THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
December 22, 
224 
came to light in the appointed time, and poor Rees was 
cleared of lunacy and of false witness. The half of the 
wickedness going on he had not revealed, or even known; 
hut his uprightness was made manifest. 1’oor fellow ! when 
the news reached him it gladdened his heart, and those of 
his friends who knew him rejoiced still more. He entered 
another service in his native land; his new master was well 
acquainted with his sterling qualities, and our last accounts 
stated that he was happy and going on well. 
The fifteen first verses of the 37th Psalm may well 
sustain and cheer all who are situated like David Rees. 
The wicked plotted against him, and sought to slay him, 
hut their own hearts were pierced, and their own hone 
broken. The whole Psalm is an exquisite portion for a 
tried and suffering Christian. Nothing can more strongly 
point out the safety of “ upright conversation," and the 
peril of the wicked, than David Rees' little history. I wish 
his example would lead many to do likewise. There is no 
need to be hot-tempered: coolness is always to be desired ; 
but a strong, faithful, and patient “ trust in the Lord,” and 
a full “ committing of our way to Him,” will bring every 
right thing to pass. Everything is in God’s hands; nothing 
happens by accident; nothing needs our meddling. Prayer 
and patience is our work; “salvation,” “strength in the 
time of trouble," “ help and deliverance,” is the Lord's part 
to do. The how, the when, and the where is His, and not 
ours to settle. If Rees had done right in a more Scrip¬ 
tural way, the consequences would, most probably, have been 
less painful to himself; but we must learn to do well—our 
judgments err—our hearts betray us, and we do not pray 
and wait as the Word of God bids us. Let us all remem¬ 
ber this. 
CONCRETE WALKS. 
Seeing your notice on concrete walks, and having for 
some years used tar on our paths at Chelsea, with most 
satisfactory results, I am induced to explain our manner 
of doing so, in the hope that it may be useful to your cor¬ 
respondent, particularly as many gentlemen have, adopted 
the plan with equal success. An old gravel path will only 
require to be swept clean; a new-made one to be well 
beaten and rolled. Choose a warm day (the warmer the 
better); let the tar be boiling hot; use the common, long- 
handled, iron-bound tar-brush, and iron kettle, holding 
about a gallon, for the purpose of taking only so much 
tar from the boiler at one time as can be nsed in about a 
quarter-of-an-hour, and paint over with a good coat. Let 
a lad follow with dry-sifted sand, throwing over enough to 
prevent the tar sticking to his feet, and then go over with 
the roller. 
We find that two men tarring will employ a lad to follow 
with the sand, and another to attend the fire and supply 
the tar, as fast as used. It is now about six years since 
our walks were first done; they have had two coats since, 
the last one this summer, and will require nothing more 
for three or four years, and in all weathers they are clean 
and dry. Any one interested may see them at any time, at the 
Pheasantry, Beaufort Street, Chelsea, and obtain any further 
information. They may be used an hour after being down, 
and stand the wear and tear of horse and cart.—S. C. and 
C. N. Baker, Half-moon Passage, Gracechurch Street. 
P.S. Is there not some mistake in recommending square 
baskets for poultry instead of round ones ? The same 
fowls that would be cramped and injured in a square, would 
travel in comtort in a round one of equal space. 
[W e are mucli obliged by this very useful communica¬ 
tion. With regard to the information about the shape of 
baskets for the conveyance of fowls, we confess it is quite 
j new to us. We thought that the only advantage of a cir- 
i cular-sided basket over a square one is, that the tail feathers 
are somewhat less liable to be broken. It is quite true that 
there is more room available to a bird in a circular than 
in a square basket exactly equal in surface, but we would 
rather have, for fowls, a basket two feet square than cir¬ 
cular and two feet in diameter.—E d. C. G.] 
GAPES AND ROUP. 
