50 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 



They will not build nests With dirty nesting material. It must 

 be first-class, clean, dry and sweet or they will not use it. 



Some of our customers use pine needles successfully for 

 nesting material. We have never tried them because they 

 are not plentiful around our farm. Where they are in abun- 

 dance, we recommend that they be tried. 



When a new lot of pigeons are placed in a squab house, 

 they will cause annoyance, while they are learning their new 

 home and getting ready to go to work, by making manure in 

 the nest bowls, where they roost. This cannot be prevented. 

 The remedy is, to clean once a week. 



Fill this berry crate with nesting material and place it in center of squabhouse. For 

 nesting material use twigs, dried grass, tobacco stems, pine needles, straw, hay, stems of 

 leaves, small dried stalks or anything else of this nature. Give the birds a good variety 

 of nesting material. Some birds will use one kind, some another. ReneV the nesting 

 material once a week. It should be cut into lengths of from four to six inches. Keep it 

 not only in the above crate inside the squabhouse but also make a small pile outdoors in 

 the flypen, protected from rain. 



