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squabs plucked and delivered from $3.59 to 
$3.75 per dozen, If price suits you please let 
me know.” Signed by E. Max Heinrich, 
superintendent. 
incoln Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska_ (Feb. 
16, 1903): ‘Replying to your letter. We can 
use about two dozen squabs per week in our 
cafe at present. Will pay $2.50 per dozen 
delivered here, feathers on.” 
Hotel Victoria, Pittsburg, Penn. (Feb. 18, 
1903): In regard to your letter, ‘will say, we 
use about one dozen or one and one-half 
dozen per week, just depends on the business, 
and will pay $3.50 per dozen delivered here 
at the hotel.” 
Fred Harvey, general office, Union Depot 
Annex, Kansas City, Missouri; Chicago office, 
corner 17th Street and Wentworth Avenue 
(Feb, 14, 1903): We can use 15 to 20 dozen 
squabs per week if the birds are very nice 
and the price reasonable. Can use them with 
feathers on. Do not know what we can afford 
to pay, it depends entirely on the birds. If 
you will pose send three dozen squabs by 
Santa Fe baggage car to Kansas City, charging 
them at such a price that you can afford to 
furnish them, I will use them as a sample. 
the birds are not of the right quality and the 
price is too high, we will not need any more, 
ut if the birds and price are right, we can use 
quantity given above. I enclose baggage car 
poe bill; be careful to fill it out correctly. 
This bill is made in duplicate: you hold one 
copy as your receipt and the other goes with 
the birds. Please put the squabs in a small 
pox with a little ice.” 
Hotel Savoy, Ewins-Childs Hotel Co., pro- 
prietors, Kansas City, Missouri (Feb. 16, 
1903): ‘‘What is your lowest price on best 
squabs in five-dozen lots? We are not in the 
habit of sending out of town for our supplies, 
but if you have something better than we can 
get here, it is possible that_we can do business 
with you.'’ (Siged by George Thompson, 
steward). 
Frank E. Miller, superintendent Dining 
Service, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 
System, No. 707 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, 
Missouri (Feb. 16, 1903): “I have your 
favor relative to squabs. It is proper for you 
to state the price per dozen. e occupy eight 
or ten large dining stations and require a large 
number.” ; 
Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio (Feb. 
19, 1903): “In reply to figer letter making 
inquiry regarding squabs I will state that we 
are paying $3.00 per dozen for nice dressed 
squabs. e do not buy any unless they are 
fully dressed, no feathers on.” 
Louis A. Fisher, Manager Cen Club, 
Cleveland, Ohio (Feb. 17, 1908): “We buy 
all our are in New York as the prices of 
three and four dollars per dozen prevailing in 
this city are too high—that is, we buy cheaper 
in New York than here.’’ 5 
A. S. Barnett, steward Morton House, Grand 
Rapids, Michigan (Feb. 11, 1903): “In 
NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
reply to your inquiry in regard to what we 
would pay for squabs such as you have, we are 
paying $2.25 per dozen, Should you consider 
our price an object, would be pleased to learn 
how many you could furnish a week.”’ 
(Feb. 10, 
Hotel Schenlen, Pittsburg, Penn. 
1903): ‘‘Your squabs must be according to 
the weight and you should find a ready market 
for such stock. Nice white squabs are bring- 
ing $3.50 today.” 
Hotel Rider, Cambridge Springs, Penn. 
(Feb. 11, 1903): ‘‘We can pay you $2.25 per 
dozen for genuine squabs (no pigeons) de- 
livered here. Can use six or eight dozen at a 
Sop but we do not want anything but young 
irds,’” 
E. A. Goodrich & Co., commission mer- 
chants, 103 South Water Street, Chicago, 
Illinois (Feb.13, 1903): ‘Your favor at 
hand. If you mean fat young pigeons that 
have left the nest and can fly, they are worth 
75 cents to $1 per dozen, and the trade wants 
them alive. (This is the way the trade in 
Boston wants them, but they pay more.) If 
you mean nestlings, or very young pigeons 
which have not left the nest and are unable to 
fly, we can get you $2 to $2.25 per dozen, 
dressed neatly. Either kind is good sale at 
prices named and can handle for you any 
quantity from five dozen to one hundrny 
dozen. If nestlings, tie in one-half dozen 
bunches packed in ice and ship by express.” 
A FINAL WORD. Our object in printing 
the letters from marketmen and other squab 
buyers, in this appendix, is to convince any 
intelligent man or woman that there is a mar- 
ket for him, provided he goes to raising 
squabs, no matter where he lives. We have 
hundreds of similar letters on hand, but we 
have not room to print all, and we think we 
have printed enough. If you are not con- 
vinced by what we have printed that there 
is a paying market for squabs within five 
hundred miles of you, do not write to us and 
ask us to tell you the names and addresses 
of squab buyers in your town or city, or 
your county, for that we may not be able to 
do, but sit down at your writing desk, or go 
out in person, and find out for yourself. 
It is unnecessary to argue the squab mar- 
ket with any one of common sense who 
lives east of the Mississippi and Missouri 
tivers, and on the Pacific Coast, and within 
shipping distance of Denver. If you live in 
a barren territory or a foreign country, and 
wish to take up this subject with us, we will 
reply to the best of our ability, but remember 
that you are on the proms and can find out 
such facts for yourself better than we can tell 
you. 
This Manual is intended to be a book of 
facts, backed up by evidence. If anybody has 
any additional facts as to squabs which will 
improve this Manual, we will be glad to con- 
sider same, and will pay for them if accepted 
