PAGE TEX, ING the Story of a Young Woman and Her Sister Who Find Great Pleasure and Sure Profit in the Raising of Squabs for the Delicate Palate of Epi- cureans. BY BURTON T. BEACH. 10. by tbe New York MHersld Co. Al right Copyright. i F you took your mother, wife, sweethear tother girl to su a high class hote rant after the opera or concert, late bile ride. and she wer walter you think she had for elephant? And if she or an "imperial," the Autom to bring Ler a nl deve were to call would you think her hesd bad been of the that turned by incidents evening T not. Yon squab of the latest and most relisha the Jedy wns orde would know ety. Epleures are comigg to think that b on toast is as appeiiging as quail on toast, is bred scientifically, killed properly kept in the larder of rovided the hird the right moment and for olutely short of the the few ms of food the Squab meat is one demand lasp supply of which falls nbs in the United States. winter In New York a Scores of banquets given Chieago, Philadelphia and Bos- ton were arranged withont squabs in the menus for the sole reason that It was not possible fo get enongh to go arcund "My chef," tan hotel, "tried to gather eight hundred squabs for' a dinner in February, 1 After searching farms and cold storage h five hundred we ha Hkely there And 1t will one." says the proprietor of a famous Manhat- ted that we nd ould find was Very winter he committee et them: the ma squab 1 ges all and to ent ont sqnahs will be a sinWlar shortage next be a genuine shortage, not an artificial Causes of the Under Supply. Undersapply 1s due In part to causes affecting most food products inn factors are at work of game Inws 1! half a dozen wild birds eg dinner « part of the year Private domand fs deve expected, and the squab former finds 10 reserve a steals 14 sorts for the Liichone of the wealthy, the fleld frou which hotels, restanrs ships: yachfe and public caterers m Another feature looming up Is the The first sckd focd to Mr shooting was squab. Madienl more inclined fnvelids, ishing fluids ie about nation of nincty inillion, but special severity place of Owing to the Increasing oa xguab is made to take the ids during a large - than had been It worth nercentage of the thas restricting clubs, steam- 1<t draw, ospital demand. Gaynor after the and of nour when loping faster while risd best 1a, ftiven men Ia e or are the dietary the mast killed more fo prese Wh children. (On Jutee of able to leave Its vest vel especially the the squab Misses Jeannette (Standing) and Myrtle Bohannan | At the age of four weeks and a haif the pigeon weighs ordinarily more than It ever will again the fastest of all birds In reaching i! of parents, and the juice, or "liguor protoplassr™ rans then from two to five ounces. The squab farmer Kills a few days earlier, because if the squab be perihitied to leave the nest the juice diminishes rapidly and in forty-eight hours ihe bird weighs con- © siderably less, growth being, as a rule, reta~ded or stopped. its Consumed in New York. It would be 'hard to estimate even approximately how many squabs are forwarded to New York cits, the principal American market, either for local con- sumption ur for disiribution to other points. Convine- ng statistics are not to be had. A prominent middie man asserts that be would consider business siow if his datly average loll below five Kandred pale, and he admits thar his competitors press him closely. But hele combined sales would not be a reliable in- of the total turpover, because some of the most successful farmers plice thelr goods for New York use te wi the aid of the middleman, Six iid ago the business had a boom, bas he t has been continuous, aud to diy an 8 aarrower basis than before, Is and THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THU R-DAY., DECEMBER 26, 112 plg Miss Jeannette Bohannan Feeding Young Birds remarkable wolnen try It is in the indn halt a well entrenched. L. 1, the attention, are enguged as pro t 1 At ard Ar Kn le Farm, Manhasse mg the At Misses Dohannan, dozen al after five years of unre built or and ances, have up an exce wlern ap mitting ganized plant, with Improved m are exploiting a flock of by ! noteworthy exception to fer four thousan hirds, to be enlarged posed to appeal atn artistic > Se SRT : Nest Bowls Containing Squabs and particularly the life of the never had n Manhattan or would not One who function in Farm about j an gardens or a Venice, Confronted parental cap ald yield suspert ygeons nid inspection where I udder tl yie Ww in seenritls New fants try While voted to the York marset pou! larger than the of raising "breed of owning raising "What pion? that § know af view another.' Bu Myrile B us. with the care o ren gained he en yt to hee) and | the It There are the pleasant amd have bee about t 1 yet dene justice to ity of our bu Perhaps women ted the dove. but