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JOUBNAIi OP HOBTIOULTORE AND COTTAGE GARDENEh. 



[ Janaary 21, 1875. 



The eye is very important ; it is pearl in all colours except the 

 White, in which it is dark. It is surrounded by a wattle as large 

 as that of the Carrier, and of the same soft material, feeling 

 like Telvet in the perfect birds. The wattle should be of the 

 same width all around the eye. Most of the coarse birds are 

 what they call pinched- eyed — that is, the cere becomes narrow 

 at the back of the eye, and the perfect circle is incomplete. 

 This is a fault that cannot be too carefully guarded against, and 

 a bird with a narrower perfect cere is more valuable than a cere 

 broad in front but pinched behind. 



The colour of the Barb is black — that is the best ; but Reds, 

 Duns, Yellows, Blues, and Whites have been bred, and some of 

 them are easier to obtain than the Black, but it is seldom they 

 breed truly. A pair of Yellows may throw all Keds, and vice 

 versa — a great defect in any variety, as when a fancier buys 

 birds for their colour he wants them to breed it — viz., to have 

 the blood and not be mongrels. None of the Barbs we have 

 owned breed truly, though the variety is one of the oldest. The 

 Blacks are the most steadfast, that being the original colour. It 

 ■will be gathered from the foregoing that the points we admire 

 are the following : — 1, Size, small ; 2, Shape, stout ; 3, Eye, pearl, 

 well wattled; 4, Head, broad; 5, Beak, short and hooked; 

 6, Neck, thin at the setting-on of the head ; 7, Colour, black. 



There is a problem connected with Barbs and Carriers which 

 we should attempt to solve if we should ever again be tempted 

 into the wattled-bird fancy. It is, whether they have been 

 derived from the same source ? To us the questiou is decided 

 in the affirmative by all the external marks of the varieties, 

 and by our knowledge of what can be produced by the selection 

 of specimens possessing certain points. We started to prove 

 this side some years ago, and our experiments were satisfactory 

 as far as they went, but were interfered with by a visit to Europe, 

 where, from what we saw, we thoroughly convinced ourselves 

 of the truth of the proposition. 



Should we again. attempt a solution of the question we should 

 obtain a pair of barbed (wattled) Pigeons, and from their young 

 select birds for two strains, keeping in view the long face (or 

 beak) for a Carrier strain, and the short face (or beak) for a Barb 

 strain, and by continuous selection and judicious matching of 

 such individuals there would not be the slightest doubt of pro- 

 ducing well-deinned Carriers and Barbs. Patience 16, of course, 

 a necessity here as elsewhere, but it completeth a perfect work. 

 To persons who have simply kept Pigeons such productions may 

 seem impossible ; but to those who seek knowledge beyond the 

 limits of sight, and to those who have spent ruonths and years 

 in the lofts with mongrels, so shaping the course of Nature that 

 she becomes the handmaid instead of the mistress, the pro- 

 duction of Barbs or Carriers from the wattled Pigeons becomes 

 as simple as the breeding Long and Short-faced Tumblers from 

 the same strain, or the conversion of Turbits into Owls, &o. — 

 Dr. W. P. MoKGAN, Baltimore, Mil.— [The American Pet-Stock 

 Bulletin.) 



[The above article, like all by Dr. Morgan, is pleasant reading, 

 but the show Barbs of America must diiier from those of 

 England, the fault here being rather of getting them too 

 Tumbler-shaped, and the lougish form of the true Barb with 

 rather long flights is being lost. It is, I hold, a mistake to 

 breed all varieties down to weak delicate birds. I admire 

 robustness in an English Owl, delicacy in an African Owl. 

 Delicacy, again, is the very thing in an Almond Tumbler, but a 

 Barb should be like a little cob, not a racing pony. Dr. Morgan's 

 idea of being like a pug is not bad. I own 1 do not think that 

 Carriers and Barbs are connected. An English authority tried 

 the crossing of the two, and a perfect failure as to wattle was 

 the result. 



