The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . BLACK COCHIN BAXTAM—-VAEOB BANTAM YARDS. THE BANAMf FOWL. breeders yards last summer who claimed tobe a fancier. As we were shown throughhis pens, we came to a favorite littlehen that was ill. As she had beena prize winner and purchased ata good Drice the 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.
The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . BLACK COCHIN BAXTAM—-VAEOB BANTAM YARDS. THE BANAMf FOWL. breeders yards last summer who claimed tobe a fancier. As we were shown throughhis pens, we came to a favorite littlehen that was ill. As she had beena prize winner and purchased ata good Drice the 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: Oh,he 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 latter winner of 1st at Boston as pulle: in 1901; 1st and special at Boston, 1902. no money in Bantams and we dont believe there ever willbe any in it for him. I well remember once finding a half starved cur dogwith a broken leg that some boys were stoning. I took himto my stables, set the leg, and gave the poor fellow the samecare and treatment I would have one of my thoroughbreds,and when he was well found a good home on a farm, and Inever begrudged the time spent or figured that it was abother. So 1 say, if you would be a fancier, choose your line, but if you findheart perhaps we cannot be quite as enthusiasticas the young mother referred to above,but we can frankly say you. havemissed a great deal of real pleas-ure. The writer knows of nopastime (and he has tried agreat many) that edualsthat of the Bantam fancy,and it comes so nicely tothe busy man or womanwho has but a few sparehours
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