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December 17, 1914
The Beaver Herald
Beaver, Beaver County, Oklahoma
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Practical guide on starting a pigeon business for squab production, emphasizing housing, breeding, cleanliness, pest control, and feeding to achieve profitable yields of about eight pairs per year.
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RAISE SQUABS FOR MARKET
First Essential Is to Have Suitable House and Yard to Confine Birds—Enforce Cleanliness.
The keeping of pigeons has become regular business in some sections, compared with ten years ago, and a great deal of interest is now being taken in the pigeon as a source of profit. The first essential is to have a good house and yard, and to have the yard wired, in order to confine the birds. The house should be arranged to permit of abundant floor room, the nests to be along the sides. The homer pigeon is largely used, an excellent mating being the dragoon and homer. Be sure that the sexes are equal, as pigeons pair and keep the same nests. Mice in the nests must be guarded against, and lice will destroy all profit. Give nesting materials for the birds, and include tobacco leaves, which will assist in keeping lice away. Fresh insect powder should be freely used in the nests on the first indication of lice, and cleanliness must be enforced.
The yard should be at least ten feet high, of any size preferred, and should have roosting poles at different heights, on which the birds may alight.
Keep a salt codfish hung where the birds can have access to it, supply gravel, coarsely ground oyster shells, ground bone wheat, cracked corn, sorghum seed millet seed and a green food of some kind, as the birds will help themselves to what is desired by them.
The rapidity of growth depends upon the food and care. About eight pairs of squabs a year may be expected, depending on mode of management.
First Essential Is to Have Suitable House and Yard to Confine Birds—Enforce Cleanliness.
The keeping of pigeons has become regular business in some sections, compared with ten years ago, and a great deal of interest is now being taken in the pigeon as a source of profit. The first essential is to have a good house and yard, and to have the yard wired, in order to confine the birds. The house should be arranged to permit of abundant floor room, the nests to be along the sides. The homer pigeon is largely used, an excellent mating being the dragoon and homer. Be sure that the sexes are equal, as pigeons pair and keep the same nests. Mice in the nests must be guarded against, and lice will destroy all profit. Give nesting materials for the birds, and include tobacco leaves, which will assist in keeping lice away. Fresh insect powder should be freely used in the nests on the first indication of lice, and cleanliness must be enforced.
The yard should be at least ten feet high, of any size preferred, and should have roosting poles at different heights, on which the birds may alight.
Keep a salt codfish hung where the birds can have access to it, supply gravel, coarsely ground oyster shells, ground bone wheat, cracked corn, sorghum seed millet seed and a green food of some kind, as the birds will help themselves to what is desired by them.
The rapidity of growth depends upon the food and care. About eight pairs of squabs a year may be expected, depending on mode of management.
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Instructional Guide
Agricultural Advice
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Pigeon Raising
Squabs Market
Poultry House
Lice Prevention
Bird Feed
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Guide to raising pigeons for squab market: build suitable house and wired yard, use homer and dragoon breeds, ensure equal sexes, prevent mice and lice with tobacco and powder, provide nesting materials, roosts, salt codfish, gravel, shells, bone, grains, green food; expect 8 pairs of squabs yearly with good care.