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matter has proxcu this point to us ])eyond a douht. Tlic writer, 

 formerly owner and manager of one of tlie largest squab plants 

 in the Southeast, placed self-feeders in some of his pens and in 

 others fed twice daily from ojien troughs. This proved to be a 

 gooil test for the merits of the self-feeder and results showed 

 conclusively that the squabs from the self-feeder pens were 

 much larger than those from the pens in which the open troughs 

 were used. 



In feeding pigeons from open troughs there are always some 

 birds that are pushed aside and left to go hungry. These 

 hungry birds can never work properly. Here again we see the 

 advantage of the self-feeder. The weaker birds may be pushed 

 away temporarily when the stronger ones are eating but when 

 the latter have finished there will be sufficient food left for 

 the others. 



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