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DEPAR-TKE^T OF AGRICULTURE GEORGIA. 



CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BREEDS. 



GAMES. 



This seems to be the typical breed, 

 most closely resembling the wild 

 parent, Gallus Bankiva. 



The game is notoriously the most 

 hardy breed of chickens in the whole 

 catalogue, and independently of their 

 value as fighters in the cock-pit, with 

 which this work has nothing to do, 

 they are well worthy of cultivation, 

 purely for their economical qualities. 

 The hens are good layers, superior 

 sitters and unsurpassed mothers. A 

 serious objection, however, to them 

 as mothers is that they are too much disposed to fight the young 

 chicks of other broods. This propensity brings with it, however? 

 a compensating quality, viz : that 'of defending with great spirit 

 their own brood against all intruders. 



The chicks are bright and hardy, but mature slowly. The flesh 

 of the game is considered of superior quality, though less in quan. 

 tity than in birds of the same age in most other commonly culti- 

 vated breeds. 



There are many varieties of the game differing but little in essen- 

 tial qualities, the distinctions being based mainly upon the color of 

 the plumage. As plumage is a matter of small importance, so far as 

 the objects of this work are concerned, further than to aid the 

 reader in recognizing pure bred birds, the varieties of the game will 

 not be described, but only a description covering the distinctive 

 characteristics of the game as a breed, since this will enable one to 

 recognize a game wherever seen and of whatever color. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF GAMES. 



The head is long, thin and tapering, with beak more curved than 

 that of any other breed. Color varies in the different varieties. 



Comb thin and straight, single and low in front. A game cock 

 with a full comb is rarely seen. They are usually dubbed Jn both 

 eomb and wattles. 



