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lay will be required and very little trouble is 

 necessary to prepare comfortable quarters for 

 breeding pigeons, particularly if the young be 

 sold as squabs. 



"The shelters for squab breeders should not 

 be too cold, although the experienced can raise 

 them in almost any old shell of a building, as 



Fig. 91. Pigeon cote and aviary Rhode Island Agricultural College. 



far north as New York city. The fittings are 

 only nests, perches and drinking and bath foun- 

 tains, a space of two square feet of floor being 

 counted to each bird, with never less than twice 

 as much room in the flight yards, in the open air. 

 The flight spaces are best enclosed by inch-mesh 

 wire net, as this excludes sparrows, which are 

 arrant thieves and fighters. The netting usually 

 rians overhead, to the highest point of the roof."* 



*" Pocket Money Poultry," Norys, p. 140. 



