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bred for fighting, but almost wholly for exhibition or 

 practical purposes. Being a hardy race and having a 

 good muscular development about the breast, they 

 are used with good effect to cross on common stock, 

 or on other pure-bred flocks. Game hens make the 

 best of mothers, and are very courageous in defend- 

 ing their broods. 



The Cornish Indian Games were some years ago 

 introduced into this country from England, and while 

 they at the time gave promise of becoming a popular 

 market fowl, they, for some reason or other, are not 

 much bred here at the present day. Their weight is : 

 cock, nine pounds ; hen, six and a half pounds. See 

 Plate XII. 



The ninth class includes 

 all Bantams other than 

 Games. The breeds and 

 varieties are numerous, but 

 we illustrate only a few 

 popular favorites in colored 

 Plate XIII. 



Bantams are bred mostly 

 as pets for children, but are 

 WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS, often profitably kept on city 

 yards and village lots for their eggs and meat. For 

 this service the Seabrights are an old and popular 

 breed. For show purposes Bantams are bred down as 

 small as possible, matured male specimens weighing 

 only twenty-six to thirty ounces, and even less. 



There are other breeds having decided merit not 

 yet included in the list of fowls as given in the 

 *' Standard." Among these are the Sherwoods, said 



