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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 22. 
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tailed account of the composition of the various grains would, 
perhaps, be out of place; I would, therefore, refer those who 
desire further information on the subject, to the analyses 
of all the different kinds of poultry food, which are pub¬ 
lished in “ Profitable Poultry.” 
THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO EGG-PASSAOES. 
At page 207, of Volume x., I described the structure of 
the egg-organs, and mentioned the strange fact, that, 
although two ovaries and egg-passages may he observed in 
the embryo, yet that one only is developed; the right one 
being absorbed about the time of the bird being hatched. 
In a nearly full-grown Poland, forwarded to me some short 
time since by a very successful breeder of this variety, Mr. 
T. Jones, I observed, on making an examination, a tube 
distended with air on the right side, and found that it was J 
the right egg-passage highly developed; the ovary,however, 
had been absorbed. This circumstance is exceedingly rare. 
I have opened many hundred dead fowls, and have never 
seen it before, and the preparation has been thought worthy 
of a place in the unrivalled Museum of the Royal College 
of Surgeons. Possibly, some of my curious readers may 
wish to know the object of such an arrangement, and inquire, 
why two sets of organs are first produced, one of which 
afterwards disappears. All parts of the bodies of animals 
are formed on a perfectly symmetrical plan, each lateral half, 
in the first stages of development, corresponding with the 
other. Where the organs on both sides are required, both 
are developed, as in the case of the eyes, nostrils, lungs, 
Ac.; but where two sets of organs would be injurious, or are 
unnecessary, then, by one of those inscrutable arrange¬ 
ments which proclaim so strongly the design and wisdom 
shewn in all natural objects, one set only is developed, and 
the other, not passing beyond its rudimentary condition, 
becomes gradually absorbed. Why the right set should be 
always the abortive one, is beyond our ken; and although I 
should not be surprised, I should be excessively pleased to 
find an instance in which the right side was developed, and 
the left absorbed. W. B. Tegetmeier. 
BEES. 
REMOVING THE PARENT STOCK TO A DISTANCE 
WHEN PLACING THE SWARM IN ITS PLACE. 
I regret extremely that we have been deprived of his 
amusing letters, and I sincerely wish him well. I believe 
he was the first writer who recommended the experiment of 
removing the parent stock immediately after its swarming, 
and I think it a good plan in three cases out of four. 
We have had another trying-season for bees. On the 1st 
of August I weighed two stocks which ought to have, at 
least, twenty-five pounds each, hut neither of them are 
more than twelve or fourteen pounds. It is now nearly a 
forlorn hope to expect an addition to the store, when 
there is very little white clover or no heath. 
The sharp frosts in May damaged the foliage. I find a 
fine Lime tree of sixty or seventy years growth, in my lawn, 
without a blossom , for the first time to my knowledge. 
Probably some of your correspondents may have noticed 
this sad loss to the bees. The same frost destroyed the 
foliage of the Walnuts and Oaks; the former have no fruit 
this year. 
We have a great many wasps in our locality; they are 
beginning to attack the impoverished stocks of bees.— 
II. W. Newman, New House, near Stroud. 
THE GREATEST PRODUCE OE CROPS IN 
THE WORLD. 
I believe that there are no other fields in the world which 
produce such incessant crops as our chins. Talk of Lucern 
with its four or five cuttings,—of the six or seven of Italian 
Eye Grass,—or of the eight or ten crops of the Italian 
j Water Meads,—why, what are all these to the 305 cuttings 
which are annually removed from our chins ? It is evident 
that nothing but clean and good husbandry could accom¬ 
plish this ; hut we are now threatened with a new mode of 
farming our chins; the reaping machine is to be discarded; 
nothing buf a rake is to be used ; the crop is to run wild, 
and Nature is to have her own way. I am a little man, and 
i I f ee l acutely the ridicule I shall incur, if I am compelled 
by fashion to let my beard grow. I send you the following 
little poem, which another little man had the misery of 
having sent to him, many years since, it was entitled— 
ON A LITTLE MAN WITH A VERY LARGE BEARD. 
