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JOUPvlsiL OF HOKTICULTUKE ANB COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ June S, 1871. 



that covers the legs, and a very soft bill. Size, development, and con- 

 dition are dependant on food. With ground oats, barleymeal. vegetables. 

 j^ftES, fresh mould, and road grit, we need no " patent food." We do not 

 like it, and we never use it. 



Rearing PARTRroGES (E. M. B.). — As soon as your birds are out, let 

 them be conveyed withtbehento adry grass field, and if on a rising ground 

 so much the "better. The hen must be under a rip, the bars of which 

 allow free egress and ingress to the young If it be a clover field, some 

 small runs should be cut extending a yard or two from the rip ; it is good 

 for them while young, and when older they will work their own way icto 

 the stiilT. Fei;d them on bread and milk, chopped egg, chopped cooked 

 meat, bread and cheese, curd, and bruised corn. Let ihem always have 

 fresh water. You should hatch and rear all. 



Cross Between Silver-Grey and Brown Dorkings (ConsianiEeatier). 

 — Beyond a douitt ; and we should expect good things of the produce. It 

 will often happen to you, when you are trying to breed pure Silvci'- Greys, 

 that you will get such as you will have now. 



Cochin-China Pdllet Laying at Eleven Weeks Old fO. J).— Itis 

 a very unusual occuri'ence. Tbe earliest we ever knew was fourteen 

 weeks. It is not very rare to find pullets laying at sixteen weeks old. 

 The atmosphere in which she has been kept may have had an influence 

 in the matter. 



Exhibiting Game Fowi.s(Jimo).— Itis tettertoput a Game cock up for 

 a week before he is shown. Feed on ground oats, chopped raw me:\t, and 

 a few white peas. Some give raw yolk of e£;g. Keep him very clean. 

 The principal difference between the Black and Broivu Reds is, that in 

 one the breast must be black, while in the other it must be brown. 



Runts not Rearing their Young and Laying Bouble-yolked Eggs 

 (W. C. Mo7T!s).— Runts are bad nurses — that is, if tbey are good Runts, 

 Rimts of large size. It is best to keep a number of common Pigeons to 

 raise the young ones, A cross between an Antwerp or Dragoon and a 

 common Runt makes strong, good feeders, and their own youug being 

 large are acceptable in the kitchen. It would seem to be a law in Pigeons, 

 that wherever there is a very great departure from the original type, 

 whether in largeness, smallness, or alteration of form to a jireat degree 

 in any way, then the Pigeons so altered are bad rearers of theiryoung. 

 Thus this is seen in Kunts, Almond Tumblers, and well-bred Pouters, 

 and we find it so in the very small Scotch Fantails. In Spanish fowls 

 the largest eggs are laid in the spring, and then double eggs are not 

 unusual, but it ia, we believe, far less usual among Pigeons, though we 

 are not surprised in the case of Runts. 



Various (.1/. R. Fairer).— The above answer replies to one of your 

 questions. Your birds are high-bred, and all such Tumblers neglect 

 their young, pairing again and nesting too soon, and the young ones die, 

 as you say, with their crops full, and really of cold, thay needing the 

 warmth of their parents. The cross you mention w'ill produce birds 

 strawberry in colour and utterly useless. No true fancier crosses varie- 

 ties. Feed your flying Tumblers more sparingly, and drive them up in 

 the morning before feeding. Good flying Tum'"ders should not be kept 

 with other varieties, and should be regularly trained to fly. 



Pigeons — The White Eye (Reader).— \^e are inclined to think that 

 the birds you describe are thorough mongrels. There is no breed known 

 as " The White Eye." There are muny varieties that are imperfect un- 

 less they have the white eye, but such point alone is no reason why any 

 variety separately should monopolise the name. Barbs, Nuns, Magpies, 

 Balds, Beards, and Tumblers should all have white eyes. Many, and 

 some of the best, too, of the Antwerps have white eyes, and some are 

 without bars or a coloured neck, in fact a'most colourless ; and we think 

 the birds to which you allude are a cross between the inferior colourless 

 Antwei-p and the Long-faced Tumbler, for Tumblers fly high and for a 

 great length of time ; they also have white eyes and a Dove-?haped beak. 

 They will without difS-Culty find their home from a reasonable distance. 



