The national standard squab book . Canada. In coldestweather, the old birds hover the squabs more carefully. City people can keep pigeons in the garret of a house, or theloft of a barn, without a foot of ground being needed. Insuch a case the flying pen, or place to which the pigeons gofor sun and air, can be built out on a platform. The illus-tration (page 24) shows how to utilize a window of a you think that rats will trouble you in either a garret orbam loft, cover the floor inside, especially the comers, withfine wire netting through which it will be impossible for therats to gna
The national standard squab book . Canada. In coldestweather, the old birds hover the squabs more carefully. City people can keep pigeons in the garret of a house, or theloft of a barn, without a foot of ground being needed. Insuch a case the flying pen, or place to which the pigeons gofor sun and air, can be built out on a platform. The illus-tration (page 24) shows how to utilize a window of a you think that rats will trouble you in either a garret orbam loft, cover the floor inside, especially the comers, withfine wire netting through which it will be impossible for therats to gnaw from below. One of our customers in Illinois, a rich horse breeder having 36 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK a barn some two hundred feet long, turned the wholeupper story into a loft for pigeons. The flying pen takes inthe whole back of the barn. There are windows and no doorson this side of the barn, the horses using doors on the otherside, so this leaves the upper story of the barn, and its wholeback-yard, free for the A PRETTY SQUAB HOUSE AND FLYING PEN. CHAPTER III. THE UNIT HOUSE. Best Possible Construction for a Squab Plant—The Wind-Break Formation of Roof — Dimensions of the Unit —Multiplying the Unit to Increase the Capacity of YourPlant — .4 Passageway behind the Nest Boxes — Number-ing the Nest Boxes, and the Management of a Card Index toCorrespond — Cost of the Unit Construction is from ThreeDollars to Five Dollars a Running Foot — Working Drawings— The Nest Bowls. If you have no building already standing which you can fixover for pigeons, you may erect a simple rectangular structureand line it with nest boxes as we have described in the lastchapter We will tell you in this chapter how to put up thefinest kind of a pigeon structure. It is at the same time themost expensive. It is the best, the most workmanlike. Insaying that it is expensive, we do not mean that money isthrown away on its construction, for that is not so. It is afit habitatio
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