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APPENDIX G 



TWO KINDS OF SQUABS. 



The top picture showa Homer squabs ten days old: the bottom a 

 pair of Carneaux squabs almost four weeks old. (The camera was 

 closer to the Homers than to the Carneaux, so they look larger 

 proportionately.) 



I received the Plymouth Rock Carneaux ten 

 days ago and the other goods a few days before 

 the arrival of the birds. Everything came to 

 me in good shape and is satisfactory in every 

 way. I am not much given to making testi- 

 monials, but I want to say that the birds you 

 sent me are fine, indeed much better than I ex- 

 pected, or bargained for. You advised me 

 that you had now no solid yellow birds, so I was 

 much surprised to find one fine yellow cock and 

 three other birds so nearly soUd yellow that the 

 white can be seen only by close examination. 

 I made two entries in the pigeon show I told 

 you about, and won first in class of five. Some 

 of the pairs have already gone to work and have 

 eggs, although they are in the moult, — C. R. 

 peardorff; Indi^ft. 



Since quail can no longer be 

 served at California hotels and 

 cafes, fine, fat squabs are 

 filling the place at first-class 

 tables. A large squab plant 

 about sixty milesfrom San Fran- 

 cisco has a contract for all its 

 squabs (large varieties), killed 

 and feathers off, at $5.50 per 

 dozen. Another gets S5 alive 

 the year around. When we con- 

 sider that these birds are but 

 four or five weeks old, and re- 

 quire little or no care except 

 that the parent birds are well 

 fed and watered, it certainly 

 looks well for this growing busi- 

 ness. It pays, like any busi- 

 ness, to raise the best. When 

 people ship little, half -fed, half- 

 feathered, black-meated squabs, 

 bred from small stock, there is 

 small profit, and no satisfaction 

 to seller, dealer or consumer. 

 The San Francisco papers have 

 all summer quoted squabs at 

 $2 to $2.50 per dozen, but hun- 

 dreds of slnppers have been 

 getting from $3 to $5 right 

 through, according to size and 

 quality. They pay. better than 

 chickens. One squab plant in 

 Sonoma County sends as high 

 as 700 fat squabs per month to 

 San Francisco, — ^W. A. Bolton^ 

 Csdifornia. 



I am shipping Pl^outh 

 Rock squabs to a hotel in Ind' 

 iana. They give me $3.75 a 

 dozen. They wanted me to sell 

 them by the pound, offering 

 me so much for twelve poimds, 

 but I made one shipment of 

 sixteen Homer squabs that 

 weighed twelve pounds, and 

 they were so well pleased with 

 them, that I finally got $3.75 



Fer dozen to start, and I think 

 can contract with them for 

 about $4.50 per dozen the year . 

 round. The parties I deal 

 a check on the first and fif- 

 They will accept even 

 The express 



with send me 

 teenth of each month. 



half a dozen squabs at one time. . , 



charges 6n my slnpments are only twenty-five 

 cents. — Mrs. Ida Kosman, Indiana. 



In South Bend, the people like squabs very 

 much, but they do not want to pay more than 

 $3 per dozen. I sold some squabs in Chicago 

 last summer at $3 per dozen. I paid the mer- 

 chandise express rate for dressed squabs until 

 we got a new agent. I asked him what the 

 express rate on dressed squabs was. He 

 looked it u^ and found that ,they go, at the 

 general special rate, which is less than mei> 

 chandise rate. — ^W. O. Bunch, Indians^* , ■ 



