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are displayed, will not be sufficient to hold the whole of them ; 
and extra stages will be erected against the wall of the gallery on 
the south-west side of the first-class refreshment room. 
The poultry and Pigeons entered amount to 3062 pens. These 
will occupy their old position in the gymnasium and also nearly 
the whole of the bay adjoining the implement department. The 
whole of the pens will be galvanised wire, similar to those in use 
last year, which gave such satisfaction, being so much lighter 
than the old pens. 
The demand for stand space has been as great as ever, and the 
Committee have been compelled to allot to exhibitors in several 
sections much smaller spaces than they applied for. Amongst the 
implement exhibitors are nearly all the leading firms in the 
kingdom, who will have on view some of the latest and best 
improvements in the various articles they show. 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has entered cattle and sheep, and 
the following also contribute to the Show :—The Duke of Buck¬ 
ingham, Lord Chesham, Earl of Dartmouth, the Earl of Ellesmere, 
Viscount Falmouth, Earl of Gainsborough, Earl of Harrington, 
Duke of Sutherland, Lord Tredegar, Lord Walsingham, Duke of 
Wellington, Earl of Zetland, Sir John Swinburne, Bart., &c. 
The railway companies will run excursion trains from all parts 
at reduced fares ; and in addition to the ordinary arrangements 
in this direction, the London and North-Western Railway Company 
have announced that they will run an eight-day excursion from 
Swansea and South Wales district, and excursions from Peter¬ 
borough and Stamford. 
The increase in the entries has necessitated the appointment of 
additional Judges, and Mr. T. C. Burnell has consented to act in 
the poultry department, and Mr. Jones Percival in that for 
Pigeons. 
The following is a statement of the classes allotted to each 
Judge:— 
Poultry. —Mr. T. C. Burnell: Creve Cceurs, Houdans, Spanish, 
Andalusians, Leghorns, Minorcas, Sultans, variety classes of 
fowls and Bantams, and selling classes, Mr. James Dixon: 
Polish, Hamburgh, Ducks, Geese, and Turkeys. Mr. W. R. Lane : 
All Game except Black Reds, and all Game Bantams. Mr. M. Leno: 
Light Brahmas, Dorkings, Fancy Ducks, and Fancy Bantams. 
Mr. J. H. Smith : Black Red Game and Malay. Mr. R. Teebay : 
Dark Brahmas, Cochins, and Langshans. 
Pigeons.—M r. T. J. Charlton : Pouters and Antwerps. Mr. H. 
Child: Muffed and Long-faced Tumblers and Dragoons. Mr. 
Esquilant: Fantails, Nuns, Swallows, Magpies, Jacobins, Turbits, 
Owls, Short-billed Frilled varieties, and new varieties. Mr. Jones 
Percival : Carriers, Short-faced Tumblers, Barbs, Trumpeters, 
Runts, Archangels, and the selling classes. 
THE POULTRY CLUB. 
A large and influential meeting was held at the Crystal Palace 
on the Tuesday in last week. Most of the resolutions which we 
printed a fortnight since were passed, the only important varia¬ 
tions being that the addition of seven new members to the Com¬ 
mittee was resolved upon, and the resolution as to hiring a club 
room in London negatived. It was announced that Messrs. L. 
Wright, Teebay, Dixon, and Tegetmeier had been elected honorary 
life members of the Club, and that several new ordinary members 
and associates had been elected. We were glad to see so good a 
meeting, and so intelligent and keen an interest displayed in the 
questions under discussion. The meeting lasted nearly two hours, 
as there was much business to get through. We trust that 
such of our readers as are interested in our poultry department 
and are not members of the Club will consider the propriety of 
joining it. The Club was founded to promote honesty and fair 
dealing in the poultry world, and it commends itself to the notice 
of every honest fancier. 
VARIETIES. 
We have made arrangements for the insertion in our next issue 
of a full report of the Birmingham Poultry Show. We hope also to 
give a report of the Pigeons. As the Journal is in the hands of 
our readers on Thursday morning, they will have an opportunity of 
going through the classes with our report in hand. We shall arrange 
for an extra large supply of the Journal to be sent to Birmingham, 
so that there may be no difficulty in obtaining copies. 
