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Pigeons

1 Tame or Domestic Pigeon - Salt - Salt mixed with
loam & old Rubbish will entice them as will assafaetida - 
plenty of food will check their truant propensities.

2 The parent stock of the lamepigeon & all its beautiful
varieties is the Stock Dove or Columba Oenas
Domestication improves their beauty & size.

3 Period of incubation from 17 to 20 days

4 Breeds ten or twelve times in the year - other writers say
eight or nine - See letter from Dewit Clinton to Dr John
to Francis April 24. 1823
        