. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . BLACK COCHIN BANTAM—NABOB BANTAM YARDS THE BANAMP FOWL. breeders yards last summer whobe a fancier. As we were shown tlhis pens, we came to a favorite 1hen that was ill. As she had beena prize winner and purchased ata good price tlie owner frompity (?) picked her up, placedher in a box and carried herto the house for treat-ment. Further on wecame across a poor littlecockerel in a pen by him-self, so sick the miserablelittle chap was nearlydead- We suggested thathe
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . BLACK COCHIN BANTAM—NABOB BANTAM YARDS THE BANAMP FOWL. breeders yards last summer whobe a fancier. As we were shown tlhis pens, we came to a favorite 1hen that was ill. As she had beena prize winner and purchased ata good price tlie owner frompity (?) picked her up, placedher in a box and carried herto the house for treat-ment. Further on wecame across a poor littlecockerel in a pen by him-self, so sick the miserablelittle chap was nearlydead- We suggested thathe also needed treatment,but our host said: dont amount to any-thing and is not worth thebother. My friends! Iclaim this man is no fan-cier. His heart is not inhis work; he does not lovehis pets! He was willingto bother with the littlehen simply because shewas valuable and repre-sented a few of his dol-lars; but in a very dif-ferent way he passed thelittle cockerel and lefthim to suffer. This samebreeder told us there was. R - P «• BIRCHEN GRAY JAPANESE COCK AND HEN; The winner of 1st at Boston as puJIe. in 1901; 1st and special at Bostoi cannot be quite as enthusiasticyoung mother referred to above,we can frankly say you havessed a great deal of real pleas-ure. The writer knows of nopastime (and he has tried agreat many) that equalsthat of the Bantam fancy,and it comes so nicely tothe busy man or womanwho has but a few sparehours each day to devoteto pleasure and pets. Ban-tams eat but little and re-quire but little room tomake them happy and tobecome a source of genu-ine pleasure and know of a school boywho cleared $70 in a yearwith a flock of Bantamsconfined to a small backyard of a city lot, but thisboy loved his pets andyou could find him withthem morning, noon ananight. Everything was Inperfect order about theplace and we do not be-lieve the $70 was the goalhe was aiming at. In some of the bestsales we have ever made , 1902. no money in Bantams a
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