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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUKB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 9, 1871. 



xvliich are the offending birds, but we can give yon comfort — it is only jnst 

 now the eggs will have that taste. If you know the hen, then about two 

 doses of castor oil, each about a table-spoonful, given at twenty-four 

 hours' interval, will cure it. 



Turkeys' Livers Disordered (F. P.).— The complaint is a disordered 

 liver, the cure is not so easily given. Change of food, castor oil, and 

 Baily's pills will do most good. Give no potato, no Indian corn. Put 

 camphor, or wormwood, or both in the water they have to drink, and see 

 that they roost in a place sheltered from the wind. 



Duck's Legs Paeaitsed— Turkey Feeding (R. C.).— We fear your 

 Dock is in bad case. The paralysis arises from internal disease or 

 external injury. In either case we believe it to be incurable. It will be 

 a kindness to kill it, as it will certainly die a lingering and painful death. 

 Ducks are hardly more amenable to medical treatment than boas or 

 Cobras. We know a very intelligent man who fancied calomel was the 

 right thiug for poultry, and commenced his experiment on a Duck and a 

 hen. He had a little leaning to homoeopathy, and began with the 

 smallest possible doses. He gradually increased the dose till the Duck 

 took three table-spoonfuls, and the hen pecked it as fast as she could, and 

 our experimentalist could not see any effect. Turkeys do well on 

 gronnd oats, with a small quantity of beans and peas ground with them, 

 and mixed with milk. Tbey should be shut in a small place where they 

 can roost comfortably, and should have their food in a trough, but only as 

 much as tbey will eat at a meal. It should be freth mixed morning and 

 evening The very heaviest London Turkeys are crammed, but that is 

 not necessary for ordinary purposes. 



Eemoving a Tumour (G. R. B.). — You should have removed the tumour 

 before it became so large as it is. It must be taken off at once. It will 

 be a trifling operation if the tumour is not attached to the breastbone — 

 so trifliDg. that when you open the skin the tumour will probably tall out. 

 If it is attached to the bone it must be cut off with a very sharp knife or 

 pair of scissors. There are two skins which will require to be sewn up 

 separately, and each suture should be well rubbed over with grease. The 

 bird will suffer very little. Your feeding is bad without being cheap. 

 Light wheat is expensive food. Weight for weight, that which costs 

 more costs less. Indian corn is a favourite food with fowls when whole ; 

 they will not eat it ground if they can help it. Boiled potatoes and boiled 

 rice are worse. Hempseed is not good, being too heating. Feed on 

 ground oats, whole Indian com, and table scraps. We have no doubt 

 the tumour or excrescence arises from weakness and insufficient food. 

 It is possible that with feeding such as we prescribe he mi^ht weigh less, 

 but he would look and show more. He would be as the trained 10-stone 

 man is compared to the heavy, sleepy, spiritless man, who from sheer fat 

 weighs 4 or 5 stone more. We know no one who can perform the opera- 

 tion for you. 



Hastening a Pigeon's Moulting {E. J. £^.).— Put your bird by itself 

 in a clean pen in a warm place— for instance, a harness-room, or any 

 south-fronted, warm, and dry building, and if it be cold, where there is a 

 fire. Feed it on wheat and hempseed mixed. After this treatment be 

 very careful that you send it to the show in a doubly-warm basket, one 

 having canvas or other material inside the wicker, or it would be sure to 

 get cold. 



Stocking Bar Hives [Barton Joyce), — The usual method adopted io 

 shaking a swarm into bar or frame hives, is to hive the swarm first into 

 a common straw hive. As soon as the bees are properly settled, or in 

 the evening of the same day, they are knocked out on a cloth and the 

 box set over them resting on two sticks. A better way is to remove the 

 top board; see that the frames are all in place, and the bees furnished 

 with bits of worker-comb for guide, then take the straw hive containing 

 the bees, and with a sharp concuseion between the two hands dislodge 

 the cluster so as to cause the bees to fall on the very top of the bars, re- 

 peating the blows until all are fallen. Some of the bees will pour out 

 over the sides of the box, and many will go down between the bars at 

 once. With a small sheet of zinc, or a spoon, thovel those bees that clus- 

 ter out over the back on the top of the bars, and when the majority have 

 gone dowD take the cover, and placing it on the extreme edge of the back 

 of the hive, gradually press it on over the top, keeping it flat on the box. 

