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JOUBNAIi OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ December 30, 1875. 



TcMBLEBS.— 1 and 8, D. Erash. 2, A. Duncan, tie, L. T. Spence, H. Coalston. 

 C.J. Glenday, Miss R, Frew. 



Jacobivs.— 1 and 2, W. & R. Davidson. S, A. Dancan. c, L. T. Spence, R. 

 Scott. J. Fisher. W. i R. Davidson. 



Any other Variety.— 1. Mrs- A. G. Dancan (Torbits). 2 and 3. R. J. Wilson 

 (Turbits and Barbs), he, L. T. Spence, R. E. Frew (Magpies), \. Crosbie. c, H. 

 Coalston (Owls). 



Selling Class.— 1 .ind l'/^ff, T. Boper (Pouters). 3 and he, R. Scott (Pouters). 

 e, G. Greive (Pouters), T. L. Johnston (Trumpeters), A. Duncan. 



Scotch Fancy.— re/Zow.—Cocfc. — l, G. Couper. 2, Mrs. D. Kilgour. S, B. 

 Crawford. 4, G. Spence. Hcn.-l, R. Brown. 2, D. Black. 3, G. Couper. 4, 

 W. Paton. 



Scotch Fancy.— Bu#.—Coc4.—1 and 4, Mrs. D. Kilgour. 2, J. Pratt. 8, G. 

 Spence. Hen.—l. W. Hogg. 2, W. Paton. 3, G. Couper. 4, J. Beveridge. 



Piebald TAHCY.— Telloiv.—Coek.—I. W. Hogg. 2, A Penman. S, J. Elliot. 

 4, B. Curran. ht-n.~\, D. Blacb. 2, A. Hutton. 3, G. Spence. 4. W. Paton. 



Piebald Fa.\cy.— Bujr.— Cocfc.— 1, 1. Gillies. 2, W. Hogg. 3, D. Black. 4. J. 

 Elliot. Ben.~l, Mrs D. Kilgour. 2, E. Duwnie. 3, W. Hogg. 4, A. Adamson. 



Belgian Fancy.— Vciioic—Cocfc or He?!.— land 3, p. Smith. 2 and 4, J. Culbert. 

 Buff.— Cock or Hen.—l and 3. J. Culbert. 2 and 4, P. Smith. 



Green Bikdb.- CocA: or Hen,—1, J. Simpson. 2, B. Curran. 3, C. Cairns. 

 4, J. Thomson. 



FouL-FEATHEBED.— 1, "W. Hogg. 2, J. Thomson. 8, P. Gray, jun. 

 Adamson. 



Goldfinch Mcles.- Bwir.- Cocfc or Hen.— 1, 3, and 4. W. Cowan. 

 Yelloif.—Cock or Hen.—l.'l, and 3, J. Cowan, he, W. Kirk (21. 



Selling CLASS.-Cocfc or Hen.— 1, J. Paul. 2 and 3, G. Couper. 4 



4, A. 

 2, W. Kirk. 

 , J. VTallace. 



PARAGON POULTRY HOUSE AND RUN. 



All poultry fanciers are aware of the importance of allowing 

 fowls the benefit of grass runs. 



In the " Paragon," the dimensions of the house are as fol- 

 lows :— Length, i feet ; width, 3 feet 8 inches ; height — front, 

 4 feet 8 inches, back, 3 feet 8 inches. A door at the side provides 



at once see the difference betwixt a fine high bred-bird and an 

 underbred coarse one of the same variety. The portrait which 

 " Wiltshire Eectob " seems to value so much will not help 

 him. It certainly does not show the rose and mane — they can- 

 not be separated as " "Wiltshike Kectok" seems to think; 

 they are fanlts united like Siamese twins. If anything can ba 

 made of it I think it is the other way, but it is such an impos- 

 sible sort of Jack that it is scarcely worth noticing. Just see 

 how the lower part of the chain falls over the wings and back, 

 and what wonderful legs and feet it has, and the way it stands 

 upon them is more wonderful still. If superior to the others it 

 is an ingenious way of accounting for it by supposing that the 

 artist understood the bird better than any of the others, but I 

 am of opinion that it is as much underdone as they are. " Wilt- 

 shire Rector " again goes off the line when he says, " Why 

 should he not prefer Dragoons to Carriers ? " which he says he 

 does, because the question is between good and bad, or perhaps I 

 should say different, forms of the same variety. The Dragoon (?) 

 has a standard of its own. Another departure from the sub- 

 ject is that he again reverts to low-cut and clean-thigh birds, a 

 matter of minor importance, and not worth introducing until 

 other points are settled. 



