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sold at a sacrifice. Place your -order with a reliable party and 

 good goods can be secured for little money. Insist on mated 

 birds about two years old and not over three, and good stock 

 can be secured at $1.50 and $2.00 per pair. Only good, sound, 

 well seasoned grain should be fed to the old birds. Furnish the 

 old birds the proper rations, along with grit, charcoal, lime, 

 sand and salt, and they will produce the quality kind of squabs. 

 One of the most important things is the banding and keep- 

 ing an accurate record of your flock, and this can be easily done 

 by getting a small blank book and notirig the numbers of the 

 birds. For example : 



121 R. Ch. C. 



140 B. Ch. H. 



The 121 R. Ch. C. means the bird with band No. 121 is a red 

 checkered cock bird, and is mated to bird with band No. 140, 

 blue checkered hen. You can then leave blank spaces after this 

 entry to keep record of this pair of birds for one year, or as long 

 as you like. You will find this record a good one to begin with 

 and where the number of birds is not too great to demand a 

 shorter system. 



Number your nest boxes from one up to the amount of 

 nests you have in the loft. Keep a supply of tobacco stems in 

 the loft for the birds to build their nests in. This makes an 

 excellent nesting material, and no lice or mites will bother the 

 squabs when it is used. Pure, fresh, clear water is half the 

 battle, and have their drinking can so arranged that the birds 

 cannot bathe in it. 



Education— Value of Details and the Points That Count in the 

 Squab Business. 



The squab industry of this country represents many thous- 

 ands of dollars, and many thousands of dollars have been lost 

 from lack of education— not knowing the details and careless- 

 ness in attending promptly to the points that count. Fortu- 

 nately, the squab industry as a business is now conducted on a 

 safe and sane basis, and those people who were led by misguid- 

 ing literature to believe tliat there is a fortune in squabs and 

 mvested their all, found out that the pigeon business must be 

 learned the same as any other. These are the people that have 



