July 26, 1883. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Jars for Honey (G. C.). —Mr. Blow’s address is Welwyn, Herts, and lie 
will no doubt give you the information you need. 
Bees Ejecting Brood (.-1 Novice ).—We answered the same question under 
the same signature four years ago as follows :—It is not an uncommon thing 
for bees in continued bad weather to cast out brood such as you describe. 
Drone brood is usually first got rid of. It is a sign of pauperism ; and we 
fear that your experience will be found to be no uncommon one this year. 
Mr. Pettigrew, in his “ Handy Book on Bees,” says :—“ Bees that are kept on 
the point of starvation wisely refuse to set. eggs. Their combs become empty 
of brood; their numbers decrease; their bankruptcy blights them for a 
month, if not for a whole season.” Feeding immediately with syrup is the 
obvious remedy. A pound of refined sugar boiled in a pint of water makes 
good food for starving bees. 
COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— July 25th. 
Trade heavy. Prices of soft fruit inclined to give way. 
FRUIT. 
s. 
cl. 
S. 
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s. 
a. 
s. 
a 
Apples .. .. 
0 
0 
to 0 
0 
C rapes. 
1 
3 
to 3 
6 
per barrel 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Lemons. 
10 
0 
20 
0 
Apricots 
box 
2 
0 
2 
6 
Melons. 
2 
0 
3 
6 
Cherries.. 
4 
0 
10 
0 
Nectarines .. 
dozen 
6 
0 
10 
0 
■Chestnuts .. 
.. bushel 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Oranges. 
.. 100 
6 
0 
10 
0 
Currants, Black 
.. h sieve 
3 
6 
4 
0 
Roaches. 
dozen 
6 
0 
12 
0 
„ Red 
.. | sieve 
3 
0 
5 
0 
Fears, kitchen 
dozen 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Figs .. .. 
2 
0 
8 
0 
„ dessert 
dozen 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Filberts .. .. 
.. .. a.. 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Tine Apples, English 
.. lb. 
2 
0 
3 
6 
Cobs .. .. 
.. 100 lb. 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Raspberries .. 
.. lb. 
0 
3 
0 
S 
Gooseberries.. 
.. i sieve 
2 
6 
3 
0 
Strawberries.. .. 
.. lb. 
0 
3 
0 
9 
VEGETABLES. 
s. 
d. 
S. 
d. 
P. 
d. 
S. 
d. 
Artichokes 
.. .. dozen 
2 
0 to 4 
0 
Mushrooms .. 
punnet 
1 
0 to 
1 
6 
Asparagus, 
English bundle 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Mustard and Cress 
punnet 
0 
2 
0 
3 
Asparagus, 
French bundle 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Onions. 
buuch 
0 
0 
0 
4 
Beans, Kidney .. lb 
0 
3 
0 
4 
Parsley .. dozen bunches 
3 
0 
4 
0 
Beet, Red 
.. .. dozen 
1 
0 
2 
0 
Parsnips. 
dozen 
1 
0 
2 
0 
Broccoli .. 
0 
9 
1 
0 
Teas. 
quart 
0 
9 
1 
0 
Cabbage .. 
0 
6 
1 
0 
Potatoes. 
cwt. 
4 
0 
5 
0 
Capsicums 
.. .. 100 
1 
6 
2 
0 
„ Kidney . 
cwt. 
4 
0 
5 
0 
Carrots .. 
0 
4 
0 
0 
Radishes .. dozen bundles 
1 
0 
0 
0 
Cauliflowers 
.. .. dozen 
2 
0 
3 
0 
Rhubarb. 
bundle 
0 
4 
0 
0 
Celery 
.. .. bundle 
1 
6 
2 
0 
Salsafy. 
bundle 
1 
0 
0 
0 
Coleworts 
doz. bunches 
2 
0 
4 
0 
Scorzonera 
bundle 
1 
6 
0 
0 
Cucumbers 
.. .. each 
0 
4 
0 
6 
Sea kale. 
basket 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Endive .. 
.. .. dozen 
1 
0 
2 
0 
Shallots. 
.. lb. 
0 
3 
0 
0 
Fennel 
0 
3 
0 
0 
Spinach. 
bushel 
2 
6 
3 
0 
Herbs 
0 
2 
0 
0 
Tomatoes 
.. lb. 
0 
6 
0 
9 
Leeks 
0 
3 
0 
4 
Turnips. 
hunch 
0 
0 
0 
4 
Lettuce .. 
1 
0 
1 
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THE SUSSEX BREED OF CATTLE. 
(Continued from i>age G4.) 
Me. Hodgson’s herd, of Lythe Hill, near Haselmere in 
Surrey, was only founded in 1878, but as Mr. Purkis the 
steward does nothing by half measures, but proceeds upon 
the system of what is worth doing is worth doing well; and 
both the land in hand and the cattle upon it bear evidence 
■of the will and skill of the manager. Although this herd has 
been so lately commenced it was the very next year winning 
showyard honours, including the championship of the Sussex 
bull classes at Kilburn. The best animals which could be 
purchased w r ere obtained for laying the foundation of the 
herd. The system adopted is to keep the stock generously, 
partly for the sake of the animals, and partly from the benefit 
to be derived by the land, as the cake consumed fattens the 
land as well as the cattle. One practice is worth notice — 
namely, that the calves are generally suckled longer than the 
usual period in Sussex herds, and the stock of the future 
derives much benefit, enabling them to make more size, 
weight, and completeness of form. 
