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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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Gwydyr, Ipswich. 8, H. Tomlinson, Birmingham, he, H. Tomlinson ; Mrs. 

 Allsop, Worceater ; T. Basset, Bath, c, A. Darby. Bridgnorth. 

 Cochins.— Any other Variety.— 1 and Cup, E. Tudman, Whitchurch, Salop. 



2, "Whitehead & Beechey, Kingskerswell. Devon. 8, E. Tudman. he, R. S. S. 

 Woodgate. Tunbridge Well.; G. Leas, Cornwall: M. M. Cashmere, Lough- 

 It orough ; R Chase, Birmingham ; A, J. E. Smuded ; Capt. Coleridge, e, R. S. 

 S. Woodgate; H. Tomlinson; R. Chase. 



Brahmas.— Dark.— 1, — Lingwood, Creeting, Suffolk. 2, Lady Gwydyr. 8, E. 

 Ensor, Bristol, he, Mrs. E. A. Baily, Tenbury ; J. Bowen, Talgarth ; Hon. Mrs. 

 A. B. Hamilton, e, F. Sabin, Birmingham. 



Brahmas.— Light.— 1 and Cup, Miss A. Williamson, Leicester. 9, T. A. Dean, 

 Marden, Hereford. 3, P. D. Maddox, Launceston. he, Miss A. Williamson ; T. 

 A. Dean. c. T. A. Dean; G. Walters: J. B. Weeks. Bromyard; M. Leno. 



Game.— Black-breasted and other Beds.—!, E. Wiuwood. 2, Osborne Bros. 



3, F. H. Wright, Halifax. 



Game— Any other Variety— \ and Cnp, J. Andrews, Worcester. 2, J. Fletcher, 

 Manchester. 3, S. Mathew. c. W. Phillips, Worcester. 



Hamburghs — Silver-pencilled— 1, Duke of Sutherland, Stoke-on-Trent. 2, H. 

 Pickles, Skipton. he, W. Griffith, Worcester. Golden-pencilled— I, W. Sneak- 

 man. 2, H. Beldon, Binglev. he, H. Beldon ; H. Pickles ; Duke of Sutherland. 

 c, C. Bloodworth. 



HAMBORQH8. — Silver-spanqled.—\, Duke of Sutherland. 2, J. Fielding, New- 

 church, he, Ashton & Booth ; H. Beldon. Golden-spangled— \ and Cup, Duke 

 of Sutherland. 2, R. H. Ashton, Manchester. 



Pounds.— 1. H. Beldon. 2, P. Unsworth, Newton-le-Willows. 3, H. Beldon. 

 he, G. C. Adkins, Birmingham, c, H. Beldon. 



Any other Variety.— 1 and Cup, Duke of Sutherland. 2. J. Hinton, War- 

 minster. 3, R. B. Wood. Uttoxeter. he, W. Dring, Faversham ; W Cutlack, 

 Cambridge : J. J. Maiden; H. Pickles: Mrs. Winfield, Worcester, c, Rev. N. J. 

 Ridley, Hexham; H. Beldon; E. Smith, Timperley. 



Game Bantams.— Black-breasted and other Reds.—l and Cup. J. Martin. 2, H. 

 Shumach, Southend, Notts, he, E. Davis. Worcester ; Win-field & Andrews, 

 WorceBter ; — Mayo, Gloucester, c, A. Ashlev. Worcester. 



Game Bantams.— Any other Variety— 1 and Cup, W. Barton, Haslingden. 

 2, H. Shumach. he, — Cooper, Chippenham ; W. Adams, Ipswich ; Bellingham 

 and Gill, Burnley. 



Bantams— Black or While. — 1 and 2, Lady C. Morton, Tortworth Court. 

 he. H. Beldon : J. Watts, c. P. H. Ashton : Wingfield & Andrews. 



Bantams — Any other Variety— 1 and 2, M. Leno. Local Cup, J. Martin. 



