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THE COTTAGE GAllDENER. 
OCTOBKB 00. 
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DUBLIN AMATEUR POULTRY SOCIETY. 
This very .spiritedly - conducted Society has issued a 
detail of the characteristics desirable in each variety ot 
poultry, which they designate a “ Proposed basis for uni¬ 
formity of judgment at Uxhibitions of Poultry." ^\e purpose 
to publish it in our columns, with such comments as we may 
think needed. ^ 
The Society's Exhibition will be held on the 18th, l!)th, , 
and 20th of December. The prospectus offers first and | 
second i)rizes of one t/iiinva, and luilf-n-fpiinea, respectively, ! 
both for adult birds and chicken of 1855, of the following 
varieties:— 
FOWLS WITH COJIliS. 
Spanish (Black). Spanish (White). Dorking (White). 
Dorking (Coloured). Shanghae or Cochin-China (Buft, 
Cinnamon, Grey, or White). Shanghae or Cochin-China 
(Black, Grouse, or Partridge). Dutch Pencilled (Bolton 
Greys). Dutch Pencilled (Bolton Bays). Game (Black- 
breasted, and other Beds). Game (Duckwings, and other 
Greys, White, and Piles). Mooned Pheasant Fowls 
(Golden). Mooned Pheasant Fowl (Silver). Irish 
Cuckoo (Single-combed). 
For Malays, the prizes are 15s., and 7s. 6d. 
For the following, the prizes are 10s., and 5s:—Persian 
or TaiUess. Frizzled. Sebriglit Bantams (Gold-laced). 
Sebright Bantams (Silver-laced). Bantams (Clean-legged. 
Assorted colours). Bantams (Feathered. Assorted colours). 
FOWLS WITH CHESTS. 
White - crested Black Fowl. Black - crested White. 
Spangled Hamburgh (Golden). Spangled Hamburgh 
(Silver). Crested White Fowl. For this last variety the 
first and second prizes are 15s., and 7s. (id. 
For Turkeys, Geese, and Ducks, the prizes are one guinea, 
and half-a-guinea. They are thus classed : — Turkeys , 
(American). Turkeys (Norfolk, or any other breed). 
Geese (Improved breed). Ducks (White Aylesbury). 
Ducks (Rouen). 
For Pigeons (best pair), of each of the following varieties, 
one prize of 5s. is offered:—Fantails. Carriers. Pouters 
or Croppers. Tumblers (Almond). Tumblers (Bald- 
pated). Tumblers (Mottled). Runts. Turbits. Nuns. 
Trumpeters. Jacobins, and Barbs, 
For the best pair of Lob-eared Rabbits, 10s. 
In addition, a £5 cup will be given to the best of the 
prize lots. 
Entries will not be received after November 24tb. 
The Honorary Secretaries are J. R. Dombrain, Esq., 80, 
Leeson Street, and R. P. Williams, Esq., Dame Street, 
Dtibliu. 
WATERFORD FARMING SOCIETY. ! 
The first meeting of this Society was held in the City of 
Waterford, on Wednesday, the 3rd. of October, ami was very 
successful. 
The entiies of stock w'ere so much greater than the 
Committee at first expected, that the accommodation provided 
by them was soon found too small, and the grounds in front 
of the handsome New Court House were obtained fur the dis¬ 
play of roots and machinery, and for the performance of the 
band of the County Dublin Militia. The bulls, milch cows, two- 
year old and yearling heifers, and weanling calves, were excel¬ 
lent. The boai'S and sows of a very high order. The sheep 
good, and the display of Poultry admirable. Indeed, it was 
generally admitted, that for a first show it w'as most credit¬ 
able to all concerned. The Committee and Hon. Secretary 
were indefatigable in their exertions on the occasion, and 
the Judges performed their part in the most impartial 
manner. 
The dinner was held at the Towui Hall, and w'as attended 
by nearly 100 gentlemen and farmers,—the cliair being ably 
tilled by the Earl of Huntingdon, in the absence of the 
President, tlie Marquis of Waterford ; and the vice-chair by 
Sir Robert Joshua Paul, Bart. Sevoral admirable speeches 
wore made on the occasion, and a most instructive one by 
Captain Rail, of the County of Dublin Militia, who was a 
•Invor at the I’.aris Exhibition, and expressed liimtidf greatly 
pleased with what he saw in the yards, particularly the 
young stock. 
