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Our shipments of breeding stock in 1908 to this State were quite large, fully 

 as much volume as to California. 



A correspondent in Acosta, Washington, wrote us in November, 1908: 



I am going into the squab business in Washington (Lewis County). Squabs sell in Seattle 

 and Tacoma markets at $2.50 and $3.50 per dozen, and the market is not supplied ten per cent 

 of the demand. I have 15 acres to devote to this business. 



OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. 



If a stranger to the poultry and squab industry were asked to name a 

 section of the United States where chickens and squabs probably would sell 

 the slowest, he might name Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. In this 

 judgment he would fall into considerable error, for the people there are just 

 as enterprising and just as fond of good things to eat as they are in the East, 

 although there may not be so many of them. Witness the following letter 

 to us dated June 27, 1908, from a prospective customer in a small city in the 

 Indian Territory: 



Some few weeks ago I wrote you for catalogue, now I want your squab book and you will 

 find enclosed 50 cents in stamps to pay for same. How many pairs would you advise me to 

 start with ? The Ahneda Hotel says they can handle from four to ten dozen a day. This hotel 

 is the leading hotel of my city. 



Four to ten dozen squabs daily is going some for one hotel in the Indian 

 Territory. 



Concerning Oklahoma, one of the leading poultry, butter, eggs, etc., houses 

 in Oklahoma City wrote the following letter to one of our friends under date 

 of March 14, 1908: 



In regard to squabs, will say, that there are not any handled around here to speak of. There 

 is no reason why it should not be a paying business, if some one would start here who understands 

 it fully, and turned out a good article, just at proper age and of good quality, etc. Wo reason 

 why a good demand could not be worked up for them here. If at any time you should raise 

 more than you could put out locally, we could undoubtedly find a good market for them, as we 

 are shipping out of here in carload lots weekly to New York City and California. Will be glad 

 to give you any further information and have you write us. 



In other words, the demand waits on the supply. Get busy, Oklahoma 

 folks. Grain is cheaper for you than for us here in the East and if you may 

 not succeed in getting New York prices for your squabs, you will make as 

 much money as squab farmers here. 



TWO YEARS' WORK IN MAINE. From MOST PRACTICAL BOOK SHE EVER 



18 pairs of your Extra stock that I bought a READ. The National Standard Squab Book 



little over two years ago, I now have 300 is a most satisfactory treatment of tbe subject 



mated pairs and at least 50 pairs that will of squab raising. It seems to me to be the 



be mated very soon. — F. R., Maine. most practical book I have ever read on any 



subject. — Mrs. E. G. W., Washington. 



GREAT SATISFACTION. I am pleased 



to be able to advise you that the pigeons which gOW A RETAIL TRADE GROWS My 



1 piu-chased from you are givmg me great Plymouth Rock Homers are doing well. I 



satisfaction as they have really doubled m ^m selling some of the squabs. One customer 



number and the squabs have been very heavy ^^ another, so I have orders for all I can 



healthy, dehcious I am sure that you will g ^e at present.— G. R., Michigan, 



be pleased to hear the above report — • »b . 



F. J., New York. ^^^ YEARS' BREEDING IN IDAHO. 



MINNESOTA GROWTH. I have a nice We take advantage of the present (February, 



little plant of about 250 pairs from the stock 1908) to thank you again for the excellent 



I bought from you some two years ago. — quality of birds sent us in June, '06. — J. W., 



M. H., Minnesota. Idaho. 