Ducks.— Aylesbury.— 1, Cup, and 2, J. K. Fowler, c, T. Sear, Tengewick : J. 

 F. Davis, Neath, liouen— 1, P. Unsworth. 2, J. H. Hoil, Cornwall, he, W. 

 Stephens, Gloucester; T. Wakefield, c, J. Watts. Any other Variety-— 1 and 

 2, M. Leno. he, G. Saunders, Devizes ; M. Leno ; J. Watts, c, J. J. Maiden. 



Selling Class.— 1, Mrs. Allsopp. 2, MrB. Winfield. 3, J. Bloodworth. c, E. 

 Smith ; MrB. Winfield ; J. Watts. 



PIGEONS. 



Carrier.— Cock.—l, R. Fulton, London. 2, H. Yardley, Birmingham, lie and 

 c, R. Fulton. Hen —1, T. H. Watkins, Hereford. 2. he, and e, R. Fulton. 



Pouter.— Cocfc.—l, 2, and c, R. Fulton, he, H. Yardley. He?i— 1 and 2, R. 

 Fulton, he, H. Yardley. 



Barbs.— 1 and he, R. Fulton. 2, H. Yardley. 



Tumblers.— Almond— 1, 2, and he, R. Fulton, c, H. Yardley. Any other 

 Variety.— I and he, R. Fulton. 2, H. Yardley. c, J. Walts. 



FaNTAiLS— 1, R. Fulton. 2 and he, H. Yardley. c, J. F. Loversidge, Newark. 



Dragoons.— 1 and 2, W. H. Mitchell, Birmingham, he, R. Fulton, c, H. 

 Yardley. 



Antwerps— 1, H. R. Wright. 2 and 7ic, H. Yardley. c, H. H. Burrows. 



Jacobins.— 1, 2, and he, R. Fulton. 



Trumpeters.— 1 and 2, R. Fulton. 



Nuns.— 1, H. Yardley. 2. J. Watts. 



Any other Variety.— 1, H. Yardley. 2, J. Watts, he, J. H. Watkins. e, R.. 

 Pritchard, Wolverhampton ; R. Fulton. 



Judges. — Mr. Tegetmeier, London, and Mr. Allsop, 51, Spencer 

 Street, Birmingham. 



NORTHAMPTON POULTRY SHOW. 



This Show was held at Weedon, on the 17th and 18th of 

 September. The following is the list of the awards :— 



Dorkings.— 1, R. Wood, Clapton, Thrapstone. 2. J. Longland, Grendon. 3, 

 No competition. Bens.— 1, J. Longland. 2, Rev. E. Bartrnm, Berkbampitead. 

 lie, R. Wood. Chickens.— 1, Rev. E. Bartrnm. 2, O. E. Cresswell, Early Wood, 

 Bagshot. 3, R. Wood. Pullets.—!, J. Longland. 2, O. E. Cresswell. he, J. 

 Watts, King's Heath, Birmingham; R. Wood. Cock or Cockerel— I and 2, J. 

 Longland. 8, O. E. Cresswell. he, R. Wood. 



Spani«h.— 1, E. .lackBon, Finchfield, Wolverhampton. 2, W R. Bull, Newport 

 Fagnell. 3, H. Yardley. Birmingham. Chickens.— 1, W. R. Bull. 2, J. T. 

 Parker, Northampton, he, C. Wright, Northampton. Cock or Cockerel— I, W. 

 R. Bull. 2, H. Lloyd, jun., HandBworth, Birmingham. 



Game.— 1 and he, B. Cox. Moulton. 2. H. Lotan, Onndle. 3, J. Bishop, 

 Dnston, Northampton. Chickens— 1, J. Sargeant, Wootton, Northampton. 2, 

 H. Lotan, Oundle. he, B. Cox (2): E. Kirbv. Weedon. Cock or Cockerel— 1, 

 B. Cox. 2, T. Cook, Wellingborough. 3, Capt. G. W. Taylor, Flore, Weedon. 



Cochin-Chinas.— 1, H. Yardley, Birmingham. 2. W. A. Taylor, Manchester. 