detail taking Home of the Pi Pigeous at picturesqul noaolis rm are concen trated in two fis mired twenty ¥ feel long and twenty feet I: With an ele. vation In ope cave of twetity-five \ in the other of twenty. The buildings are carefu fortified concrete to Keep out rats gud mice. A big rodent in a pigeon house will do as much mischief asa ey Both houses are divided inte a doen pens about ten Teet wide, two sides of each pen belng lined with, sa Afiy to a hundred compartinents, after the Table of plgeonholes In a desk: thangh many timex larger. - Bvery compartment contains a ¥ bowl four inches or so deep and twelve across the top. This Is the "nest bowl" sod ia It the pigein Builds & nest of (ohare stems, a supply of which 18 thrown whers the bind can reach it. The litle compartments are so built that they can be kept clean easily. 2 unpt {a constant outanmber the wat "iness, the hfalness deter from t.up houses or k about one hm tance, Ww done ACY, pigeon fit cominins very "They cant Aen: . a enri kind of reasoning with one another warning and here and ¢ is richly a Nineteen day squabs emerge from fhe Most exact beak, or mandible, the fledgling bas a small sharp of to be free, ¢ pigeons p none, projecting Ii » horn igh doors, the or a 1 the pr 1d fina the tures the s unl squab the the stems y Exeept 1selessty and Tse dori: then uo nesting and he tion loa § are abont ¢ extreme : If the last bell rings for a squad nest, placed ix baekst Borne to an executi contrivances method ali mersed in which ice for the night though consignments are as 'biladeiphia and even bio When ready for cording to size, resta ever IW, : and near thoCRE, 12h not TOpPeTi day e fess md egg is # turns in "oli dut with others «Luni the fema'e 1 chamber fitt sanitation, sat | feked at og ten the next 0 insure wit ain . bp oid a short dis. r nest bowl + middle keeps waith at the edge of the young squibs. water for sevéra after It i= cleaned punctifons! At Ki Spr fregunently on hours, ¥, dressed : they are not fr I Lotha ha side yr dar says Miss Jeannette an, "and therefore they prepare for bed quite usly interesting procending that shows a if you enter a gente flutier of uere a soft, Lilke hoot that musical and a sort of language" o% see in tb qe i i shipment the sgo if const d U) i pwivate trade, individ Iv il paper and forw are placed, layers oft sfier sunset yon notice 2 it grants, in i boy hoxes; hile, wh wrapped corrugated peter bosses Eo ¥% the r x hae I berating iphreesii vo, bul frees Ing does not (prove the If a squab oe side of th + FER Iy in the centre. On the upper part of the ate food is 10 be cooing ha num! 10 « d the 1s ' where promptly and rel bath were is an I% ony 1k } i bird ne LT reeding purposes a seamleas hand, stamped its birth, is drawn creature is ten days old An entgy corresponding the books of the er and with the date of when the mbrane is soft "year band" { ig feet ade -in is « on farmer, In due senson the young bird is sent to the "mating woses a permanent companion. "Both and upon the right leg of the female is placed a bicolored the two bands showing the same -- this band the wedding ist>d for future caught, the left of the Bohannan « 8 nded the birds are | when six months old, but are d it is not surprising to learn in widow seems to have far less difficulty King an impression among geons, however, are to mate with their the up to date farmer mate ma awers P disposed istics Misses Bohannan Holding " Grandpa" end "Grandma" Ee 1 y be seen at Knollside are homers, Maltese hen pigeons, Jacobines and last named producing the largest squab flesh is white, firm way determines the rneaux, norcas, pouters in nn iement would dedicate them- sisand pigeons without their feathered charges exquisite birds are Giray Splash Is a gray and glittering of eye. fied canary, and the to Rostand. Blue Boy, a nary blue, save for a black uvied in the fiying cage. Fiuffy head with a dazziing frill on the nam her unending but glddlest thing on rom : the "ay. Is spotless of rohe, O'Farrell, she long re- f life, and even now dis- the Ariativs habits of mis of all Is a blue ke a waisteost of many 1 prominent politisian, dark bine with a her to go gadding ful creature does not pero both white with black spots of the flock, and, accords they are joseparable as of the domain, ate "first the feed 'troughs and Grandma first in ing pans.' alr ine about a hatching pen covering eggs or patrol. in f property from a day do a mouth, bowls; here a bul'y struttiog in = a reputable male driving dome 1 ground. Everywhere Is a fusion = orderly And as wm ae it 18 pletorial in incident, fon ith trays of "grit" slwayy 1 then, pare drinking watef to the cleanliness of nest, A week sdmiger snl only: given such fire utture, whethef for 1 onduited even d 4% a comparadvely light rds PrRYerY eg defence ages, feeding in the nd In sugge wholesoe w in be