194 PROFITABLE PIGEON BREEDING 



The best days for shipping squabs are Monday, Tuesday end Wednes- 

 day. We will cheerfully answer all inquiries, and furnish shipping 

 tags and invoice cards. Very trul.y yours, 



NATHAN SCHWEITZKR CO., INC. 

 ISS — J. Isedor S. Schweitzer, Vice-President. 



Mr. F. A. Hazard, May 6th, 1921. 



420 — 10th St.. Augusta. Ga. 

 Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of April 2Sth regarding Squabs, the 

 present prices we are quoting are as follows: 



7 lb., to dozen $5.75 



6 lb., to dozen 4.00 



Dark, per dozen 3.25 



Cull, per dozen 1.50 



Pigeons, per dozen 1.75 



^Xe handle from 100 to 150 dozen Squabs a day, and. while the price 

 of Squabs must naturally be reduced to conform with the downward 

 tendency of prices of all food products, still, there will be so many 

 more used, tliat the more reasonable the prices there will be an in- 

 ducement for those in the Squab raising business to increase their 

 output to conform with the increasing demand. 



After this downward revision or adjustment in prices, bringing us 

 back to normal conditions, has taken place, the outlook then will be 

 entirely favorable to the raising of larger quantities of Squabs for the 

 market. Tours very truly, 



A. SILZ, INC., 

 M. K. Per E. Flauraud, Vice-President. 



Mr. F. Arthur Plazard, Chicago, June 8, 1921. 



420— 10th St., Augusta, Ga. 



Dear Sir: I have been approached a good many times in the past 

 about the future of the Squab market. 



Business conditions since the first of the year have undergone a 

 wonderful change. The people of the United States have been calling 

 for cheaper prices on food. You have read in every newspaper, maga- 

 zine, and periodical, — "Lower the price of food so we can get back 

 to normal!" 



In former years it has been the object of all the big dealers to put 

 into the freezer the biggest part of the summer production of Squabs. 

 I have not statistics before me, but I know that right now there is 

 over 15,000 dozen of last year's Squabs in the coolers of Chicago. New 

 York has a greater amount. Those Squabs were sold as a rule during 

 the months of January, February and March in order to tide trade 

 over during the non-productive months. I do not know about the 

 East, but I know the slunip in business struck us here in the first part 

 of January. There were no banquets, the banks called in their loans, 

 so consequently a big lot of broilers were thrown on the market, — and 



