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PROFITABLE PIGEON BREEDING 



Oriental Frills, Jacobins, English Carriers, Helmets, Russifiii 

 Trumpeters, Magpies, Flights, Cumulets, English Pouters, Pigmy 

 Pouters, Fantails, Oriental Turbits, Turbiteens, Tumblers, Tui 

 bits, Suabians, Norwich Croppers, Frillbacks, Dragoons, Barbs, 

 Owls, Ice Pigeons, Shields, Quakers, Starlings, Crescents and 

 others. 



The general care and management of these breeds is about 

 the same though the breeding is different because of the wide 

 variance in type and color. These points must be learned from 



YOUNG BLUE BARRED TUMBLER HEN AND YOUNG RED 



SELF TUMBLER COCK 



Bred by A. J. Gies, Schenectady, N. Y. 



actual experience with the different birds. Most of the breeds 

 mentioned above are bred to recognized standards and a copy 

 of any of these standards may be had by corresponding with the 

 proper specialty clubs. 



There is one thing that will be noticed in the following breed 

 descriptions antl it is the fact that I refer to the different 

 colored birds as varieties. Tliis is due to the fact that my 

 training has been to teach me to know that "Type" makes the 

 Breed and "Color" the Variety. 



