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home with daily exercise of two hours. This system is continued 

 by jumps of one hundred miles each week until the birds reach 

 the five or six hundred-mile station. After that, if extremely long 

 distance flights are desired, they can be jumped to the station the 

 long flight is desired from. 



By carefully following this system of training. Homers 

 frequently fly five hundred and even six hundred miles in one 

 day, and cases are on record where birds have gone over eleven 

 hundred miles. About the longest distance young birds should 

 be trained is two hundred miles, although they have been 

 known to fly five hundred miles as youngsters, but we do not 

 advise these long flights for them as they are rarely of any 

 account as old birds. Aftcr-J"they are thoroughly matured old 

 birds, one year old they are ready for extreme distances. 



Show Homer. 



The Show Homer. 



The interest taken in the Show Homer seems to increase as 

 the years pass, "thus giving ils supporters abundant reason for 

 claiming i^ the most popular of all the different breeds of 

 pigeons. Type is the strong point in the Show Homer. It 

 matters not how perfect the head, eye, or color, the value is very 

 murh impaired if the specimen lacks type. Show Homers are 

 bred in many different colors — Chequers, Blue, Bladk, Red, Dun, 

 Silver and Ydlow and in whole colors we have Blue, Silver, 

 Mealy, Yellow, Grizzle and White 



