Books by Elmer Cook Rice

This vintage book contains a complete guide to breeding pigeons for profit, with information on buying, habits of birds, mating, watering, feeding, killing, cooling, marketing, shipping, curing ailments, and more. Contents include: "Squabs Pay", "An Easy Start", "The Unit House", "Nest Bowls and Nests", "Water and Feed", "Laying and Hatching", "Increase of Flock", "Killing and Cooling", "The Markets", "Pigeons' Ailments", "Getting Ahead", and "Questions and Answers". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on pigeons.