PREFACE. 

 This Manual is written to give in brief and plain terms 

 the rules by which Dr. J. G. Robinson, of Pembroke, Mass., 

 has won his famous success in breeding squabs for market. 

 I think everyone interested in profitable breeding stock will 

 appreciate an account of the ways and means by which this 

 gentleman and his wife have made such marked progress in 

 the handling of pigeons. Although somewhat skeptical at 

 first, I was shortly forced to believe that in this isolated ham- 

 let of Plymouth county (where certainly there are no dis- 

 tractions to annoy the patient student), they had quietly 

 worked out problems which had been perplexing squab 

 breeders for years, and were producing with mathematical 

 certainty and regularity a table product so excellent as to 

 make their squabs noted all over Boston where good diners 

 gathered. By talking with the Boston marketmen who 

 handled his product, I had a confirmation of the astonishing 

 profit-showing of his books and I prevailed upon the Doctor 

 to let the public know of this comparatively new industry, 

 and its wonderful possibilities when intelligently pursued, 

 and he has co-operated with me in this publication of the 

 facts. To make the work careful and thorough, I investi- 



