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Title: The national standard squab book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Elmer Cook. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Boston, Mass. (Press of Murray and Emery company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a that money is going to flow into your lap just becauseyou buy some squab breeders of us. It is no work for a droneor a get-rich-quick person whose enthusiasm runs riot fortwo weeks and then cools off. Our class of trade is men andwomen of experience and reliable common sense who havea knowledge of the world and understand that things comeby work and not for the asking. The people who are ableand willing to pay Us from fifty to five hundred dollars for abreeding outfit, as hundreds do, are not caught by glitteringpromises, but have money laid by through exercise of thequalities of ability and shrewdness. The naturally careless,improvident person, who is generally in debt, should not startsquab raising. It is a sensible industry for sensible people. The profits to be made with squabs vary with the individualand with the management of the birds, exactly as with_poul-try. It is important to have only mated or even pairs in thepens and all birds not producing should be kept in a separate
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18 SQUABS PA Y 19 pen and removed to breeding quarters only after they havegone to work. The chief difficulty with a beginner is thematter of sex. The male and the female pigeon have nomarks to distinguish them, and the beginner mast determinetheir sex by observation. He must study his birds and cometo know them. Some beginners will not equip themselves bystudy and observation to make a success and may breed in ahap-hazard fashion for a year or more without knowing thesex of the birds they raise. Birds which you raise will go towork more quickly, look better and breed better than any birdsyou can buy, because that is the temperament of the Homer,to be attached to his home, to love it, and to try to reach it ifhe can. Anybody who has doubts as to his ability to raisesquabs should start with a small flock and breed up until hehas acquired skill and experience. As part of this Manual, in the supplement and appendices,we print many letters from customers who started with smallflocks and w

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