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would strike the perching poles and become injured. Such a 

 fear goes on the assumption that a pigeon cannot take care 

 of itself in flight. They are quick of eye and quick of wing, 

 and are intelligent to a high degree, and we never knew a 

 bird to be injured by flying against horizontal perches in the 

 flying pen. They never strike them but always fly between 

 them or alight on them. 



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. 



Note. On page 41 we tell of building plans which we sell 

 for ten cents. Those plans show how to build the unit squab 

 house of wood as shown on page 26 of this book, or, if the 

 construction is extended, the multiple unit squab house of 

 wood as pictured on page 42. Lately, on account of the 

 increased cost of lumber and the wide spread of the use of 

 cement, we have had calls for plans for a 



CONCRETE BLOCK SQUAB HOUSE. 



We now sell at ten cents plans for the unit squab house of 

 concrete block construction. These show the perspective 

 view as well as the ground floor plan and elevation. You 

 will find probably in your town, or nearby, a dealer in the 

 cement blocks of which this house is built. The general 

 plan of this concrete block squab house is the same as our 

 wooden squab house, with the exception that the south side 

 has one large pivoted window frame to be covered with cloth 

 (no glass) so as to accustom the pigeons to the prevailing 

 temperature of fresh air at all seasons of the year, and to 

 secure at all times good ventilation. 



In ordering building plans, please specify whether you want 

 the wood building plans or the concrete block building 

 plans. They are ten cents each, or both for twenty cents. 



