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presence of the five or six inches of dry 

 soil on the floor keeps it in good condi- 

 tion throughout the season. The cloud 

 of dust that is raised at times by the 

 pigeons' flapping their wings and flying 

 about is almost a certain guarantee 

 against insect attack. However, we do 

 not advise this method. We simply give 

 the facts as we have seen them. 



"The only limit to ths extent of such a 

 plant is the ability of those who possess 

 it properly to care for and manage all 

 its branches at a profit. Where there is 

 a family of boys and girls it might be 

 well to engage the attention of all in 

 growing these several kinds of products, 

 and to lend encouragement to each by 

 giving him a share of the profits. Scat- 

 tered all over the country are thousands 

 of families in country places continually 

 worrying and wondering why they cannot 

 keep their children at home. The 

 real reason so many of the young people 

 leave the farm is that they are compelled 

 to work continually and never receive 

 any portion of the income for their 

 labor. If the parents would allow their 

 growing families to make an equal sum 

 of money or in proportion to what they 

 can make by leaving home, there would 

 be far less complaint on this score. All 

 children wish to have the privilege of 

 earning a few dollars that they may call 

 their own." 



The following paragraph is from the 

 same paper in its report of the New 

 York pigeon show, January, 1904: 



"There seems to be a depression in the 

 sale of high-class pigeons. Well-favored 

 specimens of the highest character still 

 sell at top prices, but the absence of any 

 commercial value for a large number of 

 pigeons that are grown detracts from 

 the numerous sales that their producers 

 might have. If producers of the hun- 

 dreds of varieties of beautiful pigeons 

 would turn into the market as squabs the 

 greater part of all their product that was 

 not valuable for the exhibition room, 

 greater returns would come for ' those 

 which were saved for exhibition purposes. 

 There is a grand stride forward in grow- 

 ing squabs. The combination of poultry- 

 growing with squab-growing works well, 

 and is being adopted by so many small 

 farmers as to create an unusual demand 

 for all grades of pigeons that are good for 

 this purpose. 



"It is well for those who go into the 

 squab business to remember that the 

 price is graded by size and quality. Dur- 

 ing winter squabs that would average 8 

 or 9 pounds to the dozen have sold at 

 retail in the New York market at from 

 35 to 40 cents each, while those which 

 averaged two or three pounds less to the 

 dozen sold at from 12 1-2 to 20 cents. It 

 takes quite as much time and as much 

 care and food to produce the small speci- 

 mens that bring the lower prices as it 

 does to produce the higher grades wh'ch 

 bring the better prices. People are be- 



ginning to find this out, and taking ad- 

 vantage of the knowledge, are looking 

 about for the best quality of pigeons to 

 produce the best market squabs." 



SQUAB PIN-MONEY. The following 

 paragraph appeared in the January, 1901, 

 issue of the Designer, a monthly maga- 

 zine for women published by the But- 

 terick Publishing Company of New York 

 City : 



"A young woman of my acquaintance 

 has kept herself supplied with hats, boots 

 and gloves during the past year by sell- 

 ing the squabs of six pairs of Homer 

 pigeons. They require very little care, 

 and the young are ready for market when 

 four weeks old. My friend is so well 

 pleased with her success that she has 

 added seven pairs to her stock, and confi- 

 dently expects to dress herself completely 

 on the sum derived from the sale of her 

 squabs. M. P." 



THEY FLEW HOME. A dispatch from 

 Paris, printed by the Baltimore Sun, says: 

 "A man named Maraud complained to 

 M. Brunet, Police Commissary for one of 

 the districts on the south side of the 

 Seine, that he had been robbed of six 

 valuable carrier pigeons and said that one 

 of his friends had seen them at the house 

 of another man. 



"The magistrate went to the place in- 

 dicated and there saw some birds. 'How 

 did you come by them?' he asked of the 

 man. 'Oh, I bought them months ago,' 

 was the reply. 



" 'Well, bring them to my office,' said 

 M. Brunet. There he had a wax seal at- 

 tached to each bird's leg and the birds 

 liberated. 



"They flew back to Meraud's house and 

 an hour later the thief was on his way to 

 the police depot in the black maria." 



SQUAB INDUSTRY'S GREAT GROWTH. 

 Address Delivered Before the New Jer 

 sey State Board of Agriculture. Years 

 ago when poultry and egg pro- 

 duction was being first advocated exten- 

 sively, there were many fears expressed 

 that the business would be overdone, that 

 chickens and eggs would come -to be com- 

 mon and low priced, and the fear that 

 there would be no money in the business 

 no doubt kept many out of it. Neverthe- 

 less, more and more have gone into 

 poultry and eggs year after year, and 

 millions of dollars' worth of both are 

 marketed yearly. Whole communities, 

 like Petaluma, California, are given up to 

 poultry and eggs. Eggs got as high as 

 sixty cents a dozen in the large cities 

 the past winter (1904). 



Some peop'e not Informed as to squabs 

 think that if many go into squab raising 

 the prices are groins: to drop until there 

 is no profit in the business. On the con- 

 trary, prices for sauabs have been in- 

 creasing every year here in the East, and 

 they are going to increase in the West in 

 the years to come. Consumers who have 



