HOMING NOTES.
Br Mausta Mealy.
The Dunedin Homing Pigeon Club hoIdH their first race next Saturday from OamJ aru. Messrs Robertson and Gordon, pfH the Oamaru "Cub, will liberate the pigeonm at intervals. Just a word of advice taM the juniors. When the birds come home from a raoe don't pull them to pieces, bui catch them as gently as possible. You cai by a little rough treatment ruin a goo£ bird'« career for life Unless the ~weath«l is veiy bad, if there is a break of five OI ten minutes between the birds, treat thenß the same as In first arrival, witjl a little canary seed and rice. • Al ways have a few hungry birds aj home that they can see feeding inside E possible on arrival. Don't rush off to thj club room to see how other folk have bee| getting on. Exercise patience and treqi each and every an nal that homes tfai same as the first bird. It will pay yoi well in the long run, for the last may bj first the following week, and rememberiniH the tit-bit previously served out to it wilM trap immediately and land you a winnefH but if allowed to sit on the loft on onfl occasion through the owner's absence ma^|
JlScquire the habit, and throw away a good " ■jVin when it is the first bird home. Nearly Kyi short races are won at the home end. I .Mr B. J. Finnegau has added to his fctud a blue chequer cock Mons. Soffle, i>red by Higson Bros, Lynwood Lofts, -itherton, Manchester, England. The following particulars were sent by Higson Bros, with the bird. Sire was bred by Mons. Verhagen, Antwerp, Belgium, first prize Briare a magnificent racer and one of the best in his loft. He won three franc pool St. Denis, Briare, Gren. In the Sriare race he won first prize of honour and five franc pool, beating the second bird by 10 minutes. The following season first and 10 franc pool St. G. de Fosse, 10 franc pool Fourchambault, five franc , pool Chateaurox, five franc pool Ariel, ' championship from Etampes, 500 miles, - '1426 birds competing. The following seahon from Orleans first and all pools, 1367 1 ■ncers competing. His last .race was from HjKalbris. This wonderful bird won fourth Hrrize and 25 franc pool, 1235 birds comKtefcing. The dam of Mr Finnegan's bird Kr a daughter of Verhagen's Littk Black, 1 ■perhaps the fastest cock in Antwerp. He Els extremely timid, on numerous occa- I Bsions has this rattling little racer lost his ■piaster races through his timidity. He ■Bun his first race as a youngster from St. , ■pfeois, 190 miles, on a terribly bad day, Hi&ich is not likely to be forgotten in - ■patwerp, for he beat the second "bird by 55 ■|Xhutes. He also won all pools. The next Bgbree races he won also all pools, and HpSHowing four years his winnings were Kpsacierfal. His record in Antwerp is Kinost unique. He never once failed to H|rui his 'pool money. He also won many H|rizos of honour. So extraordinary have B&eeu the winnings of Mons. Verhagen, < ■gaounting to 14.000 francs, that his famous KScers are the gems of Antwerp, and he Bs no difficulty in selling his surplus stock. H|anciers even besiege him for eggs, and Hpf has sold a large number from 50 to 100 Hmncs (£4 per pair). The strain of his Hards is the rich Soffle blood, the blood Hnat made Mons. Missiaen famous. The HBoming World states that the Belgians are scouring Belgium to obtain Soffle BRood Mr Finnegan informs me he is Bnating his imported bird with Grannie, He dam and grand-dam of more winners any other hen in the Dominion. I H|uh him every success. 1 Hp*enning up for the Oamaru interval races Hues place at the club room next Friday Bphir P. Mason^ sen., the well-known exHraalisator /proprietor, has erected a fine Hgfi at his residence, Mornington, and will Hk racing with the Dunedin Club this Heison. This good sport finds the pigeon Hfobby an excellent pastime. j H|BICYCLE-RACIXG IN AUSTRALIA. B^t the League of Queensland Wheelmen's __B!f*> r ts on Saturday last the Jubilee Bac-3, ____p** mile, was won by A. 3. Davies (Vie.), Htji W. .7. Kelly (Vie.) second, in lmin Hjwec: Th« mile championship was also won Kelly, and Davies beat Kett, of New _H|C£pth Wa-'es, in the five miles scratch th? time for which was 12-iiii). 23sec. HBtvies fai!eJ to lower the Ausfcralian-pacvKi __E£Cord f° r half a mile, the time being
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 55
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