44. NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
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 ‘ong 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, 
