. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 360 APPENDIX G. MALE AND FEMALE PIGEON BILLING, OR KISSING. HOW I LEARNED TRUE CALIFORNIA PRICES, by Stefan Schwarz. In the leading San Francisco daily papers, squabs are quoted at $2 and $3 a dozen at present (May 29, 1911). Everybody knows that squabs are numerous at this time of year, and that com- petition is active. Circumstances did not encourage me. Anyway I did not expect a very ready demand, or good prices either. I am breeding a fiock of several himdred pairs of Plymouth Rock Extra Homers. I asked my grain man for the address of a commissi
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 360 APPENDIX G. MALE AND FEMALE PIGEON BILLING, OR KISSING. HOW I LEARNED TRUE CALIFORNIA PRICES, by Stefan Schwarz. In the leading San Francisco daily papers, squabs are quoted at $2 and $3 a dozen at present (May 29, 1911). Everybody knows that squabs are numerous at this time of year, and that com- petition is active. Circumstances did not encourage me. Anyway I did not expect a very ready demand, or good prices either. I am breeding a fiock of several himdred pairs of Plymouth Rock Extra Homers. I asked my grain man for the address of a commission house, and he sent me to a big one of first-class reputation. Who can describe my great surprise as one of the members of the firm told me: **I will take all the squabs that you will ship to me and I am ready to make a contract with you for one thousand dozen squabs a year, for which I will pay you $ for Homer squabs weighing ten to twelve pounds, and $ for Carneaux squabs weigh- ing fourteen to sixteen pounds,'* It is a puzzle to me how tny fellow squab raisers in California can afford to go so much below these quotations just mentioned, unless they ship squabs which weigh considerably less, or are fooled by the newspaper quotations, as I nearly was. Squab buyers must buy squabs. Squab breeders alone can furnish squabs. It is the business of the seller and not the buyer to make the price. HOW I LEARITED TO GET GOOD PRICES, by A. J. McCauley. I sold all of the Plymouth Rock Extra Homer squabs I raised in eleven months to a marketman in St. Louis, Mo., for prices ranging from $ to $ a dozen. I started in to ship to the market people in December, 1909^ and until January 21, 1910, received $ a dozen; from then xmtil February 25 I succeeded in get- ting $ a dozen. I again wrote them to advance the price as I had been offered more elsewhere. The price was then advanced to $4,80 a dozen. This price lasted until April 10. when they tumbled to $ a dozen,
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