- Birmingham Poultry Show. —We are requested to state 
that the whole of the arrangements for feeding and penning the 
birds at the forthcoming great Birmingham Poultry Show have been 
entrusted to “ Spratts Patent,” of Bermondsey, London, who will at 
their stand in Birmingham Cattle Show exhibit samples of their 
latest novelty, a “ Patent Malted Cattle Food.” This firm have also 
received the order to feed the dogs at the coming Birmingham 
National Dog Show on their Patent Meat “ Fibrine ” Dog Cakes. 
- The Dublin Poultry and Pigeon Show and Belfast 
Schedule. —We regret to hear that the proposed Show in Dublin 
has fallen through. We fear the Dublin men are too ambitious in 
their efforts. Nothing less than a grand show will satisfy them. 
Belfast holds a good Show each December on moderate lines, with an 
increasing prize list and increasing success each year. The schedule 
for this year’s Show, to be held December 15th and lGth, is before 
us. There are forty-two classes for poultry and thirty-seven for 
Pigeons, with prizes of £1, 10s., and 5s., entry 3s. 6d .; and fifteen 
classes for cage birds, with prizes of 12s., 6s., and 4s., entry Is. Gd. 
There are besides fourteen poultry, nine Pigeon, and one cage-bird 
cups or special prizes. This is a great advance on last year’s sche¬ 
dule, and we trust a good Show will be forthcoming. 
- Should we Shoe our Horses ? —Nearly every owner of a 
horse, nearly every groom and every stableman, will laugh at the 
question. Messrs. Longmans, however, have published a volume by 
“ Free Lance,” the object of which is to prove that the heavy horse 
shoe of the present day is parent to all the ills that horseflesh is heir 
to. “ Free Lance ” believes that no shoes at all are necessary. He 
has the benefit of a wide experience, which proves that shoes on the 
Charlier system are quite sufficient This is simply a little band of 
hard iron, 5 ounces weight, let into the tip of the foot. Messrs. John 
Smithers of London have a large stable. They find that with the 
Charlier tip the horses have a surer footing, go better, are healthier 
—being free from diseases of the foot—work easier at a greater age, 
and are altogether cheaper to keep in health, and last longer than 
when they adopted the old customary system. 
- How to Make Flour. —The National Association of British 
and Irish Millers, whose offices are at 61, Mark Lane, having regard 
to the active competition which is now going on between Austro- 
Hungary, America, and England in the endeavour to produce the 
finest and whitest flour for bread-making, has resolved on the 10th of 
May next and four following days to show all the different processes 
of making flour at work in the Agricultural Hall. It is expected 
that the exhibition of the many strange varieties of machinery 
from all parts of the world will prove of great interest and value ; 
but in the meantime the Council of the Association wish it to be 
known that any suggestion or information will be thankfully received. 
ENGLISH v. FOREIGN HONEY. 
English bee-keepers have the satisfaction of knowing that their 
honey is unsurpassed for excellence and flavour by the products 
of any other country. By English honey I mean the honey of 
the United Kingdom, for the honey of Ireland and Scotland is 
equal in quality and flavour to that of England. It is rather re¬ 
markable that I have never found one sample of foreign honey 
equal in flavour to ours. For years I have considered that the 
Chilian honey offered for sale in England is better than that of 
France, Spain, and Portugal—better, too, than African and Aus¬ 
tralian honey. Swiss honey is said to be excellent, but it has not 
been my fortune ever to taste it. Doubtless the differences of 
flavour in honey are traceable to the plants from which it is 
gathered; but the quality of honey may be injured in taking it 
from the combs, and it may be spoiled by adulteration. One 
thing is evident—that the great bulk of foreign honey in the 
English market is as inferior to good English honey as foreign 
Grapes are to good English Grapes. The cause of this in the 
case of the Grapes is easily understood and explained, but with 
honey the reason is not so evident. Even the Narbonne honey 
of France, which has long been lauded as excellent, is far inferior 
in flavour to good English honey. 
Two or three months ago a Manchester merchant who does 
some business with a house in Palermo (in Southern Italy), had 
four jars of honey from the Botanical Gardens of Palermo. Being 
unable to sell it he brought a sample here with the hope that I 
would tell him how and where it could be sold. I hough quite 
different in flavour from English honey, being deficient in richness, 
it was very good. I took the gentleman with his sample to a 
chemist of our town, who bought 100 lbs. of the Palermo honey at 
