August 21, 1876. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTTJBE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



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Dorkings headed the list; a splendid pen of Silvers standing 

 first, with Greys second and third. In Cochins was one grand 

 pen of White, the second Partridge, and third Buff. Brahmas 

 a bad lot if we except the winners, which were Dark Greys. 

 Bamburghs had but one class ; first Silver-spangles, second 

 Silver-pencils, and third Blacks, pretty good. Game were mostly 

 out of feather, but though in sad plight we recognised some 

 champions, notably the first Brown Bods and Duckwings. 

 Spanish were all very good, also Game Bantams. Game a grand 

 class; first an old pen of Brown Beds, small and gamey and 

 good in colour; second and third small Black Bed chickens. In 

 Game, any other, all the winners were Piles, and extremely good. 

 In the variety of Bantams first were Silver Sebrights, second 

 White, and third Gold Sebrights. Ducks were first Aylesbury, 

 second Bouen, and third Mallard. Geese were a good lot, the 

 two first pens old White Embdens, and third a promising pen of 

 Toulouse goslings. Mr. Snell won the point cup. 



Pigeo'-.s had but few classes; first on the list were the Carriers, 

 Blacks winning the prizes ; the firs'; a very good pair. Pouters, 

 first White, and second Blue. Antwerps very good, the first 

 Bed Chequers, and second and third Silver Duns ; first very 

 good indeed. Fantails a moderate lot; but Owls grand, White 

 African carrying off all the prizes. Dragoons very good ; first 

 Yellow, second Silver, and third Blue. Tumblers, first Almonds, 

 Becond Kites, and third Black Balds, all very good. The Variety 

 class had nothing good with the exception of the three winners, 

 first Silver Turbits, second Black Barbs, and third Black 

 Jacobins. 



Cage Birds were a failure ; exhibitors will not pay 4s. per pen 

 for a 10s. prize. 



Mr. Yardley won the cup for points in Pigeons. 



POULTRY— Dorkings— 1, W. Eoe, jiu>. 2. H. FeaBt S.Miss M Murray 

 Cochins.— 1. A. Darby. 2, H. TomlinsOD. 3, H. Feast, vhc. Rev. R. Fielden 

 Biwmns— 1, J. F. Smith. 2, H. A. Barclay. S, E. W. Snell. Hamburghs — 

 1, H. Feast. 2, S. B. Meynell. 3, E. W. Snell. Game.-BImI- and Brown- 

 ereasted .Reds— 1, H. E. Martin. 2, E. Winwood. S, fl. Butltr. Any other 

 variety.—!, H. E. Martin. 2 and 3, J. Oalladine. Spanish. -1, H. Feast. 2 and 

 3, J. Oalladine. Bantams.— Game, Black and Brown-breasted Eens.—l, S. 

 Beiuhton. 2, J. Mayo. 8, H. ftuller. vhc, J. Oscroft. H. Butler. Any other 

 variety— 1, J. Oserott. 2 and 3. H. Butler, vhc, J. Mayo. Any variety not 

 Game.—l, P. Foxwell 2, H. Feast. 3. J. Oalladine. Docks. —1 and 2, K. W. 

 Snell. S.H.FesBt Geese.— 1 and2, E. W. Snel'. 3, Dr. J. Holmes. Selling 

 Class.— 1, J T. Barker. 2, W Roe.jun. 8, H Butler. 



PIGEONS— Carriers— 1,H. Yardley. 2. H. Parker. 3, W. Nottage. Pouters. 

 — 1, W. Nottage. 2, e. Yardley. 3, G. Durwarden. Antwerps— t and 2, H. 

 Yardley. 8. J. Oalladine. Fantmls -1, S. Swift. 2, H. Yardley 3. F. Holbrook. 

 Owls— 1 and 3, H. Yardley ,2. H. Parker. Dragoons— 1 2. and vhc, R. Wood 

 3. H. Yardley. Tumblers.— 1 and 2, H. Vardlev. 8, J. Oalladine. Any other 

 Variety— 1. R. Wood. 2, H. Yardley 3, S. Smith. 



SONG BIRDS —Canaries —Yellow or Buff Norwich.— J, H. Hunt. Crested 

 Norwich.— 1, E. Moore. 2, H. Hunt Tarieaated Norwich.— 1, H. Hunt. 2, E. 

 Moore. Group of Song Birds.— 1, H. Hunt. 



Judge.— Mr. E. Button, Pudsey, Leeds. 



DISEASES OF PIGEONS. 



My experience does not lead me to accept your answer to 

 " E. B. T.," in your number of August 17th, as correct. I admit 

 that you can give a Pigeon what would kill a man, and that the 

 doBe will have no visible effect, but I deny that the internal 

 diseases of Pigeons are incurable by medicine. I have had 

 many cases of what your correspondent calls inflamed lungs, 

 but which I should call bronchitis, and never seen one recover 

 without treatment. 



I have just cured two birds, a Bussian Trumpeter and a 

 Pouter. The symptoms were difficulty of breathing, a cough, 

 and a rattle in the windpipe, with occasional cougbing-up of 

 mucus and loss of appetite. It is a form of roup, and attacks 

 young birds when just commencing moulting, and sometimes 

 old birds. 



They are generally attacked very suddenly. They will take 

 three weeks or a month of attention to get them over it, and of 

 course may die in spite of all you can do for them. The treat- 

 ment is : — Put them in a large airy pen free from draught, pluck 

 the feathers from the throat and paint twice a-week with tinc- 

 ture of iodine. Give them a teaspoonful of Epsom salts in 

 half a pint of water, and give no other water till they have 

 finished it. Then give a capsule of cod-liver oil and half a 

 Walton's roup pill every night, and cram with soaked beans, 

 dipping one or two beans in each feed in sharp sand, if they 

 will not feed themselves, and p)uck-ont all the tail feathers. I 

 do not believe that the diseases of Pigeons are hereditary, for 

 the simple reason that diseased birds do not breed. 



