APPENDIX A. 



NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK. 

 BY ELMER C. RICE. 



CALIFORNIA MARKET. The California you do not care to deal Witk Commission 



market for squabs is excellent, especially at men. 



the invalid resorts. In San Francisco it is BRANCHING OUT. We have put some of 



not so good as at the Southern Coast places our best birds, in largest orders, for 300 to 



frequented by rich travelers. We print the 1,000 pairs, right into the heart of the squab 



following letter: country around Philadelphia, showing that our 



Poultrymen's Union of California, 413 Front ideas and our birds are all right. On Fe~b. 



street, San Francisco (Jan. 28, 1903): "Your 9. 1903, we received the following letter from 



Valued favor just received and in reply would Heacock & Hokanson, architects, of Phila- 



say that usually the quotations in the papers delphia: 



are close to being correct, but if you desire "Enclosed please find 25 cents for a plan of 



to call and see us at any time, we will give your style of squab house. Our client in- 



you exact quotations. There is always a forms us that you have prints showing the 



good market here for large, fat squabs. They details of house, nests, self-feeders, etc. We 



are readily selling today at $3 per dozen." have two clients who have been making some- 



SUMMER RESORT MARKETS. The pleas- w hat of a success at this work and are now 



ure and vacation resorts all over the country ready to build houses with every essential 



are good squab markets. Maine squab breed- and practical feature necessary to make _a 



ers ship to Boston in the winter but In the success on a somewhat larger scale." 



summer they get better prices at Bar Harbor SQUABS IN UTAH. The following letter 



and elsewhere along the coast. The White comes to us from James A. Hepburn, Utah, 



Mountain resorts in New Hampshire are a dated Jan. 24, 1903: 



fine summer market, also the resorts along "Enclosed find check for $1.70 for which 

 the eastern coast of Massachusetts. Newport, please send me postage paid your leg band 

 in Rhode Island, is a good summer squab outfit. I recently received your book on pig- 

 market. Two or three of our customers .in eons and although I have been breeding 

 the vicinity of Lenox, Mass., and in North Homers for flying for a long time, I learned 

 Carolina, and Florida, are quite enthusiastic many things of interest to me from the boojc. 

 over the splendid market at their doors, j intend now to increase my flock and raise 

 Wherever the good eaters go, winter or sum- S q U abs for the market also. I find I can sell 

 mer, there is the demand for squabs. all I can supply here to the local markets." 



HOSPITAL TRADE. A woman in the state SQUABS NOT GAME. A correspondent 

 of Washington wrote us that two big hgs- writes us that she does not think she can 

 pitals in a, city near her had offered to take market squabs in her state because the game 

 all the squabs she could supply. She moved laws arc so strict. In reply we wish to state 

 out, bought a farm and in January, 1903, we that squabs are not game, but are a domes- 

 shipped her four baskets. Under date of Feb. tic product same as chickens, and can be 

 7 she replied: "Please pardon my delay in marketed in any state or territory at any 

 acknowledging the receipt of the shipment of time of the year in any quantity without vip- 

 fifty pairs extra mated Homers I ordered from lating the game laws. 



you. I have been so busy with them that I CHICAGO MARKET. The Chicago market 



have not really had time to write. Out of for squabs is fairly good, but nowhere near 



the whole lot there was only one dead one, so good as the markets of New York, Phila- 



which surprised us." (As we had shipped two delphia and Boston, because the only squabs 



pairs more than the order called for, or 52 obtainable there in large quantities are the 



pairs altogether, the customer had no com- inferior squabs of common pigeons. We have 



plaint.) "The birds are perfect beauties and customers in Illinois who have written us 



we are greatly pleasel with them. They seem that their fat Homer squabs from our birds 



to like their new home. Thanking you for are salable at prices from $1 to $2 in excess 



yor kindness and with best wishes." of the prices quoted by the Chicago com- 



The hospital trade in squabs is worth cater- mission men. The Chicago market is an 



ing to, for they are such a delicacy that eager one, and the dealers are imploring 



they are greatly esteemed by physicians, squab raisers to sell, saying they will tajte 



There may be a suggestion in this for you if all offered. We advise our customers in the 



(Copyright, 1903, by Elmer C. Bice.) 

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