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splendid feather, second to a very White-crested Black Poland 

 in equally good feather, and third" to a. very neat Silky. In the 

 cls3s for hens a splendid White-crested Black Poland, with an 

 immense globular crest, was first ; a very square White Dorking 

 second; and a good Silver Poland third. It was a pity the 

 Committee had not given this latter breed a class. In the 

 Bantams the Game were but indifferent, while in the Variety 

 ■classes most of the prizes went to Laced birds. Of them the 

 first Silver cockerel and first Gold pallet were very perfect. 

 The Waterfowl made excellent classes. The cup Ayleaburys 

 had fine beaks, and were massive in frame. The Eouens were 

 capital; while in the next class a very good pen of Black East 

 Indians were first, the Duck being especially free from brown 

 on the wings. The pen of this breed shown by Mr. Sainsbnry 

 were very good, and closely pressed on the first in our opinion. 

 The third Calls were pretty, and we were glad to see the breed 

 in the list. The Sale classes were large.Vgood White Cochins 

 winning both first prizes. 



The Pigeons were an attractive little lot. The first Jacobins 

 were good Reds. A moderate pair of White Fans were first in 

 their class. The cup went most deservedly to Mr. Tardley's 

 Black Carrier cock. The Tumblers were good; first and second 

 going to Almonds, and third to Kites. Tfie Dragoons mustered 

 well; Blaes of good colour and sound in wing-bars won first 

 and second. We noticed but moderate birds in the Sale class. 

 We furnish full awards below, and wish the Society, which has 

 made such a capital start with amateur judging, very much 

 success. The room was well lined with visitors, so we hope the 

 receipts at the gates were good. 



POULTRY.— Beahhas.- Light.-Cock.-l, R. P. Percival. 2. T. A. Dean. 

 3. Mrs. W. C. Drummond. Sen. -Cup. S. Sambrooke. 2, R P. Percival. S, 

 T. A. Dean, vlie, J. Bloodworth. Dark.— Cock— 1, J. s. Maggs. 2. R. P. 

 Percival. Ben— I, G. S. Pearson. 2, R. P. Percival. 8, Morris & Cameron. 

 Cochins.— cinnamon and Buff.— Cock.— I, R. R. Fowler. 2, R. P. Percival. 

 S, S. R. Harris. Hen.— 1, J. E. Swindle. 2, J. Bloodworth. 8, A. Darby. Any 

 other variety.— Cock— 1, R. A. Boissier. 2, R. P. Percival. S. Rev. H. J. 

 Borrow, vhc, A. Darbv, Rev. R. S. S. Woodgate. Hen— 1, Rev. H. J. Borrow. 



2, C. Bloodworth. 3. Rev. R. S. S. Woodgate. vltc, Mrs. J. T. Holmes. Game. 

 — Mack-breasted.— Cock— Cnp. G. Newdigate. 2. T. P. Lyon. S, P. A. Beck. 

 Hen— 1 and 8. T. P. Lyon. 2. W. H. Stagg. Extra 3. G. Newdigate. vhc. J. P. 

 James. Brown-breasted and other Reds.— Cock.— 1, T. Mason. 2, H. E. Martin. 



3, J. T. Browne. Hen.— 1, T. Mason. 2. H. E. Martin. 3, G. F. Ward. Any 

 other variety.— Cock — 1, W. H. Stagg. 2, W. C. Phillips. S, H. E. Martin- 

 Hen— I, W. C. Phillips. 2, D. W. J. Thomas. 3, C. Gibba. Hambuhghs.— 

 Gold and Silver-spangled.— Cock— 1 and 2, H. Feast. 3, H. Pickles. Hen — 

 l.H. Pickles. 2, H. Feast. 8, T. Blakeman. Gold and Silver-pcncilled.-l, H. 

 Feast. 2, J. Long. 3, W. K. Tickner. Hen.— 1, H. Pickles. 2, W. K. Tickner. 

 8. H. H. Thompson. Black— Cock— 1, R. L. Garnett. 2, H. Pickles. 8, H. 

 Feast. Hen.— 1, H. Feast. 2, R. L. Garnett. 3, H. Pickles. French— Cock.— 

 l.H. Feast. 2, S.Ti. Yickery. 3. J. H. Bro: ks. Hen —1, R. R. Fowler. 2, S. W. 

 Thomas. 3, E. Bnrrell. vhc. H. Feast. Leghorns.— Brown— \, F. L. Green. 



2. A Kitchen. 8, S. L. Bradbnrv. Whits.— 1 and 8. R. R. Fowler. 2, E. C. 

 Seaman. Bantams.— Game, Black Red.— Cock.— 1, W. Adams. 2, G. Prentice. 



