. American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs. Pigeons. 72 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE better and superior to others goes without saying, but even an inferior breed, in my opinion, is better than newly-created crosses. With the former, one at least knows the kind he has, while with the latter it is a continuous grope in the dark. Why experiment with crossing breeds? I have asked many people this question and this is the general run of answers: "We wanted to see what a Garneau-Homer or a Cameau-White King or a Ca
. American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs. Pigeons. 72 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE better and superior to others goes without saying, but even an inferior breed, in my opinion, is better than newly-created crosses. With the former, one at least knows the kind he has, while with the latter it is a continuous grope in the dark. Why experiment with crossing breeds? I have asked many people this question and this is the general run of answers: "We wanted to see what a Garneau-Homer or a Cameau-White King or a Carneau some other breed would ; In many cases they had the result of the cross there to show me, and invariably they were much disappointed with the hy-. SQUAB BREEDING CROSSES brids produced. Another common answer to my question is: "We wanted to improve the size of our stock of this or that breed so we are crossing the Runt with ; Other people had, so they said, a few birds that the color was not just what they wanted so threw them into a pen of mixed breeds; and this is their reason for crossing. Others were trying to raise a dozen or more breeds without sufficient room to raise one, and were allowing these different breeds to cross and re-cross as they pleased. A hybrid generally carries the color of one parent, the shape and type of the other and the poor qualities of both. To. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eggleston, Ernest H. Warrenton, Mo. , American Pigeon Journal Co
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