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Show MAKING MONEY WITH SQUABS Largest Pigeon Farm In World Turn Out 250.000 Birds Every Ytar Much Work Required. Travelers approaching I-os Angeles from the north are astonished sometimes some-times at seeing from the ear windows win-dows (locks of pigeons numbering many thousands Just on the outskirts of the AukcI City. These belong to (he world's largest pigeon farm, owned own-ed by T. II. Johnson, and Justly considered one of the show places ul Kiiilhern California. Merely as a curiosity II ranks with the alligator farm, the numerous ostilch farms and similar freak establishments. The plKfon farm consists of about eight acres of sandy, gravelly land along the bed of the Los Angeles river a "river" only by courtesy during dur-ing (he long, dry summer months, ) (v. Money Makers. when It becomes practically a mere rivulet The farm was established about ten years ngn on a compara-I compara-I lively Mn ill scale, hut the Ventura I proved ro profitable (hat (he owner ! ileveloped Hie business along lines I such as have marked (he growth of .-.other great modern Industries, until he claims to now have more than luii.iinii fully grown pigeons In bin ,. establishment, not to mention tens of J thousands of sipiabs. Any one que-j que-j Honing the accuracy of the figures has i the prlvl em- of coutiilng. As a mat-! mat-! ter nf (act, the estimate probably l ! many thousands below tho actual i iiuuil er, I The object of this vast pigeon breed- j Ing establishment Is the production of squabs. At the prt sent limn about 40 dozen siii:ibs are killed and sent to market every day; but a little later In the M ason the dally output will be ' j much greater, so that tho annual squab crop from (his one establish-f establish-f inent Is about sr.n.ouo. These sell at f anywhere from llVTitt up to ft per j doen (depending upon the lima of h Jean, itml Trls evlik-ffr-J?,"! TIIJ" m m " come from the mammoth pigeon farm fools up to a very (Idy sum annually. However, (his is not all "velvet" by , j any means. Tho birds consume bo-, bo-, j (ween two and three tons of grain every day and (ho labor of looking t ! after I horn, keeping (he buildings , clean and sanitary, and killing and , ! preparing (he squabs for market Is not , j a trilling matter. |