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HAD TSO TROUBLE RAISING THEM. 



Last spring, in April, I think, we bought 

 twelve pairs Extra for thirty dollars of you. 

 At present we have eighty-five in all, or about 

 sixty young birds that we have raised our- 

 selves. We would not think of selling them 

 as we have had very good success and are 

 much interested in the business, but through 

 sicloiess I lost my former position in this 

 village and have now secured a permanent 

 one in Chicago, and expect to niove there in 

 a few weeks. Expect to locate right in the 

 city and consequently will have no facilities 

 for keeping the pigeons, and so am anxious 

 tp sell. The birds are as healthy as when 

 we received them, as we have followed very 

 carefully the rules laid down, in caring-ior 

 them , and have never seen any signs of 

 disease among them. Have lost only com- 

 paratively few, and those were small ones 

 which were neglected by mother birds, or by 

 some accident. Quite a large number ot 

 our young birds have mated and have bred 

 the latter part of the winter. — R. F. G. , 

 Michigan. 



GETTING SIX DOLLARS A DOZEN. Two 



of the six pairs have now hatched out three 

 squabs, two on February 4 and one on February 

 7 (the other egg evidently was chilled by the 

 extreme cold weather).- The market price in 

 Newark is six dollars a dozen, and we have 

 'contracted to sell these three squabs at that 

 price. They are fat and very satisfactory. 

 We are very much encouraged and wish to 

 increase our flock. — F. C, New Jersey. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MARKETS. 



I received your Manual and have read it 

 through very carefully. I have found that 

 it tells the very truth. I was in Washington 

 Market and there they told me just the same. 

 They will take all the squabs I can give them. 

 I think I will give you an order next month 

 for 48 pairs Homers and one gross nappies. — r 

 H. T., New York. 



ATTRACT ADMIRATION IN CALIFORNIA. 



Birds arrived on the 11th safe and in first- 

 class condition for the lengfth of their trip. 

 I am well satisfied with the birds and expect 

 to give you an order for more before long. 

 Every one that has seen them thin^'" they 

 are fine. — E. J., California. 



OUR METHODS IN SOUTH AFRICA- 



Enclosed find fift^ cents for which please send 

 me a copy of National Standard Squab Book. 

 Perhaps it may interest you to know that 

 this is to assist in the raising of squabs in 

 South Africa. — L. E. D., Pennsylvania. 



YOUNGSTERS ARE BEAUTIES. I have 

 fifty or more pure Homers from the original 

 old birds purchased from your concern. 

 These youngsters are beauties between the 

 ages of six months and one year. — B. R. D., 

 Long Island. 



IN PERFECT CONDITION. My mother 

 bought one dozen pairs of your birds a year 

 ago and now has about sixty in flock. They 

 have been well cared for and are in perfect 

 condition. — ^T. A. B., Kentucky. 



A NEWS-AGENT'S SIDE LINE. I have 

 been doing a little bi;^iness that I did not 

 have time to tell you about in my last letter. 

 I have boys in sever9.1 of_the towns around 

 here to get squabs for me' and I have made 

 - arrangements with the above firm to deliver 

 those that I don't sell myself, on commission. 

 The hotel has an order for 150 per week. 

 Besides this order I sell to several restaurants 

 and let the market deliver tp the houses. I 

 am the only one here who buys squabs to any 

 extent, and average 200 to 300 per week. I 

 make from $5 to $7.50 each week this way, 

 besides what I make on the train. How is 

 that for a news-agent running a train every 

 day from 11 p.m. to 1,15 a.m,? — B. D,. 

 Texas. 



HAS OVERSOLD HIS SQUAB CAPACITY. 



Could you supply me with two dozen first- 

 class squabs for shipment from Wooster on 

 or about December 22 ? I have an order for 

 that amoimt, and while the birds I purchased 

 from you are doing fine, I will not have enough. 

 Have orders for breeders and squabs enou^ 

 ' to keep the fiock working overtime until 

 spring, at which time I expect to enlarge my 

 plant to at least 500 pairs. I could of course 

 nil this small order from nearby markets, 

 but Homers are Homers, and I don't care to 

 depreciate the value of my fiock by shipping 

 inferior squabs, — C. L. Z., Ohio. 



THE MAN HE WORKS FOR IS MAKING 

 MONEY WITH OUR BIRDS. I see in the 

 Poultry- Keeper that you offer a squab book 

 free, so I would like to have one, for I have 

 squabs myself and I would like to learn how 

 to raise them. I am only a boy and I am 

 working for Mr. Fairbanks on his farm. He 

 told me that I could write to you and ask 

 you for a book. I know the chicken business 

 very well, but not the squab business. Mr. 

 Fairbanks bought pigeons from you last year 

 (eighty pairs Extra shipped August 4, 1902). 

 and he is doing fine with them, so good-bye 

 and don't forget the address. That penny 

 is for a stamp, and the other stamp is for the 

 letter. — ^W. H., Missouri, 



A LONG SHIPMENT IN GOOD ORDER. 



Your two letters dated January 27 were 

 received yesterday, February 1. I went to 

 the express ^ office early this . morning and 

 found the pigeons had arrived in the night. 

 The birds are all alive and in fine condition 

 but two, one of which was bruised and I 

 fear its wing is broken, I thank you for 

 the extra two pairs and for the crates. I 

 have a fine new squab house built according 

 to your plans, only the flying pen runs up to 

 the top of the roof, which I think a better 



