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he is black ; the purer and clearer the white the better. He should be a pure milky-white in breast, thighs, 
belly, tail, under-parts, wing-bars, and wing-butts. The head and hackle, orange-red, as free from white as 
possible, though there is generally a little white noticeable towards the points of the hackle ; the back, 
wing-bows, and shoulder coverts, rich crimson, shading into orange-red, to match the hackle. The flight 
coverts should be rich bay or chestnut, with a white spot on the end of each feather, forming a stripe or bar 
above the bay. A bird of this colour will breed cockerels like himself if mated with Wheaten-Pile or 
ruddy-winged hens. The Pile hen should have red face, eyes, wattles, and ear-lobes ; the hackle, gold and 
white, the gold predominating, each feather being white in the shaft and centre, with golden margin all round ; 
the breast, a rich salmon-red, shading off to a creamy-white on thighs, belly, and under-parts ; the remainder 
of the plumage, a clear creamy-white, the cleairr the better. Birds on both sides, if of the Standard colour, 
can be depended upon to produce Show pullets, though at times it is necessary to use a Black-Red cock to 
keep up the colour and hardness of feather ; Piles being bred together for any length of time, without a cross 
from the Black-Red, becoming in a few seasons washed-out in colour and soft in feather. 
LEMON-PILE GAME BANTAMS. 
The Lemon-Piles are offshoots of the Red-Piles, their colours being paler and indistinct — both cocks 
and hens — their chief value being for the production of the Show or Red-Piles, by the aid of the Black-Red 
cross. 
WHEATEN-GAME BANTAMS. 
The Wheatens are the cock-breeding strains of Black-Reds, Piles, and Duckwings, and are classified as 
Red-Wheatens, White-necked ditto, and Pile ditto, their chief value being for the breeding-pen, to produce 
the brightest-coloured cockerels of the three varieties. 
The Red-Wheaten hen is bright red in comb, face, eyes, wattles, and ear-lobes ; beak, greenish-horn ; 
legs and feet, willow or olive-green ; head and hackle feathers, golden, as free from streak as possible ; breast, 
pale fawn or cream colour thighs and under-parts, creamy or pale buff, tJic fluff being dark at the roots of the 
feathers ; back and wings, pale cinnamon or wheat colour ; the top outer feathers, the same colour as the 
body ; the tail, as black as possible. 
The Dnckwing-Wheaten hen is like the above, except that the hackle is white, and as free as possible 
from streak, t/ie fltiff being greyer at the roots of the feathers. 
The Pile-Wheaten hen should have yellow beak and legs, and is of a deeper fawn body colour, the 
hackles having more golden marking. Tlie fliff at the roots of the feathers is white^ the flight feathers, 
primaries, and tail being white. 
In setting Game Bantam eggs, we generally allow the hens to hatch and rear their own chickens, finding 
them the equal of their larger editions, the Game, in this respect, making the nest with grass in a corner of 
the house on the ground, giving from five to eight eggs to each hen (oftener five than eight), as the best 
results generally come from the smaller number. When the chickens are hatched the hen should not be 
disturbed for twenty-four hours, the young ones receiving their first meal of oatmeal mixed with boiling milk 
into a crumbly mass ; on this they are fed five or six times per day for the first week. After the third day a 
little crushed wheat, hemp seed, or canary seed may be given at evening, changed to whole grain when they 
are three weeks old, with an occasional titbit in the way of minced meat. On this diet they will thrive 
famously if plenty of grit, green food, and water are supplied. When they are three months old, by this 
time having left the hen, the cockerels are best separated from the pullets. The former will agree together 
until ready for dubbing, at about six or seven months old. This is a good time to begin training them for 
the Show pen, and just previous to exhibition they may be given a Httle ground linseed and sulphur added 
to the soft food, which will assist in brightening up the feathers considerably. A little iron tonic in the 
drinking water will put on the finishing touches about the head, face, and comb ; and if the spiky feathers 
are trimmed off the heads of the cockerels, and the feet and legs well washed the day before the Show, they 
will require no further attention. 
