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birds to reach the grain in the bottom of the box. An aisle 

 feed box can be made with the two ends sawed out of inch thick 

 lumber and the slanting portion of the bottom nailed in as 

 shown by cut herewith. 



Place one of these feed boxes in the aisle on each side of the 

 door of the squab room. 



DOUBLE DECK FEED BOXES 



If you have so many birds in a pen that they cannot all get 

 to the two aisle feed boxes at the same time make two more 

 for each nest room, the same as described above and set them 

 on top of the other two boxes. The square ends will set on the 

 end of the other boxes without tipping and the slanting bottom 

 in the top box will allow the light to pass through so the birds 

 can see to eat the feed in the lower box, Run a one by four 

 inch board on the inside of the nest room six inches above the 

 floor along in front of, and even with the bottom of the upper 

 feed box for the birds to stand on while eating out of the upper 

 l.ox. This will double your feeding capacity and give you ten 

 running feet of feeding space. 



The detailed description of how to make aisle feed boxes makes 

 the operation seem difficult but it is a simple undertaking and 

 a number of boxes can be made in a short time. 



HOW TO BUILD FEED HOPPERS 



The author is not a believer of feeding pigeons by the use of 

 a feed hopper or self feeders except where the extreme or un- 

 usual conditions exist. For instance when a few birds only are 

 kept and the owner or attendant has not the time to feed his 

 birds in the usual way or where it is necessary to feed birds 

 enough to last them several days. In either case a feed hopper 

 can help solve a bad problem. 



The most practical hopper is one that has several compart- 

 ments and is so arranged that each kind of feed except peas, 

 peanuts and hemp can be kept in separate compartments. In 

 this way the pigeons will not be forced to eat more of a certain 

 kinds of grain than they want in order to get enough to satisfy 

 their hunger. 



