National Standard Squab Book. 29 
the leaves of a book, as you can throw away a card, nor can you shift one 
page from one lccation to another, as you can a card in a tray. 
The floor of the synab house rests on cedar posts and is two feet from 
the ground. The Hoor is built of two thicknesses of board, with building 
paper between. The walls of the squab house are built of boards which 
are covered with building paper and shingled. The roof is shingled. You 
may use clapboards on the sides, or common boards. 
The cost of such a squab house, complete with flying pen and all inside 
fittings, built in the hest possible manner, avill be from $3 to $5 a running 
foot. That is to say, a unit plant 12 feet long will cost from $36 to $60. A 
plant consisting of three units, 36 feet long, will cost from $108 to $150. 
We publish and sell for 25 cents complete working drawings showing just 
how to build a unit complete in every detail. On the same sheet are full 
working drawings for building a simple squab house (without passageway) 
to cost from $15 to $25. Also on the same sheet we give data showing how 
one of our frieuds built a squab house and pen capable of accommodating 
220 pairs of breeders at a cost of $130. In ordering, simply say you wish 
plans and specifications for squab houses. : 
In our early plans for the unit squab house, we provided for a building 
with a “jog” in the roof, making a long, low slope for the south sidé of 
the roof, and on this slope the birds would sun themselves and make love. 
This “jog’’ construction is more expensive than is needed, and now we 
have a better way. We have an ordinary pitch roof, sloping equally from 
the ridgepole to both north and South. We run the flying pen out on the 
south side, not from the ridgepole, but from the eaves, and then out in the 
flying pen we erect perches as shown in the picture. The fact that the 
birds rest easily on these perches (as the photograph in the Appendix 
shows) is proof that they are contented and pleased by such an arrange- 
ment. We have found, too, that they can hear the squeaks of their young 
for food better than if they were up on the roof, and better attention to 
the squabs is the result. 
Please note particularly that if you erect one long building which will 
be a multiple of units, you separate these units, both inside and outside 
of the squab house, not by board partitions, but by wire partitions. For 
instance, if you have a building one hundred feet long, ten units, you will 
separate the units by nine wire partitions, these partitions being erected 
both inside and outside the house. 
