APPENDIX F 



It is important in squab raising to know your birds. A great help in distin- 

 guishing them is the double-number colored leg-band. The idea of two numbers 

 on a leg-band in duplicate, so that no matter how the pigeon stands, the eye 

 of the observer will see one of the numbers, was the invention of Elmer C. Rice. 

 It was not patented and its free use by everybody has done much to advance 

 pigeons. Some men and women have the faculty of telling pigeons apart by 

 body signs just as horsemen tell horses. But to others pigeons look very much 

 alike, just as horses look alike. The double-number color band remedies this 

 because it is visible without catching the pigeon. We sell the double-number 

 band in twelve colors as follows : Black figures on white, red, cherry, pink, brick, 

 blue, light blue, green, light green, "yellow, light yellow and gray backgrounds. 

 Big, bold figures. The numbers run from one to sixty, 



PRICES (Postage Paid) 



6 pairs, any numbers or colors $0.25 



12 pairs, any numbers or colors 50 



25 pairs, any numbers or colors 1 .00 



SO pairs, any numbers or colors , 1.50 



100 pairs, any numbers or colors 3.00 



500 pairs, any numbers or colors 13.50 



1000 pairs, any numbers- or colors 25.00 



Sample for two-cent stamp. Be 'sure when ordering to 

 specify that you wish the double-number band, and tell us 

 what numbers and colors you wish. Note that the numbers 

 run to sixty only, because more than sixty pairs of breeders 

 are seldom kept in one pen. From twenty-five to thirty pairs 

 of breeders in one pen, and no more, is the best practice. 



MORE ABOUT HOW TO TELL SEX 



A good proportion of our letters, month after month and year after year, 

 inquire how to tell the sex of pigeons. People ask us this question before they 

 have read this Manual and after they have read the Manual. We should like 

 to write this down to the remotest detail so that even a child could tell the sex 

 of a pigeon by looking at it, but this is impossible. There is no language which 

 can convey the secret of telling absolutely the sex of pigeons. You can tell 

 only by watching them and by experience gained by this watching. You become 

 more expert in determining the sex as you go along. There are no marks on 

 either male or female by which you can distinguish them at any age. Some 

 large male pigeons act the same as roosters do and can be told almost at a glance. 

 On the other hand, some female pigeons are large and coarse, like a male bir>1, 

 and' the secret of their sex is disclosed only by their actions in conjimction with 

 birds of the opposite sex. 



The birds we ship are banded cocks on right leg and hens on left leg. You 

 must watch these birds and see how they act. By the location of the band 

 you will know the sex and by their actions you will learn to connect what you 

 see with the specified sex. Sometimes customers will write to us and state 

 that they have raised birds and are puzzled about the sex of them. In 

 that case you must watch their actions or you can turn such birds in with 



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