National Standard Squab Book. 



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Evevy poultryman knows that he cannot entrust the regulatioa of tempera- 

 tures of incubators and brooilers to an ignorant hired man, but «ven a boy 

 or girl, or under-the-average farm hand, l;nows enough to fill up the bath- 

 pans and feeding-troughs tor squab-brccders, leaving the time of the 

 owner free for correspondence and the more skilful work of killing and 

 shipping tlie squabs. 



The primary oibject is to lireed squabs for market as cheaply, as easily 

 and as fast as possible, withoiit the expenditure of' a dollar for fanciful 

 or impractical appurtenances. 



Oo not think it is necessai'y to heat your sciuab house. A squab house 

 which lias the chill of dampness taken off it by hot water or steam pipes 

 will raise more squabs than a house not heated, but a flock of [ligeons in a 

 small house throw off considerable heat from their bodies and will breed 

 in cold weather all right. After you have developed your plaat and have 

 a large business which you wish to keep at the highest state of efficiency, 

 you may heat your squab house. The idea of heat in winter time is to 

 keep the birds more contented and get more squabs out of them, and 

 not at all to keep them alive. Do not be afraid that your pigeons will 

 freeze to death. 



C'ily peorplc can keep pigeons in the garret of a house, or the loft of a 

 baru, without a foot of ground being ni'tded. In such a case the flying 

 pen, or place to wiiich the pigeons go for sun and air, can be built out 

 on a platform. The illustration shows how to utilize a window leading 

 from a gairet. If you think that rats will trouble you in either a garret 

 or barn loft, cover the floor inside, especially the corners, with fine wire 

 netting through which it will be impossible for tlie rats to gnaw from 

 below. 



One of our customers in Illinois, a rich horse breeder liaving a barn 

 some 200 feel long, lias turned the whole upper story into a loft for 

 pigeons. The flying pen takes in the whole back of the barn. There are 

 windows and no doors on this side of the barn, the horses using doors on 

 the other side, so this leaves the upper story of the barn, and its whole 

 Iiack yard, free for the pigeons. 



How We Rio Ouft Shipping B\Skets fi>r Twelve Pairs. 