I have had cases of wing disease and tumours in birds bred 

 from perfectly healthy parents. Wing disease I look upon as 

 incurable, but have been wonderfully successful in treating the 

 same description of tumours on the legs and body with tincture 

 of iodine. I must also deny that any amount of cleanliness or 

 care will keep Pigeons free from disease whether confined or 

 allowed to fly. I have never found homoeopathic treatment of 

 any use. Your correspondent will find Fulton's chapters on 

 diseases very useful. The Ei.som salts for roup has the best 

 effect, and will sometimes cure a bad case in two days. Never 

 despair of a case of ronp. I have a Trumpeter hen that last 

 autumn had it badly for three monthB however, she even- 



tually by constant oare and a great deal of physic reoovered, 

 won a Becond prize in January last, and has this season reared 

 eight young birds. 



I think the reason of many failures with sick Pigeons is want 

 of perseverance, care, and cleanliness. — J. H. Hutchinson. 



NEW BOOK. 



Sow to Succeed in Poultry -keeping for Profit or Exhibition. 

 By G. W. Bacon, 127, Strand, London, W.C. 

 We have before ns this new book, and do not quite know what 

 to say about it, for it seems to us in matter and illustrations 

 merely a rechauffe of other works. In many ways it is harmless, 

 and some two or three sections are useful and practical. The 

 original parts give us the idea of having been written by some 

 poultry-keeper who has rather looked upon birds with the eye 

 for profitable table food than in the light of exhibition stock. 

 There are plentiful quotations from the " Poultry Book for the 

 Many " published at our office, from Mr. L. Wright's " Illustrated 

 Book of Poultry," and from other sources, and theBe pieces are 

 always acknowledged when copied verbatim. We wish the 

 Bource of the illustrations had been as freely stated, for we can 

 find no notice of their origin. It is palpable to many, however, 

 that they come chiefly from the defunct periodical " The Poultry 

 Beview." Among them the best are Mr. Horace Lingwood's 

 Dark Brahma cock, Mr. S. A. Dean's Light Brahma hen, the 

 Bev. Beginald S. S. Woodgate's White Cochin hen, &c. ; while 

 the worst is undoubtedly the Buff Cochin cock, which might 

 be of any colour, and the leg feathers are very unnatural. 

 The ohaptere on "Food and Drink" and the "Bearing of 

 Chickens," though they contain nothing new, are well put to- 

 gether, and contain many hints useful for young beginners ; on 

 the other hand, some of the advice offered is positively absurd. 

 For instance, in the chapter on breeds it states, in reference to 

 purchasing Cochins, " Do not select those with clean legs .... 

 nor with double combB." The youngest amateur surely knows 

 that leg-feathering is one of the chief points of all Asiatic breeds. 

 Mr. James Long is also quoted a good deal, and his classification 

 of breeds is well put together. The breeds are so lightly touched 

 upon that one page suffices for all particulars about Bantams, 

 and it is in such points as these that we feel the work is wanting 

 as a guide for new beginners— e g , in speaking of White Bantams 

 we read, " neatness of comb " is a special point; but the comb 

 may be double, single, pea, or falling over for all w i can glean 

 from the work. Taking, however, the whole book into considera- 

 tion we should call it a fairly useful little manual, but perfectly- 

 uncalled for in the midst of the cheap poultry literature of the 

 present day. — W. 



THE STEWARTON SYSTEM AND THE 

 STEWARTON HIVE. 



Theke are many bee-keepers like myself who keep a few hives 

 to supply their household and their friends with honey, but do 

 not care to have a large number of stocks. They generally 

 follow the non-swarming Bystem, and prefer a moderate amount 

 of super honey in the comb to any amount from a stock hive; 

 but in spite of all their efforts their bees will swarm andincreaEe 

 their stocks beyond the required number, and at the end of the 

 season give them just what they do not want — namely, the 

 trouble of driving, uniting, and, worst of all, breaking up Btock 

 hives and running honey. In many cases no doubt the bees are 

 condemned to the Bulphnr pit. My own system is to prevent 

 my stocks from multiplying unduly by uniting a number of 

 swarms. By this method I also get my deserted supers filled 

 as well as others besides. . 



It is not everyone who cares to add swarm to swarm in the 

 ordinary way of knocking them out in the evening and placing 

 the hive to which they are to be added over them, with the 

 trouble of placing all right early next morning. To these let 

 me recommend the Stewarton system of adding swarm to Bwarm. 

 It is simply to hive the swarm to be added to another in a hive 

 or box constructed with bars, with moveable slides between the 

 frames like the Stewarton hive ; or, which will answer as well, 

 a flat board or sheet of zinc, which can be withdrawn and placed 

 over the bars. A cheese box perforated with a sufficient num- 

 ber of slits or fitted with bars would answer well for round hives. 



The swarm is hived in this prepared box, placed as near as 

 possible to that to which it is to be united, or merely left where 

 it was hived till the evening, and at sunset placed gently be- 

 neath the hive to which it is to be united, and the slides or 

 cover withdrawn, whereupon the new swarm will set up a 

 pleasant hum, a sign that they are gladly joining their neigh- 

 bours in the upper storey. The next morning the hive under- 

 neath may be removed, and the partially filled super deserted, 

 by the swarm placed on the top of the united stocks. A third 

 swarm, if not too large, say a cast, may be added and additional 

 room given above if the season be not too far advanced. One 

 hive thus treated has given me two fine supers, one 15 lbs. and 

 the other 12} lbs. I have thus been led, to think that for many 