 Those bees that are left outside will soon find their way in at the en- 

 trance. This is all best done as soon as the swarm has settled in the 

 straw hive. 



Saddle or Berkshire Hive. — " Can any of our readers give the 

 weight of an empty saddle or Berkshire hive— that is, of the store-box 

 minus the super ? — J. H." 



Feeding Bees {Idem). — If your hive is still so empty of honey, after all 

 your feeding, that you cannot see any honey sealed-up or glistening in the 

 open cflls, you will have to feed probably all through the winter. But 

 we would advise you to lose no time, and feed diligently every day 

 that the weather is fine and still, and the bees abroad. Stop feeding 

 when the weather is cold, and resume again on the return of mild open 

 weather. Sugar-candy has been found a good food for bees, but it is 

 nsually made of loaf-sugar. We have no experience of the brown. We 

 should thrust it in at the entrance rather than in the supers, taking care 

 that it goes right into the hive below the combs. 



Syrup for Beeb and Barley Sugar [E. S. H.). — The syrup is best 

 made of three parts of sugar to two parts of wster by weight. Boil a few 

 minutes ; when cool it should be of the consistency of thia but not 

 watery honey. Should it have been boiled too long and become too 

 thick, a little water can be added to thin it. Recipe for barley sugar as 

 food for bees :— Add to 3 lbs. of refined sugar a pint and a quarter of 

 water, boil it quickly till it becomes very thick. Pour it on to a marble 

 slab, or on to shallow dish slightly oiled or rubbed with butter; and 

 when it begins to harden at the edges form it into sticks, lozenges, or 

 balls, or any other shapes at pleasure. 



Mange (Blackpool). — There are many varieties of skin disease to which 

 dogs are liable. If it is that caused by an insect, then, as described by 

 Mr. Meyrick, "the hair comes off in large patches, principally on the 

 back and neck and round the eyes; in some cases the dog becomes 

 almost bare. The skin is dry, hot, wrinkled, and scaly. The appetite 

 generally continues good, but there is a great deal of thirst and some 

 fever. The dog is continually scratching himself, and rubbing against 

 the furniture if he is kept in the house. The old-fashioned sulphur 

 treatment, if properly followed, is generally specific. Give small doses 

 of sulphur (five grains) three times a-day, and rub into the skin equal 



parts of lard and sulphur. This operation should be performed before 

 a fire to make the ointment flow, and the whole skin should be thoroughly 

 saturated. Four or five applications, at intervals of three days, are 

 usually enough to cure the xiisease. The skin should be well washed 

 each time before the ointment is applied. In a very severe case the dog 

 may be bled, and the ointment of iodide of mercury rubbed in, the dog's 

 bowels being kept open, if necessary, with castor oil." 



Grape Wine (J. M. R.).—W6 do not think it will ferment excessively 

 if undisturbed and if you did not put yeast into the must. A little brandy 

 added checks fermentation. We will give further information next week 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Camden Square, London. 



Lat. 5r 32' 40" N. ; Long. 0° 8' 0" W. ; Altitude 111 feet. 



Date. 



9 A.3I. 



In the Day. 





1871. 



Baroroe- 



tor at 82« 



and Sea 



Level. 



Hygrome- 

 ter. 



Direc- 

 tion of 

 Wind. 



Temp, 

 of Soil 

 at 1 ft. 



Shade Tem- 

 perature. 



Radiation 

 Tempera- 

 ture. 



1 



Nov. 



Dry. 



Wet. 



Max. 



Min. 



In 1 



« 



We. 1 



Th. 2 

 Fri. 8 

 Sat. 4 

 Sun. 5 

 Mo. 6 

 Tq. 7 



Inches. 

