ground and let them shift for themselves. Then one set of 

 motions in feeding would have answered for all, and there 

 would have been no dirt to clean up. Infinite patience as 

 well as skill is required to make a success of animals given 

 individual attention. The aim of every breeder should be 

 to make one minute of his time serve the greatest possible 

 number of animals. When you think and reason for your- 

 self, you understand how much more practical it is to give 

 sixty animals one minute of your time than one animal one 

 minute. Time is money and if you are too particular, and 

 too fussy, and thoughtless about these details, it is a clear 

 case of the chances being sixty to one again-st you. 



At the start, the problem of breeding squabs for market 

 is in your favor, because one hundred pairs of breeding 

 pigeons may be handled as easily and as rapidly as one pair. 

 Try to keep this numerical advantage in your favor all the 

 time. Discard every plan that cuts down the efficiency of 

 your own labor, and adopt every device that will give you 

 control in the same time over a greater number of pigeons. 



It takes brains and skilled labor to run a poultry plant 

 successfully. Every poultrymain knows that he cannot en- 

 trust the regulation of temperatures of incubators and brood- 

 ers to an ignorant hired man, but even a boy or girl, or un- 

 der-the-average farm hand, knows enough to fill up the bath- 

 pans and feeding-troughs for squab-breeders, leaving the 

 time of the owner free for correspondence and the more 

 skillful work of killing and shipping the squabs. 



We found no written or printed advice about squab-breed- 



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