. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 356 APPENDIX G. "iOT r \\ SEE THE ^\ \TER IN THIS FUl\T\IN. KALE FOR MY BIRDS; FERN BRAKE FOR NESTS, by Mrs. W. R. Lycan. I bought three pairs of Plymouth Rock Extra Homers one year ago and have raised over seventy, lost very few. One pair has raised nine pairs and is sitting again. This, notwithstanding the fact that we have moved during this time and had them in a coop for several days and have ne\'er had a flying pen, just have them in an open-front chicken house about ten by fourteen feet. How's that? I have not arranged my plant as I want
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 356 APPENDIX G. "iOT r \\ SEE THE ^\ \TER IN THIS FUl\T\IN. KALE FOR MY BIRDS; FERN BRAKE FOR NESTS, by Mrs. W. R. Lycan. I bought three pairs of Plymouth Rock Extra Homers one year ago and have raised over seventy, lost very few. One pair has raised nine pairs and is sitting again. This, notwithstanding the fact that we have moved during this time and had them in a coop for several days and have ne\'er had a flying pen, just have them in an open-front chicken house about ten by fourteen feet. How's that? I have not arranged my plant as I want it yet. We bought us a small place (in Oregon) entirely unimproved, and it takes time and money to get things going right. I feed kaffir corn, cracked corn, wheat, peas, stale bread and occasionally sunflower seed. I also find they are very fond of nice tender kale. Now and then I give them rice. I gi\'e my birds what is called "brake" out here (it is a kind of fern and very soft) for nesting material. They seem to like it better than straw. I have just finished reading your Manual and find it absolutely the best work on the care and rearing of squabs that was ever written. Mr. Rice deserves much credit for the writing of this book. I have a few pairs of your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers and find them far superior in size, weight and vigor to any Homers I have ever seen.âR. L. Chipman, Washington. A good man has good pigeons, and con- versely, a tumble-down man with a rickety home has pigeons to match. HOME-MADE FOUNTAIN, by Heyward R. Barret. I am sending you a drawing and the description of a swinging drinking fountain for pigeons which I have found to be very satisfactory. It can be made of a " Buffalo" lithia water bottle as well as a whiskey jug. As the top of the jug is larger than the pan the drop- pings can not fallinto the water from a bird perched on top. The one illustrated is made of a glass whiskey jug which can be obtained most anywhere an
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