APPENDIX G 



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HOW TO TAKE PIG- 

 EON PICTURES. Almost 

 everybody has a camera 

 these days and with a small 

 one, costing two dollars, it 

 is possible to take excel- 

 lent pigeon pictures. The 

 film can be enlarged to any 

 size. 



Choose a day when the 

 sun is out and take them 

 in the flying pen when 

 they are walking around 

 on the ground. Do not 

 take them while they are 

 on the perches because 

 then they are drawn out 

 of shape. They strike a 

 natural and handsome 

 pose when they are on the 

 ground. You should sit on 

 a board on the ground. 

 Hol^ your camera not 

 over six inches from the 

 ground and point it at the 

 birds. Have a pocketful 

 of hempseed and throw it 

 out to the birds in front of 

 the camera from four co 

 eight feet from where you 

 are sitting. Do not snap 

 the birds while they are 

 pushing and scrambling 

 for the hempseed but wait 

 until they have eaten and 

 raised their heads expect- 

 antly as if looking for 

 more. This is the time to 

 press the button. Try to 

 get a group of the birds in 

 this manner, showing six 

 or eight birds. The best 

 view of a pigeon is obtained 

 broad side, but sometimes 

 an excellent picture is ob- 

 tained from the front or even from the back, 

 such a view showing the width of the shoul- 

 ders. Photographs showing squabs four 

 weeks old alive or dressed or novelty pic- 

 tures like ! the one on this page are always 

 interesting. 



COMMON SQUABS TOO SMALL, by Charles 

 F. Manahan. I watch and study the ways 

 and habits of my Homers whenever I have 

 time. I live near a summer resort in Mary- 

 land in the Blue Ridge Mountains and have 

 a small truck farm and haul my vegetables 

 to these cottages and hotels. I think I can 

 sell the squabs from several hundred pairs 

 after I get them introduced, as there is nothing 

 in this neighborhood but common pigeons. 

 Where I sell them, the people say they are 

 the finest they have ever bought. On one 

 occasion I did not have enough and told the 

 person that I could get a pair of a neighbor 

 to make out the number. After I had the 

 head and feathers off, I saw much difference, 

 so I put the pair I got from the neighbor on 



GRANDPA. BABY AND SQUABS. 

 I send a photograph of myself and grandchild. Miss Janet Pfister, eighteen 

 months old, squabs just three weeks old. — Gottlieb Pfister, New York. 



the scales and the two weighed just a pound. 

 I then put one of the Homers on and it 

 weighed fifteen ounces, so the Homer squab 

 weighed only one ounce less than the pair 

 of common ones. 



Question: I have been contemplating for 

 two or three months trying the squab business. 

 I wrote to a commission house in Chicago to 

 give me prices on squabs and they quoted me 

 $5.50 per dozen for eight -pounds -or-over 

 squabs. I also wrote to another commission 

 house about the sale of squabs and they sent 

 me a price list in which it priced squabs at 

 $2.50 and $3 a dozen for choice squabs, and 

 as low as $1.50 a dozen. Answer: If you 

 were to go into a hat store and offer a man 

 $1 for a hat which you happened to see and 

 liked, and he should lauffh and tell you you 

 could not have it for $1, that the regular price 

 was S3, would you be disappointed because 

 he would not take your SI and give you the 

 hat ? You are not obliged to sell for $1 a dozen 

 just because you are offered that amount. 



