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the nests than when the nests are on the side wall. With the 

 side nests you do not go directly towards the birds as you pass 

 into the room and then they are partially hidden and if they see 

 you they think that you do not see them. 



When entering fly pens with the gate at the outer end I found 

 that the birds will all chase out of the pen back into the nest 

 room then as you go into the nest room they will all fly past 

 you out into the fly pen causing more or less of a panic and 



ONE-UNIT SQUAB HOUSE 

 Note that this is built on the aisle-in-front plan with overhead chute. 



keeping the birds disturbed every time the nest room is entered. 



The open front squab house is the proper thing for the South 

 and the Pacific Coast States, but the house should be built with 

 the aisle in front just the same. Instead of having only the par- 

 tition between the nest rooms and the aisle made of wire both 

 this partition and the outer front wall should be made of wire. 



I laid out and superintended the building of a 32 unit squab 

 house in Los Angeles built on this plan in 1914, and while I at 

 first had some doubt as to the birds taking to the overhead chute 

 readily I was quite sure they would find them, and they did 

 immediately. 



