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- -SQUAB BUILDING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
Thislooks like a; view in tropical Florida but it is not; quite the opposite It, is the plant of one of our customers 
in Northwest ‘Canada, British Columbia, being on the edge of a clearing the foreground showing underbrush. 
There is an excellent amarket-for squabs in British Columbia, same as everywhere else. 
CANADIAN MARKET GROWING. NO HOMERS IN THIS ONTARIO TOWN TO COMPARE 
WITH HIS. -SQUABS WORTH $3.50 A DOZEN. The first part of October, 1907, I ordered 
one dozen -pair-of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers and was surprised at the promptness of your 
shipment. But.I had everything ready and liberated the birds in their new home. As it was 
their moulting season when I received them, they did not lay for nearly four weeks, but. when 
they did begin-they, worked like Trojans. One pair has laid 12 eggs in the six months I have 
had them, and I had a pair of squabs that weighed over two pounds, 28 days old. The market 
quotations give such and such a price for squabs weighing 10 pounds. to the dozen, but do not. 
quote 11 and 12-pound squabs. I am confident that with care in selecting breeders from your 
stock, one could get squabs up to 10-pound mark every time. There are no birds in town to 
compare with mine. Everybody that sees them comments on their trim, business-like appearance. 
I have gained a little expats now, and intend building pizeon houses to accommodate 
about 400 breeding pairs. If things continue as they are now, I may go into the business for a 
living. Your Manual has helped me.a great deal. Before I read it I knew practically nothing 
about pigeons, but now I pride myself as being a fairly. good amateur. I am offered $3.50 per 
dozen for killed squabs, but am keeping mine for breeding purposes. Our Canadian market is 
not so good as the American market, but Canadians are fast learning what good eating squabs 
are, and in a few years the market will be much better I have had some experience with hens, 
and know how hard it is to raise a flock successfully, but hens are not to be compared with your 
pigeons for money-making and simplicity of raising. . 2 . 
I have had no sickness in my flock and haven't seen a sizn.of lice. I spray the pen with 
diluted carbolic acid and clean it out-every two weeks. I think no one would have lice in his 
flock if he kept his pens clean. I do not use the self-feeder at present, but will when my flock 
increases. I think it is a first-cliss affair. Your-Manual includes and explains everything from 
the gravel on the ground of the flying pen to the roof on the pigeon loft. I can honestly recom- 
ae gr ay to any one going into the squab industry and wish you every success.——-G. L., 
ntario, Canada, : 
- SHOWING A PROFIT. Pigeons are doing A GOOD WORD. I will always speak a 
well. They are more than paying for them- ood word for your kind treatment and your 
selves.—E, W., Missouri ne birds.—J. M. H., South Carolina. 
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