COSTS AND PROFITS 45 



in not consulting the taste of the locality in 

 which they live. 



There is a pigeon plant of 2,000 homers in 

 the vicinity of San Francisco which nets a clear 

 profit to the proprietor of $100 a month. He 

 employed an expert at $100 a month to go 

 over his stock and give him advice. The advice 

 was gradually to change his stock. Although 

 the expert pointed out that he might be receiv- 

 ing $2.25 per dozen a few weeks during the 

 summer months and the rest of the year on 

 up to $4.50, where he was getting $1.50 most 

 of the summer and never higher than $3.00 in 

 the winter, he stoutly maintained that it was 

 the valued bird of the East and he preferred 

 not to risk a new stock. So as he was satisfied 

 with the returns, there was nothing more to 

 be said, but he might have been receiving at 

 least $200 a month. 



