. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 335 RAISING SQUABS BY HAND, by E. Guenther, My sc^uabhouse recently fin- ished IS I fourteen by twenty feet and cost $150. I put tin pans on top of the posts under the sills to keep rats and mice from working up. On October 2, I took out thirteen squabs (Homers) which weighed four- teen pounds. During the sum- mer I lost a pair of Homers which had hatched out a pair of young Cameaux. The young birds were thirteen days old when the old ones flew away. They were yellow Cameaux and I was very anxious to raise them, so I got my boy Harol
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 335 RAISING SQUABS BY HAND, by E. Guenther, My sc^uabhouse recently fin- ished IS I fourteen by twenty feet and cost $150. I put tin pans on top of the posts under the sills to keep rats and mice from working up. On October 2, I took out thirteen squabs (Homers) which weighed four- teen pounds. During the sum- mer I lost a pair of Homers which had hatched out a pair of young Cameaux. The young birds were thirteen days old when the old ones flew away. They were yellow Cameaux and I was very anxious to raise them, so I got my boy Harold to look after them. One of the pictures shows Harold feeding one of them by mouth, which was the way they were first nourished. When they were older they were fed with a spoon. They are now in the rearing coop and doing well. The other picture shows Harold and my girl Blanche feeding a young Cameau with a spoon. SIX DOLLARS A DOZEN, by George N. Childs. I am having good luck with my Homers. I have quite a few calls for squabs. I can get six dollars a dozen for them. I follow Rice's Manual to the letter and find it to be just the right thing. I would not take $25 for it if I could not get another copy. I sell my squabs to private families. They made the price themselves and are willing to pay six dollars a dozen. This Pennsylvania town is very rich and I can sell all the squabs I can turn out. I cannot say enough or too much for the squab business or niy birds. There was a man here this morning from a New York town and he said he had been to see a squab plant there which had seven hundred birds, but had not any to come up to mine. I am going to have a picture taken of my place and will send you one. FLYING PEN ON EAST SIDE OF BUILD- ING, by M. C. Martin. For warm climates, I think the flying pen should face the east instead of the south. In the summer when it is so intensely hot, if the pen faces the south, the sun shines on the flying pen all day long, and except in the early
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