APPENDIX A 
Squabs weighing ten pounds to dozen and 
up, $4.50 per dozen; eight pounds and up, 
3a; seven pounds and S, $3.50; six and one- 
half pounds and uP, $2.60; dark, $1.80 per 
dozen. If you will prepay charges, account 
of sales will be sent you same day goods are 
received, less five per cent commission.”’ 
Letters like the above come to us from all 
parts of the country, and squab breeders 
whom we have supplied get similar communi- 
cations. The poultry and game dealers in all 
sections are after squabs all the time and 
could sell a great many more than they are 
now able to get hold of. The above letter is 
written notwithstanding the fact that in New 
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania alone are 
today four or five thousand squab breeders, 
many of them with large flocks of over one 
thousand pairs of birds e In the town 
of Moorestown, New Jersey, to take only one 
case, are from 200 to 300 squab breeders. As 
we say in our Manual, people in these sec- 
tions keep hens for their own use, but not for 
market, for they know that squabs pay bet- 
ter than hens. Poultrymen in other sections 
of the United States are fast finding this out 
and are putting in squabs along with poultry, 
or giving up poultry altogether. In spite of 
the large output of squabs from the 4,000 to 
5,000 breeders in New Jersey and Eastern 
Pennsylvania, which go into the Philadel- 
hia and New York and Boston markets 
For the squab raisers in New England sup- 
ply only about one-tenth of the Boston de- 
mand), there is all the time a scarcity of 
squabs, as the above letter proves. This 
letter comes to us because we have the repu- 
tation for dealing in a fancy product. There 
are breeders of squabs who send to market an 
inferior product from small and cheap Hom- 
ers, and such squabs are not the kind which 
dealers are anxious to get. Be sure you are 
able to breed a fancy squab by getting your 
breeding stock of us. Some beginners are 
anxious as to express rates, not compre- 
hending that they can ship squabs long dis- 
tances _at a trifling cost. The express rate 
from Boston to New York is $1 per 100 
pounds, This means that an express team 
will call at our door, get a box of squabs 
weizhing 100 pounds, transport it to New 
York, and in that city deliver it by team to 
the commission dealer for $i. In the case 
of a box of our squabs weighing twelve 
pounds to the dozen, about eight dozen and 
the box would weizh 100 pounds. If we de- 
livered them in New York at the price quoted, 
$4.50 per dozen (or $36 gross), we would net, 
deducting his five per cent commission and 
the $1 express charges, $33.20. The com- 
mission man would resell the squabs to his 
trade for $5 to $8 per dozen. By a dozen 
squabs we mean in this case and in all cases 
aero prices are quoted, twelve squabs. We 
do not mean one dozen pairs of squabs. We 
mean six pairs of squabs. Squabs are always 
quoted at so much per dozen, not so much 
per dozen pairs. 
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On January 8, 1903, the New York squab 
buyer above quoted offered the following 
prices for squabs: For squabs weighing ten 
pounds to the dozen and up, $4./5; eight 
Roads and up, $4.50; seven pounds and up, 
3.69; six and one-half pounds, $2.75; dark. 
and No. 2 squabs, $2. 
On January 25th, 1903, he offered the fol- 
lowing prices: Ten pounds and up, $5.50 per 
dozen; eight pounds and up, $5.00 per dozen; 
seven pounds and up, $4; six and one-half 
pounds, $3; dark and No. 2 squabs, $2.10. 
On February 6, 1903, he offered us the 
same prices as last quoted, adding that he 
would pay $3 to $3.75 per dozen for squabs 
of average weight and grade. In this letter 
he said: ‘‘As I have been getting quite a 
few letters from some of your squab customers 
of late, I want to thank you for same, and 
hope to get some of their birds and prove to 
their satisfaction by the prices large, fine 
birds will sell at, that squab raising if prop- 
erly carried on_is a very profitable and pay- 
ing industry. The demand for squabs is on 
the increase and will be from now on, as the 
game laws of all the States are such as to 
prevent much small game from reaching 
the several markets, where there has been a 
big supply of such at low prices that squabs 
will now take their place, so that new be- 
ginners have nothing to fear from a glut by 
over-production of good-sized squabs. This 
we have proven to our own satisfaction when 
we introduced the large or royal squab to our 
best hotel and cafe trade in this market, dur- 
ing the past season, and it now looks as 
though our demand will be greater this com- 
ing season, The buyers of these large birds 
see they are worth the difference in price, 
that they have -a better call for them once 
they introduce them to the consumer. En- 
courage all your buyers to invest in birds 
that produce large, plump squabs. It will 
pay them best in the end and make a better 
demand for their grade of birds.’’ 
On February 16, 1908, he offered us the 
following prices: Squabs weighing ten pounds 
to the dozen and up, $6 per dozen; nine pounds, 
$5.50 per dozen; eight pounds, $5 per dozen; 
seven pounds, $4 per dozen; six and one-half 
pounds, $3 per dozen; dark, $2.10 per dozen. 
The above quotations are a good indica- 
tion of what the New York market for squabs 
is. 
One of the practical ways we have of help- 
ing our customers is to refer them to such 
first-class buyers of squabs as the firm above 
quoted. We will give the address of the 
above New York firm to you when you buy 
breeding stock of us. 
SCRANTON MARKET. The following let- 
ter is from Chandler and Short, commission 
merchants, 15 Lackawanna Avenue, Scran- 
ton, Penn., dated February 15, 1903: ‘‘ We 
have yours in regard to squabs. They are 
worth from $2.75 to $3 per dozen, dressed, 
on our market. Whatever you ship, we will 
