CHAPTER III. 
CHARACTERISTICS. 
HE chief characteristic of the Indian game is its extra- 
ordinary table properties, possessing as it does excep- 
tionally broad deep breasts heavily meated throughout, 
and capital thighs, carrying more flesh, and that in the right place, 
where it is wanted, than any other fowl. Cocks have been known 
to weigh up to 13lbs. and over, and hens up to 11lbs., several of 
them vieing with a turkey in the amount of flesh they produce; and 
in proof of the excellent quality, the fact that it has again and again 
taken the premier honours in table classes at the principal Shows 
speaks for itself. 
In 1888, at Birmingham, it took first prize for any other pure 
breed and special for the best table bird in the Show; and also first 
prize for crossbreeds as Indian Game Dorking. 
In 1889, at Birmingham, it took first prize for any other pure 
breed ; and first for crossbreeds as Indian Game Dorking. 
In 1890, at the Royal Plymouth, first was awarded to a pair 
of Indian Game pullets; and first to a pair of crossbreds, being 
Indian Game Dorkings. At the Dairy it took first, second, and 
fourth for cockerels, and first for pullets in crossbreds, as Indian 
Game Dorking and Plymouth Rock-Indian Game. At Birming- 
ham it took first and second for any other pure breed, second, 
third and fourth for crossbreeds as Indian Game-Dorking and 
Indian Game-Plymouth Rock; and one of our best authorities 
on Poultry, Mr. Tegetmeier, in writing on ‘ Poultry as Profitable 
Stock,” ‘‘ Breeding for the Market,” in The Field of August 15th, 
1891, says as follows: ‘‘I believe that a good short-legged 
Indian Game cock . . . . . erossed with Dorking hens will 
produce plumper, heavier and more meaty birds than the pure 
Dorkings of the modern exhibition strain that are bred for size, 
feather and comb, and not for plumpness of breast. I have been 
asked to award the prizes at several of the shows of dead poultry, 
