Show In I BANTAM PRODUCED BY BV JAPANESE SKILL SI SNOWS SHOWS WHAT BREEDING CAN n DO I BY BYL LOUIS UIS PAUL pACI GRAHAM t. t 1913 by Tho Eugene McGuckin McGuckin Mc- Mc COP Copyright Guckin Company Compan The little brown man of Nippon is u a wonder for Cor taking nature by the nose noso leading hor nor Into ways wars she doesn't docan t and ud want to go bO n naturally lie Ho grows groW trees which after fifteen years cars will measure less than two feet teet high Fowls Bowls 10 18 which have hao tails eighteen the subject of at this others and feet f t Ions Sketch Japanese Bantams with their sketch running up alon along their backs backst tails toward tho the ties head d anI and having flaying legs but t Inch Ion long He's Hes s been breeding them ono that they wont won't grow Krow way wa so BO long lonK thIs other na tray It H H is this oddity that an any of ot the accounts accounts for Cor popularity Jap- Jap n n I There rc are arc ro several varieties of ot this little little little lit lit- lit lit- tle bantam s separated ted only by colors shape tho they arc aro identically the tho same In Somo writers however consider th the solid white solid black and black black- fa ta led white as the three pure varieties of ot the breed and class all aU others as aR tho result of ot crossing with other bantams On nn the other hand a Japanese when whon a admitted fitted that this odd little q bantam was waR widely bred In Japan and andIn Itt In all colors 11 the bantam It T 1 Is very cry popular among b breeders of ot I England the United States land and Canada an and every winter r notable specimens arc exhibited at our poultry shows Their o oddity dllY attracts consiA Conald Hv I attention from rom the layman laman and 1 M man many have be been n sold told for purely ornamental orna orna- mental purposes on country estate Good specimens command profitable JIB prices an and In fact ct the tho fowls are rare enough to be more or l less ss exp expensive Ilk The little hens hotis lay well set let hatch W Wand and rear the tho chicks The chicks are ara not easy to rear and probably require moro more attention than chicks of at an any other 1 variety except and Polish Y A AI When finally reared however they j I jre are re a source of great pleasure to thou those who exhibit Among the breeders breeder there is a n keen rivalry to produce th the bc best beat t and longest fan taU tall and shortest shortlist j legs as Rs well as RS smallest fowls The TH t tI standard calls for two twenty to 1 I ty six ounce weight or on males and s III lw twenty nty to two twenty ounces for t or fe fe- fe males out but tn the ino winning specimens In la our ou better shows show nevor never approach these then weights 1 In all our breeds of ot fowls fowl fitness Is requisite to raise ralso certain vas va Suc breeders of or large 15 fowls owls fall tall utterly at producing small f bantams bantam The They grow row them too big 4 t G The bantam fancier to succeed must must mut I It possess the knack of right feeding J This I Is la something which it would be b. iff difficult to describe There Is no DO hard r and fast rule It Is a talent and it is la If tide this fact alone that prevents many lt aJ from Crom breeding these little beauties Thus liT Is IB of ot course a purely ornamental It M fowl tol and Is bred for no other purpose tr 1 rN |