October 14, 1869. ] 



JOUBNAL OP HORTIOULXUKR AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB. 



315 



Bantam (Any other variety except Game). — Cockerel. — 1, M. Leno 

 (Gold-laced). 2. S. \- R. Asiiton, Mottrain, Chesbire (Black-, lie, H 

 Draycntt, Hiimberstooe, near Leicester (Japanese), c, H. M. Maynard 

 (Black) : G. F. Hodson, North Petherton, near Brid^ewater ; H. Pickles, 

 Jan. (Black). Pullets.— \. M. Leuo (Laced). 2. J. Walker, Halifax (Black). 

 he. G. F. Hodson (Gold-laced), c, H. M. Maynard (Black) ; J. Walker 

 (Black); E. Cambridge. Bristol (Black). 



Docks (Rouen).— 1, Mrs. E. Wheatley. 2, S. H. Stott, Quarry Hill, Roch- 

 dale. 3, F. Parlett. he. Miss A. L. Dowsett ; J. K. Fowler. 



Ducks (Aylesbury). — 1, Mrs. M. Seamons. 2 and 3, J. K. Fowler. 

 he, Mrs. Burrell ; Mrs. M. Seamons. e, C. Havers, Ingatestone ; S. H. Stott. 

 Geese.— 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, Mrs. M. Seamons. 3, W. Tippler, ftc, P. K. 

 Tippler; S. H. Stott. 

 Turkeys.— Pou!(s.—l, L. Patton. 2 and 3, Mrs. Mayhew. 

 Seizing Class (Any variety). — CoekereU. — 1, Viscount Tumonr, Pet- 

 worth, Essex (Grey Dorkings). 2, C.Howard, Peckbam (Spanish). 3, Mrs. 

 Christie (Partridge Cochin). )ic. Dr. Campbell (Dorking); C. Havers 

 (Dorking); Mrs. Burrell, Stoke Park, Ipswich; J. Stephens, Walsall 

 (Dorking), c, Kev. F. Watson (Brown-breasted Red Game) ; Barker &. Char- 

 nock; Mrs. Tippler, Hoxwell; P. W. Rust (Buff Cochin). Pullcis.—\, J. 

 Stephens. 2, Dr. Campbell (Dorking) 3, Mrs. Burrell. he, G. S. Sains- 

 bury, Devizes (Black Red Game), c, H. M. Maynard (Light Brahma and 

 Houdans) ; J. Smith (Grey Dorking); Dr. Campbell (Dorking, Dark 

 Brahma, and Dorking Hens); H. Dowsett (Dorking); Mrs. Christie, 

 Glyndebourue, neir Lewes. 



Dock.— 1, — Telfar, Hatfield, Peverel. 2, Mrs. Burrell (Aylesbury). 

 c, C. Havers ; Mrs. Tippler (Aylesbury). 



PIGEONS. 

 Cakeiers.— 1, F. T. Wiltshire, West Croydon. 2, H. M. Maynard (Black). 

 he, F. W. Metcalfe. Cambridge ; R. Fulton, Deptlord. c, H. M. Maynard 

 (Dun) ; J. C. Ord, Pinilico. 

 Podters.— 1, K. Fulton. 2, P. H. Jones. 



Tdmbleks.— 1, R. Fulton. 2, F. T. Wiltshire, he, J. M. Braid, Cam- 

 bridge; K. KultOU. 



Jac-obins.- 1, A. .A. Van Meersch, Forest Hill (Red). 2, H. M. Maynard 

 (Red), he, S. .-V. Wvllie, East Moulsey, Surrey. 



Fantails.— 1, J. F. Lovcrsidge, Newark-on-Trent- 2, H. Yardley, Bir- 

 mingham, he, J. Walker, Newark, Notts ; H. M. Maynard ; P. H. Jones. 

 c, Mrs. Paget, Home Vicarage, Scole. 



Barbs.— 1, F. T. Wiltshire. 2, R. Fulton, he, H. M. Maynard (Black) ; 

 R. Fulton. 



Trumpeters. — 1, P. H. Jones. 2, E. Sheerman. he, J. J, HazeU, 

 Great Bromley ; E. Sheerman. c, Mrs. Paget. 



