June 25, 1863. ] 



JOUBNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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Game were good. Bantams were very middling, one of the hens in 

 the first-prize pen (Black Red Game), having white earlobes. Ducks 

 were very good. 



The following ia the prizo_li8t : — 



DoEKINO.—First, H. Heys, Bnrrhfftil. Second, J. Logan, Eaatshiold' 

 Camwath. Third, Miss E. Oswald, St. Qnivoi, by Ayr. 



CocmN-CuiNA.— First and Third, J. Stuart, Thistlobank, Ilcleuaburgb. 

 Second, Miss E. Oswald. 



Hasibdiioh (Goldon).— First, W. Thomson, Glasgow, Second, J. Logan. 

 Tliird. R. Wilson, Forebouse, Kilbarcban. 



Hambukuh (Silver).- First and Second, .1. Lopin. Third, .1. H. JI'Nab, 

 South Artburlie, llarrhead. 



Spanish.— First, J. Logan, Second, M. Henderson, Ardrossan. Third, 

 J. H. M'Nab. 



Scotch Gsky. — First, R. Wilson. Second, H. Heys. Third, J. Logan. 



Game.— First, H. Heys. Second, D. Gellatly.Meigle. Third, J. Logan. 



Bantam.— First, Miss E. Oswald. Second, E. Wilson. Third, I). 

 Gellatly. 



An\ other Bheed.— First and Second, J. Logan. Third, .1. H. M'Nub. 



Ducks (White Aylesbury).— First, J. Dryburgh, Arklestou, Paisley. 

 Second, H. Heys. Third, A. Bulloch, Milliken, East Kilpatrick. 



Ducks (Rouen).— First, J. H. M'Nab. Second, E. Wilson. Third, J. 

 Logan. 



Any other Variety. — First, Second, and Third, J. Logan. 



Gjeese.— Prize, H. Heys. 



HATCHING RESULTS. 



Seeing that you have details of hen and chicken progres.'i, 

 I offer my mite of information in the same department, be- 

 lieving you will not receive a more successful report during the 

 year. My nine hens and one cock are Cochins and Dorkings. 



Sitting. Date. No. of Eggs. Chickena. 



1 .TanuaryB U :j 



2 January 24 13 5 



S February* 11 



4 February 13 II 



5 March 17 13 



March 22 IS 



April 4 13 



Aprils 18 



May9 13 



May 15 14 



May 15 IS 



May 17 13 



One Dorking hen has not yet sat at all. I have no grass 

 rnn for them, but a cribbed and narrow space for hens and 

 chickens ; and added to the above, I have had 582 eggs laid. — 

 Adele de Sli-N.iNGE.s, TzinhrUliie Wells. 



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ENTRY FEES AND PRIZES FOR' PIGEONS 

 AT POULTRY SHOWS. 



Aftek carefully analysing the results of several poultry 

 shows held last year, and examining prize list.s of forthcoming 

 shows, I am confirmed in the opinion I have held for some 

 time — that exhibitors of Pigeons have not justice done them 

 at the generality of poultry shows. I took up four catalogue.', 

 one each from tho north and west of England, and two from 

 the east. In three of them the Pigeon exhibitors paid for entry 

 fees the amount given in prizes within a fraction, and in the 

 fourth the fees exceeded the value of the prizes ; and yet at 

 the same shows the amount given in prizes for poultry exceeded 

 the entry fees in one case by £40, another by £60, and in one 

 by nearly £100. 



The charges for Pigeon pens are not proportionate to the 

 prizes when compared with those for the poultry. I have 

 before me a prize list of a forthcoming show where the entry 

 fees for a single pen of poultry will be 10.5. , but that pen has 

 the chance of winning a cup value £5 5s ; whereas for a single 

 pen of Pigeons the fees are 8s., and the highest prize to be 

 gained by that pen is £1. 



1 think, as a rule, committees copy prize lists without 

 giving themselves the trouble to look at the matter, otherwise 

 such charges would not be repeated time after time ; for I am 

 convinced that there are first-class business men on many 

 committees who would without reference to any other list lay 

 down a scale of fees and prizes on business principles that 

 would be more equitable, and give greater satisfaction to all 

 classes of exhibitors.— L. Wken, Lowestoft. 



ARTIFICIAL SWARMING IN COMMON HFV'ES. 



Would you be kind enough to inform me in what way I 

 could make my bees swarm ? I have sixty old stocks, and have 

 had only four swarms out of the lot. Some have been hanging 

 out at the mouth of the hive for a month. They are all very 

 heavy, and I have no doubt that they are f uU of honey. I am 



Boiry to trouble you, but as I take a great interest in bees, I 



should feel obliged by a little information. — J. M. E. 



[The best mode of making artificial swarms when common 

 hives are used has been repeatedly described in our columns — ■ 

 first by Mr. Woodbury, in No. Ifjl, then brielly recapitulated 

 in reply to a correspondent in No. 271, and, lastly, detailed by 

 " B. & W.," in page 170 of our present volume.] 



THE GERMAN CENTRIFUGAL HONEY- 

 EXTRACTING MACHINE. 



The external appearanceof this apparatus is well represented 

 in the engraving, which is taken from a machine which was 

 made to my order in Germany, and which ia fitted to accom- 



modate four of my frames. It consists of an octagonal box 

 made of inch wood 2 feet 3 inches in diameter outside, by 

 12 inches deep, which rests on a square jilatform with oaken 

 cross-pieces underneath at each end to prevent warping, and 

 cut thicker at the back than in front, so as to give the whole a 

 slight inclination forward.^. The cover is also formed of inch 

 wood, and is moveable, being merely fitted on without being 

 fastened in any way, whilst the front part is hinged bo as to 

 be readily lifted for the purpose of inserting full combs and re- 

 moving empty ones. The two uprights on either side are 

 20 inches high, and with the cross-bar at the top are made of 

 li-inch wood 4 inches wide, the tops of the former being mor- 

 ticed through the ends of the latter, and secured by keys 

 driven through the tenons. A Ij -inch hole in front, stopped 

 by a turned wooden plug, affords the means of drawing oil the 

 honey after it has been extracted from the combs. 



The internal apparatus which is represented in the annexed 

 engraving, consists of a 

 wooden spindle 2j inches 

 square at the bottom, but 

 rounded where it projects 

 through the cover. At 

 the lower end of this 

 spindle is a square plat- 

 form with the angles cut 

 off, and with four stout 

 uprights fixed at the 

 corners, conne(!ted to- 

 gether and supported by 

 a top rail. Round the 

 framework thus formed, 

 and strained to the ex- 

 tremest tension, is wound 

 fine whipcord or fishing- 

 line, the turns being about three-eighths of an inch apart, 

 and forming a kind of strainer or grating, which is further sup- 

 ported by slender wooden uprights on the outside. This appa- 

 ratus revolves with the utmost freedom on two centres fixed in 

 either end of the spindle. 



The machine is used by standing four combs, from which 



