National Standard Squab Book. 29 



tlie leaves of a book, ns you can throw away a card, nor can yon .sliift one 

 p:\ye from one location to another, a,s you can a canl in a tray. 



The floor of the S(inab lionse rests on cedar posts and is tflo feet from 

 the ground. The Uoor is hnilt of two thicknesses of board, with Imilding- 

 I.ai)er between. The walls of the S(iuab house are built of boards ^hich 

 .■ire covered with building paper and shingled. The roof is shin.sled. You 

 may use clapboards on the sides, or common boards, 



Tlie cost of such a squab house, complete with flying pen and all inside 

 fittings, built in the liest possible manner, will be from $3 to .fo a running 

 f.Mit, That is to say, a unit plant 12 feet long will cost from $.36 to .$tiij. A 

 plant consisting of tliree units, ,36 feet long, will cost from .$ins to .$irjO. 

 We publish and sell for 25 cents complete working drawings showing .iust 

 how to build a unit coniplete in every detail. On the same sheet arc full 

 working drawings for building a simple scxuab house (without passagcn-ay) 

 to cost frcmi $1.5 to $-'5. .^Iso on the same sheet we give data showing how 

 one of our friends built a s<pn.ib house and pen capable of accommodating 

 220 pairs of breeders at a cost of $130. In ordering, simply say you wish 

 plans and specJtications for scjuab houses. 



In iiur early plans for the unit squab house, we provided for a I'uihling 

 wifh a ".I'og" in the roof, making a long, low slope for the south side of 

 tlie ri'iif. and 011 this skipe the birds would sun themselves and make love. 

 This "jog" construction is more expensive than is needed, and now we 

 have a better way. AVe have an ordinary pitch roof, sloping equally from 

 the ridgepole to both north and south. We run the flying pen out on the 

 south side, not from the ridgepole, but from the eaves, and then out in the 

 flying pen we erect perches as shown in the picture. The fact that the 

 birds rest easily on these perches (as the photograph in the Appendix 

 shows) is proof that they are contented and pleased by such an arrange- 

 ment. We have found, toe, that they can hear the squeaks of their young 

 for food better than if they were up on the roof, and better attentiuu to 

 the si|uabs is the result. 



Please note particularly that if you erect one long building which will 

 be a ]nultiple 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. 



