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young ones, and others you may try 

 your utmost, and not get above one 

 strong young one during the season, 

 and it often happens the best birds 

 are the worst breeders. Early birds, 

 bred in spring, are the best and 

 strongest, and will make a grand 

 improvement to a kit of birds. 

 Young ones are a great amount of 

 trouble to get to fly with the kit, 

 and they often get lost. 



FLYING AND TREATMENT. 



A good kit of high-flying tumblers 

 are very amusing to a fancier who 

 has a hobby for long and high flying, 

 and on summer nights cause him to 

 pass many agreeable hours Spring 

 is the best time for long flying be- 

 fore the birds commence to breed. 

 It is no trouble on a fine day to fly a 

 kit eight or nine hours, if they are 

 first-class birds ; but it is dangerous 

 in March or April, as the weather 

 is then generally very changeable 



