Aagust 19, 1S69. ] 



JODBNAL OF HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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a {arm of 400 acre?, Tvitb the ordinary onthonses, two or three 

 thousand fowls might be kept, and I am persuaded that the 

 experiment would be Bucoesafnl. — E. M. B. A. 



"WHERE IS THE EXHIBITION?" 

 I THINK if secretaries of shflws when inserting the date, &o., 

 of their meetings would at the same time name the county or 

 large town the place is near, it would be a great boon to exhibi- 

 tors, as in many instances, although I have an atlas, I am at 

 a loss to know whether the place is north or south, far or near, 

 and therefore don't know whether it is worth while to enter or 

 not. — Frank Graham. 



[Our correspondent is not the only one who has made a 

 similar complaint, and letters asking " Where is the Exhibi- 

 tion ? " are continually received by us. There is one exhibition 

 that to the time we are writing we do not know where it is to 

 be held.— Eds ] 



COMPOUKD FOODS FOR FOAVLS. 



Mr. Wrago's recommendation of Dear's food will doubtless 

 receive the attention it deserves, coming, as it does, from one 

 of the most eminent breeders of the day ; but let me suggest a 

 caution or two to those who have not tried it, founded on an 

 experience of eighteen months. It is, unquestionably, very 

 useful for chickens, but then the question arises, Is it advisable 

 or necessary to continue the use of it with full-grown fowls? 

 I believe it is ; that, in fact, the breeder who once uses it must 

 continue its use, or his fowls will droop and die. I well re- 

 member going to one of my yards this spring, and noticing 

 that the fowls did not look so well as usual. Something was 

 evidently wrong, and I naturally began to make inquiries. At 

 length I learnt that Dear's food had been discontinued for a 

 week. As soon as the stimulant was added again, the birds 

 resumed their former apjiearance. In another yard my expe- 

 rience was exactly similar, and a week's discontinuance of the 

 food would soon tell a tale which would undeceive many who 

 are now enthusiastic in their commendation of the new com- 

 pound. 



The truth, I am persuaded, is that Dear's food is like most 

 other stimulants, it is all very well in its way, but yet requires 

 much care in its use. Brandy, we know, is an excellent cor- 

 rective, but the more water we drink with it the better it is for us. 

 If we once accustom ourselves to take it in large quantities, we 

 cannot well desist from the habit, without at all events suffering 

 unpleasant consequences. I believe that breeders in time will j 

 find it necessary to diminish the amount of the stimulant as 

 the birds grow older. Those who aim at size do not, I imagine, 

 care to see " the rich red,'' of which your correspondent speaks, 

 in chickens of three or four months old, or to find their puUets 

 laying at about the same age. Having lately had an opportunity 

 of comparing two yards, in one of which Dear's food was used, i 

 I must honestly say that I preferred the look of the birds in 

 the yard where no stimulant was added to the ordinary food. 



Let me also suggest a caution to those who are buying fowls. 

 It will be very advisable to learn how the fowls have been fed 

 before you buy tham. If they have been accustomed to this 

 stimulant, the purchasers must continue it, or they will pro- 

 bably lose their birds. Any of your correspondents who have 

 a turn for chemical analysis would confer a favour on your 

 readers if they would tell us the iugredients of this compound. 

 I strongly suspect that malt dust and linseed enter largely into 

 its oompoBitiou.— E. M. E. A. 



Without in any w.iy wishing to dispute the high value of 

 the prepared food'that Mr. F. Wragg alludes to in his letter of 

 last week, I would just soy, for the help of the too-often-over- 

 looked fancier of small means, that it is not necessary in prize- 

 winning to spend money upon such kinds of food ; at least, my 

 own experience of the last three years dictates such conclusion, 

 never having used any one kind of prepared food, though I 

 have taken a fair amount of prizes, including cups and many 

 first prizes. I have just received from the show my first two 

 pens of chickens exhibited this year, one pen taking a cup, 

 beating twenty-t'vo pens of birds, the other pen taking the 

 first prize in its class. These birds were only five months and 

 a half old, and weighed 13i lbs. and 15} lbs. per pen, and 

 competed in each case with older chickens, and fed, too, with 

 such foods. It persons will feed liberally on the best of our i 



home-grown grain, care being taken that all is eaten each meal ; 

 give clean water, clean runs, and clean houses, they have the 

 same chance of winning, and I am sure their birds will live 

 longer, and thereby be more profitable. — L'Ane. 