The Barb should be a little big Pigeon, like a cob horse, a re- 

 semblance I prefer to a pug, for, as the Birmingham Columba- 

 rian Society state, it should have " a rather heavy appearance," 

 and pugs are now bred small. As Dr. Morgan's friend the 

 Barb-fancier has only "produced one bird" up to the mark, 

 ■what a pity he does not procure better birds from some of our 

 great English breeders. But whatever American fanciers may 

 be poor in, they are rich in a doctor-fancier. I only wish we 

 possessed an M.D. or an M.R C.S. who, being a Pigeon-fancier, 

 had the happy literary gifts of Dr. Morgan. Interesting writers 

 as poultry or Pigeon writers are doubly valuable, as their articles 

 attract the at'ention of non-fanciers, who, being attracted, be- 

 come not unfrequently ardent fanciers; such a writer is Dr. 

 Morgan. — Wiltshire Rector.] 



puUets. My first two sittings were hatched on May 23rd. My 

 first egg from the young birds was laid on December 5th, and I 

 have averaged four eggs per day since. I now give two meals 

 a-day — 8 .1.31., ground oats slaked with boiling water; 2 p.jj., 

 house scraps, potato peelings, &c., hot made up with whole corn 

 mixture. I have not been one day without an egg since I com- 

 menced. I flatter myself no other breed would show better 

 results. I do not keep a cock bird, buying what eggs I require 

 for sitting. I must in justice add that I have kept fowls before, 

 and gained most of my experience from our Journal. — Ealinq. 



BRAHMAS FOR EGG-PRODUCING. 



I CANNOT help thinking that somebody steals a march on 

 " Agricola," and gets first to the nest. His letter induces me 

 to give my experience. 



I bought four Brahma pullets at Stevens's on the 20th of last 

 March. I had two eggs on that day, and 412 to November 30th. 

 Three of them sat. I reared eighteen chickens : eight I cooked, 

 the largest made a good Sunday's dinner for my family of eight, 

 with 1 lb. of sausages; two the cats dined off, leaving eight 



WOLVERHAMPTON POULTRY SHOW. 



This Show was held in the Agricultural HaU, on the 15th, 

 16th, and 18th inat. The awards were as follow ; — 



Brakmab —Dark.—Goek.—l, NewiiUam & Manby, Wolverhampton. 2 and he, 

 T. F. Ansdell. Cowley Mount. 3, J. Watts, Kina'n Heath, Birmmsham. c, F. J. 

 Cotterell. Birmingham Hen~\ and 2, W. H. Crabtree, Levenaha'rae, Man- 

 chester. 8, T. F. Ansdell. he, W. Har^^reave'i, Bacup : F. Bennett, Shifnal ; J. 

 Walker, Newcantle. c, R. Pritchard, Wolverhampton; W. Bii'ch, Barnacle; 

 \V. B. Etches, Whitchurch. 



Bkaumas —Dark.—Cocht^el —1, R. P. Percival, Nortbenden, Manchester. 2 

 and 3. T. F. Ansdell. i, E. Ryder, Hyde, Manchester, he, F. Bennett, c, 

 Newnham & Manby; G M. Oartmel. Eden Mount, Kendal; W. Birch; W. B 

 Ftches. PhU(?(.— 1, 2. and4. Newnham & Manbv. 3, White & Shuter. fee, E 

 Pritchard. c, W. R. EtcbeB' E. Pritchard : W. Birch. 



BRAHMas. -L(f7/t(— Cocfc.— 1, W. H. ('rabtree. 2, T. A. Dean, Marden, Here- 

 ford. 3, J. Bloodworth, <'heltenhain. /tr, J. Birch, jun. ; F. J. Cotterell. c,G. 

 Walters, Worcester. Hen.— I. B. P. Percival. 2. W. H. Crabtree. 3, F. J. 

 Cotterell. he, T. A. De»n. c, 3. Walters ; R. Bird ; Q. M. Rolls, Monmouth ; S 

 Sambrooke, Chipping Campden. 



Brahmas,— I,7£7''^ — Cockerel. — 1, R. Bird. Fulham. London. 2. .T. Bloodworth, 

 Cheltenham. 3. R. Horsfall, Liverpool. 4, R P. Percival. he. W. Storer, Bre- 

 wood m. Pullft.—l, H. C. While. Manev, Sutton. 2, W. Tedd, ErdmRton. S, 

 T. A. Dean. 4, R. Bird hc,W U Haseler, Handswurth; Mrs. G. M. Rolls; W 

 Tcdd; C. Morris, Chester; C. Bloodworth. c, W. H. Haseler; R. Bird (2). 



