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llenee the man with only one loft and who intends to breed 

 only our kind, had bet t er try long-faced birds. Very naturally 

 tlif ((lu'stion miglit, be asked as to why I do not follow the 

 preeepts I preach, because while 1 am a white Fan specialist, 

 1 also breed lied German Swallows. Well, I breed the Fans 

 and 1 " MM-'' the Swallows and they are very handy. 



In the HIM place I like to have a lot of flying pigeons down 

 in the yard, they- look so homelike, and in the second, they 

 are my 'helpers." To explain this term I must go into 

 detail. If I have a cranky pair of Fans, the eggs of which 

 are not fertile I simply slip a pair of Swallow eggs under them, 

 and let them hatch and feed the young, Again, if by accident 

 1 happen to lose eggs of Fans just prior to hatching, or young 

 \\ hile a day or two old, I go over to the Swallow loft and get 

 some young of the right age and put them under the Fans to 

 draw off the "pigeon milk" which forms in the crop during 

 the laM three days of setting and ought not to be allowed to 

 remain. Again, if I sell a pair of Fans that have eggs I simply 

 transfer the eggs to the Swallow loft. So, it will be seen that 

 the Swallows come in very handily. 



I would advise any breeder, who can do so and who is 

 I/reeding one strain of high bred birds to always have a yard 

 loft, of flying birds. 



I have had many visitors who admired the Swallows as 

 much as the Fans, and we sell the surplus of the former, 

 sometimes in lots of twenty at a time for they breed like rats. 



Any man who wishes to experiment with a trusty breed of 

 birds that \\illalwaystake care of themselves will not miss 

 it it he tries Swallows. 



So it will be seen that I am really practising what I preach 

 :ind am a one variety breeder pure and simple. 



All the best fanciers will join me in the statement that the 



MK-ee^ful breeder of the day is the man who breeds 



variety only. Kaeh breed is a study in itself. It has 



