Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1913 — A Big Squab Farm. [ARTICLE]

A Big Squab Farm.

The largest squab farm in the country has 17,500 pairs of parent birds. This gives 175,000 squabs a year, which are sold at about 30 cents' apiece, or $52,500 in all. Then there is an ’’-ccme from old breeders weeded ir<d sold for pigeon shoots at 35 o«n J a pair. The big hoot in Florida'a couple of months ago cleared all the Pniladelphia squab farms of old birds. The pigeons breed for five years, and by that time make tough targets for the expert trap shooter. The squab business is expanding wonderfully. One farm is planned to breed J. 00,000 pairs. The railroads now carry grain in carload lots to the farms. Squabs mean a saving of game, as they go now Instead of game birds at nine banquets out of ten. There is all the possibility in them for a tidy little trust One of these days when your squab Jumps suddenly in price, you will know that the Squab Trust is tn being.