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being white. The Barred birds in both varieties should have 

 the spot tail with pure white boas, edged with a dark line with 

 the distinction in the marking as in the laced birds. 



DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 



On previous pages of this book we have endeavored to help 

 the pigeon breeders to keep and care for their birds in such a 

 way as to keep them in good health, but diseases will come, and 

 sometimes when almost ideal conditions surround the birds, and 

 when they do come you naturally want to know a remedy that 

 has been tried and true. 



Canker. 



Canker is a- disease that will oft times make its appearance 

 in the best regulated lofts. It attacks a bird sometimes in the 

 ear, nostrils and mouth and throat. The disease in any section 

 is a very contagious one, and it is hardly worth while doctoring 

 the specimen unless it be a valuable bird, and the same treatment 

 used for mouth and throat canker will not affect a cure for 

 canker of the ear, and a bird that recovers from an attack is not 

 a good specimen to breed from, as it often makes its appearance 

 in the squabs and oft times the whole loft is polluted and the 

 breeder wonders how his birds contracted the disease. Canker 

 inside the mouth and on the tongue can be cured by scraping it 



