. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular ... Bantam chickens. T HIS home, time is not considered by the Japanese when producing or improving a plant or flower. Con- sider the patience and time consumed to produce the many varieties of form and color in chrysanthemums. We can to-day surpass them in fine colors and forms, but this is only our ability to make use of the pro- ductions of others, aided, as we are, by well equipped hot-houses and conditions most favorable. In trees they have dwarfed the most stately
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular ... Bantam chickens. T HIS home, time is not considered by the Japanese when producing or improving a plant or flower. Con- sider the patience and time consumed to produce the many varieties of form and color in chrysanthemums. We can to-day surpass them in fine colors and forms, but this is only our ability to make use of the pro- ductions of others, aided, as we are, by well equipped hot-houses and conditions most favorable. In trees they have dwarfed the most stately and beautiful into miniature form, some with long flowing leaves, others with wnxen texture and. FIG. 39—JAPANESE bright glowing colors. These are engrafted into one another until the product is a beautiful little toy tree with many kinds and colors of leaves. Even in the production of fruit trees they succeed in getting wonderful results. A friend, who spent years of his life in their country, tells me that they take young fowls and animals and confine them in boxes made to suit their purpose, and of different forms to meet the form of their specimen. These are confined in the ill-shaped boxes until they mature and their bodies grow to the shape of the inside of the box. No consideration of time and trouble affects them just so they can accomplish the object in view and surpass a neighbor in the work. Think of a square shaped chicken or pig, or a squirrel or rabbit with a hump like a camel! These same efforts produced the fowls with the very long tails, many of which are little larger than our Bantams. To produce these curious freaks must take an extent of con- finement on one hand and so close in-breeding on the other that they must possess some of infusing vigor into their specimeus unknown to us. Some thirty-five years ago the first fowls known as Japan- ese Bantams came to England. The earl3r specimens were of cuckoo marking, others variously
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