. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 333 HOW AN IOWA FAMILY MAKES SQUABS PAY, by R. L. Allen. I am very much in- terested in the pigeon business. I believe it is only in its infancy and that better times are com- ing. I send you a picture of our unit house which, as you see, has eight separate apart- ments. We have three other houses not shown in this pic- ture. These apartments are each eight by ten feet. They are eight feet high on the high side and six feet high on the low side. The fly yards are ten by sixteen feet, eight feet high. Each of these apartments has an averag
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 333 HOW AN IOWA FAMILY MAKES SQUABS PAY, by R. L. Allen. I am very much in- terested in the pigeon business. I believe it is only in its infancy and that better times are com- ing. I send you a picture of our unit house which, as you see, has eight separate apart- ments. We have three other houses not shown in this pic- ture. These apartments are each eight by ten feet. They are eight feet high on the high side and six feet high on the low side. The fly yards are ten by sixteen feet, eight feet high. Each of these apartments has an average of one hundred and twenty-two nests, and an average of one hundred and twelve mated, working pigeons. We find it better to have more nests than birds. The girl in the picture is Lila Allen, sixteen years old, another member of the firm, who has charge of the feed supplies. Once every day she goes all through the plant and refills the automatic feeders that are in need of grain. In these feeders there are compartments to accommodate two kinds of grain. We also have a little contrivance of our own in- vention to keep salt and grit always before them. We are not prepared at this time to furnish the pictures of Mrs. Allen, who is bookkeeper and secretary, or of Mr. R. L. Allen, general manager. In this pigeon plant, each member of the family and firm has his or her work to do, and each receives a share in the receipts. We have one thousand breeding pigeons. I find in traveling about over the country that where there is a bunch of pigeons that the owner is " sick of '' and complaining because there is no money in them, the house is in bad condition, feed and water supply is poor, and the pigeons are not evenly proportioned in regard to sex. Under such conditions good results are out of the question. The owner is trying to sell them cheap, and if he gets a buyer, unless the latter is a good judge and understands how to cull them closely, he too finds out a little later that th
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