June 6, 18GS. ] 



JOTJENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENBE. 



439 



Coventry with them, that's flat ! " " Give me the stuffing." 

 Well, we pvit some chopped pork, till the bottom was square ; 

 then we took a whole sheep's or calf's tongue, we cannot say 

 which, and jjut that in whole, having first removed cartilage 

 and all that was uneatable, and then we topped up (sic in 

 MS.) with all that came to hand, till our Cochin brother's 

 skin was full, and then we tied him up in a cloth and allowed 

 him to " mijotei- cm coin de feu," for four or iive hours or 

 more, and then took him out and put him in a cold larder, 

 and at breakfast time, all said, as they should say, " Success 

 to the Journal," and the childi'en ate till ma would allow no 

 more, and pa said it would be good for a hunting breakfast ; 

 and uncle said it was good enough for a bishop at a visi- 

 tation ; and cook said she had learned something ; and Fred 

 said he was only joking; and the two last married and lived 

 close to mistress ; and cook used to make a galantine when- 

 ever it was wanted. 



NOETH HANTS AGEICULTUEAL ASSOCIATION 



POFLTEY SHOW. 



At the meeting held at Winchester on the 1st inst. the 

 following prizes were awarded : — 



DOEKINO.— .Rrsl", W. E. Peacey, Cliilwortli, Tetbury. Seconfl, J. K. 

 Fowler, Aylesbury. 



Cochin,— First, Miss J. Milward, Bristol. Second, J. K. Towler, Ayles- 

 bury. 



Game.— First, H. Bertram, Newport, Isle of Wiglit. Second, S. Dupe, 

 Evercreech, B,ith. 



PoLAKD.— First, Mrs. Pettatt, Ashe. Second, T. P. Edwards, Lyndhurst. 



Spanish.— First, Rev. J. De L. Simmonds, Chilcomb Reciory, Winchester. 

 Second, J. Jenner, Lewes, Susses. 



Hajiburghs (Silver or Gold-pencilleci).— First, F. Pettis, Jan., Newport, 

 Isle of Wifrht. Second, ^V. J. Garrett, Bentworth, Hants. 



HAMBrRGHs (Silver or Gold-spangled).— First, J. Hunter, New Maiden. 

 Second, Mrs. Pettatt, Ashe. 



BE.iHirA PooTEA (Lifrhtj .— First and Second, J. Pares. Chertsey. 



Beahma Pooir.A (Darli). — First, E. W. Boyle, Dundrum, Dublin. 

 Second, J. K. Fowler, Aylesbury. 



Ant other Taeiett.— First, Mrs. Pettatt, Ashe. Second, J. Hinton, 

 Hinton, B.tth (Malays!. 



Docks.— First and Second, J. K. Fowler, Aylesbury. 



Geese.— Prize, \V. J. M. Pocock, 'VVonston Manor. 



'RABBirs.—LoHffest Rirs.—Fiize, E. E. M. Royds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 

 Self Co?!'!.— Prize, G. Hill, Winchester. Foreign.— Yrize, Mrs. M. E. 

 Churcher, Stratton. Variety (to include all points).— Prize, G. Hill. 



Judge.— Mr. J.BaOy, 113, Mount Street, Grosvenor Sciuare, 

 London. 



POULTEY AJNTD EGG- COMPANY. 

 It is due to Mr. Geyehn for us to state that we have 

 received from him his printed report to the Directors of this 

 Company, and a letter in which he states that the buildings 

 of the Company are erecting nest to the Gas-works, Bromley, 

 adjacent to the London, Chatham, and Dover Eailway. Mr. 

 Geyelin has also published a pamphlet on the subject. 



DEIVING BEES. 



I HIVED a swarm of bees in a straw-hive on the 21st ult., 

 intending to shake them out in the evening into a Woodbury 

 hive. At 3 p.ii. they took flight and settled in a hollow 

 pollard elm tree in a neighbouring field. I should be glad to 

 learn how I can drive them up into a straw-hive. I have 

 tried smoking them and rapping the tree ; as a last resource, 

 I have sawed off the top of the stump where they are, and 

 stopped up the various avenues at the side, and made a fresh 

 hole through the decayed wood at the top, and propose set- 

 ting a bottom board over their present egress, and placing 

 the hive on this. Do you advise my opening a side hole, 

 and blowing in to them with a pair of bellows ? Any sug- 

 gestion whereby I can secure the swarm will much oblige. 



Should swarms be shaken in at once into a Woodbury 

 hive with bottoiti board off, or into a straw-hive first and 

 then driven up into a Woodbury? — B. B. 



