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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ December 4, 1866. 



Arbuthnott (AJgiers Imported). Commended, J. N. Beasley (Cam- 

 bridge) ; Mrs. Arbuthnott (Norfolk). 



PIGEONS. 



Tumblers (Almond).— First, J. Ford, London. Second, J. Thackray, 

 York. Third, F. Else, Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, London. Highly 

 Commended, J. E. Breward, Coventry ; F. Crossley, Elland, Yorkshire ; 

 F. T. Wiltshire, West Croydon. Very Highly Commended, R. Fulton, 

 Deptford. 



Carries (Black).— Cockt.— First, R. Fulton. Second, Messrs. Siddons 

 and Sons, Lichfield Road, Aston. Highly Commended, J. Firth, jun., 

 Webster Hill, Dewsbury ; M. Hedley, Red Hill, Surrey ; T. CoUey, Shef- 

 field. Hens.— First, F. Crossley. Second, F. T. Wiltshire. Highly Com- 

 mended, R. Fulton. 



Carrier (Dun).— Cockt.— First, M. Hedley. Second, A. W. Shaw, 

 Limerick, Ireland. Hens.— First, R. Fnlton. Second, F. Else. Highly 

 Commended, J. Hawley, Bingley, Yorkshire. 



Carriers (Any other colour). — First and Second, J. C. Ord, Pimlico, 

 London. 



Povvter (Red or Blue). — Cocke. — First, J. Thackray. Second, F. Cross- 

 ley. Very Highly Commended, J. Thackray. Highly Commended, A. W. 

 Shaw. Sens. — First, J. Thackray. Second, J. R. Harvey, M.D., Cork. 

 Highly Commended, J. R. Harvey, M.D. ; F. Crossley. 



Powters (Any other colour).— Cock. — First, E. E. M. Royds (Black). 

 Second, W. R. Rose, Cransley Hall, near Kettering (Yellow Pied). Veiy 

 Highly Commended, J. R. Harvey, M.D., Cork (White); A. W. Shaw 

 (White). Highly Commended, J. E. Breward, Coventry (White) Hem. — 

 First, A. Heath (White). Second, W. R. Rose (White) Very Highly Com- 

 mended, R. Fulton. 



Balds. — First, T. H. Ridpeth, Rusholme, Manchester. Second, F. T. 

 Wiltshire. Highly Commended, J. Fielding, jun., Rochdale. 



Beards. — First, W. H. C. Oates, Besthorpe, Newark, Notts. Second, 

 J. Ford. Highly Commended, J. Percivall, Peckham Rye, London. Com- 

 mended, J Fielding. 



Tumblers (Mottled).— First, E. E. M. Royds. Second, R. Fulton, 

 Deptford. Highly Commended, R. Fulton ; S. Shaw. 



Tumblers (Any other colour). — First and .Second, J. Thackray (Red 

 and Yellow). Very Highly Commended, J. Ford. 



Runts. — First, H. Yardley. Second, T. D. Green, Saffron Walden, Essex. 

 Third, E. E. M. Royds. 



Jacobins (Yellow).— First, T. H. Ridpeth. Second, F. Waitt. 



Jacobins (Any other colour).— First, E. E. M. Royds (Black). Second, 

 F. Waitt. Highly Commended, E. Horner, Harewood, Leeds. 



Fantails (White).— First, M. Wicking, Blackheath Park, Kent. Second, 

 J. Thackray. Very Highly Commended, H. E. Emherlin, Humberstone, 

 Leicester. Highly Commended, F. Else. 



Fantails (Any other colour). — First, H. Yardley. Second, F. H. Paget, 

 Birstall, Leicestershire. Highly Commended, J. W. Edge, Ashton New- 

 town, Birmingham (Blue). Commended, J. Baily, jun., Mount Street, 

 London. 



Trumpeters (Mottled). — First, S. Shaw. Second, J. Thackray. Very 

 Highly Ctunmeuded, W. H. C. OateB. Highly Commended, E. Horner. 



