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It will cost just about $i to keep a pair of pigeons one 

 year. When the writer visited the great squab farms of 

 South Jersey, he particularly inquired about the cost of feed- 

 ing a pair of pigeons one year. In that country most of 

 the grain used is shipped from the West and from Canada, 

 The wheat comes from New York, Ohio, or States farther 

 west, the kaffir corn mostly from Kansas and the hemp seed 

 from Kentucky. The peas come from Canada. All these 



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grains are sold with the freight added to the initial price 

 and the feed dealer's profit, of course. In the mid-west 

 the freight charges would be much smaller than they are 

 in the East, so the cost of keeping a pair of pigeons would 

 be considerably reduced. 



In the South Jersey squab district we found that the cost 

 of keeping a pair of breeding Homers one year ranged from 



