The national standard squab book . ozen, as I wrote you before. That is better, and I wantto try raising them as soon as I can get into a place where Ican handle them. Fact is, the squabs that bring from three to five dollars adozen east of the Mississippi will bring that (and more) as soonas the wealthy trade of Kansas City gets a taste of them. 88 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK Find out for yourself whether your market wants squabswith the feathers on or off. We do not know such detailsabout the squab market in every city in the country and can-not advise you accurately on this point if you wr
The national standard squab book . ozen, as I wrote you before. That is better, and I wantto try raising them as soon as I can get into a place where Ican handle them. Fact is, the squabs that bring from three to five dollars adozen east of the Mississippi will bring that (and more) as soonas the wealthy trade of Kansas City gets a taste of them. 88 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK Find out for yourself whether your market wants squabswith the feathers on or off. We do not know such detailsabout the squab market in every city in the country and can-not advise you accurately on this point if you write to usfrom a distant town or city. The best way to find out the facts concerning the squabmarket is to go from place to place, or to write, offering not tosell squabs but to buy them. The squab sellers are muchmore interested in a possible buyer than a possible receive letters from many inquirers about markets butas a rule pay scant attention to them unless the writer isreally producing squabs and has them for SQUAB HOUSE BUILT OF LOGS CHAPTER X. PIGEONS AILMENTS. Canker a Filth Disease which Makes its Appearance in Nasty,Cramped and Crowded Quarters — // is a Captivity Diseaseand a Sure Cure for it is to Turn the Bird Loose to Get aChange of Food and Plenty of Exercise — A Flock Suppliedwith Pure Food and Clean Water Never will he Sick —Canker is Not Epidemic — It does Not Pay to Dose aSick Pigeon, Better Turn it Out to Get Well. The principal ailment met with by the squab breeder iscanker. This ailment is a puzzle to some breeders and theyare alarmed when it makes an appearance in their flock, asit does if the feed is poor or sour, the water dirty, or the squabhouse filthy. The advice which they give when they find acankered bird is, Kill it. That is the advice we used togive at first, but now we know better. First, what is canker?It is a disease of which you know the cause (filth, poor feed ordirty water) and whose symptoms you see in the form o
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