pomt of vtew the Garneaux stands prominently at the head- for 

 producing squabs of large size, and plenty of them. 



It is not uncommon for a pair of good Carneaux to raise 

 from eight to eleven pairs of squabs in a year, and in size weigh- 

 ing from lO to 14 pounds to the dozen dressed. What more can 

 anybody want in squab breeding birds. I have birds which are 

 domg this for me at present. You can get your crosses, such 

 as Runt Homer or Runt Maltese, etc., but I would like somebody 

 to show me a bunch of good size coming up to the Carnejlux 

 as to number of squabs produced each year. Not all Carneaux 

 are doing this, but if you get the right kind of stock you will 

 have no trouble to make the average quoted. 



I- know of a certain breeder who has tried Carneaux and calls 

 them a rank failure. Why? Because he got stung in buying 

 his stock, having paid a \^t.j Ipw price for them. Now he is 

 condemning Carneaux. H,e ^ptijifht Carneaux for $1 a pair. He 

 has what I call "cullg/' Spjpebpdy had tried them before he got 

 tljem and found them v(a:j,tiij§, Ijherefore he disposed of them for 

 Svhatever he could' get. \ k^poy^ 9f birds going the rounds from 

 breeder to dealer, from dj^a^i^Jf- 1,9, ^>^jeder indefinitely. It is very 

 unfortunate that we. ha,ye sp, iJ^Vj^lji pf this business going on in 

 pigeons. This is diope in a^jl] 1^^^ of; pig^pns, more so in Homers 

 and their crosses tha,n, any otl?,eif birds op account of their being 

 more plentiful than Carneaux. 



I had an experi|en,c^ several, years ago in Carneaux which 

 would almost have disgusted anybody just starting in with Car- 

 neaux. I bought several pairs of solid red Carneaux from a 

 breeder in New Jersey, who was advertising extensively and 

 bpa^ted' to be a responsible party. I received the birds ; they 

 succeeded - in r-aisi.ng one. pair o£ squabs, a piece for me, then 

 would not do anything for a long time, then started again layipg 

 eggs and, hatching young ones. But these always died in. firom 

 orie, to two weeks. I wrote to the par-ty stating they could not 

 accomplish, anything. He replied that since. I did, not return, 

 birds right away he cpuJd do nothing, for. me ; I wouJd» ha.ve. to 

 run chances with th^m as well as he. 



Now these birds were guaranteed to give satisfaction as I 

 had paid a good stiff price for them, so you can see we have 

 cheats in the pigeon business as well as any other business. I, 

 however, was not to be thrown down so easily. I gave these 

 birds to a man who makes his living as a squab breeder, to see 



