92 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
contemplate starting in the squab breeding business that the 
‘pigeon naturally is a healthier and more rugged bird than the 
domestic hen and that positively you will not be fussing with 
remedies and cure-alls, in handling them. 
“ Going light,” or wasting away, is an ailment of pigeons 
occasionally met with. The cause of it is an absence of grit 
and salt. If your staples of feed are provided as we tell, and 
you give a variety of feed, and you provide grit and oyster 
shells, you will have no cases of “‘ going light.’”’ The disease 
is known by a steady wasting away of the pigeon. Catch 
it and you feel a prominent breastbone, and scanty flesh, 
showing that some element in the feed is lacking. 
