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I wentto a market in Lynn and found they 

 wanted six dollars a dozen for squabs, and they 

 were not of extra quality either. They were 

 No. 1 and had feathers on. Squabs in this 

 locality are scarce and the prices are high. 

 The market I refer to is the J. B. Blood Co. , one 

 of the largest markets in New England. The 

 two squabs which I bought cost me fifty 

 cents apiece with feathers on. I enjoyed them 

 after they were cooked. Yours for squab news 

 which will be honest and reliable. — W. D. 

 Hayden, Massachusetts. 



BONES FOR NESTS, by Lawrence Walter. 



, I have one pair of pigeons which insist upon 

 building their nests of bones that accumulate 

 in the chicken yard. They will do this even if 

 I have a bushel basket of tobacco stems where 

 they can get at them. I also have another 

 pair that lay four eggs every time, and usually 

 three of them hatch. 



We look forward to the coming of the Squab 

 Magazine with g^eat eagerness. I get $4 per 

 dozen for seven "and eight-i)ound squabs and 

 $4.50 for nine-pound squabs in Chicago. — Mrs. 

 N. £. Wilson, Indiana. 



NEEDS WAKING UP^ by William Smith. I 



am the only squab raiser m my city in Michigan, 

 and can sell all I can raise for seventy-five 

 cents a pair, plucked. I have forty pairs of 

 Homers and all are doing splendidly. Homers 

 are the best of all my squabs. They weigh 

 nine and ten pounds to the dozen. I feed 

 scratch feed, stale bread and whole com. I 

 turn down orders every day as high as three 

 dozen at a time. 



SHAVINGS FOR FLOOR, by Harry M. 

 Samson. Speaking of flooring material, the 

 writer has tried pretty much everything within 

 his reach, good, bad and worse. For the past 

 few years I have used sand from the Hudson 

 River, making what I considered an ideal cover- 

 ing for two reasons : first , its cost was practically 

 nothing; second, it absorbed the droppings. 

 What more could one wish for? Recently I 

 stumbled across shavings, a product to be had 

 at any sawmill at little or no cost. Believe 

 me, I was converted in haste, and I will tell you 

 why. First of all, they give the loft a clean, 

 immaculate appearance, such a thing as the 

 odor of ammonia being an unknown quantity 

 for the simple reason that the shavings absorb 

 the moisture at once, leaving the droppings in 

 the form of dry manure, which is not obnoxious, 

 and is readily swei>t up. Shavings, however, 

 should not be used if the pure manure is being 

 saved for tanneries. 



OREGON WOMAN'S PASTIME, by Mrs. 

 W. R. Lycan. I bought three pairs of your 

 best Homers in March, 1908. Since then I 

 have raised about sixty jpairs, all mated and 

 working now, besides sellmg enough to pay all 

 expenses of feed for the whole bunch and also 

 wire for fly, and I have on the right side of 

 ledger close to twenty-five dollars. I pay here 



(Oregon) $2.50 per hundred for mixed pigeon 

 feed, about the same for kaffir com, $1.95 for 

 whole com, about $1.60 for gjood wheat. Get 

 thirty cents each for squabs, killed and plucked, 



I am getting $6 a dozen for squabs at our 

 home grocer's and $7.20 from my private cus- 

 tomers and can sell all I have. I cut the head 

 off, puU the skin over the neck and hold it 

 down, and put wings back. I have boxes 

 which hold two in oiled paper. I feel very 

 proud of my birds as I take all care of them, 

 cleaning the house once a week thoroughly. — 

 Mrs. A. Rheinstrom, Illinois. 



I have benefited much from the magazine 

 ^and am selling my own squabs to private trade 

 for fifty cents each, dressing five cents extra, 

 and ten cents for delivery, Cameaux squabs 

 one dollar each, and have all I can do. — ^Miss . 

 Marion S. Baker, Massachusetts. 



I am getting $4.25 a dozen for my squabs in 

 Cincinnati. — Orson W. Clark, Ohio. 



SALT AND DAINTIES, by E. J. Lander. 



Here is one of my own preparations in the way 

 of producing healthy squabs : Take two parts 

 of salt, one part of rice (ground) and one part of 

 wild or mustard seed. Put the two parts of 

 salt and parts of rice and wild seed together in 

 any kind of receptacle and mix well. Then 

 dampen this with water and put a pinch of red 

 pepper in the mixture. Now put in an oven 

 and bake hard. Be careful not to get it burned. 

 Take out the pans after the mixture has baked 

 hard and set in a cool, dry place. The birds 

 eat this with great rehsh. Fellow breeders, try 

 this, for it makes the birds liveUer and brin^ 

 good sound squabs. 



I send you a clipping from a Seattle news- 

 paper offering $4.50 per dozen for squabs 

 shipped alive. — C. E. Jackson, Washington. 



Squabs are in demand in our southern cities 

 at from $5 to $4.50 a dozen. Please send me 

 one of your type dies. I want to get in the 

 game, so for anything you can do or say to help 

 me I will be very thankful, and will do as much 

 as I can to help make the National Squab Breed- 

 ers' Association the thing, — E. T. Heywood, 

 Mississippi. 



FEED IN MONTANA, by J. P. Rima. Ac- 

 cording to my observations a pigeon eats nearly 

 forty pounds of feed a year. So far I, have been 

 feeding my pigeons a ready-made mixture. 

 But this feed stands me more than four cents a 

 pound laid down here (Montana) which, of 

 course, is too much. I can buy turkey red 

 wheat here at one and one-fourth cents a pound, 

 barley at one and one-half cents a pound, 

 corn at two cents a pound, and I have a lot of 

 peas that were raised together with and mixed 

 with spring wheat. Could I not make a good 

 feeding mixture out of these? Answer. Yes, 

 certainly. The more peas you use, the better 

 off you will be in eggs and squabs. It is not 



