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Another way to build up a private trade is to introduce 

 nicely dressed squabs among the wealthier families of a 

 town. This can be done by presenting them with two or 

 three pairs, nicely put up in a box, and asking them to try 

 them. One breeder who started out in this way now sells 

 all his squabs at $i a pair. He dresses them neatly, puts 

 a pair in a nice white box and ties the box with a colored 

 bit of "baby ribbon." He has a demand for all he can get 

 at $1 a pair, although he lives near a large city where the 

 price is often much lower than this. 



The enterprising squab-breeder will be able to find a 

 market for the product of his loft, no matter where he 

 lives. The express companies carry squabs at the regular 

 dressed-poultry rates, and in many places there are fast 

 freight lines which take butter and eggs to distant markets in 

 the shortest possible time. 



Squabs properly packed may be sent 1,000 miles to market 

 and yet be profitable, but there is hardly a place in this 

 country where a good market can not be found within 200 

 or 300 miles, and even a thousand m'les is not a long distance 

 for an express train. 



The trouble will not be so much where to find a market 

 as to how to produce squabs enough, once the breeder has 

 been in the business long enough to make a name for himself. 



If any breeder sends squabs of good size and color and 

 keeps up the quality regularly, it will not be long before 

 there will be a call for his particular brand of squabs, and 

 after that it will be a question of meeting the demand, for 

 this will grow all the time. 



