. The national standard squab book. A practical manual giving complete and precise directions for the installation and management of a successful squab plant. Pigeons. National Standard Squab Book. II that territory lu June, 1902, noting tlie buildings and methods of the squab raisers tliere and finding out from them if they were satisfied with the financial returns. All were enthusiastic aud said it was easy worli, that squabs beat hens easily and were much less care. The methods of some â¢of these breeders were extremely crude, the birds nesting in old boxes of all sJzes nailed to the walls
. The national standard squab book. A practical manual giving complete and precise directions for the installation and management of a successful squab plant. Pigeons. National Standard Squab Book. II that territory lu June, 1902, noting tlie buildings and methods of the squab raisers tliere and finding out from them if they were satisfied with the financial returns. All were enthusiastic aud said it was easy worli, that squabs beat hens easily and were much less care. The methods of some â¢of these breeders were extremely crude, the birds nesting in old boxes of all sJzes nailed to the walls of the squab houses, and apparently never being cleaned. With no reflection on the squab raisers of Jersey, but in â order to demonstrate our point that the work is easy, we want to say that the typical breeder in that country as we saw him was seated a good part of the time on an old soap box, in or near his squab house, smoking a pipe and taking life easy, with plenty of time to talk or read. Some- "body has said that a .squab plant of 1,000 pairs of birds will pay better thau a farm. The contrast between the hard, grinding toil of the man who works a large farm and the "standing around" of the owner of a. squab plant is indeed a striking one. However, we do not speak of this to give you the idea that money is going to flow into your lap just because you buy some squab breeders of us. It is no work for a drone or a "get- rich-quick" person whose enthusiasm runs riot for two weeks and then â cools off. Our class of trade is men and women of experience and reliable â common sense who have a knowledge of the world and understand that things come by work aud not for the asking. The people who are able and â willing to pay us from $50 to $500 for a breeding outfit, as hundreds do, are not caught by glittering promises, but have money laid through exercise of the qualities of ability and shrewdness. The naturally care- less, improvident person, wh
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