. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 386 APPENDIX G. TWO KINDS OF SQUABS. The top picture showa Homer squabs ten days old: the bottom a pair of Carneaux squabs almost four weeks old. (The camera was closer to the Homers than to the Carneaux, so they look larger proportionately.) I received the Plymouth Rock Carneaux ten days ago and the other goods a few days before the arrival of the birds. Everything came to me in good shape and is satisfactory in every way. I am not much given to making testi- monials, but I want to say that the birds you sent me are fine, indeed much better than I
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 386 APPENDIX G. TWO KINDS OF SQUABS. The top picture showa Homer squabs ten days old: the bottom a pair of Carneaux squabs almost four weeks old. (The camera was closer to the Homers than to the Carneaux, so they look larger proportionately.) I received the Plymouth Rock Carneaux ten days ago and the other goods a few days before the arrival of the birds. Everything came to me in good shape and is satisfactory in every way. I am not much given to making testi- monials, but I want to say that the birds you sent me are fine, indeed much better than I ex- pected, or bargained for. You advised me that you had now no solid yellow birds, so I was much surprised to find one fine yellow cock and three other birds so nearly soUd yellow that the white can be seen only by close examination. I made two entries in the pigeon show I told you about, and won first in class of five. Some of the pairs have already gone to work and have eggs, although they are in the moult,âC. R. peardorff; Indi^ft. Since quail can no longer be served at California hotels and cafes, fine, fat squabs are filling the place at first-class tables. A large squab plant about sixty milesfrom San Fran- cisco has a contract for all its squabs (large varieties), killed and feathers off, at $ per dozen. Another gets S5 alive the year around. When we con- sider that these birds are but four or five weeks old, and re- quire little or no care except that the parent birds are well fed and watered, it certainly looks well for this growing busi- ness. It pays, like any busi- ness, to raise the best. When people ship little, half-fed, half- feathered, black-meated squabs, bred from small stock, there is small profit, and no satisfaction to seller, dealer or consumer. The San Francisco papers have all summer quoted squabs at $2 to $ per dozen, but hun- dreds of slnppers have been getting from $3 to $5 right through, according to size and quality. They pay. better tha
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