 3, R. S. S. Woodgate Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, he, J. K. Fowler, Aylesbury. 

 c K H. Lloyd, jun., Handswonh. Chickens— 1, W. A. Taylor. 2. W. Birch, 

 CoveDtry. he, P.Passmore, Northampton ; H. Llovd. jun. ' Cock or Cockerel— 

 1, H. Lloyd, jun. 2, J. K. Fowler, c, R. S. S. Woodgate. 



Brahma Pootra.— 1, H. Yardley. 2, J. Watts, c, J. K. Fowler. Chickens — 

 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, Miss Fryer, Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, he, W. Birch. 

 Barnacle, Coventry. 



Hamburghs— 1, B. Cox, Monlton. 2, T. Love, Kingsthorpe. he, W. Pinfold, 

 Weedon. Chickens— 1, H. Lloyd, jun. 2, P. Collins, Daventry. lie, B. Cox ; H. 

 Yardley. c, H. Piper, Oxford. 



Bantams— 1, M. Leno, Markyate Street, Dunstable. 2, H. Yardley. c, H. 

 Lloyd, jun. 



Any other Variety— 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, Rev. N. J. Ridley, Newbury (La 

 Fleche). he, Rev. J. D. Peake, Laleham. 



Geese— 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, T. Pell, Whiston, Northampton, he, J. Sargent ; 

 E. Judkins, Stowe, Weedon. 



Ducks— Aylesbury— 1 and 2, J. K. Fowler. Rouen.— 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, T. 

 Brtrnaby, Pipewell. he, J. K. Fowler; Hon. and Rev. C. Vernon, Grafton 

 Underwood, Kettering; R.Wood; W. Birch, Barnacle, Coventry. Any other 

 Variety— 1, M. Leno (Carolinas). 2. J. K. Fowler, he, G. H.'Bold. Stowe, 

 Weedon (American) ; J. Goodliff, Huntingdon (White Call) ; M. Leno 

 (Mandarins). 



Turkeys— 1, J. K. Fowler. 2, No competition. 



Selling Class.— 2, Lady D. H. W. Fitzwilliam, Wellingborough (Partridge 

 Cochin). 3, M. Leno, Dunstable (Call Ducks), he, H. Llovd, jun. (Cochins) ; 

 P. Collins. Daventry: C. Wright. Northampton; Lady D.'H. W. Fitzwilliam 

 {Aylesbury and Geese); J. Goodliffe, Huntingdon (White Chinese GeeBe): J. 

 L.. Fowler (3). 



Miscellaneous Class.— 1, W. Nottage, Northampton (Spanish). 2, J. Long- 

 land (PorkingB). 3 and i, B. Cox, Northampton IGame and Hamburghs). he, 

 P. Collins, Daventry (White Cochin); E. Kirby, Weedon (Toulouse UeeBe); C. 

 Wright, Northampton. 



Pigeons.— 1 and lie, H. Yardley. 2, W. Nottage. 



Mr. E. Hewitt, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, was the Judge. 



LIGURIANISING. 



The following is a portion of my apiarian experience of the 

 last twelve months as relating to ligurianising, &c. I received 

 five queens last autumn from Messrs. Neighbour & Sons, all of 

 which were lost on giving them to their intended new subjects, 

 except one, which was given in the following manner — viz., the 

 stock of bees were driven into an empty hive, knocked on to a 

 cloth, and their queen captured. The bees were then slightly 

 sprinkled with scented syrup, also the new queen; she was then 

 quietly placed amongst the bees on the cloth, and they, ap- 

 parentlj 7 , regarded her as their own rightful sovereign. The 

 cloth was then lifted on one side and fastened to the front of 

 their hive, and all ascended with a joyful buzz to their old 

 quarters, where the new queen has this summer proved herself 

 a very prolific one. 



