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APPENDIX G 



MT PLANT MAKES $100 

 MONTHLY PROFIT, by W. 



A. Bolton. The Sunny Slope 

 Squab Farm is shown in the 

 accompanying photograph. 

 The writer having been inter- 

 ested in pigeons since his 

 school days, when he kept a- 

 few for ]pets, resolved in 1908 

 to make it a business and made 

 his first mistake by sending to 

 Europe for his Cameaux and 

 Homers, several hundred of 

 them, with the result that about 

 half of the birds died en route, 

 or just after they arrived. They 

 are . splendid birds and after a 

 few months became recuperated 

 and acclimated and proceeded 

 to do their best, but if they 

 had come from good reliable 

 home breeders or eastern 

 breeders, the results would 

 doubtless have been much more 

 satisfactory. Last year the 

 plant practically paid for it- 

 self. Today there are about 1400 birds at 

 work, and taking care of some 1400 more 

 young and old that will soon be at work, 

 besides netting about $100 a month profit. 

 The demand for breeding stock has been brisk 

 since the squab pricei dropped, so that but 

 few squabs have gone U5 market. 



Our Cameaux yoimgsters bring from SIO 

 to $15 per dozen and Homers to the market 

 bring $3 in summer and $4 in, winter. Next 

 year, I expect to contract all our squabs at $5 

 a dozen the year round, not including the 

 Carneaux which are likely to go for breeders as 

 they always have done. 



i saw the books of, one poultry dealer in 

 San Francisco recently, showing where he 

 gets $7 per dozen from one of his customers 

 for large squabs. He pays $5 for the same, 

 alive. 



The majority of raisers ship alive to San 

 Francisco and Oakland, and the coops that 

 produce best results are not over six inches 

 high in the clear. This prevents the birds 

 piling upon each other. 



BOSTON 1911 SQUAB PRICES. The 



following figures for 191 1 taken from the Boston 

 Globe show the prices for squabs from January 

 to December of that year. The first price 

 quoted in each case is for the poorer grade of 

 <iquabs. The prices quoted highest in each 

 case are for squabs bred from our Extra Ply- 

 " mouth Rock Homers and Cameaux. These 

 figures show that the Boston squab market, 

 like that in other cities, is steady all the year 

 around at highly profitable prices, in no case 

 falling below $3 a dozen, this price coming in 

 the summer, when squabs may be sold at 

 simimer resorts in New England at prices 

 equal to the best winter Boston city prices: 

 "anuary 6. $5, $6.50; January 13, $5, $6: 



anuary 20, $5.50, $6; January 27, $5, $7; 



February 3, $5, $6; February 10, $5.50, $6.50; 



A CALIFORNIA HILLSIDE SLOPE SQUAB FARM. 



March 3, $5, $6; March 19, $4.50, $6; March 

 24, $5, $6; March 31, $5, $6; April 7, $5. $6: 

 April 14, $4.50, $6: April 21. $4, $6; April 28. 

 $4.50, $6; May 5, $4.50. $6; May 12,$4.50,$6; 

 May 19. $4, $6; May 26, $4, $6; June 2. $4, 

 $5.50; June 9, $3.50, $5.50; Jtme 16, $3, $6: 

 June 23, $3, $5; Jime 30, $3, $5; July 7, $3, $5; 

 July 14, $5, $6; July 21, $3, $4.50; July 28, $3, 

 $5; August 4. $4, $5; August 11, $3.50, $4.50; 

 August 18, $3^ $5.50: August 25. $3, $5: Sep- 

 tember 1, $4, $5; September 8, $4, $5.50; 

 September 15, $3.50, $4.50; September 22, 

 $3.50, $4.50; September 29, $3.50, $4.50; Octo- 

 ber 6, $3.50, $4.50; October 13, $3, $4.50 

 October 20, $4, $5.50; October 27, $4, $6; 

 November 3, $4, $6; November 10, $4.50, $6: 

 November 17. $4, $6: November 24, $4, $6; 

 December 8, $4, $6; December 15, $4, $6. 



When a beginner, like Etwinoma Farms, 

 takes 25 pairs of our Extra Homers worth $50 

 and in two years multiplies them to 800 pairs 

 worth $1600. do you realise that this is a big 

 return? You can't put $50 into any bank and 

 get $1600 back in two years. And remember, 

 that in the two years squabs enough were sold 

 to pay the entire running expenses of the 

 plant. Fifty dollars increased to $1600 in two 

 years is thirty-two hundred per cent increase. 

 This is not theoretical, but is the record of 

 something which actually has been accom- 

 plished with our Plymouth Rock Extra Hom- 

 ers. This is only one of hundreds of such 

 phenomenal returns. 



After you have read this Manual, write us a 

 letter telling us how you think it can be im- 

 proved. Is anything lacking? What do you 

 wish to know that is not covered here? We 

 intend to keep the book full and complete 

 from year to year and welcome suggestions for 

 its improvement. Tell us what your plans for 

 squab raising are and let us help you it we can. 



