 above inn. What news from the moors? as here the returners 

 discuss the merits of the season, of the various stands, and 

 especially which individual has the best hives, &o. Here I 

 was informed that a few supers had reached nearly 30 lbs, 

 weight, but that the majority were badly filled, though the skepB 

 would make good keepers. On arriving there I found the above 

 statement generally correct, but had no supers with more than 

 8 or 10 lbs. of half-filled and half-sealed comb. We consider 

 a super of .20 lbs. weight good at the moors. — Geo. Wilson, 

 Whalton. 



OUR LETTER BOX. 



Wild Rabbits (Ignara). — They will not injar-3 the pastaraRe, they will 

 eat some of the grass. Cows do not refuse to graze after them, for the 

 first shower of rain removes all impurities. 



Rabbits (Amateur). — We recommend you to obtain Andalusians. They 

 are very lartrc. 



Angora Babbit (Cuniculus). — The "lump," as yon call it, is character- 

 istic of the variety. If a Rabbit has not the " lump '' it is not an Angora. 



Hair Falling off YotTsr, Rabbits ( ).— They are attacked by what 



fanciers call scurvy. Give them a little flowers of sulphur in a little milk 

 night and morning. Many are so affected when their second coat of hair 

 comes. 



Canary Egg-bound (A Beginner). — "I certainly should not have at- 

 tempted to force the eg^' from the hen, and am of opinion that, ill as she 

 ai>peaTS to have been, she would have passed it next morning. She may, 

 and indeed must have been, in a very exhausted state, but evidently had 

 sufficient vital energy in her to stand a raos' delicate surgical operation. 

 I prefer a vapour bath to immersion, using a jug with a narrow neck 

 nearly full of boiling water. Hold the bird over this, resting the tail on 

 the edge of the neck of the jag, so as to expose the vent to the full action 

 of the steam Never mind its feeling uncomfortably hot to the hand— it 

 will be more so to the delicate skin of the bird. Hold it there till the 

 parts appear softened ; then inject one or two drops of oil, and place the 

 hen gently in her nest. If the egtl bo not soon passed repeat the opera- 

 tion, prolonging the exposure to the vapour bath, and continue to do so 

 till relief be obtained. In nearly every instance this treatment will prove 

 successful, and in obstinate ca'^ee I should feel disposed to continue it 

 hopefully, even till death supervened, rather than resort to such measures 

 as artificial delivery of the egg. I would caution ' Beginner ' against 

 mistaking a real case of egg-bound for that great physical prostration 

 which sometimes accompanies the egg-developing process in certain of 

 its stages. It usually sets in during the afternoon a day or two before 

 the laying of the first egg, sometimes the day before, and might easily be 

 imagined to result from the non-laying of an egg at its proper hour, when 

 in fact it is nothing of the kind, but a complete and utter prostration 

 arising from other causes. She becomes apparently ' too much exhausted 

 to live long in such pain.' The symptoms I have described in previous 

 numbers. Suffice it to say that if left to nature you will, instead of find- 

 ing the hen dead nest morning, find her tlie picture of robust matronly 

 health, and in all probability find an egg also.— W. A. Blakston." 



Canary Asthma (C. A. J.).— The great curative agent is warmth. But 

 the birds sufl'er usually from severe cold rather than from asthma proper. 

 We have no information on the subjects of your other inquiries. 