A handsome medal has been executed for the Society 
by Mr. Gttley, of Birmingham, from a design by C. N. 
Bolton, Esq., of Brook Lodge, a member of the Comnuttce. 
The prize list was as follows:— 
Fowl — {GentlcvuDi's Class). —P. K. Reid, lisq., for the 
best Spanish, a medal; do., for the best Cochin, a medal; 
Win. Joyce, for the best Dorking, a medal; Major ()uentin, 
for the best Aylesbury Ducks, a medal; Miss Paul, for the 
best Fancy Chicken, a modal; Geo. Courtney, Esq., for the 
best Collection of Poultry, a first class medal. 
Preston Poultry Show. —A number of gentlemen 
interested in the improvement of the breed of domestic 
poultry, held a preliminary meeting at the Bull Inn, 
Preston, on Wednesday last, when it was unanimously 
resolved that a society should be formed for the purpose 
of conducting an annual exhibition in Preston of choice 
specimens of the feathered products of the farm-yard. 
An efficient committee was appointed for the purpose 
of soliciting subscriptions ancl distinguished patronage, 
and for carrying out generally the objects of the society. 
It is intended that the first show shall take place in 
January next, in the Corn Exchange. From the spirit 
already evinced, and the patronage promised, it is con¬ 
fidently anticipated that the exhibitions of the “ Preston 
and North Lancashire Poultry Association” will shortly 
rank amongst the most attractive in the country. 
THE HOUSEHOLD. 
(We shall be much obliged by any of our readers 
sending us approved receipts in cookery, hints for house¬ 
hold management, or any other domestic utilities, for 
insertion in this department of our columns.) 
Pu^iPKiN Soup.—Bumpkins at this time of the year will 
often be found in the Cottager’s Garden, but are not appre¬ 
ciated as much as tliey ought to be. They are generally made 
into pies, mixed with apples. In my humble opinion, it is not 
so cheap, or so good, as applies alone. In the South of 
France they are made into a soup with milk. The Bumpkin 
is peeled, and cut into square pieces of about one inch, and 
about one pound weight of it added to one quart of milk, 
with one onion cut into slices, pepper and salt, and boiled. 
But the following soup, wliich I made yesterday, is better 
adapted for the Englisli palate:—Take a knuckle of veal 
and a knuckle of ham. In absence of the veal, use a calf’s 
foot or a cow-heel, or even some bones; and, in place of the 
ham, use iiart of the hock of bacon. Cut and chop these 
up, put them into a two-gallon stewpan, then add to them 
two large onions sliced, one carrot, two middle-sized turnips 
sliced, with skin on, the outside leaves of a large head of 
celery cut into small pieces, one tea-spoonful of ground all¬ 
spice, one table-spoonful of salt, and a piece of butter the 
size of a walnut. If marrow can be had, use it instead of 
butter. In fact, for all kinds of soups, where butter is re¬ 
commended, marrow is preferable, only in larger quantities. 
Blace the stewpan on the fire, keep stirring the contents 
with a wooden spoon, to prevent it sticking to the bottom of 
the pan, and until there is a kind of white glaze on the 
pieces of meat; then add, by degrees, one gallon of hot 
water, peel and take out the seeds of a Bumpkin about six 
pounds weight, cut it into pieces, and put it into the stew¬ 
pan; boil until the pieces of Bumpkin are quite soft, pass as 
much as possible of the contents of the stewpan through a 
coarse hair-sieve, then boil it again, adding more water if 
too thick. Season it with a table-spoonful of pounded sugar, 
a tea-spoonful of pepper, and more salt if n ipiired. Serve in 
a tureen, with some fried bread cut the size of dice. T'his 
soup is good at this time of the year, as it cools the blood, 
and causes the deposit of the acul liuraotus of the body. It 
is at all times preferable to soups of the pea kind, 
