SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
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The Pouter Pigeon. 
Among the fancy pigeons the Pouters 
hold a high place with the fanciers on ac¬ 
count of their trim figures and graceful 
carriage as well as for the large size to 
which they extend their crops. These little 
pets seem to take delight in showing their 
ability in this direction, and their perform¬ 
ances are really astonishing and wonderful 
to those who ar^ unacquainted with them. 
Some of the best of the Pouters are quite 
diminutive in size, being only seven or eight 
inches high and having the power to ex¬ 
pand their crops to eighteen or twenty inch¬ 
es in circumference, fairly concealeng their 
heads and beaks. 
The fancy for pigeons is extending and 
nearly all of our poultry journals have spe¬ 
cial departments devoted to them. 
For the above cut we extend our thanks 
to the publisher ot that most excellent jour¬ 
nal, the Poultry Monthly ot Albany, N. Y., 
and to whom we are indebted for various 
courtesies extended. 
