People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — A Mighly Game Cock. [ARTICLE]

A Mighly Game Cock.

A man in England paid SI,OOO for a chicken a short time ago, although the .fact is not a basis for speculation as to English poultry market prices. In point of fact, the price was considered so outrageous even for a game cock that the story of the sale when it first began to circulate found few believers. But it was a genuine sale. The money was paid and the chicken taken. It was at the Birmingham poultry show a few weeks ago that this remaikable transaction took place. The game cock in question, a fine black red, ‘is said to be the most perfect? of its kind in existence. It has a wonderful reach, is almost per feet in shape and size, while its fine tail is one of its best points. It has a fine ancestral record of prizes and triumphs and is a heavy winner itself. The owner of the bird was Hugo Ainscough, and the purchaser was Captain Heaton, agent of the Earl of Ellesmere.—Farmers Voice.