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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTDRE AND COTTAGE GABDENEit. 



[ October S, 1874. 



rather too mottled on the breast and thighs to please ns, and we 

 think the pnllet won the cap ; but they were a lovely pen, and 

 we liked them on the whole extremely. The second-prize 

 cockerel was a nice bird, but the pullet too light ; had she been 

 well pencilled this pair would have run the first-prize pen closely 

 for the cup. A good pen or two of Lights were highly com- 

 mended. Spaiiish were a very fair lot — oine pens. A good pen 

 of old birds won the cup ; second and third were chickens. The 

 cockerel in the latter pen was good, and will be better still every 

 week if he go on as he has done since we saw him last. The 

 Cochin classes were wonderful — Buffs, Partridge, and Whitf. 

 We mentioned in a former report that Stoke Park had some 

 good birds coming out, and we were not wrong. Lady Gwydyr 

 won the cup with a capital pair. They were not so large as 

 those she won the Aylesbury cup with last year, but then they 

 were not so old. The pullet was of exquisite colour and of fine 

 shape : the cockerel good in all respects. The second and third 

 shuuld, we think, have changed places ; the third were also of 

 Biich fine colour and shape. The second were old birds ; the hen 

 did not look very fresh ; the cock a good bird. Mrs. Tiudal had 

 two nice pens highly commended, but they were old cocks, and 

 not well through the moult. Partridge Cochins were admirable. 

 The first-prize pen of chickens were of fine colour and good 

 shape; the second were only fair, the cockerel best ; the third 

 went to huge nudeveloped chickens. The cockerel must make 

 an immense bi'"d, and one which will win. White Cochins 

 were a large clas3. Mr. Woodgate cleared the prizes with three 

 pens of chickens, good in combs and colour. A pen of old birds 

 of Mr. Bloodworth were good, and Mrs. Tindal had a nice very 

 yoting pair of chickens. Game were all in one class. A very 

 good pair of Black Red chickens won the cup; second good 

 Brown Reds; the third were Duckwings. The cockerel in this 

 pen was of splendid colour; he wants dubbing, and then will 

 want a lot of beating. French mustered well. Cruves first; 

 La Fluche, out of condition, second. A good pair of Cruve 

 chickens (Tindal) were most promising. Saniburghs were most 

 creditable. The Spangled were much the best. So good were 

 the second-prize Golden, that before the awards were up we 

 asked the exhibitor to have us to tea, the pen seemed safe for 

 the cup, which was a cream-jng in this instance; but Silvers 

 won it, and this pen was placed second. Certainly the Silvers 

 were very grand, and it must have been close. Third also good. 

 Bantams (Game) were numerous. We did not care for the 

 first-prize pen ; the cock's wiugs almost touched the floor of the 

 pen, but the plumage was fair. Nice Piles were second ; the third 

 went to Duckwings ; the hen good, the cock poor in colour. A 

 good pen of Duckwings (Adams) seemed worthy of more than H.c. 

 In the Variety Bantam class poor Pekins were first ; the cock 

 good in colour, but the hen very pale and dirty, and poorly 

 feathered. Second, Silver-laced ; these birds were genuine 

 silver colour, and should, we thought, have been near first. 

 Third, nice Gold-laced. Two good pens of Blacks (Leno and 

 Mayo) were highly commended. 



The Ducks were, of course, grand. Everyone expects to see 

 Bomething wonderful at Aylesbury in the Duck way, and they 

 were not disappointed this year. We may safely say we never 

 saw such a drake as the cup one was; the Duck, too, grand. 

 Second immense also ; third very large and good too. In 

 Eouens Mr. Evans cleared the prizes with wonderful specimens, 

 good in colour and size. In Variety Ducks Viduatas won first ; 

 a nice pen ; Cayugas second. We were indeed glad to see this 

 useful hardy breed at last recognised ; the colour bids fair to 

 equal their East Indian — may we say ? — relations. American 

 breeds had a class and a cup ; this went to a good pair of White 

 Leghorns, Brown Leghorns taking second. We do not care for 

 this colour, they look so common. A nice pair of Plvmouth 

 Eocks were highly commended. We hope societies will follow 

 Aylesbury and imitate Oxford in giving these breeds a class. 



Lastly, but not at all least, came the Variety class. We were 

 amazed at Aylesbury, of all places, where Mr. Fowler grows his 

 huge specimens, to find Turkeys and Geese in this refuge. It 

 seems hard lines, too, for a Silky or a Poland to be side by side 

 with a gander. This class was splendid. First went to Black 

 Hamburghs ; the hen in this pen was like a mirror, such lustre 

 we never saw ; we almost think this was the best hen in the 

 Show. Second went to huge Geese ; third to White Silkies, 

 the pullet with a splendid crest. Mr. Taylor's hens in his pens 

 of Polands were quite pictures, but the cocks not fiuihciently 

 through the moult. A good pen of Black Cochins (Darby) was 

 highly commended, the hen, which we have so often noticed 

 before, a wonder. A Selling class ended the lot. Poor White 

 Cochins were first, good Aylesburys second, and Silver Polands 

 third. We hope next year the Show may be as good in quality 

 ind ten times better in quantity. 



artificially coloured. If a violet deposit be formed, the wine 

 has been coloured with elderberries or mulberries. If the deposit 

 is red, beetroot or peach wood has been used ; and if violet red, 

 logwood. If the sediment is violet blue, privet berries have 

 been employed ; and if a bright violet, litmus. — (Medico-Phar- 

 7uaceuHcitl Abstract and Review.) 



THE POULTRY-KEEPER.— No. -22. 



COCHIN-CHINA OR SHANGHAI. 



p.irthldgi; vabiety. — hen. 



The hen of the Partridge variety is regularly marked with 



dashes of dark black, nr mixed with grey, and on a buff ground 



more or less dark. Each feather has marks which, though 



different, are very analogous on each part. 



The general appearance is a mixture of colours not separable 

 at first sight, but the markings can be distinguished by examin- 

 ing each feather. The hackle feathers [Jig. 94) are nearly covered 



Test for Coloukisg M.4Tter in Wine.— M. De Cherville gives 

 the following test for the detection of false colouring matter in 

 wine : — Pour into a glass a small quaotity of the wine under 

 examination, and dissolve in it a morsel of potasaa. If there is 

 no deposit, and if the wine takes a greenish tint, it has not been 



Fig. 96.— Thigh Feather. 



Fig. 05.— Wing Covert Feather. 



with black, occupying the middle part from one end to the other, 

 and to which the borders of the feather form a buff edging. 

 The back feathers— those forming the tail coverts, those of the 

 thighs and the breast, and those which surround the stern, are 

 nearly similar (fig. 96). They have three dark-grey demi- 

 (-lliptic bands on'a' buff ground. They only vary slightly in the 

 details or in the proportions, and the bands fade towards the 

 fluffy part and towards the under parts of the body. The front 

 feathers of the neck are buff and nearly whole-coloured ; those 

 of the abdomen, tiie sides, the inside of the thighs, and those 

 of the feet are yellow, mingled with light grey. The covert 



