Show nall tams bantams battams are rein in many cases the exact counterparts of tile tiie ordinary domestic dome breeds calef carefully ully dwarfed and perfected by the art of man As high authority aut bority as wright names them as artificial fowls and ancl I 1 says ays s there is not the slightest reason lor for bUpp osHi aklin that tiny of tile the diminutive fowls known ss as baut ains are descended front from an original oris rinal wild stock beale classes sill ill battams bantams ai tallis as purely 11 fancy fowls popular ahi chiefly I 1 eti y because of their beauty the Se brights lead in the list of ban tams being both hardy and handsome they gained their name front from an en is tie fancier sir john ht I 1 who developed this variety of tile the two varieties the silver and golden the last named is generally considered the more difficult to breed 11 in tile the gold laced the ground color is it a rich golden yellow in the silver laced a silvery white in both cases the ground must be perfectly clear and unsullied varied only by the clear black line around each feather winch which constitutes the lacing the combs should be a perfect rose color the chief difficulty iu breeding Be brighte lies in feathers feath cra that are distinctly laced pure bred bant ains im art valued as exhibition birds they can bo deptin kept in places too restricted for large fowls are very ornamental and main capital pets peta in a word they suit lit tai fai cier rather than the farmer |