Trumpeters (Any other colour). — First, "S. Shaw. Second, W. H. C. 

 Oates. Very Highly Commended, J. Thackray. 



Owls (Blue or Silver). — First and Second, J. Fielding, jun. Highly 

 Commended, J. Baily, jun. Commended, St. J. Coventry, Wirnborne, 

 Dorsetshire (Powdered). 



Owls (Any other colour). — First and Second, J. Fielding, jun. (White). 



Nuns. — First, Rev. A. G. Brooke, Salop. Second, C. Bulpin, Riverside, 

 Bridgewater, Somerset. Third, J. Thackray. 



Turbits (Red or Yellow). — First, S. Shaw. Second, E. Mapplebeck. 

 Highly Commended, J. Thackray. 



Turbits (Any other colour). — First, M. Wicking, Kent (Silver). Second, 

 C. Bulpin. 



Barbs (Black).— First, J. Thackray. Second, M. Hedley. Yery Highly 

 Commended, S. Shaw. 



Barbs (Any other colour). — First, J. Thackray. Second, M. Hedley. 

 Very Highly Commended, J. Fielding, jun. 



Dragons" (Blue . — First, F. Crossley. Second, H. Yardley. 



Dragons (Any other colour). — First, S. Shaw. Second, C. Bulpin. 

 Highly Commended. C. Bulpin. 



Magpies. — Hrst, H. E. Emherlin. Second, C. Bulpin. Highly Com- 

 mended, J. Thackray. 



Antwerps. — First, J. Hawley, Bingley, Yorkshire. Second, H. Yardley. 

 Highly Commended, J. Mitchell, llustlcy, Birmingham. 



Archangels. — First, S. A. Taylor, Sutton Coldneld. Second, C. Bulpin. 

 Highly Commended, D. Causer. 



Swallows. — First and Second, F. H. Paget, Birstall, Leicestershire. 

 Highly Commended, J. Baily, jun. (Imported). 



Ant Other New or Distinct Varieties. — First, J. Ovens (Frillbacks). 

 Second, J. Baily. jun. (German Toy). Third, F. H. Paget (Priests). 

 Highly Commended, F. H. Paget (Frillbacks) ; J. Percivall (Isabels). 

 Commended, J. Baily, jun. (German Toy). 



CHARACTERISTICS of the PRINCIPAL SORTS 

 OF GAME FOWLS, 



(Continued from page 416.) 

 The best of the Cheshire Piles are still found in Cheshire, 

 though they are now pretty -well distributed everywhere. 

 Derbyshire and Leicestershire both breed good Cheshire Piles. 

 These are not quite so hard as some of the other sorts of Game 

 fowls, but are a harder bird than the willow-legged Blaek- 

 breasted Pieds. The Cheshire Pile has not the endurance 

 possessed by the Dark Greys and Brown Reds, and more 

 especially by the Dark Grey. The Pile will not stand steel so 

 well as these birds, and, therefore, generally loses in a long 

 battle, though winning a short battle quicker than other Game 

 fowls. Piles do not stand cutting or dubbing so well as the 

 iarder and darker-coloured birds. 



The Cheshire Piles are lighter-fleshed and of a more active 

 make than any other Game fowls. Piles are looser and softer 

 in feather than the darker and harder sorts. Pile hens are 

 very quarrelsome. The Piles are fierce birds, and are first- 

 class for fighting, though inferior to the Dark Greys and 

 Brown Reds in all but their extraordinary quickness and 

 activity, in which qualities they stand first of all the Game 

 fowls, though now almost given up by sportsmen on account 

 of their want of endurance. The best of these Piles have now 

 merged in the Brown Reds, having been much crossed with 

 them to improve the quickness and activity of the Brown 

 Reds, which will account for so many of the Brown Reds 

 having white or light nails. These Piles were probably first 

 bred in Cheshire, from the white-legged Black-breasted Reds, 

 with red eyes, and Partridge-coloured hens, and crossed with 

 other breeds. 



