THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
January 19. 
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Game Fowls generally were good, and the first prizes, in 
both the adult and chicken classes, were allotted to pens 
belonging jointly to the Rev. W. Wingfield and Mr. Pascoe 
Grenfell, of Gulval; and Mr. Mitchell, of Truro, took a 
second prize in the first-named division. 
The Golden Pencilled Hamburghs deserved their honours, 
Mr. Miller, of Truro, receiving the first, and Mr. Grenfell 
the second prize for old birds. A first prize was also 
awarded to the Rev. W. Wingfield for his golden-spangled 
specimens. 
The Silver Hamburghs , however, did not rise above their 
usual level in these parts ; while Polands, the white-crested 
black excepted, were good. 
The entries for “ any oilier distinct breed," seemed, in 
several instances, to have been made without due reference 
to the regulations, since “ cream-coloured Polands” should 
have appeared with “ Polands of any other variety,” and 
“ Golden -spangled Pheasants ” should, of course, have taken 
their place along with the Hamburghs of that denomination. 
Three pens of “ barn-door-fowls ” were also here submitted 
to inspection, but surely their owners were over-confident hi 
claiming for them the dignity of a “ distinct breed.” 
Bantams were but an average lot; but many of the Ducks 
were meritorious ; while Geese, being limited by the prize- 
list to “ birds exceeding one-year-old,” were necessarily limited 
in number; we are at a loss, indeed, to understand the 
reason of this restriction, for Geese of the year, if not 
allowed a separate class, should, at least, be permitted to 
compete with their seniors. 
Turkeys were numerous and good, and among the Pigeons 
were many excellent specimens. 
Class 46, for “ extra stock," had the following notice 
appended in the prize-list, “Extra prizes will be awarded 
to any deserving specimens of Water-fowls, Pheasants, or 
other birds, but all fowls, Bantams included, must be shown 
in the regular classes appointed for them.” We were, con¬ 
sequently, surprised to find pens of Shanghaes, Dorkings, 
Game, and Bantams, in this division. For many reasons, 
we apprehend, it would have been more desirable to have 
adhered to the strict letter of the regulations. “ Peregrine 
Falcons," strange neighbours to the poultry, here received 
a prize. 
Brahma Poolras and Spanish were exhibited by Mr. E. 
Simons, of Birmingham, to whom, in conjunction with 
Captain Mansell and Mr. Seldon, of Falmouth, the task of 
adjudication had been confided. 
The Secretaries, we fear, must have had an arduous 
duty imposed upon them, since the Market-house, in which 
the Show was held, could not be given up to them for 
their preparations till nine o’clock on the evening imme¬ 
diately preceding the day of exhibition, and as the birds 
were to be in their pens by eleven o'clock on the following 
morning, it is highly creditable to those gentlemen, Messrs. 
W. H. Jenkins, and John R. Paul, that the necessary erec¬ 
tions were completed within the proper time. The Judges, 
also, must have worked hard to have finished their arbitra¬ 
tions within the period allotted to them. 
In one respect, the Truro Society have deviated from the 
usual routine lately followed by Poultry Associations, for 
their prize-list divided the several varieties into two classes, 
that for “ birds exceeding one year old," and “chickens hatched 
in 1853;” but, at the same time, their second rule stated 
that “ chickens of 1853 can be shown in the classes for Jowl 
above one year old.” Now, surely, if separate classes are 
allotted to the adult and young birds, it is far better to keep 
them apart, and this not less for the sake of the exhibitor 
than of the judge; while the prize-list and catalogue, as 
above quoted, seem to contradict each other, since the 
wording of the first-named class, if intended to admit 
chickens, should have been not “ birds exceeding one year 
old,” but “birds of any age.” 
The prospects of the present year, as based on the results 
of that which has just closed, are most encouraging to 
Cornish Poultry-keepers; and we trust that another season 
will so enable them to mature their arrangements, that 
other counties may be induced to contribute still more 
largely to these annual exhibitions. 
Class 1.— Spanish. —First prize, Mr. W. G. Bennett, Truro. Second 
prize, Mr. Alfred Bice, Penzance. Class 2 .— Chickens of 1863.— First 
prize, Mr. John Thomas, Truro. Second prize, Mr. W. J. Lawrence, 
Gulval. 
Class 3.— Dorkings (Coloured).—First prize, Mr. G. W. Williams, 
Trevincc. Second prize, Mr. G. Williams, Trevince. Class 4. —Chickens 
of 1853.—First prize, Mr. George Williams, Trevince. Second prize, 
Mr. James Gatley, Truro. 
Class 5.— Dorkings (White).—First prize, Mr. Augustus Smith, 
Scilly. Second prize, Mr. G. Williams, Trevince. Class 6.—Chickens 
of 1853.—First prize, Mr. Charles Hawke, Truro. Second prize, Mr. 
W. H. Christoe, Truro. Extra second prize, Mr. Augustus Smith, Scilly. 
Class y .— Shanghai! or CocniN-CuiNA (Buff or Cinnamon).—• 
First prize, Messrs. Andrew and Co., Itedruth. Second prize, Mr. W. 
