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, 
1908, 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- 
ised 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 
eatly pleased with them. They, seem to 
ike 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 est d by phy i ‘There 
may be a suggestion in this for you if you 
de not care to deal with commission men. 
BRANCHING OUT. We have put some of 
our best birds, in had ip orders, for 300 to 1000 
pairs, right into the heart of the squab country 
around Philadelphia, showi1.g 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 
ready 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 Hepburn, 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 
igeons and although I have been breedin; 
omers for flying for a long time, I learne 
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 squabs 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 will 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:, 
Cc. B. Baydens Je, & Co., 214 and 216 South 
Water Street, Chicago, IIinois (Jan. 26, 
1903): ‘Your favor of the 24th inst. at hand 
and in reply will say, fat dressed squabs bring 
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