230 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
“‘ The Carneaux boom has struck this country for fair.” 
“* The Carneaux exceed all others in point of squab producing, not only in 
numbers and weight, but also in the clarity of the skin, the palatableness of 
the flesh, and prolific nature.” 
‘“‘ The consensus of opinion seems to be that the Carneaux will produce 16 
pairs, or 20 pounds of squabs per pair to the year, while some place the 
average higher. Few place it lower.” 
‘“‘ All I have read has been substantiated by my own personal experience. 
Their yearly yield is from 10 to 11 pairs of squabs.”’ 
‘“ My experience with Carneaux is limited to two years. They are great. 
The Carneaux will occupy the place of honor in loft and showroom. Ten 
pairs of squabs is the yield per year.” 
‘“‘T have bred them two years. Carneaux are as superior to the Homer as 
the Homer is to the common pigeon. It is the rule rather than the exception 
for the Carneaux to produce nine pairs of white-meated squabs a year which 
will average one pound each. My experience proves conclusively that they 
will produce twice as many pounds of squabs in a year as the ordinary birds 
now generally used as squab breeders, and one of the most conspicuous points 
in their favor is the fact that the cost of keeping them is no more,” 
A few advertisers of pigeons who live inland, not in a seaport city, 
may ‘‘run down’ imported pigeons, saying they are no good, culls, not 
acclimated, poor breeders, and so forth, ad nauseam. The reason why these 
soreheads fret so is, that it is impossible for them to import pigeons success- 
fully. To do this successfully, steadily, profitably, one must live on the sea- 
board, close to where the Antwerp steamers come. and must have a personal 
acquaintance with the officers of the steamships, and see them at every sail- 
ing, and pay them for their work in caring for the birds. The reason why 
those who decry imported pigeons do not sell them is simply that they cannot 
get them, or, if they think they can get them, they wish to sell something in 
which there is a greater profit. We have seen not much talk of this kind, in 
opposition to imported pigeons, but it will be indulged in more or less as the 
traffic in Carmeaux increases. The trade calling for Carneaux in America 
must be supplied with imported birds or go without them, for nobody can 
ship day by day, steadily, Carneaux of his own raising. You should be sure 
and get Carneaux which have been in this country at least one or two months, 
and have got their sea-legs off, for it is our experience that the long voyage 
results in a goodly percentage of dead and injured birds, depending on the 
weather and the caretakers. 
That imported Carneaux go to work quickly is indicated by the letter of 
the Philadelphia gentleman above quoted, nine pairs out of 21 pairs having 
built nests within two days after delivery to him. 
Our trade in Carneaux is increasing every month and we expect to sell 
many thousand pairs in 1908 and 1909. We recommend them to our cus- 
tomers. We do not wish anybody to take our word for their excellence. 
Try them alongside of your Homers and form your own opinion, Anybody 
who buys Carneaux of us and is not perfectly satisfied with them, and that all 
we say here is true, after six months’ trial, may exchange them for our Extra 
eee Rock Homers at the rate of three pairs of Homers for one pair of 
arneaux. 
