16 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE 



merit, a pair of Carneaux will easily average 16 squabs a year, 

 which will bring on any market, the year around, $5.00 a dozen. 



An economical person will be enabled to reduce the above 

 expense. With careful and systematic attention, a pair 

 can be made to produce a larger number annually; with a little 

 good judgment and effort used in the selling end, squabs can 

 be sold for more than $5.00 a dozen. These are facts that have 

 been demonstrated over and over again, by actual experience 

 and by tests, and can be depended upon to be correct. With this 

 information it will be an easy matter for one to calculate how 

 much he can count on making from each pair of birds, provided 

 he has good breeders, properly housed and cared for, and a 

 market. 



If squabs are sold to a private trade, hotels, clubs, or shipped 

 to some commission merchant in New York or the large cities, 

 they will bring more than $5.00 a dozen, but I have used this 

 figure as a minimum amount that good squabs will bring in 

 almost any market. 



Does it pay to raise squabs, can be answered in fewer words 

 than the above. There is an unlimited demand for squabs at 

 a fair price in America. Good squab breeders can be purchased 

 at a fair price. The right kind of breeders are very prolific, 

 healthy and easy to handle, and the expense of feed, care and 

 interest on investment for any number of squab breeders will 

 not equal the amount received from the sale of their squabs. This 

 is being proved by the hundreds of breeders daily, all over the 

 country, but as the price of feed, method of handling and price 

 of squabs vary, there cannot be a fixed percentage of profit 

 determined upon. 



SQUABS CAN BE RAISED BY ALMOST ANYONE 



Lawyers, bankers, doctors, merchants, farmers, laboring men, 

 in fact men of all walks of life, and women and children can raise 

 squabs in large or small quantities if the proper interest is taken. 



Contrary to the average opinion, squabs can be raised profita- 

 bly in the towns and cities of America, as well as in the villages 

 and country, but not on as large a scale unless a place is pro- 

 vided in the suburbs. A small backyard is sufficient space to 

 accommodate quite a number of squab breeders. 



It only takes a ground space of 8x24 feet to comfortably house 

 and care for 30 to 40 pairs of squab breeders. This much space 



