' Pigeons race again ' by Major W. H. Osman
The Editor of The Racing Pigeon will discuss the preparation for racing in wartime, feeding-stuff, and substitutes such as ivy berries, and the best ways to get pigeons trained for the short distances they are likely to have to cover when on duty with the Home Guard and other Services.
Pigeon-fans who have not yet had
'Squills Stud Book ' for 1941 will be glad to know that it has Keen newly-bound and is on sale again. They will need no telling that this invaluable training and race-record register is compiled by Squills, but some of them may not know how Major Osman came by his pen-name. His father, when a young man, was asked to name a cure for roup in pigeons. Remembering that Syrup of Squills was a treatment for croup in children, he recommended it. It was so successful that he was nicknamed ' Squills ' and used it as his pen-name, which his son duly used in his turn.