254 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
Our shipments of breeding stock in 1908 to this State were quite large, fully 
as much volume as to California. : : 
A correspondent in Acosta, Washington, wrote us in N ovember, 1908: 
I am going into the squab business in Washington (Lewis County). Squabs sell in Seattle 
and Tacoma markets at $2.50 and $3.50 per dozen, and the market is not supplied ten per cent 
of the demand. I have 15 acres to devote to this business. 
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. 
If a stranger to the poultry and squab industry were asked to name a 
section of the United States where chickens and squabs probably would sell 
the slowest, he might name Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. In this 
judgment he would fall into considerable error, for the people there are just 
as enterprising and just as fond of good things to eat as they are in the East, 
although there may not be so many of them. Witness the following letter 
to us dated June 27, 1908, from a prospective customer in a small city in the 
Indian Territory: 
Some few weeks ago I wrote you for catalogue, now I want your squab book and you will 
find enclosed 50 cents in stamps to pay for same. How many pairs would you advise me to 
start with? The Almeda Hotel says they can handle from four to ten dozen a day. This hotel 
is the leading hotel of my city. 
Four to ten dozen squabs daily is going some for one hotel in the Indian 
Territory. 
_ Concerning Oklahoma, one of the leading poultry, butter, eggs, etc., houses 
in Oklahoma City wrote the following letter to one of our friends under date 
of March 14, 1908: 
In regard to squabs, will say, that there are not any handled around here to speak of. There 
is no reason why it should not be a paying business, if some one would start here who understands 
it fully, and turned out a good article, just at proper age and of good quality, etc. No reason 
why a good demand could not be worked up for them here. If at any time you should raise 
more than you could put out locally, we could undoubtedly find a good market for them, as we 
are shipping out of here in carload lots weekly to New York City and California. Will be glad 
to give you any further information and have you write us. 
In other words, the demand waits on the supply. Get busy, Oklahoma 
folks. Grain is cheaper for you than for us here in the East and if you may 
not succeed in getting New York prices for your squabs, you will make as 
much money as squab farmers here. 
TWO YEARS’ WORK IN MAINE. From 
18 pairs of your Extra stock that I bought a 
little over two years ago, I now have 300 
mated pairs and at least 50 pairs that will 
be mated very soon.—F. R., Maine. 
GREAT SATISFACTION. I am pleased 
to be able to advise you that the pigeons which 
I purchased from you are giving me great 
satisfaction, as they have really doubled in 
number and the squabs have been very heavy, 
healthy, delicious. I am sure that you will 
be pleased to hear the above report— 
F. J., New York. 
MINNESOTA GROWTH. I have a nice 
little plant of about 250 pairs from the stock 
I bought from you some two years ago.— 
M. H., Minnesota, 
MOST PRACTICAL BOOK SHE EVER 
READ. The National Standard Squab Book 
is a most satisfactory treatment of the subject 
of squab raising. It seems to me to be the 
most practical book I have ever read on any 
subject.—Mrs. E. G. W., Washington. 
HOW A RETAIL TRADE GROWS. My 
Plymouth Rock Homers are doing well. 
am selling some of the squabs. One customer 
gets another, so I have orders for all I can 
spare at present.—G. R., Michigan. 
TWO YEARS’ BREEDING IN IDAHO. 
We take advantage of the present (February, 
1908) to thank you again for the excellent 
quality of birds sent us in June, ’06.—J, W., 
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