Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit
JOHN S. TRECARTIN Caldwell New Jersey
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
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.
[Illustration: 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 buy the squabs alive, as their poultry has to be prepared according to the Jewish Dietary Laws. The hotels in all large cities use enormous quantities of squabs, and we have had to freeze large quantities for them in the summer in the past few years, so as to insure them a steady supply through the winter months. We have frozen as high as 5,000 squabs for a single hotel in one year, and now we make a practice of always keeping a reserve of frozen squabs, to meet the winter demands.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Raising P.V. Squabs for Profit by Trecartin
- 2: One dozen squabs weighing twelve ounces each
- 3: The fundamental requirements for successful squab raising
- 4: ONE OF OUR AVIARIES The aviaries
- 5: And some would breed nice twelve pound squabs
- 6: Although there are other good birds for squab raising
- 7: As it is contingent on the squabs
- 8: REVOLVING FEED REGULATOR To kill squabs properly
- 9: Will hold 30 live squabs for shipping
- 10: With squabs it is still harder