PIGEONS FOR WESTERN FRONT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 8

PIGEONS FOR WESTERN FRONT

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In last night's Post appears a reference to the request by the War Office for pigeons for use on the Western front, and a fancier has apparently communicated to a Post reporter some complaints about the high price of food. Sir, I maintain it is sheer folly for fanciers in this Dominion to so complain when they know the extent of the troubles which beset the English fanciers in the same direction. There a man would have to give, say, up to £3 10s for a similar sack of peas, which a man can buy in this country for (as the . fancier mentioned says) £1 10s ; and probably the English fancier would be only too pleased to be able to get that quantity of pigeon food at that price. Still the fancy in England (and especially the fancy for "homing pigeons") is carrying on, to its great credit, and with the certainty that this "hobby" will receive a great impetus after the war, when is allowed to be told something of the grand work that little pigeons (mure morsels of, say, 10 ounces weight) are doing with our armies in the field, and with the Navy on the wide sea.—l am, etc., WILL B.M'KENZIE. ■ 17th July.