SUPPLEMENT 



NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 

 By EtMER C. RiCB 



Don't wait until your squabhouse is built before you order your supplies and 

 pigeons. Supplies going by freight should be ordered from two weeks to a month 

 ahead of the time you want to use them. Pigeons go by express much faster, 

 as fast as passenger trains, but we want your order from a week to three weeks 

 ahead of the time you want the pigeons shipped. Give us all the time you can 

 on pigeon shipmetits. Get your orders in early. Order ahead. Supply orders 

 going both by freight and express are shipped the same day we get them unless 

 the customer specifies something different. Remember that freight trains which 

 carry supplies such as grit, grain and large lots of nest bowls are slower than the 

 express trains on which the pigeons are shipped. 



We are always glad to give advice on pigeon topics without charge but cor- 

 respondents always should enclose a stamped and addressed envelope for our 

 reply. Letters should be as brief as possible. If you' ask questions which we 

 are to answer, number them and keep a copy of your letter so that we may 

 reply by number without repeating your question. 



Our Manual, the National Standard Squab Book, is the best-selling work on 

 breeding or farm-life ever published in any country, and has been carried in 

 the mails to every part of the civilized world. 



Our business is too much a matter of pride with us, too large, and too suc- 

 cessful, to permit of a single patron being dissatisfied. We have spent over 

 $200,000 to put our trade on a firm and successful footing and we cannot afford 

 to run the risk of displeasing a customer. If resources, skill and experience 

 count for anjrthing, and we think they do, we intend to keep on furnishing the 

 best pigeons possible, and patrons can rest assured that they are getting for 

 their money the greatest possible value. Moreover, we have one price to all; 

 the customer in California can buy of us as cheaply as our next-door neighbors. 

 Our farm is always open to inspection and customers may make their own selec- 

 tion of breeding stock, if they desire. 



Our general advertising in the high-class magazines and other periodicals 

 not only induces the breeding of squabs but also leads people to eat squabs. 

 For every one who sees oiu: advertising and writes for particulars and starts 

 breeding, there are a score of men and women who inquire of their butchers 

 or marketmen for squabs in order to eat them. Squab dealers in every section 

 of the United States and Canada are reporting an increased demand with which 

 the supply caimot begin to keep pace. 



We take some pride in the squab industry. We were the pioneers in it 

 and we put it on a commercial basis. We have fostered it on correct Hnes 

 and according to soimd business principles, and the growth has not been a 



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