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1907 MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 1908 



No matter in what part of the United States or Canada you live, we will put you in touch 

 with your nearest best squab buyer ,_ provided of course you have not a private trade of your 

 own, which always pays best. In Pittsburg, for example, there is a concern which has a very 

 large trade and is constantly after good squabs. They write us: "For eight-pound squabs we 

 are paying $3.00 a dozen, nine-potind $4.25 a dozen. When communicating with your custom- 

 ers, kindly let them quote us price on the different sizes. We would like to get in touch with 

 some shippers who can supply us the year around with what squabs we want. We can use 

 100 pounds to 150 pounds per week. Kindly put us in touch with some good shippers." 



A correspondent living in West 36th street. New York, writes us under date of October 1?, 

 1907, after personal investigation of the New York City markets : "I am studying up the squab 

 business, with the intention of going at it up at my home in Pennsylvania, when I can con- 

 veniently see my way to it. Your statement about the market for the product in 1902-1903 

 still seems to hold good here in New York. I was down at Washington Market not long ago to 

 inquire of commission men how the call for squabs runs. They all said that the supply hardly 

 equals the demand. Many of them were selling or offering for sale little bony, discolored 

 carcasses that would hardly tempt a starved cat. So when I am ready I shall talk business 

 with you." 



In the first part of our Manual we quote prices in a great many cities in force in 1903 or 

 thereabouts. We have not the space to follow the quotations in these cities year by year. 

 What is true of New York is true of Chicago, St. "Louis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Fran- 

 cisco, Seattle, Portland, all the large places. The demand everywhere continues eager at high 

 prices as vou can readily find out for yourself if you live near a city. In your nearest city you 

 will find Plymouth Rock squabs going in regularly to the dealers there and dominating the 

 market. 



We quote as follows the prices prevailing in New York City from the summer of 1907 to the 

 end of the year. These quotations are not retail prices, remember, but are what a dealer paid 

 breeders for supplying him with squabs. The first quotation, in each case, is for squabs weigh- 

 ing ten pounds to the dozen. The second figure is for squabs weighing nine pounds to the 

 dozen. The third figure is for squabs weighing eight pounds to the dozen: 



uly 1 $4.50 $4.00 $3.20 



uly 22 4.40 3.75 3.15 



August 12 4.20 3.50 3.00 



September 2 4 . 25 3 . 50 2 . 75 



September 30 4.50 3.75 3.00 



October 14 4.75 3.85 -3.25 



November 4 5.00 4.00 3.50 



November 18 4.75 4.00 3.50 



December 2 4.40 3.60 3.25 



December 9 4.20 3.40 3.25 



The reader of all the quotations we print must be impressed that the chorus for the big 

 squabs grows each year larger in volume and more insistent. Dealers want the big ones and to 

 get them they offer the verv attractive bait of substantially-increased prices. It is folly for 

 anybody to start breeding squabs now with inferior birds, for his squabs (weighing six or seven 

 pounds to the dozen) will be crowded to the back of the counter in every market and the 

 breeder will have to be content with a price which will pay for the grain, perhaps, but little 

 more. This is not unsupported talk by us, unfounded sayso, but, in the words of our ex-Presi- 

 dent, is a condition and not a theory. We have actually supplied the breeding stock whose 

 squabs now constitute the squab markets of the countrv and are making the weights and 

 prices. Before we introduced the Plymouth Rock Extra Homers, there were in the New York 

 or Philadelphia, or any markets, no squabs weighing over eight pounds to the dozen. No such 

 squall were traded in because no such squabs existed, in commercial quantity. Now they are 

 in the markets every day by thousands of dozens weighing from eight to twelve pounds to the 

 dozen. 



The letters which we print on the following pages are selections from a large number received 

 by us in 1907. These show a great many facts bearing upon all sides of the industry and we 

 recommend their reading for the news thejr contain. Many of the writers note ways of their 

 own showing original thinking and adaptation. We withhold the names and addresses of the 

 writers for the business reasons stated so many times by us, but we assure new friends as well as 

 old, that all are genuine, every one, written bv real customers not connected with us in any 

 way except by the sale of our birds and supplies to them. The original letters are filed at our 

 office in Boston, where we will show them to anybody. If some one is holding back an order 

 from us thinking that any letter here is " made up," and cannot come in person to Boston to 

 see these letters, as many do, we will pay the fee of his representative living in or near Boston 

 for examining our files and reporting. Write us first, and we will convince you if given the 

 opportunity. 



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