ANY OTHER Varietv.— 1, P. H. Jones (Turbits). 2, H. Draycott (Frill- 

 backs), he. Lady F. Bushby, Henleage, Kingston Hill (Blue RuntsJ ; 

 S. A. WyKie (Ice) ; Mrs. Paget (Owls and Ice), c, S. A. Wyllie (Runts). 



Judges. — E. Hewitt, Esq., Spnrkbrook, Birmingham, and W. B. 

 Tegetmeier, Esq., MuswoU Hill, London. 



WETHEUBY POULTRY SHOW. 

 This Show was held on October 1st, and in most respects was a 

 success. The Geese and TurheifS'WQre large and good, and the SjxmisJi, 

 especially the chickens, very fine. The Dorhings were, however, the 

 leading feature of the Show, and were all that could be desired as 

 regards size, colour, and quality. Game were poor. The winning 

 Hmsnimrghs were better. Some very good La Fleche and Creve- Cieiirs 

 were shown ; also Golden-laced and Black Bantams, though the Game 

 were not quite so high in quality. There was a liandsome pair of 

 "White Angora Rabbits. 



Cocmss.— 1, W. ft F. Pickard, Thomer. Chiekera.—\, G. Duffield, 

 Thomer. 



Spanish.— 1. W. 4 F. Pickard. Chiekens.—\, W. & F. Pickard. he, J. 

 Cook, Bishop VVilton. 



DoRKi.-jGs. -1. T. E. Kell, Wotherhy. 2, O. A. Young, Driffield. hc.T. 

 E. Kell. Chickens —1, 2. 3. and he, T.E. Kell. 



Gaue. — 1, J. Watson, Kuaresborough. 2, T. Hawkes, Hunsingore. 

 he. E. Birkensb^w, Wetherby. Chiekens.~l, J. Walker. 2, T. Hawkes. 

 e, T. Ridsdale. Kirkliy Overblow. 



PoLANDs.- 1, r Crossley, jun. Chiekent. — 1, W. & P. Pickard. 



Hambuhgus (Golden). — 1, J. Walker. Chickens. — 1, J. ,Wa]ker. 2, J. 

 Mnrgerisou, CoUinguam. Silver. — 1, J. Walker. 



Hambuhghs (Prncil)ed).— 1, O. A. Young. Chickens. — 1, J. Walker. 



Barndoor OK Ceosseeeed. — 1,0. A. Young. 2, Mrs. Gunter. Chickens. 

 — 1, Mrs. Gunier 



Ant other I>istinct Breed.— 1, J. Walker (Black Hamburgh s). 2, J. 

 Dyson, Wetherby. Chickens. — 1 and 2, Mrs. Price, Aberford (La Fleche 

 and Creve-Coeiir). 



Bantams.— StiDcr or Gold-laced.— I, O. A. Young. Black.— \, J. Walker, 

 Hnya Park .in]/ other Variety.—!, T. C. Taylor, Ontlande. 2, J. Walker 

 (Game), '•(itc/.i-ns.- 1 J. C. Taylor. 2, O. A. Young. 



Geese.— 1 and he. Lord Weulock. 2, O. A. Young, e, 3. Simpson, 

 Spofforth Park. 



DccKs.- 1, Mrs T. E. KoU (Carolina). 2, W. Burley, Wetherby. Duct- 

 Zittg^. — 1, ( ). A. Young. 



XCEKETS -1. O. A. Young. 2, Mrs. Ganter. 

 The Judge was Mr. E. Hutton, Padsey, Leeds. 



RABBITS AND THEIR JUDGES. 



Me. James Dixon, in yonr last number, takes me to task for 

 certain ri-,urtrk>. I bad made on the so-called jadging of Kabbits 

 at the Whithy Show ; but at the same time, knowing that I was 

 only "one "i many witnesses," he discreetly takes care not to 

 deny one »iiigltf ^latement I advanced. He has done something 

 easier — hH U'\- replied illogically and transparently evasively. 



Take Mr Dis.m's first remark. He quotes the following 

 words of iniuB ijuite correctly — "The Judges positively got 



through (I do not say judged), twenty-one Rabbits in a trifle 

 short of two minutes," and then he immediately adds, " in- 

 stead of there being twenty-one pens, there were only eleven. 

