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from. It shows just how many squabs were killed, saved and 

 banded, etc. Thus at the end of the year we see just what any 

 and every pair is doing. If any particular pair has rai.«ed ten 

 pairs of squabs we know they are money makers and we save 

 them for that purpose. If any particular pair shows a total of 

 only four pairs of squabs we know that they are drones and 

 we do not want them so we apply the hatchet and make a note 

 of it on the record sheet. Suppose a pair lays two eggs every 



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 Photo from H. W. Barnett, Oakland, Calif. 



month except four and only one or two eggs hatch but our 

 records show no note of broken eggs. We see at a glance that 

 something is A\rong and A\e iuAestigate. If both birdo arc ap- 

 parently all right we rernate them to find out where the trouble 

 is. In this way we get riglit down to hard boiled facts because 

 we must have these facts in order to know wliat birds are the 

 profitable ones. There is no argument against systematic rec- 

 ords. The man who does not keep tliem cannot tell what his 

 birds are doing He might be able to tell you how many squabs 

 his two hundred pairs produced in one year and how much he 



