100 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 



They simply do not know how to ship and how to talk to the 

 express agents. 



We never read the above advice as to shipping live-stock in 

 any book or paper. It is the product of our own experience 

 and the information cost us at least one hundred dollars in 

 excess charges before we learned how to get the low rate. 

 It is worth dollars to our customers, and that is why we have 

 given it here in detail. 



Killed squabs go to market at the rate charged for ordinary 

 merchandise, no matter what the distance. Breeders having 

 special customers who wish the squabs plucked should pack 

 them in a clean white wood box (with ice in the summer) and 

 nail the box up tight. Such shipments go through in splendid 

 condition and if the breeder has a choice article, with his 

 trade mark stamped on the box, he gets the fancy price. 

 Squabs which reach the Boston market from jobbers in 

 Philadelphia and New York are plucked and packed with ice 

 in barrels. Breeders around Boston who reach the Boston 

 market with undressed squabs send them in wicker hampers 

 or baskets on the morning of the day after they are killed. 



No express agent anywhere has a right to make any extra 

 charges whatever on our pigeon shipments. 



There is no duty on our pigeons to Canada, Cuba or Porto 

 Rico, when we send with the pigeons and also to the customer, 

 as we do, a certificate of purity of breed, declaring that the 

 pigeons are for breeding, and not to be killed for market. 



