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does this, it has no style. A Game bantam without style is only 

 a mongrel. 



The Game bantam is a prize show bird. One must study 

 him and learn to appreciate him as you do classical music, for 

 instance, or painting, for he is a creature of art when perfected. 

 The possibilities are many and years of breeding have left much 

 to be attained, and taking him at his present standard, years will 

 not have attained the ideal. The difficulty is the search of the 

 fancier and utility stock is injured every year by some require- 

 ments of the fancy. You can not ride two horses. Stock is 

 either utility or fancy. By that is meant you make one the 

 standard and will lose sight more or less of the other. The con- 

 tinuous change of the type of the utility stock is an attempt to 

 .make more difficult the breeding and thereby give the fancier 

 the sway. Then, too, in the bantams the expense of shipment, 

 an item to be taken into consideration in showing stock, is com- 

 paratively a small item. 



A small amount of room houses the little friends, for they 

 are friends indeed. Under kind treatment they soon become a 

 member of the family. They tame very easily. When it comes 

 to wisdom, a thing the hen does not lay claim to, the midgets 

 discount their large relatives by far. 



Another thing, although this is not said in derogation of 

 other fanciers, the bantam fanciers are a high-grade lot of men 

 to associate with. They are fanciers to the core and a meeting at 

 a show finds men with a common interest making valued friend- 

 ships. 



The Different Varieties of Game Bantams. 



Game bantams are in every sense of the word a fanciers' 

 fowl and they are, as a whole, bred to a better state of perfection 

 than any other variety. They are considered the most popular 

 variety of bantams and the gilt-edge specimens command long 

 figures. So keen is the rivalry and conipetition that ofttimes the 

 best money can buy are imported from England. Game bantams 

 are bred in a number of varieties, namely, black-breasted reds, 

 brown reds, Birchens, golden duckwing, silver duckwing, pyle, 

 black and white. The Black Breasted Reds seem to be the most 

 popular as they breed very true to color and when properly 

 mated a larger percentage of good birds is secured than in the 



