. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G. I ^> %' 9. kk \jtmWi FiiiST-f'LASs HOMi:i;w jx Tm;iii kax.^as home. SIXTY CENTS A PAIR, by Charles S. Eby. I ha\'e a standing order tor all the Plymouth Rock Extra Homer ;s I can raise from a large firm in Detroit (Michii^an), and they pay me sixty cents a pair, just as they are off the nest. They told me they were the largest squabs they had ever seen. They weigh from one pound to nineteen ounces apiece. I think I ha\'e the largest or rather the heaviest Homer squabs in the country. Don't you think so? The smallest squa
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G. I ^> %' 9. kk \jtmWi FiiiST-f'LASs HOMi:i;w jx Tm;iii kax.^as home. SIXTY CENTS A PAIR, by Charles S. Eby. I ha\'e a standing order tor all the Plymouth Rock Extra Homer ;s I can raise from a large firm in Detroit (Michii^an), and they pay me sixty cents a pair, just as they are off the nest. They told me they were the largest squabs they had ever seen. They weigh from one pound to nineteen ounces apiece. I think I ha\'e the largest or rather the heaviest Homer squabs in the country. Don't you think so? The smallest squab I ever weighed at four weeks of age weighed fifteen ounces. I have lost but three old birds since I started, and that was with sour crop, caused by poor f.'uJ. Question: I am going to start squab raising in a carriage house which is now overrun with rats and mice. How should I arrange the place to keep them out? ^Di^ic'f/'; I advise you to lay one-half inch mesh wire netting on the whole floor, also the walls and ceiling, so as to make it physically impossible for rats or mice to get into the squab room from the outside. If you have a double floor you can lay the wire netting between the floors. You must be careful to screen the ventilators, and in the management of the window, especially when closing for the night. Question: Here in Illinois we ha\'c cow peas in plenty. Are they good feed for squabs, and are they as good as Canada peas? I can buy them for from $ to per bushel, accord- ing to the season. Ansi-fey'. Cow peas are not favored so much as Canada peas and are gen- erally more expensive. They are all right to fed to fiigcons. Question: I am a woman and dislike to kill and pluck the squabs. Would you recom- mend my shipping the young squabs alive from Mississippi to the northern markets? Answer: No. If you don't like to kill them, why don't you raise up your pigeons for breed- ers and sell them alive in pairs, as su many are now doing? WHAT AN EASTERNER SEE
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