January 27. THE COTTAGE GAEDENER. 32!) 
house, a huilding well adapted for the purpose ; and in the 
arrangement for the accommodation of the birds great 
judgment liad been manifested. At two o’clock, the awards 
having been completed, the public were admitted, and till 
nine that evening, and fom-, p.m., the following day, the 
room continued well filled. 
Spanish, as usual, commenced the hst, when pen No, 2 
shone conspicuous; and if in figure, head, and general 
character, they proclaimed their close relationship to the 
well-known stock of the most successful breeder of their 
race, they did full justice, by their condition and feather, to 
the management of their ])resent owner, Mr. W. .1. Law¬ 
rence, of Penzance. No second prize was given to tlie older 
birds, but the chickens of Mr. Pennington, and Mr. T. N. 
Miller, received 1st and 2nd prizes. 
Dorhinys, as a class, stood in great need of the improve¬ 
ment that Poultry Societies are now effecting ; another year, 
and we shall hope to get rid of much that we could not but 
object to. Weight, no less than plumage, was deficient; and 
colour and figure were strangely contrasted in the same pen. 
But the grey birds of Mr. (feorge Williams, and the %chite, 
belonging to Mr. Augustus Smith, deserved better neigh¬ 
bours ; these were, certainly, fair specimens of their re¬ 
spective classes. 
Among the Shanyhaes, Mr. E. II. Bowman’s white birds, 
both old and young, were the objects of general attention; 
and closely were their pens surrounded. Good management 
had placed them here without a soiled feather; and when 
we ad<l, that in point of shape, as well as size, they would 
lose by no comparison, it will not be surprising that such 
unanimous admiration should have been lavished on them. 
Mr. W. J. Lawrence’s and Mr. Blea’s birds were both de¬ 
servedly distinguished by the judge. Mr. Gittus was highly 
commended; and in chickens, he took a second prize. 
Breeders of this class would do well to consider how they 
may avoid that tendency to legginess that has shown itself 
at many of our late exhibitions, especially in the cockerels— 
a fault, we think, most dihgeutly to be guarded against. 
Let them also remember, that size may be gained at the ex¬ 
pense of symmetry, and that mere weight goes but for little. 
Malays, Uame-fowl, and Hambiiryhs, follow on the list. Of 
the two former, we had looked for better birds, especially, 
when we remembered the beautiful pair of White Game that 
were brought here last year. The Hamburghs were not 
numerous, but included some nice specimens, the property 
of Mr. Miller, of Truro. 
Black Polands could not be commended ; but Jlr. Hawke, 
of 'fruro, showed a good pen of golden, and the silver of Air. 
Aliller and Mr. Pennington fully bore out the justice of their 
awards. Air. Bowman’s ivhite Polands, which had been vic¬ 
torious at Birmingham, had equal honours here. 
In class 27, for any other distinct breed, a number of 
Minorcas and Aiicoiias were shown. Now these birds, be¬ 
traying such evident traces of a Spanish origin, liowever 
impure and degenerate, have no title to be thus distin¬ 
guished; and another year will not, we hope, again witness 
their competition for prizes whicli should always be reseiwed 
for fowls of unquestioned purity of Idood. 
Of Gold-laced Bantams, Air. George Williams had good 
specimens; and the Almond Tumblers, belonging to the 
same gentleman, were excellent. Some Black Carriers, 
Jac(diins, Fautails, and White Trumpeters, were specially 
noted amongst the 1‘igeons. Air. G. AVilliams’s Geese and 
Turkics deserved and obtained the highest approbation. 
Ducks will be better another year; and Pea-fowl, it should 
be remembered, are sliown to great disadvantage at the pre¬ 
sent season, which must account for Air. Hawkins's birds in 
this class not realising the higher step; but judges must 
decide on what birds arc, not on what they may be. 
Uniformity in the pens, no less with respect to colour than 
form and general appearance, will, doubtless, another year 
be more generally studied than a first exhibition can give 
time for. Trurb, however, may well congratulate herself 
on this favourable commencement of her Poultry Society ; 
and if, as is confidently expected, arrangements can bo 
made for the union of this association with the Cornwall 
Society of I'enzance, the objects of both bodies will be far 
more effectually carried out, and their practical utility more 
permanently established. There is every reason to believe 
that such will be the result, from the general conviction of 
all those who are most interested and best informed on 
poultry matters. 
