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JOTJENAL OF HOKTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



[ October 3, 1872. 



Drop some powdered camphor in the feathers of those most tormented. Dis- 

 continue ail dry food, and feed on slated meal only. 



Rouen Ducks (Anas). — Tour Rouen drake four months old weighs very 

 well, being 7 lbs. 11 ozs. If the class for Rouen Ducks be an open one, you 

 can show birds of any age in the same pen ; but if two classes, one for adult, 

 one for birds of the year, you must show either all birds of px-evious years 

 or all birds of this. The competition must be very close indeed if the slight 

 mark you name be of any consequence. 



Cr£ve-Cceurs' Face Swollen (Creve-Gasur). — The breed are subject to 

 the disease you name, but they do not die of it. Continue small doses of 

 camphor, feed entirely on soft food, and allow no water, save a small drink in 

 the morning, the same at mid-lay and at evening; very little each time, and 

 on no account to have water by her. "When suffering from disease this breed 

 drinks incessantly, and increases the malady thereby. It is always. wise to 

 wash such a face with vinegar and cold water morning and evening. 



Stock of Fowls (Subscriber). — One hundred hens on half an acre of 

 ground are too many. The disease yon mention is incipient roup. It never 

 goes beyond that stage in Asiatic breeds. It is not ns fatal in any breed as it 

 used to be. No doubt many of your hens are old ones, and they will not lay 

 many eggs, but 2hi. per week per hen is not enough when in full season. If 

 your moulted hens have begun laying again you are fortunate, as eggs will sell 

 now well till after Christmas. You must, however, earn and deserve a reputa- 

 tion for selling them new laid. Fifty pullets are as many as you can keep profit- 

 ably on half an acre, and that number only by allowing them to do as they 

 like. You should now be looking out pullets, and weeding and selling hens. 



Pile Ga^ie Bantams (A. S. B.). — There is no proper colour for the legs 

 of Pile Game, hut they are mostly white. The hens should be drab and 

 white, the cocks red and white. We repeat there is no proper colour, but all 

 must be alike in the pen. The points are the same as in Game fowls or 

 Game Bantams. 



Egg-eating Pullet (C. S.). — You can only cure the pullet by watching 

 and driving her off the nest as soon as she has laid. You can cross any 

 breeds yon like, hut some are better than others. We believe the best cross 

 to be between Brahma cock and Dorking pullets. 



Dark Brahmas (H. F. H.). — We do not advise you to get rid of your Dark 

 Brahmas, but they will not do to exhibit. Keep them, and put them next 

 year to a lighter cock. Their weights are very good. The Dark Dorkings are 

 generally the heaviest, and many people think them the handsomest. The 

 crooked breast is a fatal fault, and the show was badly judged where the prize 

 cock had a crooked breast. 



Jacobins at Shows (G. W.H.). — Except at Birmingham, where we have 

 seen Jacobins divided into two classes, first Yellow, second Any other colour, 

 all the colours compete together, and the prizes are, consequently, won by the 

 best birds of whatever colour- they may happen to be. If, therefore, your 

 Red-splashed (an old-fashioned colour, and of which there were in former 

 days splendid specimens) were better in points than their adversaries, they 

 would win against any colour, at least they ought to do so. A handsomely- 

 splashed or mottled bird has to our minds less of the Baldhead-Tumbler 

 appearance than the Whole-colours. The White must have pearl eyes, or their 

 case as exhibition birds would be hopeless. - It is the tendency of all white- 

 plumaged Pigeons to have the bull-eye, and it' is the triumph of the fancier 

 to get rid of it. The colours of Jacobins according to precedence are thus 

 arranged by some fanciers :— Black, Red, Yellow, White or any other colour. 

 Blue, however, if forthcoming, should from its rarity stand high. Whoever 

 carefully cultivates this variety of Pigeon will deserve the thanks of the 

 whole fancy, as tho Jacobin has been greatly neglected, and yet it is a very 

 pretty bird, whether Whole-colour or Baldheaded. 



