A SENSE of locality, a love of home, and endurance in flight, are the three special characteristics of the pigeon which caused its value as a messenger to be recognised as early as 500 years B.C. Since that time a pigeon post has become common in vari...
A SENSE of locality, a love of home, and endurance in flight, are the three special characteristics of the pigeon which caused its value as a messenger to be recognised as early as 500 years B.C. Since that time a pigeon post has become common in various parts of the world, and with the development of that singular mode of despatching letters, the interest for pigeon breeding and pigeon sporting has been widely extended.