Black-breasted Reds. — White legs, dark red eyes, with the 

 light wheaten-coloured or Cinnamon-Buff hens. These are 

 now the third favourite sort of sportsmen, standing next in 

 favour to the Dark Greys and the Brown Reds, and before the 

 Cheshire Piles, being stronger and possessing more endurance 

 than the Piles, though slower and less fierce. They are not 

 an exhibition sort, being purely a cock-fighter's bird, and are 

 most found in the same districts and places as the Brown 

 Reds and Dark Greys. There are some of them in all the 

 large towns, they being chiefly favourites of the smaller inn- 

 keepers and butchers. These birds often beat the Brown Reds, 

 though not so good in general ; they are, however, a Game bird 

 in all respects, and are, perhaps, the best of all the Black- 

 breasted Red sorts. These and the Dark Greys and Brown 

 Reds are now the only three sportsmen's sorts. The cocks 

 are of a most beautiful red colour, but the hens are ugly ; they 

 are hard, close-feathered, and very good birds. 



Red-breasted Ginoer Reds. — Light Partridge hens of a 

 ginger colour, red eyes, and white legs. These are now very rare, 

 having merged in the Brown Reds by crossing ; they were, if 

 anything, a better bird than the preceding, being quicker and 

 more fierce. They may now, however, be considered as nearly 

 extinct, the darker colours having absorbed them. 



Dark Black-breasted Beds. — Carp-brown legs, and dark 

 red eyes, with fawn-breasted Dark Brown hens, not Partridge- 

 coloured. These are good and hard birds, equal to the wheaten- 

 coloured breed, which have the clean-hackled cocks, while 

 these have the dark striped-hackled cocks. Dark Black-breasted 

 Reds are now rather rare, but are still found in Yorkshire, and 

 in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Worcestershire ; the hens 

 olten run much to spur. Nantwich, in Cheshire, has some of 

 them, and has excellent Brown Reds too. Black and white- 

 legged Red Partridge hens also breed good Black-breasted Red 

 Game cocks in general. 



Red Duns. — Dark red eyes, white legs ; hens cinnamon- 

 buff colour, with blue dun breasts and tails. These birds, as 

 I have heard, were once great favourites at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 Sunderland, and in the adjacent northern districts; they are a 

 good, hard-feathered bird, light in flesh, and active, and have 

 been much crossed with the Brown Reds, which cross makes 

 the Smoky Red Duns, and gives the white leg a dark shape. 

 Red Duns are not common now, many of them having merged 

 in the Brown Reds by crossing with them. — Newm.-.rket. 



THE OAKHAM EXHIBITION OF POULTRY 

 AND PIGEONS. 



This Show was unusually good, far surpassing most local meetings. 

 The arrangements, taking into consideration the space at command, 

 were excellent, and the Society is undoubtedly much indebted to their 

 indefatigable Secretary, Mr. Wellington, for so satisfactory a result. 



The Dorking classes were generally most praiseworthy, and many 

 of the Buff Cochins were also very excellent. It was, however, in 

 respect to the poultry more generally kept by agriculturists that the 

 Oakham Show was most worthy of note. A remarkable feature of 

 the Show may be mentioned — namely, that the first and second prise 

 pens of Rouen Duels, and the first and second prize Aylesbnrys, 

 weighed all four pens precisely alike — viz., 19 lbs. a pen of three birds. 

 Young Geese of 45 lbs. weight were shown, and Turkeys (also of 1866) 

 weighing 411 lbs. the three, were exhibited ; whdst even single cock 

 I'm I. ij* of any age weighed from 24 to even 28 lbs. throughout a very 

 well-filled class. 



The exhibition of Piyeom was remarkably good, indeed beyond 

 general expectation, and the competition such as is rarely surpassed 

 even at the greatest of onr colunibarian shows. The Extra class for 

 Piyeons contained extraordinarily good specimens, and although many 

 of the Pic/eons' pens were unavoidably placed too high from the ground 