Three of the other queens were given in the way in which I 

 usually proceed when transferring them to a new regency, and 

 which, with black or hybrid queens has always succeeded — that 

 is, the queen, instead of being placed on the cloth, was put on 

 one of the combs in the hive whence the bees had been driven, 

 no syrup being used, and the bees were then allowed to go back 

 to her. These three were missing. The remaining one was 

 put under a queen-cage in a bar-and-frame hive, which had 

 been deprived of its queen some days previously. She was 

 afterwards found to have been liberated by the bees eating away 

 the comb ; she, too, was gone. This hive and the three former 

 ones each reared a drone-breeding queen. 



Do you think it probable that the bees would more readily 

 receive an Italian queen if all their brood were destroyed, say 

 by driving a day or two before giving the queen, and letting 

 their hive remain tenantless ? "We had four fine pure queens 

 hatched early in May last, and hoped they would be fertilised 

 by some small Ligurian clones which were being numerously 

 bred in a strong stock, headed by a non-impregnated queen 

 kept for the purpose of breeding pure drones ; but the queens 

 were some of them lost by taking their flight whilst the weather 

 was so unusually cold, and the rest remained unfertilised. 

 Have the small drones bred in worker cells the capability of 

 fulfilling their office ? I hope to be more fortunate in adding 

 some new queens this autumn. — S. B., Knowle. 



BEES AND HONEY AT FLOWER SHOWS. 

 I bead with very great pleasure " J. E. B.'s " account of the 

 exhibition of bees and honey at the Burton Floral and Horti- 

 cultural Meeting. I may just say that last year was the first 

 time they introduced bees at themExhibition. I myself entered 

 six hives and some honey last year, and on attending it was 

 forced to confess that their Show far eclipsed any other I had 

 ever seen before. I am only sorry that all the flower shows do 

 not give prizes for bees, honey, &c, being, as they are so often, 

 associated with flowers. I believe the Middleton Agricultural 

 Show was the first to introduce bees, then followed Bury, and 

 this year the East Cheshire Agricultural Society have given 

 prizes. The Middleton Show has taken place this week, but 

 owing to the wet weather all the bee-masters did not put in an 

 appearance. Mr. Breen, of Manchester, took the first prize in 

 bees and honey with a very good Woodbury hive, and a fine 

 glass of honey, I think near 40 lbs. weight ; he also took the 

 first prize at the East Cheshire last week. In introducing this 

 matter to committees one thing must be borne in mind — that 

 prizes should be divided into two classes, one for the best collec- 

 tion of fancy hives, and one for the best two or three hives for 

 cottagers, to be judged by weight, for itis notin the power of all 

 the working class to buy a Neighbour or a Woodbury hive. I 

 would also recommend the giving of prizes for honey in glasses 

 and for straw supers. We should not have had very heavy 

 supers here in South Lancashire had it not been for the heather 

 being" so good this year. I have had sixteen hives upon the 

 moors this season, and they have all done very well. My first 

 swarm issued May 27th, and I had not another until July 11th, 

 and they kept swarming until July 29th. I had two swarms out 

 of one hive in one day, and they have both done well. I don't 

 think I ever knew bees to suffer more than they did in the 

 month of June than they have done this year. I have brought 

 my last lot from the heather to-day (September 21st), and they 

 have also done well. — South Lancashtre Bee-keeper. 



THE QUEEN'S MATES. 



Is it not the case that the queen bee seeks to mate with other 

 drones than those of the hive to which she belongs? — J. S. 



[Tour query, we fear, will hardly receive an answer that will 

 satisfy your mind, owing to the almost impossibility of tracking 

 the young princesses on their hymeneal expeditions. There 

 can be no doubt that they often do mate with foreign drones, 

 hence the difficulty of maintaining the purity of the Italian 

 blood in our apiaries. But if your supposition be true as a rule, 

 it is a testimony of nature against " breeding in-and-in."] 



