BREEDS DESCRIBED 



Bantams will thrive with less house and yard room 

 than any other breed, and they may be housed in 

 a dry goods box, and kept on a lawn or in a gar- 

 den without injury where it would be impossible 

 to keep any other breed without ruining many 

 things. 



Bantams of a good strain will lay as many eggs 

 in a year as most of the larger varieties, but they 

 lay the smallest egg of all the chicken family. 

 While Bantams can scarcely be used on the table 

 until they have attained their full size, at that time 

 they are, weight for weight, the equals of any 

 fowl, as they make plump carcasses and their meat 

 is very sweet and fine grained. 



There are twenty-five or more different varieties 

 in the Bantam family. The newest additions to 

 the family the Light Brahma and the Dark 

 Brahma Bantams are about as handsome and 

 useful as any, being miniature counterparts of 

 the large Light Brahmas and the Dark Brahmas. 

 The eight varieties of the Game Bantams are 

 very common and excellent. About the same 

 may be said of the Seabright Bantams, of which 

 there are two varieties, the Golden and the 

 Silver. These birds are unique in that the birds of 

 both sexes are nearly alike in appearance when well 

 bred, the difference being very slight indeed. The 

 Cochin Bantams are miniature reproductions of 

 the large Cochin family. The Buffs are the most 



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