THE BANAMf FOWL. 



breeder's yards last summer who claimed to 

 be a fancier. As we were shown through 

 his pens, we came to a favorite little 

 hen that was ill. As she had been 

 a prize winner and purchased at 

 a good Drice the owner from 

 pity (?) picked her up, placed 

 her in a box and carried her 

 to the house for treat- 

 ment. Further on we 

 came across a poor little 

 cockerel in a pen by him- 

 self, so sick the miserable 

 little chap was nearly 

 dead. We suggested that 

 he also needed treatment, 

 but our host said: "Oh, 

 he don't amount to any- 

 thing and is not worth the 

 bother." My friends! I 

 claim this man is no fan- 

 cier. His heart is not in 

 his work; he does not love 

 his pets! He was willing 

 to bother with the little 

 hen simply because she 

 was valuable and repre- 

 sented a few of his dol- 

 lars; but in a very dif- 

 ferent way he passed the 

 little cockerel and left 

 him to suffer. This same 

 breeder told us there was 



R - P 



BIRCHEN GRAY JAPANESE COCK AND HEN; 



The latter winner of 1st at Boston as pulle: in 1901; 1st and special at Boston, 1902. 



no money in Bantams and we don't believe there ever will 

 be any in it for him. 



I well remember once finding a half starved cur dog 

 with a broken leg that some boys were stoning. I took him 

 to my stables, set the leg, and gave the poor fellow the same 

 care and treatment I would have one of my thoroughbreds, 

 and when he was well found a good home on a farm, and I 

 never begrudged the time spent or figured that it was a 

 bother. So 1 say, if you would be a fancier, choose your 



line, but if you find 

 heart 



perhaps we cannot be quite as enthusiastic 

 as the young mother referred to above, 

 but we can frankly say you. have 

 missed a great deal of real pleas- 

 ure. The writer knows of no 

 pastime (and he has tried a 

 great many) that eduals 

 that of the Bantam fancy, 

 and it comes so nicely to 

 the busy man or woman 

 who has but a few spare 

 hours each day to devote 

 to pleasure and pets. Ban- 

 tams eat but little and re- 

 quire but little room to 

 make them happy and to 

 become a source of genu- 

 ine pleasure and profit. 

 We know of a school boy 

 who cleared $70 in a year 

 with a flock of Bantams 

 confined to a small back 

 yard of a city lot, but this 

 boy loved his pets and 

 you could find him with 

 them morning, noon and 

 night. Everything was in 

 perfect order about the 

 place and w« do not be- 

 lieve the $70 was the goal 

 he was aiming at. 



In some of the best 

 sales we have ever made 

 we have sent the birds away with a feeling of regret, as we 

 felt we were parting with old and true friends. 



We have one hundred fruit trees, and berry bushes galore 

 on our ten acres where we raise our Bantams, but I do not 

 expect ever to make much of a success with the -fruit, as 

 my heart is not in the work. Still the trees furnish fine 

 shade for the Bantams and that is the chief object of their 



J. c. JACKS. 



your 



with 



work, 



In 



is not 

 you in your 

 give it up. 

 asking your 



BLACK JAPANESE BAJ^TAM COCK, 



Winner at Boston and New York. An extra- 

 ordinarily good specimen. 



consideration for 

 our favorites, the 

 Bantams, we do so 

 feeling that a trial 

 will convince you of 

 the joys and pleas- 

 ures of a Bantam 

 fancier. A lady once 

 said to us, "Have 

 you seen our baby?" 

 to which Tve replied 

 we had not. "Then 

 youlhave missisd half 

 your life" came the 

 quick answer. And 

 we believe she real- 

 ly thought so. We 

 ask the reader, have 

 you ever tried Ban- 

 tams; If not you 

 have missed — well. 



JAPANESE BANTAMS 



BY E. J. LATHAM, SECRETARY NATIONAL BANTAM ASSOCIATION. 



At his home, time 

 is not considered by 

 the Japanese when 

 producing or im- 

 proving a plant or 

 flower. Consider the 

 patience and time 

 consumed to pro- 

 duce the many vari- 

 eties of form and 

 color in chrysanthe- 

 mums. We can to- 

 day surpass them in 

 fine colors and 

 forms, but this is 

 only our ability to 

 make use of the pro- 

 ductions of others, 

 aided, as we are, by 

 well equipped hot 

 houses and condi- 

 tions most favora- 

 ble. In trees they 

 have dwarfed the 

 most stately and 



A BIRCHEN GRAY JAPANESE COCKEREL. 



2d at Boston, 1901. Owned by Henry Hales. 



