POULTRY. 
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TUE SEADBIGHT BANT AM. 
being small in proportion. But how many hundreds of amateurs there 
are whose opportunities give them no room for full-sized fowls, hut who, 
delighting in living things, can indulge their fancy and beguile many 
hours which would otherwise 
prove weary ones, by keeping 
a few Bantams. Their small 
eggs are delicacies which would 
tempt almost any invalid. 
The gold and silver-laced, or 
Seabright Bantam, is perhaps 
the most popular kind of all 
The size should be quite dimin- 
utive, and the carriage saucy. 
The booted Bantam, of which 
the most beautiful we have seen 
white bantam cook and hen. have been pure white, are com- 
pletely feathered on the legs — 
not feathered down one side only, like the Cochin China. 
Game Bantams are exact miniature representatives of game fowls, 
black-breasted reds, duck-wings, 
and other colors. An exact duck- 
wing game Bantam is the most 
beautiful little creature one can 
imagine. 
THE DOMESTIC TURKEY— The 
domestic turkey can scarcely be 
said to be divided, like the com- 
mon fowl, into distinct breeds, al- 
though there is, indeed, consider- 
able variation in color, and also in 
size. The finest and strongest tur- 
keys are said to be those of a 
bronzed black, resembling as closely as possible the original stock; they 
BLACK RANTAaM COCK AND HEN. 
