American culture assise ; un travail concret sur la culture assise couvrant toutes les phases de l'éducation, le logement et la commercialisation de pigeonneau . expectone irs peut paire de montrer les oiseaux, deux paires d'oiseaux stock qui est la fondation pour de plus sliow les oiseaux, et trois paires de rebuts. Split tails en maltais sont très difficiles à surmonter. Cette beaccomplished peut toutefois par l'accouplement comme un oiseau à un autre qui a ashort, plein, large queue pendant que l'oiseau doit avoir un sac d'huile. Wrytail est un autre défaut qui est très difficile à surmonter car il semble être héréditaire. J'ai accouplé wry-tail-oiseaux c'est un leftwry avec un droit wry-

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American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs . irs one can expectone pair of show birds, two pairs of stock birds which lay thefoundation for more sliow birds, and three pairs of culls. Split tails in Maltese are very hard to overcome. This can beaccomplished however by mating such a bird to one that has ashort, full, broad tail while the bird must have an oil sack. Wrytail is another defect which is very hard to overcome as it seemsto be hereditary. I have mated wry-tail birds—that is a leftwry with a right wry—but to produce the desired result the birdsmust both have oil sacks, otherwise the off-spring will develop OTHER BREEDS OF UTILITY PIGEONS 63 split tails. Short wing flights crossing in front of the tail canonly be produced by mating a short-back bird to a long-backbird and in this way one can correct this defect and strike ahappy medium. C. R. King writing for the American Pigeon Journal covers theMaltese nicely when he says: California has long been notedfor its fine Maltese. In fact, there is no doubt that there are. WHITE MALTESE more and better Maltese bred and raised in California than inany other state in the Union. The climatic conditions are suchthat the birds seem to develop and thrive from the start. From the utility standpoint, the Maltese is one of the mostvaluable birds. They are very strong feeders and take goodcare of their young. They are used quite extensively on thePacific coast as a producer of double breasted squabs for mar-ket. These squabs weigh around twelve pounds to the dozen.The Maltese is an ideal bird for crossing, being short, blocky, 64 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE and very full breasted. For this purpose it is used with theRunt more than any other breed and probably one-third of thesquabs raised on the Pacific coast are from this cross. Thesesquabs range in weight from twelve to eighteen pounds to thedozen. I have raised a few that weighed twenty-t

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