APPENDIX A, 



NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK. 



IW Klmer C. Rice. 



CALIFORNIA MARKET.— The Calitornia yuu do not care to deal Tvith commis.sinn 



market for squabs Ls t-xcellent, especially at men, 



the invalid resorts. In San Francisi'o it is BRANCHING OUT.— We have put some uf 



not so good as at the bouiherti Coast plates uur best birds, in largest orders- lor 30ii in 



trequeuted by rich travelers. We print the i.mju pairs, right into the heart ol the squalj 



loUowmg letter; country around Philadelphia, showing that our 



Poultrymen s Loion ol California, 41:; Front ideas and our birds are all right On Feb 



street, San Francisco (Jan. J.s, 1903j ; -'Your -j, i0ij3, \se received the following letter froiii 



valued favor just received and in reply would Heacock t Hokanson, architects of Fhila- 



say that usually the quotations in the papers delphia: 



are close to being correct, but if you desire '•Enclosed please find 2'^ cents for a plan of 



to call and see us at any time, we will give your style of squab house. Our client iu- 



you exact quotations. There is always a forms us that you have prints showing the 



good market here for large, fat squabs. They details of house, nests, self-feeder.'s, etc. We 



are readily selling today at $:> per dozen." have two clients who have been making "sonie- 



SUMMER RESORT MARKETS.— The pleas- ^vliat of a success at this work and are now 



ure and vacation resorts all over the country ready to build houses with every essential 



are good squab markets. Maine squab breed- and practical feature necessary to niakt 



ers ship to Boston in the winter but in the 

 summer they get better prices at Bar Harbor 

 and elsewhere along the coast. The White 

 Mountain resorts in New Hampshire are a 

 fine summer market, also the resorts along 

 the eastern coast of Massachusetts. Newport, 



uccess on a somewhat larger scale." 

 SQUABS IN UTAH.— The following letter 



comes to us from James A. Hepburn Utah 



dated Jan. 24, lUi'ri: 



"Enclosed find check for ^1.70 for wliich 



please send me postage paid your leg band 



in Rhode Island, is a good summer squab uiitfit. I recently received your book on pig 

 " "'"■ ijur customers , in ^ons and although I have been breeding 



market. Two or three 



of 



the vicinity of Lenox, Mass., and in North Homers for flying for a long time. I learned 

 Carolina, and Florida, are quite enthusiastic many things of interest to me from the boo.k. 

 over the splendid market at their doors, j intend now to increase my flock and raise 



Wherever the good eaters go, winter 

 mer, there is the demand for squabs. 



HOSPITAL TRADE.— A woman in Tht 

 of Washington wrote us that two bi; 



squabs for the market also. I find I can sell 



all I can supply here to the local markets/' 



state SQUABS NOT GAME.— A correspondent 



hqs- writes us that she does not think she can 



pitals in a. city near her had offered to take market squabs in her state because the game 

 all the squabs she could supply. She moved laws arc so strict. In replj- we wish to state 

 out, bought a farm and in January. IWZ. we that squabs are not game, but are a domes- 

 shipped her four baskets. I'nder date of Feb, tic product same as chickens, and can be 

 7 she replied: "Please pardon my delay in marketed in any state or territory at any 

 acknowledging; the receipt of the shipment of time of the year in any quantity without vijj- 

 fifty pairs extra mated Homers I ordered from lating the game laws. 



you. I have been so busy with them that I CHICAGO ^lARKET.- The Chicago market 



have not really had time to write. Out of for squabs is fairly good, but nowhere near 



the whole lot there was only (me dead one. so good as the markets of New York. Phil.a- 



which surprised lis." (As we bad shipped two delphia and Boston, because the only squabs 



pairs more than the order called for, or .'.2 obtainable there in large quantities are the 



pairs altogether, the customer had no com- inferior squabs of common pigeons. We have 



plaint.) "The birds are perfect beauties and customers in Illinois who have written us 



we are greatlv please! with them. They seem that their fat Homer squabs from our birds 



to like their new home. Thanking you for 

 yo»r kindness and with best wishes." 



The hospital trade in squabs is worth cater 

 ing to, for they are such 

 they are greatly esteemed 



are salable at prices from ^1 to $2 in excess 

 of the prices quoted by the Chicago com- 

 mission men. The Chicago market is an 

 delicacy that eager one. and the dealers are impIoripE 

 by physicians, squab raisers to sell, saying they will tiUre 



There may be a suggestion in this for you if all offered. We advise our customers in the 

 (Copyright, 1903, hy Elmer C. Rice.) (1) 



