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APPENDIX G 



PLYMOUTH ROCK CARXEAU SQI'AB, 



Weight one pound, age three weeks. Two views 

 aquab. In the upper picture the squab is compared wi 

 glasa tumbler, to show size. 



HOW MY BIRDS GET NESTING MA- 

 TERIAL, by Harvey Drake. The usual way is 



to use crates to hold the material, but what 

 the birds pull out and do not want they throw 

 or drop down until they find what they do 

 want. I have found a way to overcome this. 

 Take a box about one and one-half feet deep, 

 one foor wide and three or four feet long and 

 put it under the window. Then take a board 

 a little larger than the box you use and fasten 

 it to the window for a sill inside like a shelf. 

 This protects the nesting material from being 

 soiled by birds sitting on the window sill, also 

 if a shower of rain comes up in summer when 

 the windows are up, the material is protected. 

 I put the nesting material I use in the box 

 and do not fill it more than one-third full. 

 The birds fly down in this and pick it over until 

 they find what they want, and then fly to their 

 nesting place. 



A year ago in May I bought five hundred 

 pigeons of the Homer variety and lately I have 

 bought two hundred and fifty pairs more. I 

 am greatly interested and have been greatly 

 encouraged the past three months, as I have 

 been getting $4.00 net for all of my nine-pound 

 squabs, and S3. 25 for those weighing less, and 

 never have been able to fill the orders I get. — 

 D. G. Barstow, Missouri. 



I USE STEMS OF LEAVES 

 FOR NESTING, by Dutch 

 Cropper. I fully believe pig- 

 eons prefer dark-colored, ma- 

 terial for their nests. Just give 

 them a chance at the stems of 

 different kinds of leaves, such as 

 are easily gathered from under 

 the black walnut, butternut or 

 locust tree; also, the inner bark 

 torn from cedar posts or logs, 

 and the bark of the grape-vine. 

 I have known instances where 

 salt-marsh hay was bought for 

 the purpose, when, with very 

 little effort, material far more 

 desirable could have been pro- 

 cured right on the owner's place. 



I have made beautiful jack- 

 straws out of rye and oat stalks 

 which were absolutely refused. 

 Tangled oat straw they will use, 

 but give them a chance at one 

 or the other of the above, and 

 note the difference in the archi- 

 tecture of their nests. 



The Fulton Market Company 

 are now buying squabs at thirty 



cents a pound and sell them at 



'1^ ^ forty cents a pound. They say 

 they rather quote them by 

 pound, because the size varies 

 so much. The demand is dull 

 just now (August), and they are 

 placing squabs in cold storage. 

 Geis & Waelde will pay $2 a 

 dozen for squabs and sell them 

 at S2.75 and $3. I visited the 

 farm of the O'Harra Squab Company. The 

 proprietor, Wesley O'Harra, has Plymouth 

 Rock Homers. Mr. O'Harra sells his squabs 

 direct to the consumers and gets from thirty- 

 three and one-third cents to forty cents each 

 dressed. This is at the rate of $4 to $4.80 a 

 dozen.— R. D. Hiatt, Ohio. 



VASELINE FOR CAXTKER, by L. T. Dunn. 



Please publish this for the good of those who 

 raise pigeons as it is the most valuable thing 

 I have ever discovered for the pigeon raiser. 

 Just common vaseline is a marvel for canker. 

 Take some on the end of the finger, a good lump 

 of it, and poke it down the squab's throat. It 

 will loosen the lumps in the throat and you can 

 pull them out easily with a hairpin. Put some 

 more vaseline in the throat after you do this. 

 You will not lose two squabs in a hundred. 



Question: How shall I whitewash a loft filled 

 with working pigeons? Answer: Drive your 



pigeons out into the flying pen on a sunny day 

 and shut the windows, then paint the interior 

 with cold water white paint, which will dry 

 before night, then you can let your pigeons 

 back into the house. 



Begin with the very best pigeons that money 

 can buy; then breed for better ones. 



of the same 

 th an ordinary 



