National Standard Squab Book. 



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ciiem just right and you will he svu-piised tluit this part of the business 

 ever could have discouraged anybody. 



If you number the nails which you have driven into the studding, you 

 will know just how many squabs you hang up, and you will not have 

 to handle the squabs a second time to count them. 



The ideal squab which brings the highest price in the market is not 

 oaly large and plump, but has a clean crop, so that no food will be left 

 in it to sour. No blood shows anywhere on the body and its feet are 

 clean. Ship an small (juantities, especially in the summer. Do not pack 

 in an enovmous box, or the bottom layers will suffer. 



A squab should he killed, as we have stated, wdien from three to four 

 weeks old, most geuerally at four weeks. Do not wait until it is five or 

 six weeks old, when it may have left the nest. As soon as a squab is 

 old enough to get out of the nest and walk around on the floor of the 

 squab house, it quickly trains off its fat and grows lean and slender. 

 Its flesh also loses lis pure white color and takes on a darker shade. 

 You do not want either of these two conditions. 



If you tie up your killed squabs by the feet when shipping to market, 

 do not tie a lean with a fat squab, for if you do the dealer probably will 

 give you the price of the lean one. Put the fat squabs in one bunch and 

 the lean squabs in another bunch. If you are shipping to two dealers, 

 you can very often get the top price from both by giving one your best 

 squabs and the other your second best. 



fill this ben-y crate with nesting material (straw 



rili tills ueiiyciat-c viilh iic.^u.iAe ..i.... , .-. 



about e'liially) and place it in centre of squab house Tlie cover prevents tlie birds from fouling the 



about e'lually) and place it in centre of squalj house Tlie cover prevents tiie oiras nom loi 

 nesting material. They stick their bills tlirougli the .slats, select the v.-isps tliey want, a 

 nests. 



lit into six inch lengths, and hay, mixed 

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