1906 LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS 1906 



STORIES OF SUCCESS ON THIS PAGE ARE NEW. THEY WERE RECEIVED BY 

 THE PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY OF BOSTON IN NINE MONTHS OF 1906. 



account of labor I would prefer the one large 

 fly, but I want no experiments and leave the 

 matter with you. I can get $4.00 per dozen 

 for a large portion of my squabs, and would 

 like to have an opinion as to what 5000 of 

 your breeders would net us yearly when we 

 raise our own feed on the farm. 



WE SUPPLY HENS TO THOSE WHO 

 NEED THEM. After recommending your 

 firm to A. F. Kennelley of this city and he 

 being a purchaser from you recently, I find 

 that he is well pleased with treatment accord- 

 ed him. Enclosed please find $5.00 for five 

 female birds to be used as breeders. I bought 

 some birds from a friend of mine and he had 

 five odd cocks which I want to mate up. 

 You will forward these by first express to my 

 address. H. E. W., Ohio., 



BEST BIRDS HE EVER SAW. The 



Homers ordered from you reached me in due 

 time and in excellent condition. They 

 certainly are the finest birds I ever saw. I 

 really believe they are a finer lot than the 

 first consignment, if that be possible. The 

 second day after their arrival they commenced 

 building their nests, which I imagine is a 

 pretty good record. 



Some of my friends have secured birds from 

 other parties and although I have not seen 

 their birds, I am confident they can't tell me 

 that they have a finer lot than mine. 



If I have an opportunity of securing you 

 any customers I shall be only too glad to do 

 so. B. Y., New York. 



BEST HOMERS IN CALIFORNIA. Birds 

 received in Al condition. Your birds have 

 stirred up quite some interest here and what I 

 hear from people who know is that your birds 

 are the best in the colony. As it is, I am well 

 pleased with the bunch. I have a house 

 12 x 32 feet divided into four pens 8x9 feet 

 with a three-foot passage running the length 

 and everything up to date. That also has 

 opened their eyes in the building and arrange- 

 ments in an up-to-date squab house. I have 

 had the birds less than a week and am pretty 

 well advertised already. The market here 

 is strong at $3.00 to $3.50 and the demand 

 far exceeds the supply. C. H., California. 



SOLD YOUNGSTERS FOR $2 A PAIR IN 



KANSAS. Enclosed find remittance for one 

 leg band outfit. My pigeons have been doing 

 fine, and are keeping busy all the time. Have 

 sold off the young pigeons at eight weeks old 

 for $2.00 per pair. What is the difference in 

 Canada peas and the peas we raise here? 

 Will the common peas do to feed to the 

 pigeons? G. W. S., Kansas. 



LATEST NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK 

 MARKET; HIGH PRICES WHICH ARE 

 GOING HIGHER BECAUSE OF THE NEW 

 LAW FORBIDDING ENTIRELY THE SALE 

 OF QUAIL EXCEPT IN NOVEMBER AND 

 DECEMBER. I take the liberty of asking 

 you for a little more advice for the birds I 

 bought from you last November. Of sick- 

 ness I have not seen any sign of it. I lost only 

 two of them, one of apoplexy I think, because 

 it fell like shot dead, the other one died of 

 diarrhoea. Of the young squabs, the cas- 

 ualties have been a little higher, but out of 

 50 I did not lose more than six, or 12 per 100. 



Now I wish you would give me your 

 opinion how I have progressed, if I am on the 

 regular average or if I am under it.. 



The prices for squabs on the New York 

 market have been very high all winter have 

 reached as high as $6.50 a dozen for squabs 

 of over 10 pound a dozen, and $4.50 for birds 

 of near eight pound or so. Of course private 

 trade is better and I have been able to sell 

 squabs for 50 cents apiece easily. 



I have a set of birds that give me three 

 eggs and have hatched them successfully 

 with three days late for the extra one. Does 

 that happen often? H. G., New York. 



WILL NOT BUY ANY HOMERS BUT 

 PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Last May I ordered 

 from you twelve Plymouth Rock Homers. 

 They arrived on the eighth of May and on the 

 twelfth of the same month the first egg was 

 laid. Five pairs of them went to work almost 

 immediately and have been at work ever 

 since. I raised the squabs during the summer. 

 I have now 13 pairs of mature pigeons. Twelve 

 pairs work constantly and I am very much 

 pleased with them and want to thank you 

 for them and as you are so kind as to offer to 

 answer questions and to help we people who 

 do not know all about raising squabs I shall 

 be so much obliged if you will give me a little 

 help. My present ambition is to increase my 

 plant. I want to buy some Extras from you 

 as soon as I can raise the capital. I can buy 

 Homers nearer home but yours have done so 

 well for me that whatever new stock I get I 

 would like to get from you. You say in your 

 book that you will give your patrons the 

 address of a good New York buyer. Will you 

 please send me the address? C. O., New 

 Jersey. 



BRANCHING OUT. Please quote me your 

 best figures on the following: Homer pigeons 

 in pairs ready to go to work in lots of 20, 50 

 and 100 pair lots. Hempseed in bushel lots. 

 Health grit in 100 pound lots. I have your 

 prices of last year but presume there are some 

 changes. I purchased 12 pairs of Homers 

 from you last spring and they raised me about 



These are strong letters. Read them over. You want some assurance, when you buy 

 pigeons, that you will be treated right, as these customers were. 



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