 29.963 

 30.117 

 30.103 

 30.' 67 

 30.111 

 29.907 

 29.627 



17^6 

 45 6 

 46.2 

 44.8 

 41.0 

 37.i 

 41.7 



deg. 

 45.1 

 42.6 

 42 4 

 44.0 

 S7.5 

 34.2 

 40.4 



E.S.E. 

 N. 



N.E. 



N. 



E. 



E. 

 N.E. 



deg. 

 49.6 

 49.2 

 48.6 

 48.7 

 47.2 

 45.6 

 44.8 



deg. 

 52.5 

 49.7 

 49.6 

 48.1 

 45.2 

 43.5 

 4S.0 



deg. 

 46 3 

 44.2 

 41.8 

 40,9 

 S4,8 

 81.4 

 S6.9 



deg. 1 deg 

 87.3 45.1 

 60.0 42.4 

 66.2 37.4 



63.7 40.5 



78.8 : 31.6 

 63.0 iSja 

 60.2 34.1 



In. 



0.010 

 [.010 



0.03) 



Means 



29.989 



43.4 



40.9 





47.7 



48.1 



89.5 



65.5 37.1 



1 



O.OSO 



REMARKS. 



1st — A very lovely autumn day, clear and bright throughout. 



2nd.— A cloudy but dry day. 



3rd. — A very bright morning, cloudy at noon and so continued, but fair 



and pleasant. 

 4th. — Alternate sunshine and cloud with a little rain, but on the whole a 



pleasant day. 

 5th.— Very fine day though cold and wintry ; stars bright at night. 

 6th. — Strong white frost ; fine morning, but rather hazy after. ' 

 7th, — Fofzgy all day and occasionally dark, but clearer in the evening. 



A dull November week with easterly wind, but damp atmosphere and 

 falling barometer. Slight frost in the air only on one day, Monday the 6th. 

 — G. J. Stiions. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— Notembeb 8 

 Notwithstanding the fine weather of the past week, we are not able 

 to report so firm a market. In rough produce trade has been heavy the 

 last few days, and a considerable quantity has gone over from day to 

 day. Importations have also been large. Good dessert Apples are 

 scarce ; Pears are sufficient for the trade, comprising Marie Louise, Glou 

 Mori;eau, Van Mons Leon Leclerc, Beurre Diel, and others. Dealers in 

 Potatoes report that crops are heavy, and that a large proportion of them 

 is, in some districts, affected with the blight. 



Apples i sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bushel 10 



S. d. s. 



Currants ^ sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Grapes, Hothouse.... lb. 2 



Gooseberries quart 



Lemons ^100 8 



Melons each 2 



Mulberries lb. 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges ^100 



Peaches doz. 



Pears, kitchen doz. 



dessert doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums J Bieve 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 



Quinces doz. 



Walnuts bashel 10 



ditto ^100 1 



d. s. 

 OtoO 



C 



12 



12 







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6 



8 











a 



S5 

 8 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes doz. 



Asparagus ^100. 



Beans, Kidney.. ..j- sieve 



Broad bushel 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli handle 



Brussels Sprouts. .^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Cap^icams ¥*'100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Coleworts.. doz. bunches 

 Cucumbers each 



pickling ...doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish handle 



s. d. s. 

 4to0 















2 3 



6 1 



2 3 



10 2 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce doz. 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustard & Cress, .punnet 

 Onions bushel 



pickling quart 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes., doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys.' doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows . . doz. 



s. d. s. d 



3 too 

 1 



POULTRY MARKET.— November 8. 

 We are tolerably well supplied. We have not a great demand, 

 there any glut. The prices are quite equal to those usually made 

 time of year. 



Large Fowls 3 



Smallerditto 2 



Chickens 1 



Geese 6 



Ducks 1 



Pheasants 2 



d. s. 

 6 to 4 



6 S 



9 2 



6 



6 2 



6 8 



Pigeons 



Rabbits 1 



Wildditto 



Hares S 



Partridges 1 



Grouse 1 



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