pigeon-rearing

Updated: May 15, 2025

In the lower part of this valley were scattered farmhouses, which looked like small rural churches, for their high rectangular dovecots at one end had much the air of towers with broach spires. Throughout Guyenne one is amazed at the apparently extravagant scale on which accommodation has been provided for pigeon-rearing.

Edward Harrison Barker - Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine