PIGEONS. 
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The most approved colors for this variety of pigecn are the 
blue, and bine-pied, as they are usually the best breeders. 
They should be flown twice a-day regularly, when young; and 
as they gain strength on the wing, they should be allowed to 
THE HOUSEMAN. 
range loose, without any other birds in company. This 
variety is the kind generally employed in carrying letters; the 
genuine carriers being much too scarce and valuable to be 
commonly used. 
THE POUTER. 
All pigeons, as is well known, have the capability of in¬ 
flating their crops with air; and a fine pigeon, with breast 
feathers glossed with metallic tints, strutting and bowing, with 
an inflated crop, around his mate, presents no uninteresting 
spectacle; but this remark will not apply to this bird. In 
the “ English pouter,” or “ pouting horseman,” there is nothing 
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