*' Wiltshire Rector '* insists much in his remarks on kindli- 

 ness and toleration, the drift of which I am at a loss to see. If 

 it is a breach of those virtues to say that the Jacobin of the 

 present day is very much inferior to what it used to be, then I 

 must plead gnilty. In this view of it, however, I have the 

 support of several old fanciers, whose opinions are not lightly 



Fig. 121. 



access to the interior, which is fitted with a sliding floor (re- 

 moveable from the outside for the purpose of cleaning), perches 

 to roost ten or twelve fowls, and three full-sized nests, to which 

 is fitted a contrivance peculiar to these houses, which effectu- 

 ally prevents the hens from fouling their nests. In the front of 

 the house is inserted a sliding ventilator. 



The dimensions of the runs are — Length, 8 feet ; width, 4 feet ; 

 height, 8 feet ; and they are covered with 2-inch mesh netting. 

 The sides and ends are screwed together, and are thus rendered 

 really firm and stable. The top opens with hinges to allow of 

 fowls being easily placed in or removed from the run. 



The " Paragon " houses and runs are constructed so as to 

 combine extreme lightness with strength and durability. It is 

 a fact that a boy can clean the house, and, unaided, move both 

 it and the run into a fresh position, in less than three minutes. 



A span-roof can be substituted for the one shown in the draw- 

 ing at an extra cost of 15s., but it is not recommended, as it 

 tends to increase the weight. 



The " Paragon " is that mentioned on page 51Q as nsed at 

 Penshurst. 



THE JACOBIN. 



I WAS much pleased to see " Wlltshibe Rector's " last remarks 

 on English Owls, as they will finish the controversy (now, I 

 daresay, getting tiresome to some), as he there admits all I have 

 been contending for. An English Owl, he says, was at the 

 Crystal Palace "that in Owl points was superior to any African." 

 I am very glad to hear it, as there can now be no reason (there 

 never was a shadow of one) for having classes for both. Had 

 there only been one class English Owls would have been much 

 superior to what they are, and fit to hold their own in one class. 

 So much for the Owl question. The Jacobin question could be 

 as easily disposed of if we had a few birds of the true old type 

 to place beside the so-called Jacobins of the present day. Then 

 I am sure the ninety-nine out of the hundred, which "Wilt- 

 SHiBE Kectok " blames me fcr wishing to convert, would nearly 

 all come over at once and dispose of their birds of the Baldhead 

 type as fast as possible, as everyone with a true fancier's eye can 



to be set aside, even though the ninety-ninel are against ua 

 which they are just because they have not had an opportunity 

 of comparing the two birds together. I am no slavish follower 

 of what has gone before or what is old, merely as such, more 

 than " Wiltshire Rector " (though age in these matteis is no 

 proof of weakness, but rather the contrary) ; but when I see one of 

 our best fancy Pigeons, of which we have a well-defined standard, 

 evidently drawn up by men of taste, going down hill, I should be 

 unworthy of the name of a fancier if I did not attempt to do 

 something, however little, to arrest its downward course. To 

 talk of different types of Jacobins is simply a delusion. If the 

 desirable properties in a bird are fully laid down no one has a 

 right to depart from this standard and call it by the same name. 

 If "Wiltshire Rector" will find a name for his rose-and-mane 

 favourites I shall not find fault. — George Ure, Camphill Lodae, 

 Bruughty Ferry. 



P.S. — Since writing the above I have seen in the last number 

 of our Journal " Wiltshire Rector's " "Christmas Greeting," 

 and a very excellent greeting it is. One remark in partictilar 

 struck me as peculiarly applicable to the Owl and Jacobin dis- 

 cussion. He says, " That advancing by going back is often the 

 truest advance," a remark that all may bear in mind with 

 advantage. "Wiltshire Rector" always comes right in the end, 

 and this discussion will not be an exception. Kindliness and 

 toleration are very good, but truth must come before all. — G. U, 



Bristol Show. — This commences to-day. The entries are 

 deservedly large— 1439 poultry, 599 Pigeons. 



EXTRACTED HONEY versus COMB HONEY. 



Some time ago I urged bee-keepers who intended to exhibit 

 honey at the Crystal Palace Show to go in for small boxes of 

 pure honeycomb containing from 4 to 8 lbs. each, as the most 

 profitable way of managing their apiaries ; and I venture to 

 suggest to the Committee of Management of the Apiarian Society 

 that there be a distinct prize or prizes offered for the largest 

 number of such boxes and the best filled in the schedule of next 