[We should permit the errant swarm to remain in the 

 domicile it has chosen until the autumn, when by laying bare 

 one side of the cavity the comb may be cut out and fitted 

 into a Woodbury frame-hive. Even if you should fail in 

 securing the bees themselves, their loss at that season will 

 be of little importance, as plenty of your neighbour's con- 

 demned bees may, doubtless, then be had for the trouble of 

 driving, and the inhabitants of a coviple of hives if introduced 



into the ready-furnished domicile will more than compensate 

 for then- loss. 



We prefer hiving a natural swarm into a straw-hive and 

 afterwards transferring it to the frame-hive by knockingout 

 the cluster of bees on a cloth after dusk the same evening, 

 and setting the Woodbury hive over them, supported ona 

 couple of sticks, previously laid on the cloth in order to avoid 

 crushing the bees.] 



OVEE-MANIPTJLATION. 



With all due deference to " A Devonshike Bee-keepeb," 

 I hope he will sympathise with me when I teU him that the 

 whole of the manipulations related by me at page 369, were 

 necessary evUs, being over-sanguine in the autumn of 

 1864, as to being able to bring through a number of weat 

 Ligurian stocks placed by me in a position this spring not 

 unlike that of my Devonshire friend in the spring of 1863. 

 Unquestionably, had I not manipulated, I should not have 

 lost the black hives, but I should have been minus several 

 Ligurian stocks, and should not have been able to have de- 

 cicfed that strange bees kiU queens of other hives, thus fuUy 

 illustrating the old saying, " There's ne'er a loss but there's 

 aye some sma' profit. — A Lanakkshibe Bee-keepee. 



[I can fully sympathise with my Lanarkshire friend, and 

 if he were in anything like the difficulty in which I found 

 myself during the summer of 1863, do not wonder at Ms 

 resorting to over-manipulation in the endeavour to extricate 

 himself. — A Devonshike Bee-keepek.] 



DEATH OF A QUEEN — FEETILE WOEEIEES. 



In your remarks on the letter of "J. M. W.," at page 

 393, of your Journal, you say that a young queen was 

 reared after the expulsion of the old queen, and that she 

 remained a virgin owing to the non-existence of drones, and 

 BO she became a drone-breeder. Now, in this statement 

 you are certainly mistaken, as the queen that was thrown 

 out was the identical old queen that was found on the combs 

 on the 4th of April, as she had the same piece torn out of 

 one of her wings, and corresponded in every other respect 

 to that identical old queen. , . . . . ,, 



We did not, as you say, make any mistake m joining the 

 other stock of bees and fertile queen to the stock that con- 

 tained fertile workers and drone brood in worker cells, by 

 not first removing the living drone-breeding queen, because 

 there was no living queen in the hive, and so she could not 

 be removed. The combs I carefully looked over twice, and 

 it is rarely necessary for me to do that to find the queen. 

 And the old queen when thrown out had every appearance 

 of having been dead some time, by the moaldiness or fungous 

 appearance when I picked her up, which never was the case 

 with a queen that had not been dead twelve hours, bo in 

 both cases you were decidedly mistaken. _ _ 



I think I may venture to say, that I have joined more 

 stocks of bees in the last twelve months than any person 

 in Eno-land, without a single case of quarrelling or loss of 

 bees and yet I now never use anything but pure sugar and 

 water, and it is perfectly astonishing how successful all 

 these operations turn out, considering these supposed great 

 mistakes. As you say " All's well that ends weU. _ _ 



Sow for fertile workers. I was a great unbeheverin their 

 existence, but a case in my note-book seems to prove that 

 they do exist; but I should be glad if some of your corre- 

 spondents would give us any experience they may have on 

 this interesting subject.— Wm. Cabb, QUyton Bridge, near 



Manchester. ^ i, i „ 4.i,„„ 



rWe omit the details copied from your note-boot, as they 

 have already been published in another periodical. Similar 

 instances have been before related in our columns, and the 

 one in question amounts to this, that in June, 1864, a young 

 Lio-urian queen was missing, notwithstanding which drone 

 eo-°s were laid in worker cells, and on being afterwards 

 supplied with worker-brood the bees formed seven royal cells 

 which hatched out in due course. The occasional though 

 rare existence of fertile workers was first demonstrated about 

 a hundred yeai's ago, and has since been abundantly con- 

 firmed by Huber as well as by more recent observers. ^_ 

 With regard to the incidents related by "J. M. W., we 