 Fourteen pens were entered, and three, I think, were empty." 

 Now, if this is not creating a General on purpose to kill him, 

 I do not know what is. Mark this — I said nothing about 

 pens, even according to his own quotation of my words. I said 

 twenty-one Rabbits, and this I adhere to, and yet Mr. Dixon 

 would lead any hasty reader to suppose I had made a gross 

 mis-statement. Many of the pens held pairs (which I men- 

 tioned with disapproval in another part of that letter) ; but I 

 suppose even Mr. Dixon will not deny that he has to judge of 

 each individual Rabbit before he decides which two make the 

 best pair, so that my charge that the Judges got through 

 twenty-one Rabbits in the preposterously short time of less 

 than two minutes remains unshaken. For, be it observed, he 

 does not deny that I am right as to time. Mr. Dixon simply 

 wants to convey the impression to your readers that he only 

 had eleven Rabbits to judge, and therefore that the time was 

 sufficient, though he would fail to make any Rabbit-fancier 

 believe in such an absurdity. 



Further on, Mr. Dixon makes a remark which I had to read 

 three times over before I could believe my eyes. He says, 

 "Had there been a large entry, of course we should have 

 measured them." I verily had always thought it to be the 

 manifest duty of a judge to conscientiously balance the merits 

 of the specimens submitted to him, let them be few or many, 

 and, indeed, any plain man would say it was all the mere in- 

 excusable if there were few not to devote the necessary time, 

 and use the necessary means to ascertain which was best, as 

 the task would be so much lighter. If this is to be understood 

 as the doctrine of the Judges, they will soon lessen the entries 

 with a vengeance. 



Mr. Dixon remarks, "He does not say that the prize was 

 not given to the best Rabbit, but that we certainly did not 

 know, and as clearly did not care. These remarks are quite 

 uncalled for, unless he could show that we had erred in judging, 

 which I am quite sure we did not." In answer to this, I would 

 say that I had no narrow views in writing that letter, but took 

 the matter up in justice to the fancy generally. As, however, 

 Mr. Dixon makes the assertion that the Judges did cot err in 

 jadging, I meet that bare assertion with a flat contradiction, 

 supported as I was in my opinion by nearly a dozen expe- 

 rienced Rabbit fanciers, some of whom had often been judges 

 themselves, and among whom there was not the least diffe- 

 rence of opinion as to which was the best Rabbit, and we had 

 spent an hour among the Rabbits before the Judges came 

 round to spend their less than two minutes. The Rabbit 

 pronounced best at Whitby was at Long Sutton last Wednes- 

 day (Oct. G), but took no prize, while the one coming second 

 at Whitby took first at Sutton, as "Best of any breed ;" but 

 the Committee there had very properly engaged a special judge 

 for Rabbits. If, however. Mr. Dixon and his colleague will en- 

 deavour to have the two Rabbits brought together and judged 

 by two real Rabbit judges unknown to either of us (as might 

 possibly be feasible at Leeds or York, next December), I will 

 gladly, if proved to be in the wrong, pass £5 through your 

 hands to any charity that you may think most deserving of 

 support. — One of Many Witnesses. 



SPURIOUS HONEY AND FRAUDULENT 

 BEE-KEEPERS. 



Some time ago a correspondent asserted in your columns that 

 the Stewarton hive produced the finest honey in the world, an 

 asseition rather too extravagant for your intelligent readers, 

 for they well know that neither the shape nor materiil of a 

 hive can improve the quality of the honey it may contain. I 

 am not in this letter going to say one word for or against the 

 Stewarton hive ; I wish merely to lift my voice against a fraudu- 

 lent practice of some bee-keepers in Scotland, and perhaps 

 some in England too. 



A few days ago there came from Glasgow to Manchester 

 three Stewarton hives, supers full of beautiful comb — doubtless 

 the gift of some gentleman in Glasgow to three of his friends 

 here. It was my good luck to taste the honey or syrup those 

 supers contained ; I say syrup, for it was nothing mure nor )es 

 than sugar and water which bad been given to the bees and 

 stored up by them. I remember some honest bee-keepers in 

 Lanark.shire, some years ago, expressing their wonder to me how 

 the Ayrshire men managed to send to the Glasgow market so 



