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slow to lay, but at last I got two eggs from the 

 nest. These were placed under another pair. 

 For four or five months thereafter, I never got 

 an egg from them, and at last becoming 

 suspicious of their family relations I forcibly 

 separated them, placing each in a separate 

 coop 9f youngsters. They are both now breed- 

 ing with new mates, "■67<( the new mates are both 

 hens. Oh, yes, the eggs I got from the first 

 nest were laid by another hen. 



Item number four. I have had a few cases 

 of canker among my young. I have tried 

 kerosene oil, carbolic acid, aconite, and most 

 everything else they have told me, but the 

 only remedy worth while, according to my 

 experience, is a mixture of mineral red and 

 sulphur, in the proportions of three to one, in 

 the order named. I pry open the mouth, pour 

 in a quantity of the dry mixture of the size of 

 a bean. This tends to dry up the cankerous 

 growth, and enables the parent birds to fill 

 the squab with ^ain. I have saved several 

 that were badly afflicted. This preparation 

 placed occasionally in' the bottom of feed 

 troughs is a good preventative of the disease. 

 ^ Item number five. The best nesting mate- 

 rial I have ever used I get from a nearby broom 

 factory. I do not take the large canes or 

 heads, but only the trimmings from the finished 

 biccni. These are of a proper size and length. 

 They cw* *"« nothing, and are as good or 

 better than toDacco stems. In warm weather, 

 I would mix this with tobacco stems to avoid 

 insects. I have never seen a parasite in my 

 loft. 



SQUAB AND CHICKEN BREEDING COM- 

 PASED, by Ray C. Brown. Regarding the 

 squab business vs. the poultry business, I will 

 give you as clear a comparison as possible, 

 based on facts, obtained from my own experi- 

 ence, of which I have had much, in nearly all 

 branches. This experience compels me to 

 state that with a much smaller capital, much 

 less room, less labor and experience the squab 

 business can be put on to a profit-paying basis 

 much sooner and with larger returns from the 

 amount invested. 



My recommendation to a person who is to 

 depend on the business for an honest Hving, 

 one of course who is inexperienced in either the 

 squab or poultry business, but willing to put 

 fortii an honest eflEort, one who will lay his 

 foundation with quality rather than quantity, 

 and take the advice from some of the pioneers 

 in the business, is' to invest in squabs, not' dis- 

 puting the fact that there is money in the 

 poultry business. There surely is, but believe 

 me, it is in the fancy lines, and those who 

 derive the jwofit are the experts, ninety per 

 cent of whom are judges, or capable of judging. 

 Most of them are naturally bom judges, the 

 remaining ten per cent making good through 

 long experience. Thousands who start are 

 compell^ to quit owing to the lack of that 

 necessary experience. Many of them have 

 started later and made a success of squabs, 

 which is sufficient proof that here, are quicker 

 returns, with less labor. 



To back up some of the above statements, 

 allow me to mention some important points 

 necessary to make the poultry business a 

 success, including the various branches com- 

 bined, where the greatest possible profit can be 

 derived. 



You must be capable of producing the high- 

 scoring and prize-winning specimens. You 

 must study the Standard of Perfection, learn 

 the requirements, know how to mate for re- 

 sults, how to breed, line-breed, hatch, rear and 

 condition your specimens. 



Then to prove to the public you have the 

 quality, you must show your birds and be able 

 to win the blue ribbons, which you will find no 

 cinch, as you are in the keenest competition 

 and up against some of the old timers, who have 

 been there before. That you should win out, 

 you must advertise. You most likely will get 

 inquiries from promising customers. Now 

 comes the point. You must know how to 

 write a pulhng letter, one that pulls just a 

 little harder than the other fellow, who un- 

 doubtedly is offering something just as good, 

 perhaps at a less price. 



People who keep from twelve to fifteen hens, 

 which can almost be fed from the leavings from 

 the kitchen, derive the benefit of a few fresh 

 eggs and form a wrong opinion of the business, 

 as this number of hens far from pays anything 

 but a small profit. When the person puts in 

 the large number of birds, the table leavings 

 fall short and at the price of grain needed to 

 produce results, your birds soon eat their heads 

 off, if selling your eggs and broilers at market 

 prices. 



At Etwinoma Farms we of course sell many 

 eggs, broilers, roasters, fowls, etc., at market 

 prices, but they are the culls picked from our 

 large flocks, not worthy as fancy specimens. 



Were we unable to produce a certain per cent 

 of high-scoring birds and obliged to depend on 

 our entire output at market value, you would 

 soon read something like this : the entire poul- 

 try department at the EJtwinoma Farms has 

 been turned into another squab plant. 



The person who can write the check and 

 employ an expert can in most cases make a 

 success of the poultry business, depending on 

 facts, but the willing person with little capital 

 and no experience had better invest in squabs, 

 for which there is a constant demand with 

 much less competition. 



The person with a little land can derive a 

 much larger return from the squab business 

 thanfrom poultry as the difference in the room 

 required is much in favor of the squab busi- 

 ness. The squab building, while much the 

 same as that of the modem poultry house, can 

 be built at a much less figure, as the poultry 

 houses must be tight and warm, while pigeons 

 will breed and rear their young through the 

 coldest months in winter in buildings where 

 most breeds of poultry would freeze stm. 



A building required to accommodate one 

 hundred and thirty to two hundred head of 

 poultry, depending on varieties, will accom- 

 modate four hundred and fifty mated pairs 

 of squab breeders, while the amount of room 



