National Standard Squab Book. 63 



iikewi.Sf, but when you iihuk llie leathers off tlie flesh is eitlier a pure 

 white with a tiiiffe ot yellow or darlc like a negro's skin. 



Quotations for sqna'bs as found in the market reports in the news- 

 papers are always lower than they really are. The writers of the market 

 r'olumns in the daily paiiers see only the commission men and cater only 

 to them; ihey smoke the commission men's cigars and believe what tlie 

 commission men tell them. They do not see the producer at all. The 

 object of t'he commissiou men is to get the squabs as cheap as they can. 

 When you are breeding squabs make up your mind to get from 25 cents 

 TO $1 or more per dozen than you see quoted in the marke-t reports. At 

 the same time the report quoted above was printed in the New York 

 Tribune a bree-dei- in Mauricetowii, N. J., was getting from $4.25 to $4.50 

 a dozen for his squabs. (This was the last week in .JauTiary, 1902.) You 

 see, it does not pay to trust wliolly to the market reports in the news- 

 papers. The motive of the city men is to get their goods as cheap as they 

 can. It is your motive to get as much as you can, and don't 'be fooled by 

 second-hand information. Go direct to headquarters yourself in person 

 and learn the truth. If the middleman tries to hold doAvn the price to 

 you, go to a consumer and make your bargain with him at top prices. 



A breeder in New jersey writes that there are several squab breeders 

 in hiis town, all of whom give rheir regular time to other businesses. He 

 continues: "I am now (February, 1902), getting 32 cents each as they run, 

 no sorting, for what few squabs I am now raising, and they are sold to 

 a man who calls every Tuesday for them. When I have enough, I ship 

 direct to New York bv express. They sort them in New York." 



This is doing extremely well for unsorted squabs. It is only another 

 bit of evidence which pi'oves the money-making condition of the New 

 York market. (The above correspondent's breeders are not first-class, he 

 admits, saying he has been breeding for seven years and his flock has 

 run down.) , rp. 



The Kansas Citv market does not yet know what a tat squab is. ine 

 oniv things obtainable there are the squabs of common pigeons, which 

 are" ,iuote.l low, as they are all over the country. A correspondent in 

 Atchison writes: "I wrote to the Kansas City dealer again, tellmg him I 

 thought his prices were pretty low for Homer squabs. He replied that 

 he ha.l so few Homers offered that they did not quote them, and they 

 would be worth from $2 to $2.50 per dozen He quoted common pigeon 

 sqnabs at $1.25 to $1.75 per dozen, as I wrote you be ore. Tha 'S bette, 

 and I want to try raising them as soon as I can get into a place where I 



T.ctt";i^'i^-»s that bring from $3 to $5 a dozeur east of the Missis- 

 sijp; Un irhig that (and more) as soon as the wealthy trade of Kansas 



City get ^t^^*^;;*,;!;^\.hether vour market wants squabs with the 

 r " n off We 10 not know such details about the squab market 

 ""*"-^";-tv in fhrcountiw and cannot advise you accurately on thi. 

 lioint if you write 



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