The national standard squab book . No. 18 or,20 iron wire andweave this from one selvage to another of your wire nettingin and out of the meshes, and you have the best joint. You can line the three walls of the interior of your squabhouse with nest boxes if you choose. The fourth wall is theone in which the window or windows are. On this fourthwall you should not have nest boxes, but perches. Theseperches, or roosts, should be tacked up about fifteen inchesapart, so as to give the birds room without interfering withone another. The advantage of the V-shaped roost which weadvise is that a bird
The national standard squab book . No. 18 or,20 iron wire andweave this from one selvage to another of your wire nettingin and out of the meshes, and you have the best joint. You can line the three walls of the interior of your squabhouse with nest boxes if you choose. The fourth wall is theone in which the window or windows are. On this fourthwall you should not have nest boxes, but perches. Theseperches, or roosts, should be tacked up about fifteen inchesapart, so as to give the birds room without interfering withone another. The advantage of the V-shaped roost which weadvise is that a bird perched on it cannot soil the bird under-neath. Do not buy the patent pigeon roosts which you seeadvertised, for a pigeon roosting on one will soil the pigeonroosting on the one immediately below. Please note particularly at this point the following termswhich we use, and do not become confused. The nest boxis something in which rests the nest bowl in which the nestis built. Do not speak or think of nests when you mean 26 AN EASY START 27 The nest boxes, when done, should look like the pigeon-holesof a desk, and should be about one foot high, one foot wideand one foot deep. A variation either way of an inch ortwo will not matter. One way to get these pigeon-holes is to build them of nicepine lumber, in the form of boxing one-half or five-eighthsof an inch thick. Another way is to use hemlock or spruceboards one inch thick. The third way (which we think isthe best for the beginner who wishes to start most cheaply andquickly) is to use egg crates, or orange boxes. These eggcrates are two feet long, one foot wide and one foot deep,but they are divided in the middle by a partition, giving twospaces, each of a cubic foot, and this is just what the squabraiser wants. They are procurable almost anywhere in theUnited States and Canada new for ten or fifteen cents each,and if you buy them after the egg shippers are through withthem, you can get them for three to five cents a
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