Raising P. V. Squabs
for Profit
JOHN S. TRECARTIN
| Caldwell | New Jersey |
RAISING P. V. SQUABS
FOR PROFIT
ByJOHN 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
| Page | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Chapter I. | |
| Is There Profit in Raising Squabs? | 5 |
| Chapter II. | |
| Description of Passaic Valley Squab Farm and Housing in General | 7 |
| Chapter III. | |
| The Fundamental Requirements for Successful Squab Raising | 10 |
| Chapter IV. | |
| The Utility Pigeon | 17 |
| Chapter V. | |
| Habits and Peculiarities | 20 |
| Chapter VI. | |
| Squabs for Market | 24 |
| Chapter VII. | |
| Selecting Breeders | 28 |
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.