92 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 



contemplate starting in the squab breeding business that the 

 pigeon naturally is a healthier and more rugged bird than the 

 domestic hen and that positively you will not be fussing with 

 remedies and cure-alls, in handling- them. 



" Going light," or wasting away, is an ailment of pigeons 

 occasionally met with. The cause of it is an absence of grit 

 and salt. If your staples of feed are provided as we tell, and 

 you give a variety of feed, and you provide grit and oyster 

 shells, you will have no cases of " going light." The disease 

 is known by a steady wasting away of the pigeon. Catch 

 it and you feel a prominent breastbone, and scanty flesh, 

 showing that some element in the feed is lacking. 



