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Raising P.V. Squabs for Profit - John S. Trecartin
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Title: Raising P.V. Squabs for Profit
Author: John S. Trecartin
Release Date: August 7, 2010 [EBook #33371]
Language: English
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Raising P. V. Squabs
for Profit
JOHN S. TRECARTIN
RAISING P. V. SQUABS
FOR PROFIT
By JOHN S. TRECARTIN
A Manual of Instruction from My Personal Experience
in Building, Stocking and Managing the Largest
Successful Squab Plant in New Jersey
Tells how we market squabs for twelve dollars per dozen, wholesale.
Details of necessary requirements for a successful business.
How to house, feed, market and care for pigeons.
Importance of good foundation stock.
Profits and how secured.
COPYRIGHT 1920, JOHN S. TRECARTIN. CALDWELL, N.J.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The squab business in America has too long been looked upon as a pastime and game for children's amusement. Raising squabs is not child's play, but a real scientific business with unlimited possibilities for development.
Success in this business as in any other, depends largely on a proper start. In the following pages I will endeavor to present with great simplicity the right way to start in the squab business and the results I have obtained in raising squabs for market. The information contained herein, may, I trust, be of as much benefit to the reader as it is my pleasure to impart.
JOHN S. TRECARTIN.
PASSAIC VALLEY SQUAB FARM, CALDWELL, N.J.
CHAPTER I.
IS THERE PROFIT IN RAISING SQUABS?
Of the question of profit in squab raising, there is no doubt. Squabs are coming into use more and more every day, not only as a delicacy for invalids, but also for hotels, restaurants, catering establishments, and household use.
The first question is naturally of the market for them. The Hebrews, who entertain lavishly, are among our largest customers. They