Points in Black-mottled Trumpeters (F. W. H.). — The joints in all 

 Trumpeters are rose, crown, muffs, colour and size. The rose is above or at 

 the root of the beak; it should be large, flat, and circular. The hood or 

 crown should be even, large, and rise well from the hack of the head, so as to 

 give full effect to a front view. The muffs should be long, strong, and well 

 proportioned. As to colour, the purest white, jet black, and the b°st mottled 

 will have the preference in their respective classes, other points being equal 

 to those of then- competitors. With regard to size, the present taste is in 

 favour of the largest. The above points are those decided upon by the 

 Birmingham Columbarian Society. In regard to the way in which the 

 mottled birds should he bred, the best plan is to put a young black hen, bred 

 from a pair of blacks to a dark-mottled cock. They will produce dark-mottled 

 birds, for the object is to get them dark, not light. They should be mottled 

 with white only on the head, neck, and shoulders of the wings. A pair for 

 exhibition should match as nearly as possible. 



Sore Eyes in Carriers (J. E. E.). — It is always somewhat difficult to 

 prescribe for unseen patients. Most probably your Carrier is suffering from 

 what are called " spouts," formed by the turning-out of the lower lid. These 

 can be removed by being cut from below upwards with a pair of very sharp 

 scissors. A lotion of lunar caustic has also been recommended in these 

 cases, or a very small fragment of five grains of lunar caustic to an ounce of 

 nnsalted lard. 



Preparation of Was (A Subscriber). — We extract the following from our 

 " Bee-keeping Manual," which you can have by post if you enclose five postage 

 stamps with your address: — Having drained all the honey from the combs, 

 wash these in clean water ; this liquid, by exposure to the sun and air, will 

 make most excellent vinegar ; put them in a clean boiler with some soft water ; 

 s imm er over a clear fire until the combs are melted; pour a quart or so in a 

 canvas bag, wide at the top and tapering downwards, into a jelly bag; hold 

 this over a tub of cold water; the boiling liquor will immediately pass away, 

 leaving the liquefied wax and dross in the bag. Have ready a piece of smooth 

 board, of such a length that one end may rest at the bottom of the tub and the 

 other end at its top ; upon this inclined plane lay your reeking bag, but not so 

 as to touch the cold water; then, by compressingthe bag with any convenient 

 roller, the wax will ooze through, and run down the board into the cold water, 

 on the surface of which it will set in thin flakes; empty the dross out of the 

 bag and replenish it with the boiling wax, and proceed as before until all has 

 been pressed. When finished, collect the wax from the surface of the cold 

 water, put it into a clean saucepan with very little water, melt it carefully over 

 a slow fire, skim off the dross as it rises, then pour it into moulds or shapes, 

 and place them where they will cool slowly. The wax may be rendered still 

 more pure by a second melting and moulding. 



Bee Feeding (C. A. J.J. — We cannot account for your non-success in the 

 nse of the bottle-feeder, as you seem to have adopted the right course. The 

 leno sent as a pattern is of the same quality as that we ourselves use. The 

 neck of the bottle should be smaller than the bottle itself, straight-sided, and 

 without much of a rim. We use the bottles either with or without insertion in 

 a block of wood. If with the latter, we simply stretch the leno over the 



mouth of the bottle, and, without tying it round the neck, quickly invert it 

 into the aperture in the block, which has already been placed over the per- 

 forated zinc. Care must be taken that the mouth of the bottle rests on the 

 zinc We have used these bottles for feeding hundreds of times, and have 

 never jet had a case of failure in the way of the syrup running out, but have 

 more often had to contend with the evil of the bees not being able to reach 

 any of the food, from the leno being drawn up into the mouth of the bottle 

 by the too great exhaustion of air. -This commonly happens if the bottle 

 does not rest fairly on the zinc. It is proper that air-bubbles should rise at 

 short intervals. If you still find that you cannot succeed in preventing the 

 constant drip of the syrup, try the leno doubled, stretched, and tied tight 

 over the mouth ofthe bottle, having the perforated zinc beneath as usual. — 

 Eds. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



Camden Square, London. 



