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PIGEON RAISING 



partitions, extending from the floor to the roof, 

 twelve feet long, seven feet apart and on each 

 side, and against the outside walls, set the tiers 

 of nests. I advise using inch lumber for the nests 

 as you must build strong and lasting. A pair 

 of heavy pigeons, a pair of heavy squabs, and 

 heavy manure caked nests soon tell on thin lum- 

 ber and a breakdown is often disastrous ; some- 

 times quite as expensive as the extra half-inch 

 in lumber would have been. 



By following this plan you find you have two 

 rows of tiers of nests facing each other with a 

 space of four feet between. This is ample to 

 pass in and out with a wheelbarrow for cleaning, 

 thus making cosy little apartment houses. 



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DETAIL OF NEST AND HOUSE 



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Detail shows only one floor of nests^ there being five 

 floors. 



