ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



for them. The same thing would happen to the 

 natives themselves after their simple food of 

 rice, fruit, and vegetables. Bring them over 

 here and regale them on our good old English 

 fare, and plenty of it, and indigestion and other 

 kindred ailments would quickly follow. 



VALUE OF FRESH AIR. 



And so the dainty frilled Pigeons had to 

 gradually get accustomed both to our system of 

 feeding and our English climate. But when once 

 they had got over the change their troubles on 

 this score were at an end. 



It is a good few years now since we had any 

 importations from the East, and I should say that 

 there is hardly a single imported bird in any of 

 our lofts at the present day. Further, I can 

 assure my young friends that all the old trouble 

 on the score of feeding and climate is entirely a 

 thing of the past, and that the Oriental Frill of 

 to-day is as hardy as any other of our high-class 

 English Pigeons. With judicious feeding it can 

 digest the richest English fare you can provide for 

 it. As my readers will have gathered, I have 

 kept Oriental Frills for thirty-five years, and 

 during the whole of that time the mortality has 

 been very small, especially when we take into 

 consideration that for the greater part of the 

 time my lofts have contained from 100 to 250 

 birds. 



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