CHAPTER XI. 



GETTING AHEAD. 



l\[;iki' Yoiii- Binls Pay for Tlii'uiselvcs as They Go Along, Unless You 

 Wisli to Wait I'atiently Until a Small Flock Increases to a Large 

 One— Better to Take the iloney Made from Sale of Squabs and 

 Buy More Aduli Birds than to Raise the Squabs, Because It Is a 

 T>ong Jump frnm Four Weeks (the KilUng Age) to Six Months, at 

 \\'hi< h Age the Binls P.i'gin Breeding — Shipping Points. 



It is tlie birils and nut the buildings which count in squ.'ib raising and 

 if you have HM to start, ijut .1^35 or $40 into your binls and the balance 

 in(o your Ijuilding. We have had customers start with a .$100 building 

 ami put a $10 lot of birds into it, continuing to buy $10 Ints of us about 

 'Uiee a mouth until they hail their Hock to a good size, but we believe it is 

 best (o let the buildings follow the birds, and not the birds the buildings. 

 In other words, let your birds earn buildings as they go aloug. It is 

 quite a ilr.ig on a snuill Hock to weigh it down with an expensive building 

 much too large for it. 



It takes patieiire to look ahead to the good time coming when you are 

 going to ilraw diviilends. The tjime to make a squab plant pay is at the 

 begiuning, or near it. ^\■hen yon can get fifty to seventy-tive cents for a 

 pair of squaiis four weeks oM, kill them and take yoiir money. 



Put this down in your mind solid, where you will not forget it: Make 

 your pigeons p;iy for themselvi-s as they go. 



We shII to a great uuiny iioultrymen, and we like to get their orders, 

 for they havi' bi'cn through (he mill of raising feathered animals and are 

 practical, .ind they are quick to see the money in squabs, and when their 

 order for bleeding stock conies along, it is in nine cases out of ten a large 

 order, even if they have hail no jirevious experience. They know that 

 in order to sell squabs they have got to have birds enough to breed 

 squabs ami it is just as easy for them to spend $50 or $100 at the start 

 as it is for iheni to spend $10 or $15 and use iqi $100 worth of time while 

 waiting a year to begin s dliug squabs. 



Many beginners are so skeptical that they do not l)elieve squabs grow 

 to market size in om uionlh. or they have no confidence in their ahility to 

 feed the mature binls so as to k«qi them alive. They wish to make a 

 start with a few pairs and actually convince themselves. We do not 

 believe in untried hands plunging into something of which they know 

 nothing, and we ciinimend the caution of the beginner with squabs who 

 wishes to fed his way and "make haste slowly" as the saying is, never- 

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