100 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
They simply do not know how to ship and how to talk to the 
express agents. 
We never read the above advice as to shipping live-stock in 
any book or paper. It is the product of our own experience 
and the“information cost us at least one hundred dollars in 
excess charges before we learned how to get the low rate. 
It is worth dollars to our customers, and that is why we have 
given it here in detail. 
Killed squabs go to market at the rate charged for ordinary 
merchandise, no matter what the distance. Breeders having 
special customers who wish the squabs plucked should pack 
them in a clean white wood box (with ice in the summer) and 
nail the box up tight. Such shipments go through in splendid 
condition and if the breeder has a choice article, with his 
trade mark stamped on the box, he gets the fancy price. 
Squabs which reach the Boston market from jobbers in 
Philadelphia and New York are plucked and packed with ice 
in barrels. Breeders around Boston who reach the Boston 
market with undressed squabs send them in wicker hampers 
or baskets on the morning of the day after they are killed. 
No express agent anywhere has a right to make any extra 
charges whatever on our pigeon shipments. 
There is no duty on our pigeons to Canada, Cuba or Porto 
Rico, when we send with the pigeons and also to the customer, 
as we do, a certificate of purity of breed, declaring that the 
pigeons are for breeding, and not to be killed for market. 
