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of tumblers will go up in the clouds 

 and fly for a long time. When you 

 see the swallows flying high it is 

 another true sign of a grand day for 

 pigeon flying. 



AUTUMN PIGEON FLYING. 



Autumn is the season when the 

 birds are moulting and my advice to 

 fanciers is to feed them on hemp seed, 

 say small quantity every night after 

 their regular food, this will cause them 

 to moult a deal sooner and get fine in 

 their feathers. Give them hay saffron 

 in the water, this will assist them and 

 make them shoot their feathers freely. 

 At this time of the year early young 

 ones are getting nicely through the 

 moulting andwill do good performance 

 if they are good birds and well trained. 

 It makes considerable difference in the 

 quality of young birds if they are 

 properly trained with a kit of good 

 birds that fly four or five hours daily, 



