posts should be on a level with the top of the squab house, 

 so that a neat appearance will result. Wire of two-inch 

 mesh will sufifice. The object is to keep sti-ange and smaller 

 birds ovit as well as keep the pigeons in. There should be 

 a door in the south end of the flying-pen. In some localities, 

 on account of the prevalence of the thieving English spar- 

 row, it will be necessary to use wire of one-inch mesh in 

 order to protect the grain in the self-feeder from spoliation. 



In stretching the wire for the flying-pen, you will have to 

 lay several strips of the netting parallel in order to get the 

 full width of the yard. In piecing these widths together, 

 do not tie them with short pieces of wire, but use one long 

 piece of No. 1 8 or 20 iron wire and weave it in and out of the 

 netting, first in one width, then in the other. In this man- 

 ner you can unite two widths of netting in one-tenth the 

 time needed to apply short pieces of tie-wire. 



The feeding trough should rest on a single post at the 

 back of the flying-pen, but not close up to the wire, so that 

 the birds can perch all around it. A simple form of self- 

 feeder protected at the top from rain, is the best. It is buili 

 entirely of pine wood. It is best to invert a tin pan on the 

 top of the post on which the feeder rests so that if mice climb 

 up the post (if rough) they cannot reach the grain in the 

 feeder. 



The bath-pan i» placed on the ground at the back of the 

 flying-pen. The best pattern is of galvanized iron, twenty 

 inches in diameter and five inches deep. It should be filled 

 with fresh water once or twice a day. The pigeons go to 



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