Doubtless the readers of The Cottage Gardener have 
been gratified by the opportunity which Dr. Anthony’s 1 
delineation lias afforded of inspecting the worm discovered 
in the windpipe of a chicken; inasmuch, as such a repre- j 
sentation conveys to the mind a much more definite idea 
than any verbal description. Had Dr. Anthony had the 
propriety to have stopped here, he would have rendered an 
acceptable and courteous service. 
I am deeply grieved, however, that respect for common 
honesty and truth, duty to myself, and, I may add, to the 
contributors to The Cottage Gardener, compel me to visit 
with exposure the misrepresentations heaped upon myself. 
I perform the painful task, I say, as a duty to your readers; 
for, were they to feel that their contributions were subjected 
to unredressed falsification, few, I imagine, would venture 
to continue them. 
My own words and meaning have been transposed. What 
I have acknowledged, I have been made to deny; and even 
the “lie circumstantial” has been imputed. Thus, Dr. 
Anthony makes it appear, by transposition of words, that 
“ I hesitate not to deny as an error," what? the assertions 
of the numerous contributors wdio say that they have met 
with worm in the windpipe of fowls ! whereas, my words are 
distinctly and most unmistakeably addressed, and addressed 
only (and I now quote the passage) to “the statement of 
Mr. Tegetmeier, that the cause of Gapes is the presence of 
worms in the windpipe. This I hesitate not to declare is \ 
an errorshowing, as I afterwards do, that inflammation 
(or croup) is the common cause. 
Further, Dr. Anthony labours in the assertion, that I 
deny that worms exist at all in the windpipe; when, in the | 
succeeding paragraph, I write that “ I do not deny that 
worms infest the windpipe of fowls.” Nay, to “prevent all j 
misconstruction,” I write another letter, and state, at page ! 
109, that “ I do not doubt but that Mr. Tegetmeier has j 
really dislodged them from the windpipe ;” and add, also, i 
that “ these worms may be a cause, but, at best, but an ex¬ 
ceptionable one of Gapes !” I will spare Dr. Anthony all com¬ 
ment or epithet; and the imputation and discredit he casts 
upon my statement, that I examined the windwipes of six 
fowls, when he writes, in italic, that I say I have done so, 
I can only pass over. 
But casting aside, as wholly unworthy, all further con¬ 
sideration of such matters, permit me to state my unbiased 
opinion on the subject of dispute with Mr. Tegetmeier. 
From all that I have experienced, or learned, I am firmly 
persuaded, that the disease called Gapes is truly and essen¬ 
tially Tracheites, or inflammation of the lining membrane 
of the windwipe : but that an unusual accumulation of 
worms in the windpipe does also, in some cases, produce 
distress in breathing or death. 
As to Roup, I have not b ad any diseased fowls sent to me as 
I had hoped ; I will, therefore, take Mr. Tegetmeier’s own 
case, and a truly admirable one it is: it proves, as far as 
example can prove, that the Roup is not contagious. 
Mr. Tegetmeier tells us, that all his extensive yard of 
fowls became affected with Roup ; and that of so virulent a 
character, that no less than forty of his best fowls died of it; 
that his neighbour’s rather extensive collection of poultry 
were kept in immediate contiguity with his own; so close, 
indeed, that they were simply separated by an open paling ; I 
yet not one of these neighbour’s fowls became affected with 
Roup! 
As I can never hope to see the experiment again tried on i 
so large a scale as this, and the type of the disease so bad [ 
(40 fowls having died), I bring it forward as the most ] 
striking and convincing example of the non-communicata- 
bility, or non-contagious nature of Roup. The mere division [ 
of an open paling was as literally nothing: and I am gra¬ 
tified that I can close this letter with such a proof of the j 
correctness of my first opinion, that Roup would be found ! 
not to be really contagious. R. Horner. 
TOULTRY EXHIBITIONS. 
The week that commenced on the 4th instant witnessed j 
no less than four Poultry Exhibitions, namely, those at 
Leeds, Bristol, the Surrey Zoological, and Shrewsbury, so j 
