ILLUSTRA TIONS 



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P( irtrait of the Author [Frontispiece] 



A WeU-Built -\c4 S 



Thoroughbreds 14 



How a Back Yard may be Fixed Utr Pigeons 18 



Cheap but Practical Nest Boxes 22 



How City Dwellers without Land may Breed 



Squabs 24 



Unit Squab House (with Passageway) and Flying 



Pen : 26 



Nest Boxes Built of Lumber , 28 



Best Nest Box Construction 30 



Interior of Squab House Showing Perches 32 



A Pretty Squab House and Flying Pen 36 



Multiple Unit House 38 



Interior of Multiple Unit House 40 



Multiple Unit House, Ten Units, Built according 



to our Plans 42 



Nest Bowl, Bath Pan, Drinking Fountain, etc . . 16 



Berry Criite to Hold Nesting M;iterial 50 



Scenes on the §200,000 F;inn of One of Our 



Customers 58 



Eggs in the Nest, Squabs Just Hiitclied i'A 



Squabs One Week Old, Squabs Twu Weeks Old. . . 66 

 Squabs Three Weeks Old, Squabs Four Weeks Old . 68 



The Mating Coop 70 



Pigeon? in St. Mark's Square, Venice 74 



Killing Squabs with the Hands 80 



Killed Squabs Hung to Giol 82 



Three Dressed Squabs 86 



Squab House Built of Logs 88 



Pair of Homers Billing 90 



How We Ship Pigeons 98 



Self Feeder for Grain 108 



Machine for Killing Squabs 115 



Sprayer 116 



Nest Boxes _ 118 



Pigeons in Corner of Flying Pen ' . . 138 



Matmg Coops in Mating Hwusc 140 



Interior of Mating House 142 



Part of South Side of One of Our Houses 146 



Dowel System of Feeding and Watering from 



Alleyway 150 



Letter from A. Silz 188 



Letter from W. R. McLaughlin 190 



Letter from Heineman & Co 192 



Extra Plymouth Rock Homers 194 



A Gond-Looking Illinois Plant 196 



Showing Construction in Florida 198 



Homer Hen Sitting on Eggs 199 



Lighted by Electricity and Heated by Steam 200 



On a Pole at Top of Flying Pen 202 



Cheapest Possible Construction 204 



The Start 206 



This Customer 206 



Beautiful Pair of Splashes 207 



Plymouth Rock Blue Bars and Blue Checkers .... 208 

 On a Running Board in the Sun ■ — 209 



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Interior of Massachusetts Customer's House 210 



Women Enjoy Squab Raising 211 



At the Back of a Barn 212 



Shipshape Flying Pen 213 



Nest of Straw and Feathers 214 



Different Sizes 215 



An Inexpensive Start 216 



A Row of Beauties 217 



Eating from His Hand 218 



Ready to KiH 219 



Squabs 25 Days Old 220 



In the Snow 221 



Squabs Three Weeks Old 222 



Squabs Twelve Days Old 223 



Squabs a Few Days Old 224 



Nest of Tobacco Stems 225 



Raised from Plymouth Rock Extras 226 



Carneaux * . . 227 



Carneau Squab Compared with Homer Squab. . . . 236 



Two and One-half Story Squab House 243 



Plymouth Rock Extra Homer Male 250 



Plymouth Rock Extra Homer Female 252 



Flying Pen of a Barn 256 



Three Squabs Hatched in One Nest 257 



Any Old Place Fixed Over 259 



Squab Plant in Pennsylvania Protected by Hillside 262 



A New Jersey Plant 264 



Another View of New Jersey Plant 265 



An Attractive Minnesota Squab Plant 266 



Hundreds of Squabs Eaten at One Banquet 268 



Mississippi Squab House 269 



A Massachusetts Plant 270 



Another View of Massachusetts Plant 271 



California Squab House 272 



Small Openings under the Windows 273 



A Pair of Squabs from Plymouth Rock Extras. . . . 274 



Squab Building in British Columbia 276 



A City Squab House 278 



A Pair of Big Squabs 280 



An Odd Squab House 282 



Tobacco Stems 283 



Lump of Rock Salt 284 



Head of Sorghum Seed 285 



Health Grit 286 



Red Wheat, Canada Peas, Hempseed 287 



Screws, Kaffir Corn, Sorghum Cane Seed 288 



Whole Corn, Coarse Cracked, Fine Cracked 289 



White Wheat, Poor Red Wheat, Wheat Screenings 290 



Barley, Oats, Sunflower Seeds 291 



American Millet, Siberian Millet, Golden Millet. . . . 292 



Rice Unhulled, Rice, Buckwheat 293 



Granite Grit, Quartz Grit, Same Crushed 294 



Health Grit, Coarse Oyster Shell, Pigeon Oyster 



Shell 295 



Mixed Grain (three samples) 296 



A South Carolina Plant 298 



Ordinary Quarters 301 



Home Made 302 