Fleas on Rabbits (Young Subscriber). — Your Rabbits may be cured of 

 fleas by spriukling their skins with "Heating's Insect Powder." The 

 hutches should be cleaned out oftener than once a-week, and a disinfec- 

 tant used ; then pine wood sawdust. Use oat straw for bedding, and lime 

 whitewash at times during this hot weather. Let the hutches be well 

 ventilated. 



QuEENLBSS Hive (H.J.,TliamesDWon), — If the brood comb which you 

 inserted has failed, you had better procure a second swarm and shake the 

 bees into the hive. 



Uniting Hives {Avmteur). — Allow your stocks to work as they are until 

 autumn, then drive and unite the bees, putting them all into the best of 

 the three. If you use frame hives, you could now drive out, in succession, 

 the bees of your weak stocks into one straw hive; having cut out the 

 combs fix the best and all those containing brood into frames in the 

 manner so often described in this Journal ; and then knock out the united 

 bees on the tops of the frames. You would in this manner probably make 

 a really strong and prosperous colony. 



Swarm leaving Hive (A. A., Eichmond, Surrey).— -Y owe swarm has 

 most probably lost its queen ; if so, you will hardly succeed in inducing 

 the hoes to remain in any hive you may give them. If they do, but stiJl 

 show a di:^inclination to work, procure, if you can, a second swarm, and 

 unite it to them. Before doing so, turn up tbe first swarm, and see if any 

 combs have been built, and whether they are worker or drone-celled, and 

 if the latter, cut them out. Yom- hive being new had nothing to do with 

 the beeb' desertion. 



Messing inside of Hive — Tanging (D. It.).— An experienced apiarian 

 would not have "well dressed" the straw hive with syrup prior to shaking 

 in the swarm. No wonder that the bees were disgusted with tbe nasty 

 clammy state of the interior of their new quarters, and preftrred trying 

 to seek others. A dkty rotten old skep, if dry, would have been more 

 acceptable to them. We also thought that the practice of "taoging" 

 bees, with the idea of causing them to settle satisfactorily, was confined 

 to the most ignorant class of bee-keepers. We have constantly, in the 

 pages of this Journal, endeavoured to convince our apiarian readers of 

 the inutility and injudiciousness of making noises of any kind when a 

 swarm is in the air. 



Woo 'BURY HiTE, Frames, Super, &g. (Eee-7ceepcr, Galwaji).~Tvfo of 

 the bo^-B sent appear to be small drones, the others were too much crushed 

 for u- to give any opinion as to what they are. Unless specially ordered, 

 the frames of the Woodbury hive are generally sent out entire, the mnjority 

 of bee-keepers finding a difficulty ia manipulating with tho loose bars. 



Whether you have the right Woodbury hive or an imitation we do not 

 know, but assuredly yon have not the proper super for it, which should 

 certainly have bars iiientical in every respect with those which fit in the 

 compound frames. You had better order a set of thela'.ter ; you will find 

 both these and the solid frame useful. The bars should not be removed 

 from tbe hive prior to hiving the swarm. The inventor of t'ae Woodbury 

 hive neither makes hives nor employs any agent for their sale. 



Mint Sauce in Winter MA'ew A'«&scn6erj.— Cut the mint just before 

 it flowers, dry it thoroughly in a cool di-y place, then rub it into a powder, 

 bottle it, cork tightly, and use as needed. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



Camden Square, London. 



Lat. 51° 32' 40" N. ; Long. 0° 8' 0" W. ; Altitude 111 feet. 



Date. 







9 A.3I 







1S71. 





Hygrome- 

 ter. 



Direc- 



Temp. 



Jnne. 



S'^.^S 



tion of 



of Soil 



ri ^ J3 j; 













l^a- 



Dry. 



Wet. 









Inelies. 



deg. 



dea. 





des. 



We. 31 



S0.15D 



fi1.7 



56.8 



N. 



58.S 



Th. 1 



30.063 



62.3 



57.5 



S.W. 



68.2 



Pri. 2 



30.151 



54.0 



17.6 



N.E. 



56.6 



Sat. 3 



30 200 



4S.4 



U9 



N. 



55. S 



Sun. i 



29.992 



51.2 



48.0 



N.E. 



54.5 



Mo. 5 



30.170 



56.2 



49.4 



N.E. 



