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APPENDIX G 



RED AND PURE WHITE CARNEAUX. 



This photograph is the first ever printed of pure white Carneaux, 

 obtained by breeding out the red of the splashed birds, exactly the 

 opposite procedure of those who have bred out the white tn get all- 

 red Carneaux. Fully ninety per cent of Carneaux have both red 

 and white in their plumage and these two colors are characteristic of 

 the breed. 



When you find eggs on the floor, do not 

 throw them away unless they are broken or 

 cracked. Some of my best pigeons have come 

 from eggs that I have found on the floor. 

 Put an egg in a nest that has only one egg in it. 

 If you find three eggs in a nest, take one egg 

 out and put it in a nest where there is only 

 one. — Pruyne Van Alstyne, New York. 



The Homers that I bought of you two years 

 ago are doing fine. The squabs at four weeks 

 old weigh from fourteen to sixteen ounces 

 apiece, and they have been breeding eleven 

 pairs a year. I think that I will want one or 

 two pairs of Carneaux in the spring. — Harvey 

 C. Jasperson, Wisconsin. 



The Homer females I ordered from you 

 arrived today. I must say they are the finest 

 birds I ever saw. Your Extra Homers must 

 certainly be large birds, as these arc the largest 

 I ever saw. When I order again I will know 

 just where to get them. — Karl Fach, Jr., Mis- 

 sissippi. 



Pigeons which are observed and studied are 

 more entertainment and less work. 



HOMERS ARE THE REAL 

 MONEY MAKERS, by J. W. 

 Arthurs. My experience in the 

 squab business dates from the 

 spring of 1908. I use tobacco 

 stems for nest material, I have 

 absolutely no lice trouble. All 

 my houses are from eighteen 

 to twenty-four inches off the 

 ground. No rat trouble. 



I weighed all feed consumed 

 by one hundred pairs for one 

 year. It totaled 7500 pounds, 

 and at a cost of two cents per 

 pound it makes the feed cost 

 of .'$1.50 per pair. In the same 

 time the pigeons produced 1300 

 squabs at a cost per squab of 

 eleven and one-half cents not 

 including cost of labor. This 

 year feed is fully fifteen per cent 

 cheaper than last. During the 

 four summer months last year 

 I sold from 400 pairs, 1800 

 squabs. I sell all squabs to a 

 dealer in Philadelphia. 



I have tried several breeds 

 of pigeons and as yet have 

 found none that I can do as 

 well with as the Homer. It is 

 a wonderful bird, and I believe 

 it will have to be the basis of 

 most large squab plants for 

 some time. My ideal squab 

 pigeon is one that has the many 

 good qualities of the Homer 

 and that will produce a one- 

 pound squab. I weighed this 

 week two squabs out of the 

 same nest, eighteen and twenty- 

 three ounces, and as far as I 

 know they are straight Homers. 

 Personally, I am delighted with the raising 

 of squabs as a business. I enjoy the work and 

 am satisfied with the result. I have had ex- 

 perience with chickens and can obtain the 

 same results with one-half the labor with 

 pigeons as I could with chickens. 



The birds I received from the Plymouth 

 Rock Squab Co. October 31 pleased me very 

 much. Every pair is sitting on eggs, except 

 one pair of Maltese with squabs five days old. 

 Enclosed you will find Money Order for $10 

 for which send me six pairs more of your 

 mammoth crosses. This is my third order. 

 I would have sent you a larger one but my loft 

 would be overcrowded, as I now have a large 

 flock of Homers which I raised from the six 

 pairs of No. 1 stock purchased of you January, 

 1909, — Mrs. Ada T. Hayden, Massachusetts. 



A little thing is a little thing, but faithful- 

 ness in the little things of squab breeding is a 

 very great thing. 



More squabs, better squabs, higher prices for 

 squabs. More business squab talk and less 

 politics and personalities. 



