The national standard squab book . ndication of what theConsumer in Chicago is paying for inferiorsiiuabs. It rests with you whether you will besatisfied with breeding a product which com-mands a price of $2 to $3 a dozen, o $3 to $ yovi put squabs weighing ten pounds a dozenand over into the Chicago market, you can getfrom $3 to $6 a dozen. NEW YORK MARKET. In the first partof January, 1903, we received th;, followingletter from the manager of the squab depart-ment oi a commission house in WashingtonMarket, New York city: Your name and address as raisers offancy squabs was given me by Mr.
The national standard squab book . ndication of what theConsumer in Chicago is paying for inferiorsiiuabs. It rests with you whether you will besatisfied with breeding a product which com-mands a price of $2 to $3 a dozen, o $3 to $ yovi put squabs weighing ten pounds a dozenand over into the Chicago market, you can getfrom $3 to $6 a dozen. NEW YORK MARKET. In the first partof January, 1903, we received th;, followingletter from the manager of the squab depart-ment oi a commission house in WashingtonMarket, New York city: Your name and address as raisers offancy squabs was given me by Mr. Howes ofDetroit, Michigan, who was over to yourplace a few days ago. As I have heard ofyour plant before and have tried to get youraddress so as to write to you f ir squabs, Ihope this letter will mean some business forus both. If you have any squabs to ship, like to get vour output, and can use allyou can ship at full market, and make voupr impt returns dav received and sold. Thisweek I am returning the following prices:. INTERIOR OF MATTNO shows matins coops in use in one of our matinpr houses,heated by liot water. This house is 142 AlPIiXniX A U3 Squabs weighing ten pounds tn iluzen andup, $ per dozen; eight piamds and up,$4: seven povuids and up, $; six and ime-hal£ pounds and ui>, $; dark, $ perdozen. If you will prepay charges, accountof sales will be sent you same day goods arcreceived, less five per cent commission. Letters like the above come to us from allparts of the covintry, and S(iuab breederswhom we have supplied get similar connnvmi-cations. The poultry and game <icalers in allsections are after sciuabs all the time andcould sell a great many more than they arenf)w able to get hold of. The above letter iswritten notwithstanding the fact that in NewJersey and Eastern Pennsylvania alone aretoday four or five thousand S(|uab breeders,many of them \\ith large flocks of over onethousand i)airs of birds each. In the townof Mo
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