. The Robinson method of breeding squabs; a full account of the new methods and secrets of the most successful handler of pigeons in America .. . leasant to buypigeons and receive them in a cumbrous box weighing from25 to 75 pounds, on which the express charges are morethan double what they would be were the birds crated prop-erly. The best wood to use in crating is that of which eggcrates are made. It is thin (about one-eighth of an inch),very light and tough and splits evenly. The ends and backof the crate should be made of half-inch or five-eighths pineboxing. If you procure this sawed six
. The Robinson method of breeding squabs; a full account of the new methods and secrets of the most successful handler of pigeons in America .. . leasant to buypigeons and receive them in a cumbrous box weighing from25 to 75 pounds, on which the express charges are morethan double what they would be were the birds crated prop-erly. The best wood to use in crating is that of which eggcrates are made. It is thin (about one-eighth of an inch),very light and tough and splits evenly. The ends and backof the crate should be made of half-inch or five-eighths pineboxing. If you procure this sawed six inches wide, in vary-ing lengths, you may make up crates to suit your order. Thefloor or bottom of the crate should be solid, also the sidesand back. For the front and top, split the thin stuff abouttwo inches wide and tack to the boxing with three-pennynails. The pigeons should be packed closely (but not tooclose), giving each room to turn and move about. In thesix-inch space they have just about enough room to stand,and the contact of their heads with the top slats will remindthem that they must not attempt to fly, and they do not. If 55. HOW TO COOIi THE KILLED SQUABS. The large size of sau»bs at four weeks of iige may be judged from the fact that the wooUeustudding ill tlie above photograph is two inches thiclc. The nails are ninepenny wire finish, andthe distance between the pairs of nails is four inches. The studding is hung at the ends by wirefastened to the ceiling so that rats and cats cannot get at the squabs when they are cooling overnight. 56 they are going to a point only a day or a day and a night dis-tant, they need no feed nor water. If the destination is moreremote, two tin cups, one for grain, the other for water,should be tacked to the inside of the, crate. A sponge shouldbe placed in the water dish and wired in loosely so the birdscannot peck it out. This prevents the water from beingspilled in transit. A given quantity of water lasts longer andkeeps cleane
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