The national standard squab book . aveplenty of nest boxes for the birds to choose from. We havefound by experience that thirty or thirty-five pairs in aninety-six nest-box house will accomplish more than morepairs in the same space. Do not write us and tell us that you have a house of acertain size and ask us to tell you how many pairs of pigeonsit will accommodate. Put in your nest boxes as we havedescribed and then count them, and you will know. Or youmay figare it out for yourself on paper, allowing two nestboxes, each one cubic foot in size, for each pair of birds. Toput it in another way
The national standard squab book . aveplenty of nest boxes for the birds to choose from. We havefound by experience that thirty or thirty-five pairs in aninety-six nest-box house will accomplish more than morepairs in the same space. Do not write us and tell us that you have a house of acertain size and ask us to tell you how many pairs of pigeonsit will accommodate. Put in your nest boxes as we havedescribed and then count them, and you will know. Or youmay figare it out for yourself on paper, allowing two nestboxes, each one cubic foot in size, for each pair of birds. Toput it in another way, you should allow one cubic foot of nestbox space for each breeding pigeon. Surely we have madethis so plain now that 3^ou cannot go astray. Perhaps your start will be made with so small a number ofbirds that you will not have to cover more than one wall ofyour squab house with nest boxes. Cover one wall, or twowalls, or three walls, whichever the occasion demands. Havea lot of spare boxes, and let the breeding pairs choose where. BEST NEST BOX CONSTRUCTION. ^ When the nest boxes are built of lumber (one-half an inch or five-eighths of aninch thick) the above construction should be emploved. The bottoms are notnailed, but slide in on cleats, as shown. The result is a sliding shelf. This shelfmay be pulled out at cleaning time and a better and quicker job of cleaning done The nest bowls may be screwed directly to the bottoms of the above nest boxesIf that IS done, it will not be necessary to screw the nest bowls to blocks of woodto give them stability. The nest boxes should be from ten inches to twelve inches square. 30 AN EASY START 31 they will. An extra number of nest boxes may be usefulto you to accommodate the young birds raised to breedingage from the old birds which you buy of us, if you intend toraise your squabs to breeding age. An expenditure of not over five dollars, and a couple ofdays time, will transform the average old building into ahabitation for squabs. Put on
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