63.9 



Ta. 6 



30.079 



67.1 



52.4 



N. 



55.4 



Means 



30.116 



56.0 



50,9 





56.1 



Ix THE Day. 



Shade Tem- 

 perature. 



deg. j deg. 



69. 



71.1 



59.5 



58.0 



60.3 



65.6 



62.0 



518 

 45 8 

 409 

 41.4 

 39.0 

 40.2 

 41.7 



Eadiation 

 Tempera- 

 ture. 



m , On 

 8un. grass 



deg. 



115.8 



113 



115.9 



liiO.l 



113.5 



118.3 



90.0 



deg. 

 50.2 

 42.4 



37.2 

 37.4 

 39.3 



43.0 110.3 I 40.5 0.024 



0.015 

 0.009 



REMARKS. 

 May 31st.— Dull, heavy, and storm-like till noon, then very fine. 

 June 1st.— Dull and stormy-fooking, but getting gradually finer, fine 



night. 

 2ud. — Dull and very cold all day, slight shower between 5 and 6 p.:n. 

 3rd.— Cold and dull, with short glimpses of sunshine, hail Bt 1.24 p.ii. 

 4th. — Agnin very cold, with alternating sunshine and showers, a fino 



evening. 

 5th. — Still cold, but a very bright sunshiny day. 

 6th.— Rutber warmer, though the heat of the sun was less. It shone very 



brightly riuring the wfternoon, but not scorchingly ; the morning 



was very dull and cold. 

 Another dry week and bitterly cold on several days. Snow fell at 

 several places in the vicinity of London on the morning of June 4!;h. — 



G. J. SYilONS. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— June 7. 

 Notwithstanding the drift cf cold north-easterly wind prevailing, we 

 have had a liberal supply during the past weak, and prices have been 

 maintained, supported principally by the large orders received from the 

 midland-county towns, the weather favourin-' the transit of both fruit 

 and vegetables. Kent Peas are freely ofTered. and large quantities of 

 Potatoes are to hand from St. Malo and the Channel Islands, with 

 heavy consignments of Strawberries and Cherries from France. 



Apples i sieve 



.ipricota doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bushel 



Currants J sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Coba lb. 



Goosebenies quart 



Grapes, Hothouse.... lb. 



Lemons ^100 



Melons each 



Artichokes doz. 



Asparagus 3^ 100 



Beans, liidney ....^100 



Broad bushel 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brussels Sprouts. . i sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicmna ^100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Colewort8..doz. bunches 

 Cucumbers each 



piclding doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs btmoh 



Horseradish ....bundle 



s, d. s. 

 2 to 5 



8 



12 



10 



12 



Mulberries lb. 



Nectarines doz. 10 



Orantjes ^i* 100 6 



Peaches doz. 12 



Pears, kitchen doz. 



dessert doz. 



Pine Apples ]b. 6 



Plums j sieve 



Quinces doz. 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 6 



Walnn t,3 bushel 10 



ditto ^100 1 



d. B. 

 too 

 20 



1(1 



24 







( 



10 



n 





 - 



10 



10 



2 







VEGETABLES. 



8. d. 8. & 

 4 to 6 



4 



8 



2 (1 



3 











a 



3 



1) II 



1 6 



(1 







1 n 



2 











li 



1 



(i n 



10 



1 « 



2 



8 (1 



6 



11 (> 



1 6 



(1 







2 







8 







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(J H 







a 



E 



Leelts bunch 



Lettuoo doz, 



Mushrooms pottle 



jVTustard & Creaa. .punnet 

 Onions bushol 



pickling quart 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas ,.. quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes .. doz. buncbea 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetitble Marrows. .doz. 



d. 8. 

 4 too 

 6 1 

 



POULTRY MARKET.— June 7. 

 At the time v.hou wo go to press, the signs of an increased supply are 

 so patent, that we may safely say when this is in our readers' hands, 

 there will be a diminution of prices. 



LargoFowls 5 



Smaller ditto 4 



Chicl'eus 2 



Due! lintrs 2 



Goslings G 



Pheasants 



d. s. 

 to r. 



1 



a 



2 



«; 







Pigxjona 



Kabbils 1 



WUdditto 



Hai'es 1 



Guinea Fowl 



Grouse 



d. 8. d 



9 to 10 



4 1 r> 



9 10 















