The national standard squab book . to the roof. Do not use any nails, they are not necessary:the crates will keep in position by their weight. It is anadvantage, also, to have them loose, for when you clean thenests, you can step up on a chair or box, take down the crates,commencing with the top, and clean each one with your feeton the floor. If you build a substantial set of nest boxes ofboxing or hemlock lumber, you will have to stand on a chairand strain your arms in order to clean the top nest boxes,so you see there are points in the low-priced arrangementnot possessed by the fancy kind. I
The national standard squab book . to the roof. Do not use any nails, they are not necessary:the crates will keep in position by their weight. It is anadvantage, also, to have them loose, for when you clean thenests, you can step up on a chair or box, take down the crates,commencing with the top, and clean each one with your feeton the floor. If you build a substantial set of nest boxes ofboxing or hemlock lumber, you will have to stand on a chairand strain your arms in order to clean the top nest boxes,so you see there are points in the low-priced arrangementnot possessed by the fancy kind. It is on the same principleby which a humble small boy with bent pin and worms and anold pole catches more fish than the city angler with a twenty-five dollar assortment of hooks, lines and artificial flies. Itis the pigeons and the intelligence behind them which do thetrick, every time. A fancy pigeon house with fancv trimmingscannot produce any better squabs than the home-made aftair,provided the birds are the same in both NEST BOXES BUILT OF LUMBER. This sliows the front of the nest boxes as they face the interior of the squabhouse. They are from ten to twelve inches square, and tlie same distance slight variation does not matter. The fronts of the nest boxes are perfectly plain,as shown. It is not necessary to nail up pieces of board to keep the squabs fromfalling out. They will not fall out. 228 ^A^ ^.451 START 29 You should have a pair of nest boxes for a pair of a pair of pigeons we mean two pigeons, a male and afemale. By a pair of nest boxes we mean two nest find that the word oair has a different meaning to peoplein different parts of the country, perhaps on the same principlethat a pair of scissors or a pair of suspenders is one object,while a pair of something else, as in this case, means twoobjects. A pair of pigeons attend to a pair of squabs in onenest box, nevertheless for each pair of pigeons you need twonest boxes, for when th
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