. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . curl of the feathers, next, the quality offeather; to be perfect they must be hard and wiry. Color isthe third consideration. Being a tender fowl they must beprotected from all changes of the weather, rain or are fairly good layers, splendid sitters and mothers,and their chicks are as easily raised as the Japanese. The Rumpless Bantams, produced, as they were, by , seem to my mind to belong to the same chapterwiih the above. Let me quote th
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . curl of the feathers, next, the quality offeather; to be perfect they must be hard and wiry. Color isthe third consideration. Being a tender fowl they must beprotected from all changes of the weather, rain or are fairly good layers, splendid sitters and mothers,and their chicks are as easily raised as the Japanese. The Rumpless Bantams, produced, as they were, by , seem to my mind to belong to the same chapterwiih the above. Let me quote the words of others as to them:They were produced by a cross of a very small Rumplesshen with a crest. She was mated to a White Polish and pro-duced Rumpless Polish Bantams. This same hen mated toa very small Nankin Bantam produced tailless result of these two crosses passed into the haiids ofothers, who continued the work and produced them in manyforms and colors; also some with very short, booted single and rose combs are seen, but the single is muchpreferred. These two breeds in their many colors would. R ^ ! - - j- A P.\IR OF WHITE CRESTED WHITE POLISH BANTAMS. make a study for any number of fanciers, and I hope someenterprising breeder will look into them and add them inperfection to our list of little beauties at our exhibitions. FRIZZLES IN ENGL.^ND. We clip the following from the Stock Keeper as to Eng-lish Frizzles: Frizzles, notwithstanding the fact that they havebeen exhibited in England nearly thirty years, have failedto take on in the fancy. This is probably on account ofthe difficulties experienced in rearing the chicks; as the vari-ety has been greatly inbred in order to obtain the type andcharacter so essential in Frizzles, the stamina of the breedhas been greatly weakened. There is great diversity of opinion as to what countrythis breed originated in. Some say Japan, other Friesland,whilst some ideas of their origin are both too numerous and
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