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Show SQUAB RAISING NEW VAL VERDA INDUSTRY Tender and delicious squabs can be raise! at a bi profit with only spare lime devoted to them, according to C.I W. McDonald, who resides st Val Verda. the Hettllyon Home Builders company'a "one acre to a man" tract i seven nu'es north of town. As hlnh as $.1M a year can be realised from the lnduatr. according to Mr. MrDonald. "I look an acre lot at Val Verda lartjely because I wanted to try out on a lurxe scale what 1 hud been quite successful with In a small way on a city lot for several years." said Mr. McDonald. "I find that I chose well, for Vnl Verda aeema to be an Ideal plure for raisins; pigeons. "I rtarted raising plaeona almply as a hohhy, but soon found that because they multiply so rapidly and are so easily fed a handsome profit might easily be made from them. And I have found few thlnrs In which I took a more genuine delight. "One pair of plaeona usually raises from twelve to sixteen squabs every ye;r. The entire family costs but $1.25 a year to support pretty much of a snap for Old Man I'lueon. Isn't It? An estimate of SI per doaen year is absolutely a maximum cost. "I have found it easy lo sell them at from II to .i a doxen. Bait Lake restaurants and hotels are only too alad to get them. That means, therefore, a profit of from to S5 a doxen. I have plenty of room to raise 1000 pigeons approximately eighty-five dozen without seriously Interfering with the garden space necessary to supply all the vegetables my family retiuirea The profit on eighty-five doxen. It ran readily.be aeen. la a mighty tidy addition addi-tion to my regular Income from my position in town. "One of the big advantages at Val Verda is the fact that the soil is perfectly per-fectly adapted to the raising of Canadian Cana-dian peas, an ideal pigeon food. The climate is also suitable' to these birds and disease among them Is rare here. I The significant thing about thla hol.by of mine la that it entails such a little expenditure of time and money. I get home early in the evening car service to Val Verda la excellent and hmvm plenty of time to devote to my pets. If there is anything needed during dur-ing the day my 1-year-old boy ia only too glad to do It, for hes as big an enthusiast as myself." |