Show POINTS FOR SQUAB RAISERS owners of successful plants always find plenty to do in winter in caring for birds managers of successful squab rals rala ing plants always find plenty to do in winter taking cure of 0 their breeding pigeons seeing they ure arc properly muted culled housed and fed it if large plump squabs squats uro are to bo be produced next spring the breeding pigeons must bo be kept in hi a good thrifty condition or the lie percentage of biatch will he bo low the problem of growing a largo large strain of equals squabs depends on the kind hind of pigeons you select to keep in the breeding pens by culling out the small weak birds with undesirable c color 0 lor of sic ykun in and oth other er such points und and disposing of tile the discarded ones tho the feed bill will bo be greatly reduced tho birds should bo looked a after closely during tho the muting mating season odd or males ma es alu must it always ivans b be 0 removed from the breeding pong pens pigeons are usually mated at tho the ago of five or six months and in some cases thuy they ore are not mated until they are eight or nine months old with tile tho increasing dem demand and for plump squabs squats many of tile tho squab raising plant owners have been labora N blue checker A another n other coming type of homer ing to get larger pigeons the maltese the wing king the corneau tile the it hunt u n t and the mondaine Mond alne have been extensively produced in some sections many of the old time squab raisers miners cling to the homer it Is hardy prolific a hearty eater and raises a high percentage of squabs squats the pigeon house should be cleaned once a month or oftener and then sprayed with some of the preparations that are used to kill lice |