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Excerpt from A to Z of Pigeons and Bantams Part I. - Pigeons; Advance of the Industry; History and Origin of the Different Varieties; First Step in Squab Culture; Location for Breeding Houses; How to Mate; How to Tell Males from Females; How and When to Feed; What to Feed; System of Feeding; The Flying or Racing Homer; Training the Flying or Racing Homer; The Show Homer; Jacobins; Fantails; Pouters; Magpies; English Owls; Runts; Archangels; Barb; English Carriers; The Antwerp; Dragoons; Trumpeters; Tumbler; English Turbits; Carneaux; Swallows; Satinettes and Blondinettes; Diseases and Their Remedies; Part II. - Bantams; The Advance of the Industry; Bantams and Bantam Fanclers; Starting in the Fancy; Housing and Mating Bantams; That Bantam House; Breeding Fancy Bantams; Variety Bantams; Black and White Rose Combs; Sebrights - Golden and Silver; Sebrights and Their Origin; Cuckoo or Scotch Gray Bantams; Popularity of Cochin Bantams; Brahma - Booted and Polish Bantams; Japanese Bantams; Game Bantams - Points of Value; A New Variety Game Bantams; Malay Bantams; The Bantam for the Fancier; Different Varieties of Game Bantams; Cleanliness About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.