3, T. Wicks. Hen —1, W. Adams. 2, J. Smith. 3, E. C. Phillip3. Game, Any 

 other variety-Cock— \, TV. C. Phillip3. 2, G. H. Fitz-Herbert. 3. F. S. 

 Hockada7. Hen.— 1, F. Maitland. 2, W. M. Rambelow. 8, T. S. Hockaday. 

 Any other variety.— Cock— I, T. P. Carver. 2, W. H. Robinson. 3, G. Holloway, 

 jnn. Hen.— 1 and 3, J. W. Lloyd. 2, G. Holloway, jun. Any other Distinct 

 Vaeiety.— Cock— 1, O. Bloodworth. 2, A. Darby. 3, Rev. R. S. S. Woodgate. 

 vhc, H. J. Lormon. Hen,— 1, T. Norwood. 2, A. Darby. 3, C. Bloodworth. 

 one, Rev. R. S. S. Woodgate, T. A. Foreman. Selling Classes— Cock— I, R. A. 

 Boissier. 2, C. Sidgwick. 8, W. Jones. 4, C. Bloodworth. Hen.— 1, C. 

 Bloodworth. 2, J. Bloodworth. 3, H. Haddrell. 14, E. Pritchard.: I IFater/oiois. 

 —Pair.— J, G. Hanks. 2, W. H. Copplestone. 3, J. S. Maggs. 4. H. Feast 

 Ducks.— Rouen— I, H. J. Bailey. 2. J. S. Maggs. 3, E. Snell Aylesbury — 



1, RR. Fowler. 2, H. J. Bailey. 8, E. Snell. Any other variety.— 1, S. Burn. 



2. w. R. Rootes. 3, H. J. Bailey. Geese.— 1, R. R. Fowler. 2, E. Snell. 3, 

 H. J. Bailey. 



PIGEONS.— Carriers.— Cocfc or Hen— Cup, H. Yardley. 2. J.James. 3, W. G. 

 Flanagan. Dragoons.— Blue or Silver.— Cock or Hen —I, C W. Calcutt. 2, J. 

 James. 3, G. S. Prentice, vhc, W. G. Flanagan. Any other colour. — Cock or 

 Hen.— I. YV. G. Flanagan. 2. A. McSenzie. 3, G. S. Prentice. Tumblers.— 

 Bhort-faced.—Cock or Hen.— 1, W. E. Pratt. 2, H. Yardley. 3. G. Packham. 

 Any other variety.— Cock or Hen.- 1 and 3, J. Aston. 2, Master E. P. Harmer. 

 ANTW£EPS.-Snort-/aced.-Cocfc or Een.—l and2, H Yardley. 8, C. F. Copcmaa. 

 Fantails.— Cock or Hen— 1, J. Walker. 2 and 3, J. F. Loversidge. Jacobins.— 

 Cock or Hen.— 1, P. H. Jones. 2 and 3, G. S. Prentice. Owls.— Cock or Hen — 

 1, A. J. Barnes. 2 ani 3, P. H. Jones. Runts.— Cock or Hen.—l, T. D. Green. 

 2 and 3, H. Yardley. Any othee Distinct Variety.— Cock or Hen.—l, H. 

 Yardley. 2 and vhc, P. H. Jones. S.Mrs. J.|T. Holmes. _ Selling Class.— 1,G. 

 Packham. 2, A. Shadling. 3. A. P. Byford. 



PEESEEYING EGGS. 



Is the year 1871-2 I preserved eggs so perfectly that after a 

 lapse of six months they were mistaken when brought to table 

 for fresh-laid eggs, and I believe they would have kept equally 

 good for twelve months. 



My mode of preservation was to varnish the eggs as soon after 

 they were laid as possible with a thin copal varnish, takiDg care 

 that the whole of the Bhell was covered with the varnish. I 

 subsequently found that by painting the eggs with fresh albu- 

 meu beaten up with a little salt they were preserved equally 

 well, and for as long a period. After varnishiDg or painting 

 with albumen I lay the eggs upon rough blotting paper, as I 

 found that when allowed to rest till dry upon a plate or on the 

 table the albumen stuck so fast to the table or plate as to take 

 away a chip out of the shell. This is entirely obviated by the 

 use of the blotting paper. I pack the eggs in boxes of dry bran. 

 — Dee Side. — (World of Science.) 



