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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