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value. Pigeons, like many other animals, arc 

 more produdlive from the breeds being crolled* 

 I put a few tame pigeons into a dove-cot i and 

 the confequence wa*;, that I had a more early 

 and a more numerous hatch of young than any 

 of my neighbours. 



In general, a dove-cot has treble the number 

 of holes thdt are ufed, I took off the roof from 

 one of mine, and put a new one on without do- 

 ing any injury to my pigeons.: but I did not 

 fufFcr the workmen to work after twelve o'clock 

 at noon. It v/as a very low cot, but wide, with 

 few holes in it, I have had Cik dozen of pi- 

 geons in a morning from it. Many of them 

 bred on the floor : an old table flood in the. 

 middle of the cot, and feveral had made nefts 

 and bred upon it; which makes me think it 

 not neceffary to inclofe the holes in the man- 

 ner fo generally pradifed. 



It is erroneous to fuppofe flarlings deflroy. 

 pigeons* eggs, or injure a dove-cot : they only 

 take up room. Pigeons have a great antipathy 

 to owls, which find their way fometimes into 

 dove-cots ; and there is no getting rid of fo, 

 troublefome a gueft but by deflroying him. — 



Rats, 



