. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 392 APPENDIX G. A PEN OF FIRST-CLASS HOMERS. SQUAB COST AND PROFIT, by H. C. Frankforter. For the last few years I and a friend of mine have been raising squabs and find that there is profit as well as pleasure de- rived from them. We buy feed from a Balti- more firm which costs us till we get the freight paid $ a hundredweight. We have tried it on a separate pair of Homers and find that they ate nine cents worth of the feed from the day the young were hatched until they were salable, so we made it fifteen cents for labor, feed and health grit.
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 392 APPENDIX G. A PEN OF FIRST-CLASS HOMERS. SQUAB COST AND PROFIT, by H. C. Frankforter. For the last few years I and a friend of mine have been raising squabs and find that there is profit as well as pleasure de- rived from them. We buy feed from a Balti- more firm which costs us till we get the freight paid $ a hundredweight. We have tried it on a separate pair of Homers and find that they ate nine cents worth of the feed from the day the young were hatched until they were salable, so we made it fifteen cents for labor, feed and health grit. We receive from $3 to $ a dozen for our squabs, so you can see that the profit would be from thirty to forty cents on one pair of squabs. " Market reports " are generally furnished to the newspapers by the produce exchanges and in every case are not a record of true transac- tions, as are the stock exchange reports, but are the lowest prices which the members of these exchanges hope to pay for chickens, squabs, fruit, potatoes, etc. If you live in a city where such inspired quotations for eatables are being printed, write to the editor and tell him that as a subscriber to his paper you object to such information as being misleading and untruthful, and published in the interest of the marketmen, with no thought of the producer. This will help to bring about a much needed reform. Hot every newspaper will stand for such " market reports " nonsense. The best send out a man or woman reporter to shop and write what they find. Prices of eatables ob- tained in any other way are inaccurate and false. If there are any squab or chicken breed- ers who are fooled into selling at such low prices simply because they have seen those quotations " in print," they ought to have a guardian. Get your retail prices by actual shopping and then make a fair deduction to get at the whole- sale prices. DURABLE WHITEWASH. A whitewash adopted by the United States Governmen
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