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FLOIUDA»S BIG DEMAND, 

 by W. M. Brown. We wisli to 



get every person in Florida in- 

 terested in squabs. We could 

 at the present time sign one 

 contract with one concern for 

 four hundred dozen squabs at 

 $1800 for a four months' sup- 

 ply at one hundred dozen a 

 month ($4.50 a dozen) and 

 could more than double it. 

 We did not desire to cater so 

 much to the tourist season, but 

 went after the leading restau- 

 rants in our nearest city and 

 got them, for the year. In one 

 afternoon we had contracts to 

 take every squab that the 

 squabhouse we had built could 

 supply, and at top-notch prices 

 Not only these, but one hotel 

 made a request that we submit 

 to them a proposition so that 

 they could be giiaranteed fifty- 

 five dozen squabs a week. 

 These are not half the demands 

 that have already been made 

 upon us to supply squabs. 



There is only one thing in 

 this matter wluch is lacking, 

 and that is competition. We 

 want it and we would like it 

 from the North. There is now 

 the best opportunity for squab 

 raisers to come here and do 

 well. 



The bugbear which has held 

 back so many squab raisers as 

 well as poultrymen from com- 

 ing to Florida is mites and 

 lice. This fear is shown by 

 people who are prone to lazi- 

 ness for there are no more mites 

 and lice here than in the North. 



Another condition which is becoming more 

 and more dominant every year in this State, 

 which any squab raiser by a little push can use 

 to his advantage, is this: The people of inland 

 Florida are making the coast towns their sum- 

 mer resorts. The influx of Northern tourists 

 during the winter compels a great majority of 

 the Floridans to stay home and attend to 

 business and their recreation must wait over 

 until summer, and as it is much cooler here 

 than in the North, naturally they come to the 

 coast. They are epicures to a large degree, 

 and you will notice that they are always after 

 a nice fish or an excellent turned chicken, but 

 this summer they are to a good extent to be 

 treated on this section of the coast to the 

 luscious squab. 



I am a subscriber of the Squab Magazine and 

 think it a very up-to-date squab periodical. 

 I have one thousand birds and anything new 

 I like to try in the line of good cheap feed, I 

 have been very successful in the business by 

 following your Manual, which I would not be 

 without. — W^ter A. Hagedom, Ohio. 



HOW THEY BUILD SQUABHOlSlilS I\ FLORIDA. 



Only one thickness of boarding, (Mr. Brown is seen standing by 

 fly-pen in lower picture.) 



In 1909 I sent to Boston for Plymouth Rock 

 Homers from the Plymouth Rock Squab Co. 

 I have sold squabs for breeders when about 

 three months old for SI. 00 per pair. I have 

 always fed the best grain and given them plenty 

 of fresh water and have had but one or two 

 sick ones. The hotels will take all that I 

 can raise at from $2.75 to $3.00 per dozen. 

 In the fall I am going to build for one hundred 

 and fifty pairs. I have raised my flock of 

 sixteen birds in less than two years to over 

 one hundred and fifty. — ^F. S. Sadler, Okla- 

 homa. 



I have about three hundred Extra Plymouth 

 Rock Homers, and they are fine ones. The 

 weight of a fifteen-day squab which I examined 

 yesterday was three-quarters of a pound. — 

 L. O. George, Maryland. 



I purchased sis pairs of Homers from you 

 in 1903 and was pleased with them, I want 

 some good Carneaux for foundation stock, 

 good heavy birds for squabs. Am not par- 

 ticular as to feathers. — E. W. Lewis, Colorado. 



