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SQUABS FOR PROFIT 



whether they were prolific squab producers or not. 

 The" best he can do is to give the buyer a mess of 

 guesses, instead of definite, reHable, first-hand infor- 

 mation. Under such conditions how can a producer 

 know anything about his birds when the shipper him- 

 self did not know anything about them? A local 



FIG. 33 — TOTJNG BIBDS IN MATING PEN. 



The pair in the lower left hand nest have mated and se- 

 lected this nest. 



breeder, mentioned elsewhere, informed us that one 

 year he shipped more than 2,000 pairs of birds to a 

 large dealer. He did not raise ail the birds himself, 

 but bought largely in the open market. He guessed 

 at the sexes as best he could and received 75 cents a 

 pair for the birds. Now, if the dealer sold them for 



