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MAKING POULTRY PAY 



eat much of the food. A six-inch board or shelf should 

 be put up along the two ends, and possibly one side, 

 for the pigeons to alight upon, but nothing should be 

 placed across the middle of the fly, or the pigeons may 

 strike against it and be injured. 



The interior should be divided into rooms ten feet 

 wide, with a three-foot alley extending along the rear 



FIG. IIS PIGEON HOUSE AND COVERED FLY 



in long houses. On each of two sides of the room the 

 nests should extend from floor to ceiling. Shelves 

 should be put up with partitions so as to make nests 

 three feet long, one foot wide and twelve to fifteen 

 inches high. There must be no alighting board in 

 front for quarrelsome birds to walk on. As the hen 

 will frequently lay again before the squabs have left 



