National Standard Squab Book. 33 
inch thick. A single screw fastens the bowl to the base. We ship the 
bowls separately for close packing, and the bases also separately for the 
same reason. You put the two parts together when you get them. 
The advantages of this nest-pan are these: (1) The eggs roll to the 
centre and are always close together under the birds. (2) It is warmer 
than earthenware and eggs are not chilled. (3) It is cleaned without water 
by means of a trowel, and may then be whitewashed, if desired. (4) The 
claws of the old birds and squabs catch in the wood and do not slide, and 
no cases of deformed legs in the squabs are found. (5) It is unbreakable. 
(6) When shipped either short or long distances, no packing is necessary, 
they are lighter and the freight bill is smaller. (7) And finally the birds 
“take” to wood more readily than to earthenware, getting to work quicker 
and producing more squabs. 
We make this wooden nappy in only one size as above specified and 
illustrated (two sizes are not necessary because the feet of the squabs do 
not sprawl as in the case of the earthenware nappies). You will need one 
pair of nappies for every pair of pigeons (in other words, one nappy to 
every pigeon). If you order 24 pairs of breeders you will need 48 nappies. 
If you order 96 pairs of breeders you will need 192 nappies. 
We know our birds will breed more successfully in these wooden nappies 
than in earthenware, and to make it an object for you to buy these nap- 
pies, you may deduct the freight charges on nappies from your order for 
birds. First order your nappies sent by freight, then when you order your 
breeders, send us your freight receipt and count the amount as cash. 
Place one wooden nappy in each one of your nest-boxes. Let the pairs 
chocse to suit themselves. At the end of the month, when you take out 
the squabs, take out the nappy, clean it and put it back. 
When the squab house is ready for the birds, each of the nest-boxes has 
one of these wooden nappies. The pigeons build their own nests in them, 
taking the nesting material and flying to the nappy with it. The average 
nest built in one of these wooden nappies has from one to two inches of 
straw compactly and prettily laid by the birds. Some birds use more 
nesting material than others. After the squabs are hatched, they quickly 
show that Nature never intended them to have a dirty nest. When they 
wish to make manure, they back up to the edge of the nest and “shoot” 
outward and over the edge of the wooden nappy into the nest-box, which 
is just where the breeder wants to find it. In a week or two there will be 
a circle of solid manure’ in the nest-box, but it is completely out of the 
nest, and off and away from the feet of the squabs. As the squabs grow 
older, their claws tread and throw out the straw on which they were 
hatched, and the wooden nappy gets bare again as it was in the first 
place. The small amount of manure which then sticks to it is easily 
removed with a trowel, for it does not stick to wood as it does to earthen- 
ware. 
The use of this wooden nappy has lightened the work in our houses a 
great deal for they never have to be washed. We do not whitewash 
