Book Description

Excerpt from Profitable Pigeon Breeding: A Practical Manual Explaining How to Breed Pigeons Successfully Whether as a Hobby or as an Exclusive Business We take great pleasure in presenting to the public "Profitable Pigeon Breeding," by F. Arthur Hazard, a book which will appeal particularly to the beginner. It is another one of our series of standard pigeon textbooks. Experienced breeders will find it especially valuable as a reference book and manual. Mr. Hazard is not only it breeder of pigeons, but a recognized authority on the subject, having bad a life-long experience to back up ids statements. He is well known to the pigeon world as a practical writer having contributed articles for many years to the American Pigeon Journal. He knows what affects profit and loss, knows the problems of the beginner, and explains in detail the successive steps the beginner must learn in order to become a successful pigeon breeder, - whether it be merely as a hobby or as an exclusive business. No time or expense has been spared in making this hook as valuable as possible, all the illustrations being from actual photographs while the drawings were especially made by Mr. Hazard himself. The plans and specifications for the construction of pigeon houses and fly pens will prove of great value to those who contemplate building a pigeon plant or enlarging their present plant. The book has been divided into forty chapters, thus making it not only well suited for textbook use in agricultural colleges, poultry extension courses, boys' and girls' club work, correspondence courses, but also convenient for home study. 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.