By Isaac Ben Kiialif. 
(Carlyles specimens of Arabian Poetry, p. 116.) 
Ox the 1st of June I had a small swarm come off from a 
stock, and next day I removed the parent stock, and placed 
the swarm on the parent stock’s stand. The old stock was 
removed only twenty yards, and on the third day the stock 
showed strong symptoms of weakness, by throwing out 
grubs and an almost total cessation from regular work. 
The bees recovered from this in about a fortnight, and are 
now in a flourishing condition, as far as the showery weather 
has permitted. No other cast, or swarm, came off from this 
stock. 
I must now give an account of the swarm which was put 
into a common Hive, and having, as our friend “The Country 
Curate ’’ observed, received a great accession of bees from 
those which were at work, Ac., it increased wonderfully, in 
spite of the rain. At the end of June, and beginning of 
July, the hive became very crowded, and, not being willing 
to trouble myself with enlarging it, it threw out about a 
cjuarter-of-a-peck of bees round the entrance; these re¬ 
mained and increased until the 20th of July, on which day 
they were not watched, and, to my surprise, the swarm left 
the hive and was lost. Never having seen a swarm later than 
the 0th, nor hearing of one later than the 10th of July, in 
this county, I took no trouble about the matter, although 
this was a swarm from a swarm—a virgin swarm. 
I am not fond of experiments with bees, but I must give 
my full approval of this plan propounded by my corres¬ 
pondent, the Rev. Mr. Filleul, who is now in Australia. 
I agree cordially with Mr. Payne, that the transferring 
system is a bad one, and does not answer once in a hundred 
times. My worthy friend, the “ Country Curate," was 
angry with me once, for saying that artificial swarms were 
had and unnatural; but when I assured him that I had 
written that remark at least seven years before his letters 
appeared, he was quite satisfied. 
How can thy chin that burden bear ? 
Is it all gravity to shock ? 
Is it to make the people stare ? 
And be thyself a laughing stock ? 
When I behold thy little feet 
After thy beard obsequious run, 
I always fancy that I meet 
Some father followed by his son. 
A man like thee scarce e’er appeared— 
A beard like thine—where shall we find it ? 
Surely thou cherishest thy beard 
In hopes to hide thyself behind it. G. A. T. 
COYENT GARDEN. — August 15th. 
Teaches and Nectarines from open walls now furnish the 
market, together witli imported Green Gage and other 
Plums, to make up the deficiency of our native crops. 
Pine Apples, 5s per lb. 
Grapes, 3s to 0s per lb. 
Peaches, 4s to 8s p. doz. 
Nectarines, 10s per doz. 
Apricots, 3s 6d per punnet 
Green Gage Plums, Is to 2s 
per punnet 
Orlean Plums, Od per punnet 
Strawberries, 8d per punnet 
Raspberries, Is per punnet 
Ditto, 8d per gallon 
Jargonelle Pears, 5s p. hf. s. 
Orchard Pears, 4s Gd p. hush. 
Apples, 2s Od per half sieve 
Ditto, Kitchen, 2s p. hf. sv. 
Ditto, ditto, 5s per bushel 
FRUIT. 
I Pears, garden, 5s Od per bsli. 
Violet Plums, 4s per sieve 
Green Gage Plums, Foreign, 
5s per sieve 
Morello Cherries, 3s p.dz.lbs. 
Cucumbers, frame, 0s per doz. 
; Ditto, hand-glass, Is to Is 3d 
! per doz. 
I Oranges, 14s to 18s per liun. 
Lemons, 12s, 14s, to 18s per 
hundred 
Cob Nuts, 12s per bushel 
Barcelonas, 22s per bushel 
Almonds, 24s per bushel 
Spanish Cliesnuts, 20s p. bsh. 
Kiln-dried Walnuts, 12s p. b. 
