POULTRY. 



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TUK SEABHIGIIT BANTAM. 





■VVHITK 15ANTAM COCK AND HEN. 



being small in proportion. But how many linndreds of amateurs there 

 are whose opportunities give them no room for full-sized fowls, but who, 

 delighting in living things, can indulge their fancy and beguile many 

 -V?^S^^--.^fr'v^^- _ hours which would otherwise 



~ prove weary ones, by keeping 



a few Bantams. Iheir small 

 eggs are delicacies which would 

 tempt almost any invalid. 



The r/old and silver-laced^ or 

 Scabright Bantam^ is perhaps 

 the most popular kind of all 

 The size sliould be quite dimin- 

 utive, and the carriage saucy. 



The hooted Bantam^ of which 

 the most beautiful we have seen 

 have been pure white, are com- 

 pletely feathered on the legs — 

 iiot'feathcred down one side only, like the Cochin China. 



Game Bantams are exact miniature representatives of game fowls, 



black-breasted reds, duck-wings, 

 and other colors. An exact duck- 

 wing game Bantam is the most 

 beautiful little creature one can 

 imao-ine. 



THE DOMESTIC TURKEY.— The 

 domestic turkey can scarcely be 

 said to be divided, like the com- 

 mon fowl, into distinct breeds, al- 

 though there is, indeed, consider- 

 able variation in color, and also in 

 size. The finest and strongest tur- 

 keys are said to be those of a 

 bronzed black, resc^nbling as closely as possible the original stock; they 



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CU( K AND HEN. 