The first cow in the herd deserving the chief notice is a 
very grand an’rnal bred by Mr. S. Clifford Gibbons, and exhi¬ 
bited by him in the extraordinary cow class in the Bath and 
West of England Show at Tunbridge Wells named “ Ruby.” 
She is large, bread built, and massive, and in some points 
seldom surpassed. She has a big midrib, yet none of the 
hollowness behind the shoulder blades so often found where 
ribs and shoulder are especially good and well covered; in fact 
there are great cushions of fiesh packed in behind the blades. 
Altogether she is a cow of great substance, and being at the 
time of exhibition only about four years and a half old, was in 
her prime. 
This style and type of the Sussex breed is extremely well 
adapted for breeding, not only show animals, but animals for 
w'orking purposes, because the large and muscular frame is 
eminently adapted for the power required in the tillage of 
he land, and instead of using four or six animals in drawing 
the plough, two only may be used in summer and four in the 
y inter. They should, however, be kept up and in full condition, 
instead of being poor and grazed only upon inferior grass land. 
When well bred and well kept, instead of being sold away for 
fattening into other districts, about eighteen or twenty weeks’ 
good feeding in the stalls would answer the purpose of loth 
working animals and fatting animals, and a less number are 
or may be kept, and effectually displacing a certain number of 
horses, which, so far as working and the capital required to 
maintain, are a dead weight upon the resources of the farm. 
The two bulls for use in Mr. Hodgson’s herd were two sons of 
the Royal Oxford Champion bull, and both of great substance. 
Young Oxford, first at the Bath and West of England Show, 
and second at the “Royal” Shows; and the other, Lord Oxford 
second, famous in the calf class in the year of exhibition. 
The herd of the Right Hon. The Speaker is well worth our 
attention, and has been well described by Mr. William Housman, 
from which we have obtained important information respecting 
this herd, which has been in existence since the year 1858, when 
it was founded at Glynde in Sussex, a district rendered famous 
by the improvement effected in the Sussex or Southdown sheep 
many years ago by Mr. Ellman. Mr. Housman says—“ The 
poor rushy field, fiat and exposed, in which the cows and heifers 
are scraping up their living, looks a most miserable pasture on 
a November day. If cattle can live on that they can live on 
anything. But the well-furnished backs and ribs of the cows 
and heifers here met with bear evidence that Sussex cattle can 
more than live, they can thrive on such land. There is no pam¬ 
pering except, of course, the usual extra feeding of cows pre¬ 
pared for show. Of course it is not pretended that Glynde 
cattle grow fat on rushes, but the fields in which the first lots 
of cows, heifers, and steers are seen is not untrue index to the 
general character of the farm in hand; but as the proprietor’s 
object is to maintain a pure bred and high-class herd of the 
distinctive breed of the county, the breeding cattle were intro¬ 
duced and retained under disadvantages already mentioned. 
This herd has from the first been, and to the present time is, 
under the management of the Speaker’s agent, Mr. T. Colgate, 
and of his son, Mr. T. Colgate, jun. Mcst of the original cows 
were purchased from the herds of Messrs. Henry Catt of Eirle, 
and Jenner of Framfield. The principal bulls first used, 
Garibaldi (106), calved in 1860, bred from the stock of the 
Rev. J. Gould and Mr. J. Noaks, and latterly Stanford (367) has 
been in service. This bull was bred in 1877 by the Messrs. E. 
and A. Stanford, whose prize-winning herd has been noticed. 
The number of cows in the Glynde herd—that is to say, grown¬ 
up breeding cows, alone is about twenty; the full muster of all 
ages is about forty three, and the best cows, amongst which was 
“Gentle,” descends remotely from the stock of Mr. Catt, crossed 
with one of Mr. G. Berry’s bulls. “Polly Jones” was one of 
the noblest-looking cows in the herd, and also “Julia II.” a 
handsomer, or, for beef-production, a more useful sort of stock 
cow is not often to be found. These cows exhibited at the 
Tunbridge Wells Show in 1881 rvere greatly admired as fine 
specimens of hardy, sound breeding, and rent-paying animals. 
We cannot in this good company fail to notice the very 
successful prize-winning herd of Mr. A. Agate of Broomhall, 
Horsham, whose herd now stands very high in the estimation 
of approvers in Sussex cattle. As an instance of early maturity 
we will notice Mr. Agate’s first-prize bull “Frankenstein II.,” 
which took the first prize for the best bull over one and under 
two years old, which we so much admired when we viewed him 
at the late Royal Counties Show at Winchester last June, and 
being aged only one year, nine months, one week, and six days, 
we were induced to estimate his dead weight if slaughtered. In 
making this estimate we could not refrain from making a com¬ 
parison with his weight had he been castrated and shown as a 
steer at that age, and we thought that although he weighed in 
the showyard a dead weight of 140 stone (of 8 lbs.), that he 
would not have exceeded 130 stone had he been steered. To our 
mind this idea is worth the notice of the rent-paying farmer, 
because in raising baby beef we ask, Is it worth while castrating 
any of the male animals when, at two ycai - s old and under 
although they are as w r ell fed, and kept in boxes separately 
they will not weigh so much as entire animals by 10 stone? 
And, again, in a piize-winning herd, if all the male animals are 
allowed to remain entire and exempted from stud service unt.l 
