ferent matings and keep a record which cannot get mixed. 



On the left of your record page or card write the date of 

 laying, then figure 17 days ahead and write the day of hatch- 

 ing. When you get the hatches, and as the squabs grow to 

 market size, write whatever memoranda concerning their 

 size, color, etc., you wish. As the same pair of birds occupy 

 the same pair of nests year after year, your record will be 

 an accurate one. 



If you allow five cents a month for the board of one pair 

 of breeding pigeons, you can figure the amount of grain 

 needed to a nicety. In a large flock, fifty cents a year will 

 cover the cost. A pair of pigeons not breeding will cost 

 only thirty-six cents a year. 



TRAINED FLYERS. 



A very profitable business may be built up in flying Hom- 

 ers. If you have the time and the inclination, do not fail 

 to have a pen of fliyers and pens of fanc)'^ varieties of pigeons. 

 Champion flyers and fancy birds sell from $10 to $100 and 

 more, everything depending on the skill of the breeder. 



Young birds raised in your own squab house may be al- 

 lowed to fly wide in the neighborhood, if you choose. They 

 will not leave you. If you buy young birds of us, with the 

 intention of raising flying Homers, you may dispense with 

 the flying-pen. (But all market squab-breeders use flying- 

 pens and confine their birds, so as to control their feeding, 

 etc.) If you buy old birds of us, and have no flying-pen, 

 they will leave you aiid fly back to us to the squab house 

 where they were raised. If you live far from us, it may take 



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