The Birmingham: Agricultural Exhibition Society. — The 

 Poultry Show is open for the first time to non-subscribers, the 



fee for a Bingle pen being 8s. and for Pigeons 5s. This concession 

 should increase the number of exhibitors considerably. Should 

 this be the case there will be very little room remaining for the 

 exhibitors of implements and miscellaneous articles, the entries 

 for which are already closed, although tho allotment of space 

 cannot take place until the stock and poultry certificates are 

 enumerated. 



Canterbury Poultby, Pigeon, and Canary Show. — The 

 entries close on the 20ih. Since the publication of the schedule 

 two extra prizes are given, one (£i) for pair of Light Brahma 

 pullets, and one (£5 5s.) for best cockerel and pullet Silver-Grey 

 Dorkings, makiug fourteen prizes besides the money prizes. 



EXCHANGE OP QUEENS. 



This autumn I substituted in September two imported Italian 

 queens in place of two common English queens, both of which 

 having escaped from their careless owners (unknown to me) took 

 up their quarters in my garden, one this and one last year. 

 Both hives took to their stranger queens with the greatest com- 

 plaisance within six or seven hours of the removal of their own 

 mother queens, and without the slightest symptom of disaffec- 

 tion. I gave these queens to the several hives in my own old 

 fashion — that is, by isolating the queen from her Italian guards 

 under a broken wineglass, and putting her over a central hole 

 at the top of each hive, with the intervention of a bit of per- 

 forated zinc. I had intended to try queen cages, two of which 

 I bought for the purpose ; but my friends here wishing to see the 

 process of union and how the bees would take to the new queen, 

 I resorted to the plan which I have always hitherto adopted as 

 described above. My plan is to let the queen get thoroughly 

 scented with the warm odours of the hive below and to make 

 acquaintance with the excited bees beneath her, many of which, 

 having discovered their own loss, are only too glad to scent and 

 touch the solitary queen, whioh they do by thrusting their pro- 

 bosces through the holes of the zinc. When the queen, who 

 places herself invariably just over the hole, has been thus well 

 scented and the mutual acquaintance has been made, I gently 

 withdraw the zinc so as to admit one bee at a time into the 

 glass. If all goes well I let up another and another, and so on 

 till I am satisfied by the joyful humming of the bees above and 

 below that all danger of an attack upon the queen is over. They 

 are then left to their own devices, and sooner or later the whole 

 party descend and are seen no more. 



In the one case thus treated early in September no result ap- 

 peared, though I was satisfied all was well, till towards the end 

 of October, when I had the pleasure of Beeing several well- 

 marked Italians iu the hive, which will no doubt bo increase 

 during the winter and spring that by May the whole hive 

 will be italianised. 



The other hive received the queen most cordially, and in this 

 case I had the pleasure of Beeing her descend from the wineglass 

 into the hive below, welcomed and accompanied by a handsome 

 body guard of admirers and happy bees within twelve hours 

 from the time I had deprived them of their old queen. But 

 there arose a subsequent question in my mind as to whether 

 after all some fatal accident had not befallen her, for the bees 

 resumed (perhaps continued) their restlessness the next day, 

 appearing to have lost their queen, or not to have recognised the 

 Italian. I also feared that she was still a virgin queen because 

 her own guards did not seem to take much notice of her before 

 I took her from them, and I distinctly heard her pipe while still 

 in the box she travelled in. Therefore I thought it prudent to 

 restore to them their old queen (saved against accidents) towards 

 the evening of the second day. She, too, though absent some 

 thirty hours from the hive, was received back again and escorted 

 into the hive much as the Italian had been the day before. Of 

 course I thought the Italian queen had been sacrificed, perhaps 

 by queen-encasement, as is frequently the case. However, since 

 then a great number of well-marked yellow-jackets have ap- 

 peared in the hive. 



I can only suppose the explanation of this curious circum- 

 stance to be this, that the stranger queen was recognised and 

 received by a portion of the bees only, among which she took 

 up her position quietly in some corner of the hive, and that the 

 mass of the bees not having come acrosB her were Btill in agita- 

 tion when I gave them their old queen. Afterwards, I presume, 

 the two queens must have met, and the Italian proved herself 

 the stronger. Of course it is possible the two queens may be 

 alive, and have amicably divided the kingdom between them. 

 Such a possibility is vouched for by undoubted instances, how- 

 ever rare and exceptional, having been recorded in the pages of 

 this Journal of two queens being found together in the same 

 hive, although it does not follow that they were both mother 

 queens. — B. & W. 



Silver-Grey Dorking Cup and Archangel Prizes at the 

 Crystal Palace. — Through your columns I acknowledge with 

 thanks the subscriptions which I have received for the above- 



