or fourteen is the proper number. 

 Great care must be taken to pick 

 out any idle, slothful, or mad tumb- 

 ling birds that fly underneath the 

 others, as they will bring down the 

 kit before they are tired. It is a 

 good plan to get the birds in the loft 

 as soon as they drop, and not let 

 them sit out longer than is necessary. 

 If birds are allowed to sit out after 

 they have done their fly, they will 

 gradually become idle, and fail to do 

 the time expected. Unless they are 

 purchased from a good strain of old 

 birds they cannot be depended on. 

 One or two inferior birds will do an 

 incalculable deal of harm to a good 

 kit, and will often drop out and settle 

 away from home, and sometimes 

 drop the whole of the kit on some 

 high building. 



It takes a fancier several years to 

 get a first-class kit together. The 

 first year he may fly very moderate. 

 The second year young birds will 



