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Identifier: nationalstandard05rice (find matches)
Title: The national standard squab book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Elmer Cook. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Boston, Mass. (Press of Murray and Emery company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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(same as is used to clean off snow and icefrom city sidewalks), six inches wide at theblade and with a long handle so that it canbe used easily while the operator is standing.In scraping the floor, the manure rolls upwith little exertion off the blade of thechisel. It is shovelled into the bushelbasket and the basket taken out into thepassageway and dumped into the wheelbar-row. It takes one man not over thirty min-utes to clean a pen thoroughly and thenroduct of each pen is between two and threebushels, or from $1.20 to $1.80 for halfan hours work, which is pretty good pay.(We have been getting in the winter of 1903sixty cents a bushel from the American Hideand Leather Company of Lowell, Mass.) Weship the manure by freight in bags. We buythese bags when we can from farmers whohave large herds of cows and who use con-siderable grain, and they let the bags go forone and two cents apiece. Second-hand bagsin the Boston junk shops cost from four tonine cents apiece. The leather people let
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