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That Pantam Hoy^e. 



By Reeves Congdon. 



I want to tell your reaxl,ers just a few words in regard to 

 housiag bantams. I have been breeding the little fellows only 

 a short time compared with some, since 190S, and I believe I am 

 just learning tjie first rudiments in bantam breeding. I do not 

 want to convey the idea that I tliink I know all there is to know 

 and just a little more. Not so, £or I am always willing to listen 

 and try and learn from those whom I know have gro-wn gray in 



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the enterprise, as their years of experience must sure!}' have 

 taught them some good things. However, I have learned this 

 much from experience, that it is a waste of time and money for 

 me to try and house bants in glass-front houses and keep them 

 free from dampness and colds. I believe from the very outset, 

 when I first began, that no matter what -fowl was going to be 

 ho.US.e,d, it needed fresh air and plenty of it without getting 

 dra.ughts in the house. Hence I built my bantam house per- 

 fectly tight on three sides and placed a removable curtain in the 



