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as there is for Carneaux. Six 4ollvs a pair piay be obtained by anybody who 

 has the breeders for sale. Youngsters weaned and able to stand shipment 

 sell for three dollars a pair. The squabs sell alive for ten dollars to twelve 

 dollars a dozen. It costs no more to feed an4 rais^ these birds than other 

 pigeons. The selling price both for squaibs and breeders being so much 

 larger, that is why the profit is larger. On account of the tremendous demand 

 for these birds for breeders, nobody is selling the squabs from them killed, but 

 if they ever get so numerous that squabs are marketed from them, the price 

 will be the very top notch. 



This breed has been developed by the pigeon breeders of Belgium. There 

 are some Carneaux in France and Germany, but they are inferior in s\ze and 

 beauty to the Belgian birds, and few in number. 



They are not very plentiful in Belgium. We have made arrangements for 

 the output of all the adult, perfect pairs of Carneaux the breeders of Belgium 

 can furnish, fit for breeding, but so far they have not been able to furnish us 

 more than 200 pairs a month, so scarce are the birds. We hope to get more 

 from them. We have saved out 500 pairs Carneaux and are breeding them at 

 our farm. We can supply Carneaux imported by us, or (in limited number) 

 bred by us from birds of our importation. 



Why is the demand for Carneaux so much greater than the supply ? Just 

 this: They eat no more than Homers, but breed faster, and breed bigger 

 squabs. 



In other words, they not only produce more squabs than the Homers, but 

 the squabs bring at least one-third more money. The breeder making a 

 profit from Homers will make more than double his profits with Carneaux. 



For years, the study has been to produce a pigeon larger than the Homer 

 which would breed faster than the Homer. This has been accomplished in the 

 Carneaux. We know it by our own investigation and actual breeding of this 

 variety, and we know it by the experiences of our customers. 



The big breeds, all of which we have tried, such as Runts, Maltese, Italians 

 (personally selected in Italy) , breed big sguabs , but they breed with exasperat- 

 ing slowness. Crossed with Homers, tne rate of breeding is improved, but 

 the squabs are no larger than from our Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, so it is 

 far better to breed the straight Extra Homers. 



The Carneaux breed squabs weighing a pound or more apiece and they 

 brged nine pairs to ten pairs of squabs a year. For these two reasons, we 

 believe that the Carneaux will displace the Homers in time. It wiU take 

 many years because the Homers have a strong hold now and the Carneaux are 

 scarce. Nevertheless, the cash returns from squabs weighing 12 pounds and 

 14 pounds to the dozen give a great profit to the breeder, and profits are what 

 all squab breeders are aft^r. 



Any one who has both Homers and Carneaux can get in a year from each 

 pair of Carneaux 15 or more pairs of squabs. Theoretically this is impossible 

 for any pigeons. However, the Carneaux have help from tjie Homers. Just 

 how this done is fully explained by us at the end of this article in the para- 

 graph headed, " How to Breed Fifteen Pairs of Squabs from One Pair of Car- 

 neaux in One Year." 



One of pur customers, a Southern gentleman, visited our farm in the fall of 



1906. He liked the looks of the Carneaux and on returning home later sent 

 for three pairs, which we shipped him December 26, 1906. On February 13, 



1907, he wrote us asking how many pairs we could give him. He took all we 

 could then supply at $6.00 a pair, giving the following endorsement of his first 



