lO National Staiidanl Squab Book. 



'hL- ...i,s, a I. Hi .,( i,ii„.tf>-u. raini' ..u lu st-i^ us in August ami tolJ us the 

 sti.rv ..r lli.'ii- vui-rrss. lie w;is after ui.uv hreeiliuy: stock. He said lie 

 liad'uiauv vails fvt.iu p,...i>le wlio wislie.l U. buy stock of him, aud he u'as 

 uuai.le to supply all of tlieui. hut he did not iuteud to have money offered 

 him very l.ui;; v.illiout lieiu^' aide to pass out the Idrds. In other words, 

 tliex weiv ^'nim,' into -;,|uahs f<u' ail they were worth. They had not done 

 any adiertisin;;, and liail jiot sold live breeders to any extent, but figured 

 their profits solely on the sale of squabs to commi.ssion houses, aud they 

 were getting f.u- tlieui just wlnit we said the commission men would pay. 



Now it .-I well-lo-,1., sii|>eriiitendent, filled with no ilesperate idea of 

 making s(|uabs jiay, ran start with no experience, throw out money freely 

 like that and de]iend ou his bi>ys mostly to push the venture ahead, all 

 the while alteiidijig to a very large business, then we s y that you cati do 

 it loo, iio matter who you are or where you live. 



We h.ive a gieat many visitors, some coming from remote points of the 

 United States. One of our visitors in the summer (d 1902 was Mr. A. L. 

 Furlong, from a little town in Iowa. Mr. Furlong said to us: "Iowa is 

 quite a siiuab-'breeiling state. There are plants in Ruthven, Osage, Wal- 

 lake and Estherville. The owner of a plant in Itut'hven I know very well. 

 He showed mc his .account books; he was shipping from $700 to $S00 

 ^vorih of squabs last mouth. He is making a profit of $3,000 to $5,000 a 

 year. He ships to the Chicago market, a.s do nearly all the Iowa breeders. 

 He ne\-er gets less than $2.50 a dozen for his squailis. I am going to start 

 raising squabs myself." 



Mr. Furlong left an order for one of our Manuals, having given his first 

 one to his friend. He said that his friend was breeding common pigeoag 

 and would like to kmiw our metliods. AVe discarded common pigeons some 

 time ag'.i. If our Iowa friends will use Homer pigeons instead of common 

 ones, they will produce a much better squab and make more money. 



AVe had a curious confirmation of the .above in August, 1902, when Mr. 

 E. H. (J rice, who lives in the northern part of Vermont, visited tis. Mr. 

 lirice had ju...t returned from a visit to the "West, ami stopped for a while 

 at Ruthven, Iowa, where he saw the plant above noted. The proprietor 

 referred Mi', (irire to us ami advised him to start with Homer pigeons, 

 saying tliaf if be ^^■er■e to stock up again, it would be with Homer instead 

 of the conimon jiigeons. Before leaving, Mr. tiriiaJ gave us an order for 

 100 flails of our Homers. 



The number of orders tor breciliiig stock is'hicdi we jiave received from 

 Iowa is mit (it pr(qiortion to any state near it, shfiwing tliat these squab 

 jilants ari' known tlii'oughout Iowa to be making money. The same is true 

 -if Califcuaiia, also l'eniis\ Ivania and New ,Tersry. In the country around 

 Millville, Manrieetown aud liiviilim; Creek, all in tljo southern part of 

 Nev.' .Icrsey are hninhvds .if s.piali plants. Tlie reason is that it has 

 spread from iiionlh lo inontb there that there is big money in raising these 

 dainties. Tlere an- moi-e s,|uab lireeib.i'.; in eastern Pennsylvania and 

 southern New .ler^ey rhan tliere. are ehieken breeibn-s. We went through 



