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would strike the perching poles and become injured. Such a 

 fear goes on the assumption that a pigeon cannot take care 

 of itself in flight. They are quick of eye and quick of wing, 

 and are intelligent to a high degree, and we never knew a 

 bird to be injured by flying against horizontal perches in the 

 flying pen. They never strike 'them but always fly between 

 them or alight on them. 



Please note particularly that if you erect one long building 

 which will be a multiple of units, you separate these units, 

 both inside and outside of the squab house, not by board 

 partitions, but by wire partitions. For instance, if you have 

 a building one hundred feet long, ten units, you will separate 

 the units by nine wire partitions, these partitions being erected 

 both inside and outside the house. 