D'^RKiNGS.— C'o(o»'vvZ, twcept fiilvcr'(ir-i\i.—\, J. Coople, Prescst. 2 and 3, 

 Countess of Hartmouth, PatshuU, Abrighton. he, W. H. Denison. Wobum 

 Sands; Mrt*. W. Chalmera, Hatlyburton, Coupar Angus; J. Copple (2); Henry 

 Lingwood, Needham Market. 



DoRRivGS.— Sfh-^'r-rjrfi/.— 1 and 3. W. Rnttlidge, Northend, Kendal. 2, E, 

 Wren, Lowestoft, lie, Mrs. H. J. Bayley, Rosedal'*, Tecburv. 



TioRKiaos— White.— \, W. Morhtt, Goole. 2, Mrs. G. M. Rolls. 8, J. E. 

 Pilirrim. Hinckley. 



Dorkings. —CHf/v'OO —1. H. Allen, Wood Green. 2, Countess of Dartmontb. 

 3, W Messenger, Wonerih, Guildford, c, H. Allen. 



CocHiv-CuiN-A. -Cinnrtmon and Buff.— I, W. A. Taylor, Manchester. 2, J. 

 Cattell, Birmingham. 3. S. K Harris, Cnsgarne, St. Day. he, H. Tomlinson, 

 Birminghim. c, A. H. Jones, Lsrkhill. Liverpool. 



Cocnvs-Vni'Sk.-Cinnamon and Buff.— Cockerel.— \ , W. A. Taylor. 2. Mrs. A. 

 Tindal, Aylesbury. 3. Henry Lingwood. vhe, R. p. Percival. he, H. Good- 

 fellow, Madeley. t^ewcastle; C. Bloodworth, Cheltenham, c, Mrs. H. Shutt, 

 Stourbridge; J. T. Lees, Drayton. 



CocHiN-llHlKA. — Cinnamon and Buff. —Pullet. — 1, A. Datby. 2, G. E. Cartmel. 

 3. Mrs. A. Tiodal. he, R. P. Percival ; J. Cattell ; W. A. Taylor, c, Mrs. E. AJl- 

 sopp, Worcester; H. Dean. 



Cochin-Chiva.— BrofCfi and Partrid(ie-feathered.—\ and he, W. A. Taylor. 2, 

 Mrs. A Tindal. 3, T. Stretch, Ormskirk. u/^c. E. Tudman, Whitchurch, Salop. 



CoCHiN-OaiNA, —Drofcn and Partrid(n'-J'eathered. — Cockerel. — 1, Mrs. A. 

 Tindal 2. W. A. Taylor. 3. R. P. Hercival. vhc, T. Aspden. he, E. Tudman. 



CocHiN-CntNA.— Browrt aHd PaHridrje-feathered.— Pullet.— 'i, R. P. Percival. 

 2„ W. A. Taylor. 3, E. Tudmao. he, T. Aspden, Church; R. Jones, Neath; 

 Mrs. A. Tind'al. c, Mrs A. Tiodal 



CncHiN-CHiNA.— tr/!(/t^— 1, C. Bloodworth. 2. R. S. S. Woodgate, Pembury, 

 Tuobridge Wells. :-i, W. Whitwortb, jun., Longsi^ht, Manchester, he, T. 

 Rogers, Walsall; S. R. llni-ris: W. R Bull. Newport Pagnell. 



OocHiN-CfflNA. — Any other I'arietu.—WW. Jehu, Bridgenorth. 2, G. Fortey, 

 Shrewsbury. 3. A D.irby, Shrewsbury, he, T. Aspden. c, H. Feast, Swansea. 



HotJDANS.— C'ocA:. — 1, J. J. Scott, Llanstephau. 2, R. B. Wood. Uttoxeter. 8. 

 W. Whitworth, jun. vlte,F Bennett, /a*. G D. Harrison, Grange-over-Sands; 

 G- Anderton. Accrington ; W. Dring. Faversham. Ben— I. W. Dring. 2, C. 

 Morris. 3. W. Whitworth. jun. he, G. D. Harrison; R. B. Weod (2); J. B. 

 Rowland, Pillertou Vicarage, Warwick. 



French.— ^ui/ other varictl/.—l, W. H. Crabtree. 2, Rev. G. B. Knight 

 Birstwith Vicarage, Ripley. 3, Rev. W. J. Ridley, Newbury, he, Mrs. J. Cross 

 Brigg ; f. Bennett. 



