THE MARKETS 87 
At the same time the report quoted above was printed in 
the New York Tribune a breeder in Mauricetown, N. J., was 
getting from four dollars and twenty-five cents to four dollars 
and fifty cents a dozen for his squabs. (This was the last 
week in January, 1902.) You see, it does not pay to trust 
wholly to the market reports in the newspapers. The motive 
of the city men is to get their goods as cheaply as they can. It 
is your motive to get-as much as you can, and don’t be fooled 
by second-hand information. Go direct to headquarters 
yourself in person and learn the truth. If the middleman 
tries to hold down the price to you, go to a consumer and 
make your bargain with him at top prices. 
A breeder in New Jersey writes that there are several 
squab breeders in his town, all of whom give their regular 
time to other businesses. He continues: ‘‘I am now (Feb- 
ruary, 1902), getting thirty-two cents each as they run, no 
sorting, for what few squabs I am now raising, and they 
are sold to a man who calls every Tuesday for them. When 
I have enough, I ship direct to New York by express. They 
sort them in New York.” 
This is doing extremely well for unsorted squabs. It is 
only another bit of evidence which proves the money-making 
condition of the New York market. (The above correspon- 
dent’s breeders are not first-class, he admits, saying he has 
been breeding for seven years and his flock has run down.) 
The Kansas City market does not yet know what a fat 
squab is. The only things obtainable there are the squabs of 
common pigeons, which are quoted low, as they are all over 
the country. A correspondent in Atchison writes: ‘“‘ I wrote 
to the Kansas City dealer again, telling him I thought his 
prices were pretty low for Homer squabs. He replied that 
they had so few Homers offered that they did not quote them, 
and they would be worth from two dollars to two dollars and 
fifty cents per dozen. He quoted common pigeon squabs at 
one dollar and twenty-five cents to one dollar and seventy-five 
per dozen, as I wrote you before. That is better, and I want 
to try raising them as soon as I can get into a place where I 
can handle them.”’ 
Fact is, the squabs that bring from three to five dollars a 
dozen east of the Mississippi will bring that (and more) as soon 
as the wealthy trade of Kansas City gets a taste of them. 
