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willingness to be handled, and when trained, are perfectly at home in 

 any place. They can be made Generals in a short time. The Java 

 Games are too slow and lack courage, as I have seen a number start 

 at the first puncture of the STEEL. Sportsmen have to come for 

 Sumatra Pheasant Games on all important occasions." 



Game eggs are not only of extra weight, as Mr. Butters truly 

 remarks, but they are decidedly richer than any other eggs. One 

 Game egg is worth two co-mmon eggs of the same size, either for eat- 

 ing or culinary purposes so far do the Game eggs excel all others, both 

 as to flavor and nutritious qualities. The specific gravity of an egg, 

 as well a-s a fowl, determines its relative qualities. 



No better fowls, either for the " spit," or the " pit," than the 

 Sumatra Pheasant Games, are to be found. A larger breed of Games 

 is produced by crossing the Sumatra Pheasant Game cock, with the 

 Wild Indian Game hen, or vice versa. They are called, and very 

 appropriately, "The Game Cock of the Wilderness," and are of 

 exquisite beauty and indomitable courage. 



With regard to the Java Games, I must beg leave to differ from my 

 friend Butters. The PURE Java Games, are likewise "Pheasant" 

 Games, having a head and tail like the Suroatras, and only differ in 

 size and color. The Javas, as well as the Sumatras, are fast and stal- 

 wort fighters in fact, the Javas are only a VARIETY of the Sumatras 

 the BREED is the same. 



JOHN C. BENNETT. 



Fort des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa. 



The following letter is from Geo. A. Smith, Esq., of Geo., 

 one of the most extensive fowl fanciers of the South : 



, Geo., April 19, 1852. 



I hope you will not think me fickle when I tell you that I recant 

 my former opinion in regard to the fighting qualities of the Sumatra 

 Pheasant Games. I saw my blue cock tried, and pass through the 

 'fiery ordeal' that happens to the lot of few cocks to pass through. 

 He fought a cock that I will not say was the best in Georgia, but he 

 was more than an average, and one that could make a good fight any 

 time. He was two and a half years old, and in good righting order, 

 and was a very fast fighter. The Sumatra got a bad cut on the hip 

 before they had exchanged a half-dozen blows, which made him stag- 

 ger, and he could not stand firm on his feet. The next cut was in the 

 wing, that did not injure him much. The next was in the neck, but 

 not very deep. The next in the body. All this time his antagonist 

 had not received a scratch, and was thumping him away on all sides, 

 and at every pass doing the Sumatra some damage, which now showed 

 signs of being worsted, and when pitted, would make an attempt to 

 get to the other cock, and fall. The Georgia cock would then go and 

 stand upon him sometimes on his neck, for five minutes at a time. 

 The Sumatra would get from tinder him, exchange a few blows, then 

 fall again. At this crisis the Sumatra got a cut at the lower edge of 

 the right eye, and ranging towards the neck. It was with a & 

 gaff, and went more than half the length in, and being so fast that the 

 point bent in pulling it out. I thought it was all over with him, but 