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



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We. 25 



29.6 a 



46.5 



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51.3 



56.1 



36.2 



1041 



34.8 



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29-909 



515 



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51.5 



57.4 



44.2 



101.8 



42 3 



0.150 



Fri. 27 



29906 



57.8 



55.3 



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519 



63.1 



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83 2 



38.1 



0.070 



Sat. 28 



29.6n3 



55 8 



54.9 



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54 4 



650 



54 3 



108 2 



53 4 





Sun. 29 



29.763 



55.7 



51.8 



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53.6 



65.0 



47.4 



107 3 



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REMARKS. 

 25th. — Fair in morning; rain at 2 p.ar. ; cloudy with showers, not so cold as 



yesterday, but more windy. 

 26th, — A very fine day; cloudy about noon, but soon cleared off, but cold. 

 27th. — Very wet morning; dry in the middle of the day; rain again in the 



evening; much warmer, but very windy all day and all night. 

 2Sth. — Very windy, with occasional sunshine and shower. 

 29th. — Very fine till soon after 3 p.m., then suddenly dark, two peals of 



thunder, and one vivid and near flash of lightning, and sharp shower, 



but all over in a quarter of an hour". 

 30th. — Hazy early, then bright and fine till 5 P.H., when there was a slight 



shower. Wind quite still. 

 Oct. 1st. — Fine early, cloudy at 10 A.1L, and rather so all day. 



Mean temperature of air and radiation about 3° higher than last week, 

 but that at a foot below the surface of the soil has fallen 2.9°, probably caused 

 by the frequent showers. — G. 3. Stmons. 



COYENT: GARDEN MARKET.— October 2. 



A very fair supply of ordinary vegetables is now furnished, which are 



moderate in price and good in quality. Of best descriptions of fruit there 



exists a scarcity of out-door produce, but that from under glass is quite 



sufficient for the demand. Good Regent Potatoes maintain last week's rates. 



FRUIT. 



Apples £ sieve 



Apricots.. doz. 



Cherries per lb. 



Chestnuts bushel 



Currants £ sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 1 



Filberts lb. 1 



Cobs lb. 1 



Gooseberries quart 



Grapes, hothouse lb. 2 



Lemons £*-100 6 



Melons, each 2 



. d. s. 

 OtoO 



d. e. d. s. d. 



Mulberries ^ lb. 1 OtoO 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges ^10 8 14 



Peaches doz. 10 S!5 



Pears, kitchen doz, 10 3 



dessert doz. 2 4 



PineApples lb. 4 8 



6 Plums £ sieve 5 



6 Quinces doz. 1 



0i Raspberries lb. 



1 Strawberries ^ lb. 



. Walnuts bu=hel 10 



I ditto ^100 2 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes doz. 



Asparagus $M00 



Beans. Kidney. . . . £ sieve 



Broad bushel 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Cabbage .- doz. 



Capsicums ^1(0 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Coleworts.. doz. bunches 

 Cucumbers .each 



pickling doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



.Herbs bunch 



Horseradish bundle 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce doz. 



0to4 

 



Mas hrooms pottle 



Mustard & Cress. .punnet 

 Onions bunch 



pickling quart 



Parsley per doz. bunches 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Bound do. 



Radishes., doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Salsafy qj» bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Scorzonera.... ^-bundle 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows. .doz. 



s. d. s. d. 

 1 OtoS 

 



POULTRY. MARKET.— October 2. 

 Trade has" fallen off, and prices are hardly maintained. Geese sold well 

 during Michaelmas, but rather from a short snpply than from a real demand. 





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 8 





.... 1 9 



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Hares 



Rabbits 1 



Wildditto 



Pigeons 



Pheasants 



Partridges 1 



d. s. 

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lo 

 10 

 

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