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success and over nine hundred entries were 

 registered. I had a nice coop fixed up 

 and brought the entire flock of fourteen 

 birds. They behaved fine and did not 

 mind the close confinement after the first 

 day. One of the pairs laid two eggs. My 

 flock took first, second, third and fourth 

 prizes, also one for the largest flock of 

 one exhibitor (which was $3), and the 

 white birds took first prize over three 

 other pairs. The judge was high in praise 

 of the birds and their markings. I un- 

 derstand you have sold some birds to Mr. 

 Marsh, who has heard about my success 

 and is to start with one hundred pairs. 

 The pigeons sold several months ago to a 

 doctor of Warren were through my 

 recommendation. Thanking you again for 

 pas.t favors, I remain, etc. Mrs. R. C., 

 Pennsylvania. (The pigeon exhibition to 

 which she refers was held in February, 

 1906.) 



OFFERED FIVE DOLLARS A PAIR 

 FOR THE BIRDS. "Pigeons arrived 

 August 29th in good condition and I thank 

 you. I am well pleased with the birds; 

 thay are the finest flock I have ever seen. 

 The teamster who brought them out from 

 Seattle informs me a man on the way 

 offered him five dollars a pair for the 

 birds. Had I been with him, I surely 

 would have taken him up, and made 

 nearly $100 by the bargain. You may ex- 

 pect another order from me in a month 

 or six weeks for one hundred pairs, and 

 then I shall have enough breeders to 

 commence with." C. C., State of Wash- 

 ington. 



We have had quite a number of letters 

 similar to this one, and from other infor- 

 mation which we have in regard to the 

 Western market for breeders, we know it 

 to be a remarkable one. Anyone who 

 buys our fine birds can find a purchaser 

 who is willing to pay in many cases much 

 more than the difference in express 

 charges. We receive numerous requests 

 from wholesalers who wish to sell our 

 birds in their territory, but we sell all 

 the birds we wish to at retail, to the ex- 

 tent of our capacity, at one price to all, 

 and do not supply such dealers. We are 

 shipping at least one order a day the year 

 round to California or the State of Wash- 

 ington. 



OUR HOMERS ARE PRIZED' BY 

 FANCIERS AS WELL AS SQUAB- 

 BREEDERS. Our Homers sell on their 

 merits as squab breeders, but they are 

 first-class flyers, able to win in any com- 

 pany. At the New York and Chicago Na 

 tional Pigeon shows in January, 1904, in 

 competition with the whole country, 

 Homers sold by us and exhibited by our 

 customers were the best birds there. In 

 awarding the first prize, New York show, 

 class of Blue Homer Cocks, the judge 

 said: "Grand one; the best bird in the 

 ring today to my way of thinking. He is 

 a larg-e, fine-colored Homer with almost 



perfect head, broad shoulders and wedge- 

 shaped body, nice eye and fine dark cere. 

 This cock also won the cup for best 

 Homer shown, and this honor was not 

 new to him, as he did the same trick at 

 Lawrence earlier in the season." 



The class of Blue Checker Cocks at the 

 New York show was the largest. "A 

 finer class of Blue- Checker Homers we 

 have never seen," said the judge. The 

 first prize in this large class was awarded 

 a Homer from our coops exhibited by one 

 of our customers with the following com- 

 ment by the judge: "Grand-bodied, up- 

 standing bird, elegant head and eye with 

 the most perfect checkering I ever saw 

 on a Homer, but for being a trifle light 

 (in color) on rump he would be hard to 

 find fault with." 



In awarding the first prize in the New 

 York show, class of Blue Hens, to a hen 

 sold by us and exhibited by one of our 

 customers, the judge said: "This class 

 outside of the winner was not bang-up. 

 Good blue hens are scarce, but the first 

 bird is an exception, and probably one pf 

 the best hens going. She is extra large 

 for a hen, almost over the limit in this 

 respect, but she is built on the correct 

 lines, very good color and smooth type of 

 head. She would maka a great mate for 

 the first Cock." 



In the fall of 1903, one of our custom- 

 ers, with a Homer Cock bought of us, 

 won first prize every time exhibited, also 

 special prize for best Homer in the show, 

 every time exhibited, at the pigeon and 

 poultry shows at Taunton, Brockton and 

 Hartford. 



THIS COMMISSION FIRM IN NEW 

 YORK CITY WANTS ONE THOU- 

 SAND DOZEN SQUABS DAILY, PAY- 

 ING FROM $4 TO $6 A DOZEN FOR 

 SQUABS BRED FROM OUR BIRDS. 

 The large commission houses handle 

 squabs by hundreds of dozens daily and 

 firms which are known to furnish squabs 

 of first-class size and weight, such as our 

 birds breeu, get more orders than they can 

 fill. We received the following letter in 

 January, 1904, from a well-known com- 

 mission firm in New York City (whose 

 name and address we give to customers 

 who buy breeding stock of us): 



Plymouth Rock Squab Co., Boston, Mass.: 

 Gentlemen: I am receiving quite a faw 

 letters from time to time from the differ- 

 ent customers of yours, that are starting 

 In the squab trade. I wish if you see or 

 write them, that you would advise them 

 as I have done, to put themselves in a 

 position to ship from 5 to 10 dozen squabs 

 at a time, and" if they intend to make a 

 business of it, they might as well buy 

 enough breeders in the start, so as to be 

 able to ship a quantity at a time, as 

 these little shipments of one or two dozen 

 hardly pays one to handle, the expense 

 eating up the commission. I have stated 