DEWSBURY POULTRY SHOW. 



The arrangements for this Show, held on the 13th inst., were veiy 

 complete, and the attention devoted by the Committee to the specimens 

 was of the most unexceptionable character. Nothing was left undone 

 that could be done to injure perfect success, and all the pens were safely 

 placed under commodious and perfectly waterproot tents. On the 

 morning of the Show it rained incessantly, at four o'clock, but for- 

 tunately the day proved very fine, and a complete success was secured. 

 This provision against stress of weather, cannot be impressed too 

 strongly on the attention of all poultry committees who may purpose 

 holding their meetings out of doors on similar occasions. 



Although the bulk of the birds were necessarily more or leas under 

 moult, many were shown in first-class condition. Among the latter we 

 mav especially note the OocJiiiis, Brahmas, and Spanish fowls. Hom- 

 hirfjhs were very few, but very good, and the Polands were unusually 

 perifect specimens. Some most excellent Game Bantams, both Black 

 Reds, and also Duckwings, competed. The Black and the White 

 Bantam classes were not so good in feather as could be desired. Of 

 Aylesbury and Kouen Duds, the entry was not large, but a few of the 

 winning birds were first-rate. 



Piijeons. — The Pouters and Carriers were a very good show. Mr. 

 Fielding was, as usual, first and second for Owls, and in Almonfc 

 won with a good pair. In the class for Tumblers of any other variety, 

 he was also first with a well-matched and good pair of Black Mottles. 

 In Barbs, which was a very fiood class, Mr. J. Frith, Jan., was first 

 with a very good pair of Yellows, Mr. Homer being second with 

 Blacks, this gentleman also winning with .Jacobins, and gaining first 

 and second prizes for Trumpeters ; but we think Mr. Frith'a Blacks 

 were quite equal to the winners, and should not be surpiised if they 

 reversed positions some day. Mr. Hawley won in the Fantail class 

 with a good pair, and Mr. Croft in Nuns, with Blacks of superior 

 quaUty. We cannot take leave of this excellent Show without giving 

 a word of praise to the managers, who had all the birds sent off the 

 same evening. 



CocaiN-CHiNA.— 1, C. Sidgwiot, Ryddlesdea Hall, Keighley. 2, J. 

 Turton, Ackworth. c, J. H. Dawes, Birmingham. Chicke-ns.—\ and 2, C 

 Sidgwick. 



Spanish.— 1, H. Beldon, Goitstock, Bingley. 2, J. Gornall, Bradford. 

 he, W. & F. Pickard. CMcltem.—l. W. & F. Pickard. 2, H. Beldon. 



DOBKINGS.— Prize, W. H. King, Moss Mill. 



Bbahma Pootra.— 1, E. Leacb. 2, C. Layland. Chickens. — 1, M. Scott, 

 Cote, Idle. 2, W. Gamon, Chester, he, E. Leacb, Greave House, Koch- 

 dale. 



Game (Black Red).— 1, G. Noble, Staincliffe, Eatley. 2. C. Cbaloner, 

 Whitwell, near Chesterfield, c, H. Beanland, Bradford. Clnekert3.—\, J. 

 Crosland, jun., Wakefield. 2, C. Ohaloner. e, E. A. Johnson, Wath- 

 upon-Dearne. 



Game (Brown Red).— 1, C. Cbaloner, Whitwell, near Chesterfield. 2, H. 

