APPENDIX A, 
NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK. 
By ELMER C. RICE. 
CALIFORNIA MARKET.—The California 
market for squabs is excellent, especially at 
the fhvalid resorts. In San Francisco it is 
not so good as at the Southern Coast places 
frequented by rich travelers. We print the 
following letter: 
Poultrymen’s Union of California, 413 Front 
street, San Francisco (Jan. 28, 1908): ‘‘Your 
valued favor just received and in reply would 
say that usually the quotations in the papers 
are close to being correct, but if you desire 
to call and see us at any time, we will give 
you exact quotations. There is always a 
good market here for large, fat squabs. They 
are readily selling today at $3 per dozen.’’ 
SUMMER RESORT MARKETS.—The pleas- 
ure and vacation resorts all over the country 
are good squab markets. Maine squab breed- 
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, 
in Rhode Island, is a good summer squab 
market. Two or three of our customers in 
the vicinity of Lenox, Mass., and in North 
Carolina, and Florida, are quite enthusiastic 
over the splendid market at their doors. 
Wherever the good eaters go, winter or sum-~- 
mer, there is the demand for squabs. - 
HOSPITAL TRADE.—A woman in the state 
of Washington wrote us that two big hos- 
pitals in a city near her had offered to take 
all the squabs she could supply. She moved 
out, bought a farm and in January, 1903, we 
shipped her four baskets. Under date of Feb. 
7 she replied: ‘‘Please pardon my delay in 
acknowledging the receipt of the shipment of 
fifty pairs extra mated Homers I ordered from 
you. I have been so busy with them that I 
have not really had time to write. Out of 
the whole lot there was only one dead one, 
which surprised us.’’ (As we had shipped two 
pairs more than the order called for, or 52 
pairs altogether, the customer had no com- 
plaint.) ‘‘The birds are perfect beauties and 
we are greatly pleasel with them. They seem 
to like their new home. Thanking you for 
your kindness and with best wishes.’’ 
The hospital trade in squabs is worth cater- 
ing to, for they are such a delicacy that 
they are greatly esteemed by physicians. 
There may be a suggestion in this for you if 
(Copyright, 1908, by Elmer C. Rice.) 
yok do not care to deal with commission 
BRANCHING OUT.—We have put some of 
our best birds, in largest orders, for 300 to 
1,000 pairs, right into the heart of the squab 
country around Philadelphia, showing that our 
ideas and our birds are all right. On Feb. 
9. 1903, we received the following letter from 
Heacock & Hokanson, architects, of Phila- 
delphia: é 
“Enclosed please find 25 cents for a plan of 
your style of squab house. Our client in- 
forms us that you have prints showing the 
details of house, nests, self-feeders, etc. We 
have two clients who have been making some- 
what of a success at this work and are now 
ready to build houses with every essential 
and practical feature necessary to make a 
success on a somewhat larger scale.’’ on 
SQUABS IN UTAH.—The following letter 
comes to us from James A. Hepburn, Utah, 
dated Jan, 24, 1903: 
“Enclosed find check for $1.70 for which 
please send me postage paid your leg band 
outfit. I recently received your book on pig- 
eons and although I have been breeding 
Homers for flying for a long time, I learned 
many things of interest to me from the book. 
T intend now to increase my flock and raise 
squabs for the market also. I find I can sell 
all I can supply here to the local markets.’’ 
SQUABS NOT GAME.—A correspondent 
writes us that she does not think she can 
market squabs in her state because the game 
laws are so strict. In reply we wish to state 
that squabs are not game, but are a domes- 
tic product same as chickens, and can be 
marketed in any state or territory at any 
time of the year in any quantity without vio- 
lating the game laws. 
CHICAGO MARKET.—The Chicago market 
for squabs is fairly good, but nowhere near 
so good as the markets of New York, Phila- 
delphia and Boston, because the only squabs 
obtainable there in large quantities are the 
inferior squabs of common pigeons. We have 
customers in Illinois who have written us 
that their fat Homer squabs from our birds 
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 
eager one, and the dealers are imploring 
squab raisers to sell, saying they will take 
all offered. We advise our customers in the 
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