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started in with a view to selling breeding stock only, as he 

 thought he was not so located that he would have any de- 

 mand for his squabs in the handiest market, .a small interior 

 city, where squabs had never been put on sale. 



After he got started he found that he could sell a few 

 pairs of squabs to one or two restaurants and the best hotel 

 in the town. He began supplying orders from these places 

 and others began to call on him for squabs for special occa- 

 sions, such as local banquets, receptions and other social 

 functions. 



He started with fifty pairs of breeders. He selected his 

 best squabs to keep for the purpose of increasing his flock 

 and sold the others in his nearest market. 



At the end of a year he had saved another fifty pairs for 

 breeding and found he had sold squabs enough to pay for 

 a new house and all the feed he had bought during the time. 



Then he concluded to begin advertising squabs for sale 

 as breeders. He received quite a number of orders, but the 

 demand for squabs for the market became so strong that he 

 gave up the breeding part of the business and began to sell 

 in the market only. At last so many were sold in the town 

 that a prominent provision firm came to him and made him 

 a flat offer of $4 a dozen for all the squabs he would raise. 

 He refused this offer, as he was getting more than this for 

 a good many of his squabs and did not think he could afford 

 to make a binding contract on a market where the price 

 was increasing all the time. This same breeder now has 

 a thousand pairs of breeding pigeons and hires a man to 

 take care of them, while he attends to his own business, and 

 makes about $500 clear money from his pigeons every year. 