Lawrence, Gulval. Class 8.—Chickens of 1853.—First prize, Mr. Alfred 
Bice, Penzance. Second prize, Mr. Edward Burton, Truro. 
Class 9.— Cochin-China (Brown).—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, 
Truro. Second prize, Mr. Sydney Godolphin, Tremough. 
Class 11.—CocHiN-CniNA (White).—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, 
Truro. Second prize, Mr. W. Lawrence, Gulval. Class 12.—Chickens 
of 1853.—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, Truro. Second prize, Mr. W. 
Lawrence, Gulval. 
Class 15.— Malays.— First prize, Mr. T. Mayne, Penzance. 
Class 17.— Game Fowl. —First prize, Rev. W. W. Wingfield, and 
Mr. P. Grenfell, Gulval. Second prize, Mr. H. Mitchell, Truro. Extra 
prize. Mr. W. Pascoe, Feock ; ditto, Mr. W. Rooks, Truro. Class 18.— 
Chickens.—First prize, Rev. W. W. Wingfield, and Mr. P. Grenfell, 
Gulval. 
Class 19.— GoLnEN-rENCiLi.ED Hamburgh. —First prize, Mr. T, 
N. Miller. Second prize, Mr. P. Grenfell, Gulval. 
Class 21.—Golben-spangled Hamburgh.—F irst prize, Rev. W. 
Wingfield, Gulval. 
Class 23.— Silver-pencilleu Hamburgh. —First prize, Mr. P. 
Grenfell, Gulval. Second prize, Mr. T. N. Miller, Truro. 
Class 25.— Silver-spangleb Hamburgh. —First prize, Mr. T. M. 
Hawke, St. Day. Second prize, Mr. T. Woolfe, Redruth. Class 26 .— 
Chickens of 1853.—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, Truro. Second prize, 
Mr. N. C. Stephens, Truro. 
Class 29 .— Poland (Golden).—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, Truro. 
Second prize, Mr. Cock, Truro. Class 30.—Chickens of 1853.—Second 
prize, Mr. E. Burton, Truro. 
Class 31.— Poland Fowl (Silver).—First prize, Mr. G. Williams, 
Trevince. 
Class 33.— Poland Fowl.— First prize, Mr. W. Lawrence, Gulval. 
Class 35.— For any other Distinct Breed. —Second prize, Mr. 
A. Smith, Scilly. Second prize, Mr. Jas. Groves, Truro. First prize, 
Mr. Thomas Dunstan, Truro. Second prize, Mr. G. Dixon, Truro. 
Second prize, Mr. H. Edwards, Penryn. Second prize, Mr. T. Gittus, 
Goldsithney. Second prize, Mr. W. Bcnney, Truro. 
Class 36.— Bantams. —First prize, Mr. H. C. Carnell, Perran Wharf. 
Second prize, Mr. G. Williams, Trevince. 
Class 37.— Geese. —First prize, G. Williams, Esq., Trevincc. Second 
prize, G. Williams, Esq., Trevincc. 
Class 39 .— Ducks (White Aylesbury).—First prize, Mr. C. Hawke, 
Truro. Second prize, M. T. Gittus, Gildsitliney. 
Class 40.— Ducks (Rouen).—First prize, Mr. E. Burton, Truro. 
Class 41.— Ducks. —First prize, Mr. C. Green, Truro. Second prize, 
Mr. Hosking, Chasewater. Second prize, Mr. G. Williams, Trevince. 
Class 42.— Turkeys. —First prize, Mr. G. Williams, Trevincc. 
Second prize, Dr. Carlyon, Truro. Second prize, Mr. Edmund Carlyon, 
St. Austell. 
Class 44.— Guinea Fowl. —First prize, Master Charles Gatley, Truro. 
Great Metropolitan Poultry Show.— No reason can 
be assigned why a Show of Poultry in London should not 
excel, or, at the least, equal, the similar display which is held 
annually at Birmingham. Yet such an equality has not 
hitherto been achieved, and we. hear it asked on all sides, 
“Why is this?” We do not feel at all inclined to enter 
upon an explicit answer to this query, but there is some 
powerful reason existing that keeps away from the London 
Exhibition pens such birds as those of Captain Hornby, and 
Messrs. Sturgeon, Peters, Puncbard, &c. To secure a 
better exhibition, there ought to be a powerful Committee 
of men above suspicion, and who do not flinch from huving 
their names blazoned forth to the world—a Committee not 
exclusively of exhibitors, and of men more anxious to have 
an excelling Exhibition than to reap from it some advantage 
to themselves. If such a Committee, and under Royal 
Patronage, is formed, we shall have a Poultry Exhibition 
such as ought to be held in the British metropolis. 
At the Show, which endured from the 10th to the 13tli 
instant, both those days included, there were about 1130 
pens of poultry, but very many were extra stock “ for sale,” 
and of the others there were far too many exhibited in the 
names of the same few parties, with no other object than to 
obtain purchasers. This sinks the character of an Exhibi¬ 
tion, for it is bringing it down to the level of a Poultry i 
Market. 
The pens were very well arranged, and the ventilation, 
