American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs . How, then, can an inexpe-rienced person, with a vague knowledge of what he wants toaccomplish, with a few birds and no equipment, expect to con-vert himself, like magic, into a Darwin or a Pigeon Burbank? This not only applies to beginners, but often to people whohave been plodding along for years in the pigeon business witha few birds of first this and that variety. That some breeds are 72 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE better and superior to others goes without saying, but
American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs . How, then, can an inexpe-rienced person, with a vague knowledge of what he wants toaccomplish, with a few birds and no equipment, expect to con-vert himself, like magic, into a Darwin or a Pigeon Burbank? This not only applies to beginners, but often to people whohave been plodding along for years in the pigeon business witha few birds of first this and that variety. That some breeds are 72 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE better and superior to others goes without saying, but even aninferior breed, in my opinion, is better than newly-createdcrosses. 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 manypeople this question and this is the general run of answers:We wanted to see what a Carneau-Homcr or a Carneau-WhiteKing or a Carneau some other breed would produce. In many cases they had the result of the cross there to showme, 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 breedso we are crossing the Runt with them. Other people had,so they said, a few birds that the color was not just what theywanted so threw them into a pen of mixed breeds; and this istheir reason for crossing. Others were trying to raise a dozenor more breeds without sufficient room to raise one, and wereallowing these different breeds to cross and re-cross as theypleased. A hybrid generally carries the color of one parent, the shapeand tyi)e of the other and the poor qutilities of both. To OTHER BREEDS OF UTILITY PIGEONS 73 illustrate: The color of a Carneau is very strong and predomi-nates in its offspring when crossed with hirds of almost any othercolor or breed. For instance, a red Carneau and white bird ofanother bree
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