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as there isfor Carneaux. Six dollars a pair may be obtained by anybody who 
has the breeders for sale. Youngsters weaned and able to stand shipment 
sell for three dollars a pair. ‘lhe squabs sell alive for ten dollars to twelve 
dollars a dozen. It costs no more to feed and raise these birds than other 
pigeons. The selling price both for squabs and breeders being so much 
larger, that is why the profit is larger. On account of the tremendous demand 
for these birds for breeders, nobody is selling the squabs from them killed, but 
if they ever get so numerous that squabs are marketed from them, the price 
will be the very top notch. 
This breed has been developed by the pigeon breeders of Belgium. There 
are some Carneaux in France and Germany, but they are inferior in size and 
beauty to the Belgian birds, and few in number. 
They are not very plentiful in Belgium. We have made arrangements for 
the output of all the adult, perfect pairs of Carneaux the breeders of Belgium 
can furnish, fit for breeding, but so far they have not been able to furnish us 
more than 200 pairs a month, so scarce are the birds. We hope to get more 
from them. We have saved out 500 pairs Carneaux and are breeding them at 
our farm. We can supply Carneaux imported by us, or (in limited number) 
bred by us from birds of our importation. 
Why is the demand for Carneaux so much greater than the supply? Just 
this: They eat no more than Homers, but breed faster, and breed higger 
squabs. 
In other words, they not only produce more squabs than the Homers, but 
the squabs bring at least one-third more money. The breeder making a 
profit from Homers will make more than double his profits with Carneaux. 
For years, the study has been to produce a pigeon larger than the Homer 
which would breed faster than the Homer. This has been accomplished in the 
Carneaux. We know it by our own investigation and actual breeding of this 
variety, and we know it by the experiences of our customers. 
The big breeds, all of which we have tried, such as Runts, Maltese, Italians 
(personally selected in Italy), breed big squabs, but they breed with exasperat- 
ing slowness. Crossed with Homers, the rate of breeding is improved, but 
the squabs are no larger than from our Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, so it is 
far-better to breed the straight Extra Homers. 
The Carneaux breed squabs weighing a pound or more apiece and they 
breed nine pairs to ten pairs of squabs a year. For these two reasons, we 
believe that the Carneaux will displace the Homers in time. It will take 
many years because the Homers have a strong hold now and the Carneaux are 
scarce. Nevertheless, the cash returns from squabs weighing 12 pounds and 
14 pounds to the dozen give a great profit to the breeder, and profits are what 
all squab breeders are after. 
Any one who has both Homers and Carneaux can get in a year from each 
air of Carneaux 15 or more pairs of squabs. Theoretically this is impossible 
or any pigeons. However, the Carneaux have help from the Homers., Just 
how this done is fully explained by us at the end of this article in the He 
graph headed, “ How to Breed Fifteen Pairs of Squabs from One Pair of Car- 
neaux in One Year.” 
One of our customers, a Southern gentleman visited our farm in the fall of 
1906. He liked the looks of the Carneaux and on returning home later sent 
for three pairs, which we shipped him December 26, 1906. On February 13, 
1907, he wrote us asking how many pairs we could give him. He took all we 
could then supply at $6.00 a pair, giving the following endorsement of his first 
