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Louis A. Fisher, Manager Century Club, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. (Feb. 17, 1903): "We buy 

 all our squabs in New York as the prices of 

 three and four dollars per dozen prevailing 

 in this city are too high that is, we buy 

 cheaper in New York than here." 



A. S. Barnett, steward Morton House, 

 Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Feb. 11, 1903): 

 "In reply to your inquiry in regard to 

 what we would pay for squabs such as you 

 have, we are paying $2.25 per dozen. Should 

 you consider our price an object, would be 

 pleased to learn how many you could fur- 

 nish a week." 



Hotel Schenlen, Pittsburg, Penn. (Feb. 10, 

 1903): "Your squabs must be according to 

 the weight and you should find a ready mar- 

 ket for such stock. Nice white squabs are 

 bringing $3.50 today." 



Hotel Rider, Cambridge Springs, Penn. 

 (Feb. 11, 1903): "We can pay you $2.25 per 

 dozen for genuine squabs (no pigeons) de- 

 livered here. Can use six or eight dozen 

 at a time, but we do not want anything but 

 young birds." 



E. A. Goodrich & Co., commission mer- 

 chants, 103 South Water street, Chicago, 

 Illinois. (Feb. 13, 1903): "Your favor at 

 hand. If you mean fat young pigeons that 

 have left the nest and can fly, they are 

 worth 75 cents to $1 per dozen, and the trade 

 wants them alive. (This is the way the 

 trade in Boston wants them, but they pay 

 more). If you mean nestlings, or very young 

 pigeons which have not left the nest and are 

 unable to fly, we can get you $2 to $2.25 per 

 dozen, dressed neatly. Either kind is good 

 sale at prices named and can handle for you 



any quantity from five dozen to one hundred 

 dozen. If nestling tie in one-half dozen 

 bunches packed in ice and ship by express." 



A FINAL WORD. Our object in printing 

 the letters from marketmen and other squab 

 buyers, in this appendix, is to convince any 

 intelligent man or woman that there is a 

 market for him, provided he goes to raising 

 squabs, no matter where he lives. We have 

 hundreds of similar letters on hand, but we 

 have not room to print all, and we think we 

 have printed enough. If you are not con- 

 vinced by what we have printed that there 

 is a paying market for squabs within five 

 hundred miles of you, do not write to us and 

 ask us to tell you the names and addresses 

 of squab buyers in your town or city, or 

 your county, for that we may not be able to 

 do, but sit down at your writing desk, or go 

 out in person, and find out for yourself. 



It is unnecessary to argue the squab mar- 

 ket within anyone of common sense who 

 lives east of the Mississippi and Missouri 

 rivers, and on the Pacific coast, and within 

 shipping distance of Denver. If you live in 

 a barren territory or a foreign country, and 

 wish to take up this subject with us, we 

 will reply to the best of our ability, but 

 remember that you are on the ground, and 

 can find out such facts for yourself better 

 than we can tell you. 



This Manual is intended to te a book of 

 facts, backed up by evidence. If anybody has 

 any additional facts as to squabs which will 

 improve this Manual, we will be glad to con- 

 sider same, and will pay for them if ac 

 cepted. 



