INDIAN GAME. 
Re 4e eR 
CHAPTER I. 
S each week issues its many poultry papers, so each week 
brings the question, ‘‘ Which is the best variety of poultry 
: %) to keep?’’ and how contradictory are the opinions offered ! 
And why? Because we all of us have our fancies; we all of us have 
our old friends, whose good points, when they have stood the test of 
time, we naturally wish to advocate for the benefit of others. Still 
we must allow every breed has its charm, and however much a 
fancier may lean to one or two special breeds, if a fancier at all he 
must see beauty in the others also. One only has to walk down 
between the rows of pens at a Palace or other first-class show to 
admire the varied points of beauty in the perfect specimens of the 
several breeds. 
Each variety has its place as a fancy, but all varieties have not 
a place as regards utility, and as poultry is now making such rapid 
strides in England, and becoming one of the subjects for lectures 
connected with technical education, all breeds will have to be judged 
by this word “utility,” and if found wanting will be relegated as 
purely ‘‘fancy,” and so remain in the hands of a few. 
Poultry is a hobby, and what a grand practical training school 
for any youth, laying the foundation stone of perseverance and 
judgment, and exercising to the full his mental powers, and what a 
magnetic hobby, too! How often one hears that So-and-So has given 
up poultry, but he comes back again when the opportunity offers to 
his old joys. I remember a well-known auctioneer, when selling - 
some pedigree stock, thus describe one of the bidders, who was 
