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come in with a call for good squabs. Everyone who begins 

 to raise squabs for the market makes the demand for them 

 larger. There is no danger of overdoing the business, and 

 it will continue to grow larger as game birds decrease in 

 numbers. Many restaurants now serve squab when there 

 is an order for quail on toast, and those who like good 

 things usually go back and want sorrie more of that same 

 kind of "quail." Good restaurants now keep squabs on 

 hand and put them on their tables under their proper name, 

 having learned that it pays to do so. 



THE SOUTH JERSEY SQUAB DISTRICT. 



The great business of raising squabs which is carried on 

 in South Jersey started with one man and has spread out 

 until almost everyone in the country for miles around 

 Bridgeton keeps pigeons and sells squabs. About 7,000 

 squabs are sent out of this district every week, equal to 

 365,000 in a year, and there is never a time but these squabs 

 sell as soon as they reach the market at prices which makes 

 it very profitable to produce them. Men, women and chil- 

 dren raise squabs in this district, nearly every one of them 

 being sold in New York City. 



THE PROFESSION OF SOUAB-BREEdlNG. 



Only a few years ago the man who spent his time breeding 

 pigeons was thought to be engaged in a small busmess. 

 Now it has become a profession and is followed by all sorts 

 of men as a profitable way of putting in spare time. The 

 professional man raises squabs as a diversion, the clerk or 

 shop operative keeps a loft to help out on his income, young 

 men pay their way through college on the profits of the 

 squab business, old men who have got beyond the harder 



