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squabs plucked and delivered from $3.59 to 

 $3.75 per dozen. If price suits you please let 

 me know." Signed by E. Max Heinrich, 

 superintendent. 



Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska (Feb. 

 16, 1903) : "Replying to your letter. We can 

 use about two dozen squabs per week in our 

 cafe at present. Will pay $2.50 per dozen 

 delivered here, feathers on." 



Hotel Victoria, Pittsburg, Penn. (Feb. 18, 

 1903) : In regard to your letter, will say, we 

 use about one dozen or one and one-half 

 dozen per week, just de^jends on the business, 

 and will pay $3.50 per dozen delivered here 

 at the hotel." 



Fred Harvey, general office. Union Depot 

 Annex, Kansas City, Missouri; Chicago office, 

 comer 17th Street and Wentworth Avenue 

 (Feb. 14, 1903): We can use 13 to 20 dozen 

 squabs per week if the birds are very nice 

 and the price reasonable. Can use them with 

 feathers on. Do not know what we can afford 

 to pay, it depends entirely on the birds. If 

 you will please send three dozen squabs by 

 Santa Fe baggage car to Kansas City, charging 

 them at such a price that you can afford to 

 furnish them, I will use them as a sample. If 

 the birds are not of the right quality and the 

 price is too high, we will not need any more, 

 but if the birds and price are right, we can use 

 quantity given above. I enclose baggage car 

 shipping bill; be careful to fill it out correctly. 

 This bill is made in duplicate: you hold one 

 copy as your receipt and the other_ goes with 

 the birds. Please put the squabs in a small 

 box with a little ice." 



Hotel Savoy, Ewins-Childs Hotel Co., pro- 

 prietors, Kansas City, Missouri (Feb. 16, 

 1903): "What is your lowest price on best 

 squabs in five-dozen lots? We are not in the 

 habit of sending out of town for our supplies, 

 but if you have something better than we can 

 get here, it is possible that we can do business 

 with you." (Siged by George Thompson, 

 steward) . 



Frank E. Miller, superintendent Dining 

 Service, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 

 System, No. 707 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, 

 IVUssouri (Feb. 16, 1903): "I have your 

 favor relative to squabs. It is proper for you 

 to state the price per dozen. We occupy eight 

 or ten large dining stations and require a large 

 number." 



Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio (Feb. 

 19, 1903): "In reply to your letter making 

 inquiry regarding squabs I will state that we 

 are paying $3.00 per dozen for nice dressed 

 squabs. We do not buy any unless they are 

 fully dressed, ni ■> feathers on." 



Louis A. Fisher, Manager Century Club, 

 Cleveland, Ohio (Feb. 17, 1903): "We buy 

 all our squabs in New York as the prices of 

 three and four dollars per dozen prevailing in 

 this city are too high — that is, we buy cheaper 

 in New York than here." 



A. S. Barnett, steward Morton House. Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan (Feb. 11, 1903): "In 



reply to your inquiry in regard to what we 

 would pay for squabs such as you have, we are 

 paying $2.25 per dozen. Should you consider 

 our price an object, would be pleased to learn 

 how many you could furnish a week." 



Hotel Schenlen, Pittsburg, Penn. (Feb. 10, 

 1903): "Your squabs must be according to 

 the weight and you should find a ready market 

 for such stock. Nice white squabs are bring- 

 ing $3,50 today." 



Hotel Rider, Cambridge Springs, Penn. 

 (Feb. 11, 1903): "We can pay you $2.25 per 

 dozen for genuine squabs (no pigeons) de- 

 livered here. Can use six. <jr eight dozen at a 

 time , but we do not want anything but young 

 birds." 



E. A. Goodrich & Co., commission mer- 

 chants, 103 South Water Street, Chicago, 

 Illinois (Feb. 13, 1903): "Your favor at 

 hand. If you mean fat young pigeons that 

 have left the nest and can fly, they are worth 

 75 cents to SI per dozen, and the trade wants 

 them alive. (This is the way the trade in 

 Boston wants them, but they pay more.) If 

 you mean nestlings, or very young pigeons 

 which have not left the nest and are unable to 

 fly, we can get you $2 to $2.25 per dozen, 

 dressed neatly. Either kind is good sale at 

 prices named and can handle for you any 

 quantity from five dozen to one hundmy 

 dozen. If nestlings, tie in one-half dozen 

 bunches packed in ice and ship by express." 



A FINAL WORD. 0\xc object in printing 

 the letters from marketmen and other squab 

 buyers, in this appendix, is to convince any 

 intelligent man or woman that there is a mar- 

 ket for him, provided he goes to raising 

 squabs, no matter where he lives. We have 

 hundreds of similar letters on hand, but we 

 have not room to print all, and we think we 

 have printed enough. If you are not con- 

 vinced by what we have printed that there 

 is a paying market for squabs within five 

 hundred miles of you, do not write to us and 

 ask us to tell you the names and addresses 

 of squab buyers in your town or city, or 

 your county, for that we may not be able to 

 do, but sit down at your writing desk, or go 

 out in person, and find out for yourself. 



It is unnecessary to argue the squab mar- 

 ket with any one of common sense who 

 lives east of the Mississippi and Missouri 

 rivers, and on the Pacific Coast, and within 

 shipping distance of Denver. If you live in 

 a barren territory or a foreign country, and 

 wish to take up this subject with us, we will 

 reply to the best of our ability, but remember 

 that you are on the ground, and can find out 

 such facts for yourself better than we can tell 

 you. 



This Manual is intended to be a book of 

 facts, backed up by evidence. If anybody has 

 any additional facts as to squabs which will 

 improve this Manual, we will be glad to con- 

 sider same, and will pay for them if accepted. 



