National Standard Squab Book. It 
that territory in June, 1902, noting the buildings and methods of the squab 
vaisers there and finding out from them if they were satisfied with the 
finaicial returns. All were enthusiastic and said it was easy work, that 
squabs beat bens easily and were much less care. The methods of some 
of these breeders were extremely crude, the birds nesting in old boxes of 
all sizes: nailed to the walls of the squab houses, and apparently never 
being cleaned. With no reflection on the squab raisers of Jersey, but in 
order to demonstrate our point that the work is. easy, we want to say 
that the typical breeder in that country as we saw him was seated a good 
part of the time on an old soap box, in or near his squab house, smoking 
a pipe and taking life easy, with plenty of time to talk or read. Some- 
‘body has said that a squab plant of 1,000 pairs of birds will pay better 
than a farm. The contrast between the hard, grinding toil of the 
man who works a large farm and the “standing around’ of the owner of 
a squab plant is indeed a striking one. However, we do not speak of this to 
give you the idea that money is going to flow into your lap just because 
you buy some squab breeders of us. It is no work for a drone or 9 “get- 
rich-quick’’ person whose enthusiasm runs riot for two weeks and then 
cools off. Our class of trade is men and women of experience and reliable 
common sense who have a knowledge of the world and understand that 
things come by work and not for the asking. The people who are able and 
willing to pay us from $50 to $500 for a breeding outfit, as hundreds do, 
are not caught by glittering promises, but have money laid by through 
exercise of the qualities of ability and shrewdness. The naturally care- 
iess, improvident person, who is generally in debt, should not start squab 
raising. It is a sensible industry for sensible people. 