Spanish.— C'orfe—1, E. Jackson, Fiochficld, Wolverliampton. 2, J. Walker, 

 Wolverhampton. 3, Mrs. B. Allsopp. he, W. Smallwood, Wolverhampton; 



E. Jackson ; J. Ljarry, Bristol. iJeii.— 1, Mrs. E. AUaopp. 2, J. Walker. 8, J. 



F. Silitoe, Wolverhampton. 



Game.- B/a^lt tted.—Cnekerel.-l, Q. Bagnall, Stoke-on-Trent. 2. G. Newdi- 

 gate, Sbifnal. 8, s. Matthew, Stowmarket. he, J. Mason, Worcester; A. Dyas, 

 Madeley. c. J. Palmer, Wednesbury. 



Game.— Broici! Red. — Cockerel. — 1, S. Matthew. 2. T. Hassell, Market 

 Drayton. 3, T. Borgess, Whitchurch, Salop, he, W. Perrin ; Miss Osbom (2); 

 J. Forsyth : A. Dyas. 



Game — E,ir'';if(j(j7 Brown and Black Redft. — Cockerel. — 1. W. J. Cope, 

 Barnesley. 2. J. Forsyte. Wolverhampton. 8, E.Winwood, Worcester. }ic,i. 

 Palmer ; E. Bell, e, E. Bell. 



Q,kTiU.—Any variety.— Coek.~l. s. Matthew. 2, G. Lunt. Market Drayton. 3. 

 J.Forsyth, he, 3. Halmer; C. Chaloner, Chesterfield. Hea.— 1, A Cameron, 

 Epwort'h. 2, S. Matthew. 3. J. P. Gardener, Rugeley. vlic, J. Forsyth; J. 

 Palmer, he, C. F. Bamett; Miss Osbom. 

 PoLANDs —2. T. Webb, Sutton. 



HAMBnnGH-i.— GoWniwiw'f'i.- 1. T. Blakeman, Wolverhampton. 2. H. 

 Pickles, Earby, Skip OD. 3, Duke of Suthe'land. /to, I Davies; S. W. Hallam; 

 W. May. Sili'er-spanciled.-l and 2. Duke of Sutherland. 3, H. Pickles, vhe , 

 Aeh'on & Booth, he, C. Parsons 



HAHBOBGHS.-Ooiii-pi'iKiHcrf— 1. H Picklcs. 2. W. Dixon, jun.. Darby. 3,9. 

 W. Hallam. Leicester, c, J. Anderton. Sdvenpeneilled.—l, H. W. Bracewell, 

 Earby, Skipton. 2. U. Pickles 3 and /(C. Duke of Sutherland. 



BANT>jrs.— Game— 1, E. Bel], Burtonon-Trent. 2 and )i<^, Mrs. E. Hunter, 

 Wolverhampton. 3, G. Boden. Wolverhampton. Any other variety.— 1, H. B. 

 Smith, Broughton. 2, Mrs. Wootton, Mapperley, Nottingham. 3, W. H. 

 Shacklettn, Bradford. 4, Mrs. R. Pritchard, W.dverhampton. he, R. H. 

 Ashton: Mrs. A. Tindal. c. Sir J. Morris; J. Bloodworth. 



Ant other Variety— 1, W. Meiinlev. Handsworth, Birmingham (Black 

 Hamburghs). 2. F. Sabin. Birmingham (Malay). 3. A. Ward, lie, Duke of 

 Sutherland iBIack Hamburgh); H. l?ardlcy (Yokahamasl; O Burnell (Malay ; 

 Rev. N. J. Ridley (Malay) ; H. Pickles (Black Hamburgh) ; T.Marples (Saltuis) 

 A Ward. 



'sellin'G Class. ~nja)i?H,(W, Dorkhms, and Cochins.— Coek.-t, H. B. MoreU 

 Clyro (Dark Brahmal. 2, S. sam-.rooke (Buff Cochin). 3. F.J. Cotlerell (Light 

 Brahma). 4. J H. Jones. Uandforth, Manchester (Partridge Cochm). vhe, R. 

 P. Percival (White Cochm). he, P. Ogilvie (Dark Brahma) : O. F Whitehouso 

 (Dark Brahma); E. Pntohiird (Dark Brahma); J. Pitt (Dark Brahma); W 



