APPENDIX G 



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HOW TO BLEED SQTTABS 

 NEATLY, QUICKLY, by W. E, 

 Blakslee. When killing squabs, 

 this device will be found useful. 

 It is a rack of funnels made of 

 tin, open at top and bottom. 

 Hold the squab in the left hand, 

 stick it with the kilUng knife 

 and put it in one of the funnels, 

 head hanging down through the 

 lower hole. The object is to 

 drain out the blood. This does 

 away with the necessity of hang- 

 ing the feet from a string, and 

 prevents spattering of blood. 

 The live squab may be put In 

 the funnel head down and out 

 and then stuck, if preferred. 

 This is the method used in 

 Europe by the quail market- 

 men. These quail are caught 

 in Egypt in nets and trans- 

 ported alive to London, where 

 they are fattened for a few days 

 and then killed. All of the 

 marketmen have the same 

 method of using this rack of 

 funnels, their racks being from 

 eight to ten feet long. London 

 consumes these quail by the 

 hundreds of thousands. The 

 traffic is an old one and this 

 funnel method of bleeding is 

 thoroughly practical, needed by 

 fast workmen. 



HOW CLEVELAND SQUAB 

 PRICES WENT tTP, by Mrs. 

 Carl Moeller. From December 

 31, 1909, to December 31, 1910, 

 our thirty pairs of breeders aver- 

 aged eight pairs of squabs. No 

 pair went below fourteen squabs 

 and one or two pairs had the 

 first pair of eggs December 31, 

 1909, and the tenth pair of eggs 

 December 31, 1910. As these 

 were Homers, it seems very 

 good to us. This average is of 

 squabs sold or raised to matmity. Others do 

 not count. One year ago this month, nine- 

 poimd squabs, alive or dressed, were bring- 

 ing at the most two dollars a dozen. Whole- 

 salers in Cleveland were actually insulted if 

 you asked them to buy by weight. They sim- 

 ply refused to talk business if you mentioned 

 price and weight together. Five-and-six-pound- 

 per-dozen squabs brought just as good a price 

 as the larger ones. In March, 1910, prices be- 

 gan to go up. We found a dealer who knew a 

 good squab from a cull and would pay by 

 weight. We sell all our squabs to this one 

 dealer and receive a steady price the year 

 around. At wholesale nine and ten-pound 

 squabs are now bringing $3.00 and $3.50 a 

 dozen dressed. They may go to $4.50. Cleve- 

 land is fast creating an appetite for squabs and 

 all we need to make things boom is a union of 

 all squab breeders in and around Cleveland, 



FUNNELS TO BLEED SQUABS. 



How to cut the tin, make seam and bend. One wire nail fastens 

 each funnel to board. 



and then some good live advertising that 

 greater Cleveland may know what squabs 

 are, where to get them and how to eat 

 them. 



About two years ago I purchased three pairs 

 of your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers and 

 two pairs alone have increased to about fifty- 

 five by now (the other pair having flown away 

 when I released them about three months after 

 I received them). I am very enthusiastic 

 about the raising of squabs and in order to 

 have even pairs and also to introduce new 

 blood, I wish to purchase about ten females. 

 My males have increased more than the 

 females so that I need about this many to even 

 up. I desire the Extras. At piesent I am 

 enlarging my unit house and in the near future 

 expect to increase my fiock to at least five 

 hundred pairs. — W. M. James, Ohio. 



