APPENDIX A 



(Copyright, 1903, by Elmer C. Rice.) 



CALIFORNIA MARKET, The California 

 market for squabs is excellent, especially at 

 the invalid 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 (January 28, 

 1903)_: " 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 



pleasure and vacation resorts all over the 

 country are good squab markets. Maine 

 squab breeders 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 Hamp- 

 shire are a fine summer market, also the re- 

 sorts along the eastern coast of Massachu- 

 setts. 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 summer, there is the demand for 

 squabs. 



HOSPITAL TRADE. A woman in the 

 State of Washington wrote us that two big 

 hospitals 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 February 7, she replied: " Please 

 pardon my delay in acknowledging the re- 

 ceipt 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 sur- 

 prised us." (As we had shipped two pairs 

 more than the order called for, or 52 pairs 

 altogether, the customer had no complaint.) 

 *' The birds are perfect beauties and we are 

 greatly pleased 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 you 

 dc not care to deal with commission men. 



BRANCHING OUT. We have put some of 

 otu- best birds, in largest orders, for 3 00 to 1000 

 pairs, right into the heart of the squab country 



around Philadelphia, showiijg that our ideas 

 and our birds are all right. On February 9, 

 1903, we received the following letter from 

 Heacock & Hokanson, architects, of Phila- 

 delphia: 



"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 

 readjr to build houses with every essential and 

 practical feature necessary to make a success 

 on a somewhat larger scale." 



SQUABS IN UTAH. The following letter 

 comes to us from James A. Hepbtim, Utah, 

 dated January 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 

 ^geons and although I have been breeding 

 Homers for flying for a long time, I learned 

 many things of interest to me from the book. 

 I 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 domestic 

 product same as chickens, and can be mar- 

 keted in any State or Territory at any time of 

 the year in any quantity without violating the 

 game laws. 



CHICAGO MARKET. The Chicago market 

 for sqxiabs 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 commission 

 men. The Chicago market is an eager one, 

 and the dealers are imploring squab raisers to 

 sell, saying they wiU take all offered. We 

 advise our customers in the Middle West to 

 sell their squabs to the private trade direct 

 over the heads of the Chicago commission men 

 until the latter advance prices. We print 

 herewith some letters from Chicago commis- 

 sion houses, showing that they want them 

 both with the feathers on and off, depending 

 on the dealer : 



C. B. Hayden, Jr., & Co., 214 and 216 South 

 Water Street, Chicago, Illinois (Jan. 26, 

 1903) : "Your favor of the 24th inst. at hand 

 and in reply will say, fat dressed sqtiabs bring 



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