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becomes possible only by keeping and breeding for the best. 

 Fancy bantams command high prices and eggs from prize win- 

 ners command equally high prices. The raising of fancy bantams 

 is a business that requires experience, preseverance and patience, 

 but when the objective poi'it is gained one's time and trouble is 

 offset by the profit there is in them. Great popularity has come 

 to these little beauties and in many instances high values are 

 placed upon and realized for them. It is to be hoped that ban- 

 tam breeders everywhere will stamp out entirely the breeding 

 and selling of poor quality at any price, and thus elevate then) 

 so that those who breed and fancy them may feel seciire that lhey 

 have only good quality. 



■Zu'-«K;2i»?.S5«K: Wai4rrtlE*~1K*E- :S3ffiIlE 



White Cochin Bantam, Male. 



Variety Bantams. 



Like most other fanciers I have been a lover of poultry c\ci- 

 since my boyhood days. During that time my experience has 

 been limited exclusively to variety bantams, particularly Cochin- 

 Japanese and Rose Combs. I well remember when a mere boy 

 how father used to point out the good and bad qualities of -a 

 bird and in that way made the bantam industry a very pleasant 

 study for me. 



We first began with Black Tailed Japanese and a short time 

 afterwards added the White Japanese, which we have been bree^' 