The Judges were Captain Alansell and the llev. AV. AY. 
AVingfiold, of Gulval; and we should think that if anything 
could reconcile to their task those who may fill that respon¬ 
sible office, it would be the good-humoured assent to their 
awards, which even the unsuccessful candidates on this 
occasion so readily bestowed. 
Tub Coenwali- Poultry Society’s Penzance Exhibition. 
—Evidence is daily accumulating as to the practical utility 
of the Poultry Societies and exhibitions whose transactions 
have lately occupied so prominent a position in the columns 
of The Cottage Garhenee. Those who first bestirred 
themselves in this branch of agricultural economy made up 
their minds to encounter difficulties, not merely from the 
indifference, but, in many cases, from the positive opposition 
of many, who expressed themselves even in terms of indig¬ 
nation at the attempt to suggest a better system of manage¬ 
ment for that class of live-stock .whose well-being had 
hitherto been so little regarded. And well it was that they 
were so prepared; for remarks have not been always limited 
to the good-humoured joke on the trivial character of such 
pursuits. The reailiest and most etfectttal answer to our 
opponents on this point, has been the continuous develop¬ 
ment of the various points of excellence in those classes 
which are speci.ally distinguished for culinary honours. The 
Dorkings, no less than those other varieties that occupy 
difi’erent degrees of merit in popular estimation. Geese, 
Ducks, and Turkeys, illustrate our meaning, when we now 
compare them with such specimens as might be taken as 
the fair average of some few years since. 
Paris, we know, was usually had recourse to for fumish- 
ing those choicer specimens of dead poulti’y for which it 
had obtained so great a repute ; but a few weeks since, we 
found, to our surprise, that Brighton was the source from 
which the table of an inhabitant of the French metropolis, 
confessedly most competent to decide, was regularly sup¬ 
plied ; and that even the Parisian poultiymen could not but 
acknowledge the justice of the award. 
At two o’clock on the afternoon of Alouday, the 10th inst., 
the doors of the Penzance Corn Alarket were opened to the 
public, whose presence on that, and the following day, fully 
bore out the expectation of general support, that had induced 
so convenient an arrangement for both spectators and the 
objects of their attention. 
The 1st prize in Spanish corresponded with the Truro award 
of last week, and, in all the characteristics of that striking 
variety, proved the judgment of their owner. Air. Lawrence, 
of Penzance, in the selection of his stock from Captain 
Hornby. His pen of chickens has unfortunately suti’ered 
by the mutilation of the cockerel’s comb, which, with other 
evident tokens of a recent conflict, told against them ; but 
an accident of this kind we are all liable to ; and, provided 
300 miles in mid-winter bo not an insuiTnountal)le obstacle. 
Air. Lawrence must uphold the credit of Cornwall at the 
Birmingham meeting of the present year. 
Of Grey Dorkings we had a good lot, especially those 
belonging to George AA’illiams, of Trevince, near Truro, and 
E. Rodd, Esq., of Penzance ; and closely riveted on these 1 
pens did we notice the attention of many of our agricultural | 
neighbours, and their consequent applications as to where 
good specimens might be attainable. In the While birds, 
there was, perhaps, a want of substance; but those of i 
Augustus Smith, Esq., the Lord Proprietor of the Scilly 
Islands, had many good points ; but on noticing a deficient ' 
bird, which spoilt the pen, we found that those intended to 
be shown had been claimed at Traro, and, consequently, no : 
time remained for a more careful selection. Air. AA'illiams , 
took a second prize; and a bird of Air. Hicks woidd have 
done more with better companions. | 
The Shanyhaes were deservedly commended by the .Judge, ' 
Air. Andrews, of Dorchester; and commendations from such 
an authority may well be prized. Here, again, was Air. 
Lawenco successful, taking first prizes with his buff birds, 
in both the old and chicken classes. Equal second prizes 
were awarded to Air. Bowman and the Rev. AA'. AA'. AVing- 
field, of Gulval; while the weighty birds belonging to Air. ! 
Blee were honoured by the double rosette that indicated 
high commendation. It would be a bold assertion to speak ! 
of the existence of better white Shanghaes than Air. Bow- j 