 Jowett. he, J. Crosland, Wakefield. Chiekem.—\, H. Hatton, Cleck- 

 heaton. 2, H. Jowett. c, T. Dyson, Halifax ; H. Jowett. 



Game (Duckwings and other Gre.vs and Elaesl.- 1, H. Jowett. 2, G. 

 Noble, c, J. Fell. CfiicAcns.—l, C. Cbaloner. 2, T. Dyson, Halifax. 



Game (Any other v.iriety) —I, H. C. & W. J. Ma^on. 2, W. Fell. 

 Chickens.— ^, W. Whiteley, Liverscdge. 2, E. Noble, Halifax, c, H. C. 

 and W. J. Mason, Drighllngton. 



Hambueohs (Gold or Silver-spangled).— 1 and 2, H. Beldoa. he, S. and 

 R. Aabton, Mottram. auekcna.—l and 2, H. Beldon. 



Hambceghs (Gold or Silver-pencilled).- 1 and 2, H. Beldon. he, S. 

 S. Smith, Northowram, Halifax. Chickens.— I, H. Beldon. 2, W. Jagger, 

 Ford Mill, Horbnrv. Jif, S. Smith. 



Hambdrghs (Black).— 1,H. W. Illingworth. 2, C. Sidgwick. CIdckens. 

 — 1, C. Sidgwick. 2, S. Butterfie'.d, Keighley.. 



Polands (Gold or Silver).- 1 and 2, H. Beldon. Chickens.— 1 and 2, H. 

 Beldon. 



PoLAKDS (Any other variety).—!, T. Dean, Keighley. 2, W. Gamon. 

 c, Mrs. E. Proctor, Hull. Chickens. — Prize, W. Gamoa. 



Bantams (Black). —1 and 2, MasterF. Ridgway. Dewabury. he, Messrs. 

 S. & E. Ashton ; V/. Brotherton. c, H. Beldon. 



Bantams (White).— 1, S. & R. .^shlon. 2, J; Kaye, Staincliffe. 



Game Bantams.-I, W. F. Entwisle, Leeds. 2. J. Crosland, jun. he, J. 

 R. Robinson, Sanderlaud. e, G. Noble, Staiccliffe, B.^tley. 



Docks (White Aylesbury). — Prize, E. Leach, Rochdale. 



Ducks (Rouen). — 1, E. Leach. 2, \V. Gamon. 



Rabbits.- toD-cared Bnek.—l, T. Icgham, Leeds. 2, C. Gravil, Thome. 

 he, B. Hudson, Hull. Lop-eare.l Doe.-I, A. H. Easten, Hnll. 2, F. 

 Mitchell, Bowling Park, Bradford, he. T. Ingham. Leeds. Any other 

 Varietii.—l, A. H.'Easten, Hnll (Himalayan). 2, E. Farrance, Dewsbury. 

 he, T. Mitchell, Braoford (Himalayan). 



PIGEONS. 



PoDTEES.— CocS-.— 1, E. Horner, Harewood, Leeds. 2 andc, R. Fulton, 

 Deptford. he, W. Gamon, Chester. Een.—l, E. Homsr. 2, R. Fulton. 

 he, R. Fulton ; E. Homer. _ 



Caerieh.— Cuci-.- 1 and 2, R. FuHon. he, A. Smith, Skiptcn; W. Whit- 

 talier. Helper; E. Fulton. Sen.— 1 nun c. B. Fulton. 2, W. Wb^ttter, 

 Helper, he, A. Smith, Skipton ; R. Fulton. 



loMBLERS (Almond).- 1, J. Fielding, jun., Rochdale. 2, R. Fulton. 

 C J. Hawley, Eipgley. 



TcMBLEr.s (Any other variety).— 1, J. Fielding, jun. 2, R. Fulton. 

 he. J. Hawley ; W. Whittaker ; R. Fulton. 



ToBBiTs.— 1, S. Horner. 2, Marshall & Pickoriag, DriSeld. 



