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APPENDIX G 



A PEN OF FIRST-CLASS HOMERS. 



SQUAB COST AND PROFIT, by H. C. 



Frankforter. For the last few years I and a 

 friend of mine have been raising squabs and 

 find that there is profit as well as pleasure de- 

 rived from them. We buy feed from a Balti- 

 more firm which costs us till we get the freight 

 paid $2.25 a hundredweight. We have tried it 

 on a separate pair of Homers and find that they 

 ate nine cents worth of the feed from the day 

 the young were hatched until they were salable, 

 so we made it fifteen cents for labor, feed and 

 health grit. We receive from $3 to $3.25 a 

 dozen for our squabs, so you can see that the 

 profit would be from thirty to forty cents on 

 one pair of squabs. 



" Market reports " are generally furnished to 

 the newspapers by the produce exchanges and 

 in every case are not a record of true transac- 

 tions, as are the stock exchange reports, but 

 are the lowest prices which the members of 

 these exchanges hope to pay for chickens , 

 squabs, fruit, potatoes, etc. If you live in a 

 city where such inspired quotations for eatables 

 are being printed, write to the editor and tell 

 him that as a subscriber to his paper you object 

 to such information as being misleading and 

 untruthful, and published in the interest of the 

 marketmen, with no thought of the producer. 

 This will help to bring about a much needed 

 reform. Hot every newspaper will stand for 

 such " market reports " nonsense. The best 

 send out a man or woman reporter to shop and 

 write what they find. Prices of eatables ob- 

 tained in any other way are inaccurate and 

 false. If there are any squab or chicken breed- 

 ers who are fooled into selling at such low prices 

 simply because they have seen those quotations 

 " in print," they ought to have a guardian. 

 Get your retail prices by actual shopping and 

 then make a fair deduction to get at the whole- 

 sale prices. 



DURABLE WHITEWASH. A whitewash 



adopted by the United States Government and 

 used for coating Hght-houses and keepers' 

 dwelUngs, is composed as follows: To ten 

 parts of freshly slaked lime add one part of 

 best hydraulic cement. Mix well with salt 

 water. This whitewash when properly mixed 

 and applied, produces a clear white that does 

 not easily rub or wash off. 



I sell all my squabs to private families and 

 sell all I raise. In winter time the prices run 

 from S4.50 to $5.50, in summer $3.50 to $4.50. 

 Every Tuesday morning I 'phone to every 

 customer one after another until I have my 

 forty-seven customers called, and then I have a 

 boy hired to deliver the squabs. I have a one- 

 horse wagon, painted orange color, trimmed 

 black, and have a very showy horse, which 

 makes a good appearance. It looks very tidy. 

 I feed a mixed ration which I buy for $28 a 

 ton. I sold over 5700 squabs last year, took 

 in $1575, cleared about $1000. Not so bad for 

 the boy and me. — J. M. SheUenberger, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



I inquired the retail price of dressed squabs 

 of Robert Barron, a Yonge Street fish and game 

 dealer of Toronto. He informed me that the 

 price was fiity cents each, or $6 a dozen. Mr. 

 Shelts sells his squabs to the dealer whom I 

 mention at $4 a dozen. There is a large de- 

 mand for squabs in Toronto, as it is a city of 

 400,000 people.— Charles Watson, Ontario. 



During the past fourteen years I have had 

 considerable experience, always as a side line, 

 in selling eatables to family trade, and the only 

 way I ever succeeded in obtaining a customer 

 was to go right .after them. The personal 

 face-to-face interview captures the trade. — 

 Raymond W. Dotts, Pennsylvania. 



