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APPENDIX G 



MISS DUNHAM'S PROFIT-PAYING SQUAB PLANT. 



HOW TO CURE SQUABS IN NEST OF 

 CANKER, by M. C. Martin. It is a well- 

 known fact that Venetian Red paint is one of 

 the best regulators for poultry in general. 

 I have fcried this on squabs repeatedly and 

 it invariably cures the canker in three or 

 four days. Have some Venetian Red paint 

 in the squabhouse, and whenever you see a 

 pair of squabs looking sickly, examine the 

 mouth. If you find a cheesy deposit, take 

 a pinch of the paint between thumb and 

 forefinger and drop into the open mouth. Do 

 this morning and evening for three or four 

 days and the canker is gone. 



This plan may be used with old birds, but 

 they very seldom have canker and are more 

 difficult to catch twice a day, but with 

 squabs it is a matter of only a few minutes to 

 straighten up several dozen of them. 



Venetian Red is a fine regulator and may 

 be used in the drinking water to ward off 

 canker but to cure the ailment it must be 

 administered in larger quantities as explained 

 above. The droppings become red, showing 

 that The paint has passed completely through 

 the alimentary canal and cleansed the di- 

 gestive system of impurities collected which 

 have caused the canker. 



Venetian Red is a powder which retails in 

 a paint store for five to ten cents a pound, 

 but in a drug store you may be charged 

 fifty cents a pound for it, and some poultry 

 remedies have it in fancy package style at 

 the rate of a dollar or more a pound. 



FLAXSEED INSTEAD OF HEMP, by Paul 

 Gosser. I feed some flaxseed to my pigeons 



besides hemp. Flax is cheaper and the pig- 

 cons like it nearly as well as hemp. My 

 pigeons like lettuce leaves very much. In the 

 morning I throw some into the pens and at 

 noon they are all eaten. I sell all my squabs 

 in Pittsburg. I get from $3 to $4.50 a dozen 

 for them. 



HOW I MAKE MY 

 SMALL FLOCK PAY 

 WELL, by Mary Dunham. 

 I bought six pairs of the 



best Homers in October, 

 1904. After studying 

 them and breeding them 

 for a year I bought twenty- 

 four pairs more in Octo- 

 ber, 1905. In June, 1908, 

 I bought twelve pairs more 

 and in October, 1908, an- 

 other twelve pairs. 



All of my birds were 

 bought from the same 

 source. They have all 

 kept steadily at work. 

 One pair has raised ten 

 pairs of squabs a year and 

 there are others which al- 

 most eqwal them. In the 

 fall of 1907, 1 began to save 

 the squabs from the best 

 breeders. I had to keep 

 them in the house with my 

 older birds because I had no other pen for 

 them. They disturbed the breeding pairs 

 somewhat but the following spring they 

 mated and got down to work. 



I sell all the squabs I can raise to the local 

 marketman. At first there was no sale for 

 them in my Connecticut city, except in the 

 summer when the wealthy people from the 

 larger cities were sojourning here, but the 

 marketmen bought all I had last winter. 



When ready for market my squabs weigh 

 from two pounds to two and one-half pounds 

 a pair. They are white and fat and the 

 dealer has complimented me about them many 

 times. I find the business very interesting 

 and would like to engage in it more extensively 

 if I could get more time to devote to the birds 

 but it is impossible to do so at present. 



I am often praised for the fine appearance 

 my birds make when out in xhe flying pen. 

 Last week a gentleman told me my little house 

 is the neatest and the birds the finest looking 

 he had ever seen. 



NO NEED TO GRIND PIGEON MANURE, 

 by Harry Howe. Having read in the maga- 

 zine the different methods of handling pigeon 

 manure for the making of commercial fer- 

 tilizer, I will tell you the result of my own 

 experience. I take the cleanings and then 

 pack them in barrels. When I have several 

 barrels of them, I form a pile outdoors con- 

 sisting of a layer of maniire, then a layer of 

 loam, sprinkling each layer with air-slaked 

 lime until it shows white. Keep on until 

 you haye used all the manure on hand, then 

 cover the top well with loam, and wet the 

 whole pile. After a few days, when it com- 

 mences to steam, it should be well turned 

 o\'er, repeating the turning over three or four 

 times. You will finally have a fertilizer 

 as fine as sugar which can be thoroughly 

 dried and bagged, or used at once. This for 

 a variety of crops cannot be beaten. 



