208 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE 



for this purpose, or drop or lap siding can be used. If the boards 

 are run up and down, no extra pieces are necessary for the frame 

 work, as there will be plenty to nail to. 



There should be a door leading into each fly pen opposite the 

 door in the nest room. Also a window at the back of the house 

 in each nest room near the roof. By having the window high 

 in this manner, it will furnish plenty of light and air and at 

 the same time no direct draft wdll blow on the nests. On the 

 outside of the window should be nailed one-inch mesh chicken 

 wire to keep the birds in when the window is open and also to 

 keep the sparrows out. Heavier wire can be used if there is 

 danger of some one crawling through the window and stealing 

 the birds. 



If you are building a squab house with more than two nest 

 rooms you will need two ends only but an extra partition for 

 each additional room. If you desire to enlarge the house at a 

 later date you can take out one end, put a partition in its stead 

 and set it up at the end of the new section, or you can build 

 entirely new sections and join them on the old sections. 



The front aisle partition between the nest room and the aisle 

 should be made of 2 inch mesh chicken wire with a wire door 

 2 feet wide in the center of each nest room aisle partition with 

 a slatted section 18 inches high and 3 feet wide on either side 

 of the door at the bottom of the partition for pigeons to feed 

 through, this slatted section will naturally not be full 3 feet 

 wide on account of the space taken up by the 2x4 upright, the 

 slats should be 18 inches long and one and one-half inches 

 wide, not over one-half inch thick and placed one and one-half 

 inches apart. Ordinarily lath will do if lattice or other material 

 cannot be secured. 



The wire on the aisle partition should be put on in two strips 

 6 feet and 2 feet wide respectively and long enough to go to 

 full combined width of the nest rooms. To nail the wire on 

 stretch it the full length of the aisle, across the door opening 

 and all. Set in the door frames and nail the wire on the 2x4 

 uprights that form the door casings and to the door frames, then 

 cut the wires between the door frame and the door casing, 

 hang the door with hinges so it will swing out into the aisle, 

 nail a strip on the door casing for a stop to keep the door from 



