20 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE 



bring more money in the winter than during the summer 

 months, so if it is going to be a question of raismg birds for 

 market, the fall would be as good a time as any, but if tiic 

 start is made at any other time, the advantages of the winter 

 market would be enjoyed just the same. I would say therefore 

 that the time to enter the squab business is NOW, and the place, 

 with a few exceptions, is your present location. 



THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR SQUABS 



More and more the general public is learning to api)reciate 

 the true value of squabs as a food. 



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FANCY DRESSED SQUABS READY FOR MARKET 



The rapid decrease of the supply of meat in the United States, 

 coupled with the rapid increase of the price of meat, the former 

 being the principal cause of the latter, is a problem that will 

 have to be met sooner or later, or the people of America will, 

 like Europeans, be forced to go without meat except on Sunday 

 or rare occasions. 



Our pn|)ulatiou is iiicicasing about two million a year and the 

 annual decrease in beef cattle, caused by the settling of the 



