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Identifier: nationalstandard05rice (find matches)
Title: The national standard squab book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Elmer Cook. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Boston, Mass. (Press of Murray and Emery company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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get away from you. Many of them will continueto sit contentedly on the eggs and if you put up your handto them they will not fly off in fear but will slap you withtheir wings, telling you in their language not to bother them.Carry some hempseed in with you and you will teach thebirds to come and eat it out of your hand. You can tamethem and teach them to love you as any animal is taught.The pigeon, particularly the Homer, the king of them all, isa knowing bird. Tack up a few perches where you have room on that wallor those walls of the squab house which have no nest boxes.You do not need a perch for every pigeon, because while someare on perches, others are in the nests, or out in the flying pen,or on the roof, or on the floor of the squab house. If youhave forty-eight pigeons, twenty perches will be enough, andyou can get along with a dozen. Make each perch of twopieces of board, one six inches square, the other six inchesby five, and toe-nail the perch to the wall of the squab house
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32 AN EASY START 33 as shown in the illustration. You cannot have one longpole inside the squab house for a pigeon perch. If you hadsuch a pole, and your pigeons were perched on it, or someof them were, a bully cock would saunter down the line andpush off all the others. In the centre of the squab house you place an empty crateor overturned box. The object of this is to break the forceof the wind made by the pigeons wings as they fly in and outof the squab house. Otherwise the floor of the squab housewould be swept clean by the force of the wind. It also formsa roosting-place for the birds, and, finally, it is a convenientresting-place for the straw, hay, grass or pine needles out ofwhich the pigeons build their nests. The floor of the squab house should be kept clean. Weformerly advised that a layer of sand or sawdust half aninch thick be kept on the floor of the squab house, to absorbthe droppings, but we have found a steady and profitabledemand for pigeon manure, and this manure is

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