APPENDIX B 



Many interesting points with regard to squab raising, the management 

 of a plant, and so forth, are disclosed by the letters which we receive from 

 customers, and the following pages will repay reading as showing the practical 

 side of the business. 



The stories of success, letters from customers, which appear in this Appen- 

 dix B, were received by us in 1905, along with hundreds of others of similar 

 character. These show results duplicated over and over again by our cus- 

 tomers, and they came to us in the ordinary run of business, day by day. 



We do not print the names and addresses of these customers. Many of 

 them are regular buyers of our birds. We would advertise them as breeders 

 to our loss. We guarantee the genuineness of the letters here printed, and will 

 prove it in any way desired. The originals are on file at our office at Boston 

 and may be seen there. 



Here are stories which tell of hardy, vigorous parent stock; of one-pound 

 squabs ; of quick results from a small purchase ; of flocks from us bred for 

 years without a single death ; of remarkable breeding qualities ; of handsome 

 Homers which attract admiration wherever they go ; of prizes won at fairs ; of 

 excellence demonstrated over Homers of any breeding in every State ; of many 

 women who are making success with our birds ; of customers who started with 

 ^mall flocks-aiid 4ater bought of us by the hundred pairs ; etc. 



See page 153 for the difference between sand and grit. Same page also for 

 conditions in Florida. 



See page 155 for points about moulting. 



On page 157 read what a correspondent says about inbreeding, and the 

 author's reply; also causes of failure in squab raising. 



More about the excellent market for squabs in the State of Washington is 

 given on page 159. 



Breeding without having any sickness or deaths is told on pages 159 and 

 160. 



The experience of a squab breeder with five hundred common pigeons 

 is told on page 164. 



OUR PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS ARE great many pigeon fanciers. We have sold 



STRONG IN AND ARODND BRIDGETON. more Plymouth Rock Homers in this [Cum- 



MEW JERSEY, WHERE THERE ARE berlandl county, around Bridgeton, than any 



SOME Critical buyers and breeders breeder or set of breeders in that county, 



— READ THIS LETTER FROM A CUSTOMER and the reason for it is just what our cus- 



IN SOUTH VINELAND. Will you kindly let tomer in South Vineland states above.) 

 me know when is the best time for me to buy 



more pigeons, as those I bought of you three SAND IS NOT GRIT— CONDITIONS IN 



yeais ago are doing finely, and I am perfectly FLORIDA, AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE 



satisfied with them and I tell people where GREAT MARKET THERE. I have plenty 



I got them, and several persons told me they of beach sand and would like to know if you 



were going to send for some from you. There really need to ship me the grit, for I am going 



are lots rf people come to see them, as they to cover the ground of the flying pen with 



are fine birds, and when I send for more I the sand. — J. S., Florida, 



want them mated like the ones I got before; Answer: Gravel is grit, but sand is not 



but I will not send until I hear from you. I grit. It is all right to cover the ground of the 



got twenty-four pairs the last time. There flying pen with sand and use sand generally 



were two that died a little while after I got about the squab house. In Florida there is 



them, but that was all I lost.^3. W., New nothing but sand, and this is true of other 



Jersey. (TTiis customer lives in South yine- localities also. I wish everybody who has 



land, New Jersey, a few miles from Bridge- pigeons or poultry would read and remem- 



ton. New Jersey, and in this territory are a ber what I say about sand and grit. Sand 



LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 



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