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" The Carneaux boom has struck this country for fair." 



" The Carneaux exceed aU others in point of squab producing, not only in 

 numbers and weight, but also in the clarity of the skin, the palatableness of 

 the flesh, and prolific nature." 



" The consensus of opinion seems to be that the Carneaux will produce 10 

 pairs, or 20 pounds of squabs per pair to the year, while some place the 

 average higher. Few place it lower." 



" All I have read has been substantiated by my own personal experience. 

 Their yearly yield is from 10 to 11 pairs of squabs." 



" My experience with Carneaux is limited to two years. They are great. 

 The Carneaux will occupy the place of honor in loft and showroom. Ten 

 pairs of squabs is the yield per year." 



" I have bred them two years. Carneaux are as superior to the Homer as 

 the Homer is to the common pigeon. It is the rule rather than the exception 

 for the Carneaux to produce nine pairs of white-meated squabs a year which 

 will average one pound each. My experience proves conclusively that they 

 will produce twice as many pounds of squabs in a year as the ordinary birds 

 now generally used as squab breeders, and one of the most conspicuous points 

 in their favor is the fact that the cost of keeping them is no more," 



A few advertisers of f)igeons who live inland, not in a seaport city, 

 may " run down " imported pigeons, saying they are no good, culls, not 

 acclimated, poor breeders, and so forth, ad nauseam. The reason why these 

 soreheads fret so is, that it is impossible for them to import pigeons success- 

 fully. To do this successfully, steadily, profitably, one must live on the sea- 

 board, close to where the Antwerp steamers come, and must have a personal 

 acquaintance with the officers of the steamships, and see them at every sail- 

 ing, and pay them for their work in caring for the birds. The reason why 

 those who decry imported pigeons do not sell them is simply that they cannot 

 get them, or, if they think they can get them, they wish to sell something in 

 which there is a greater profit. We have seen not much talk of this kind, in 

 opposition to imported pigeons, but it will be indulged in more or less as the 

 traffic in Carneaux increases. The trade calling for Carneaux in America 

 must be supplied with imported birds or go without them, for nobody can 

 ship day by day, steadily, Carneaux of his own raising. You should be sure 

 and get Carneaux which have been in this country at least one or two months, 

 and have got their sea-legs off, for it is our experience that the long voyage 

 results in a goodly percentage of dead and injured birds, depending on the 

 weather and the caretakers. 



That imported Carneaux go to work quickly is indicated by the letter of 

 the Philadelphia gentleman above quoted, nine pairs out of 21 pairs having 

 built nests within two days after delivery to him. 



Our trade in Carneaux is increasing e-vevj month and we expect to sell 

 many thousand pairs in 1908 and 1909. AVe recommend them to our cus- 

 tomers. We do not wish anybody to take our word for their excellence. 

 Try them alongside of your Homers and form your own opinion. Anybody 

 who buys Carneaux of us and is not perfectly satisfied with them, and that all 

 we say here is true, after six months' trial, may exchange them for our Extra 

 Plymouth Rock Homers at the rate of three pairs of Homers for one pair of 

 Carneaux. 



