STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 



work. Several more are making nests and 

 laying. I thank you very much for sending 

 me the fine stock which you did. One of my 

 friends told me the other day that he had 

 written to you last fall about your pigeons 

 but had never received an answer from you. 

 I told him his letter must have miscarried. 

 He is starting in the squab business with com- 

 mon pigeons, and they will be likely to fail. 

 My birds have been greatly admired by all that 

 have seen them, and I hope to interest some 

 of my friends in your Homers. Thank you 

 for f^ir treatment. — E. W. T., New Jersey. 



BETTER HOMERS THAN THIS ILLINOIS 

 CUSTOMER EXPECTED TO GET. My 



fifty pairs of pigeons arrived safe and sound 

 yesterday. They are fine birds, better than I 

 expected. The express was $5.05, which was 

 reasonable enough. If these birds do well will 

 order fifty pairs more in December. Thank 

 you for your prompt and square way of doing 

 business. — C. D. P., Illinois. 



HIS EXPERIENCE WITH RUNTS A 

 FAILURE. I have been raising squabs from 

 runt pigeons and have lost so much on them 

 that I cannot afford to risk any more money 

 on stock which may turn out to be as bad as 

 some that has been passed off on me. Please 

 give me your prices on your Extra Homers 

 and nest-bowls. — G. W. M., Pennsylvania, 



PRETTY BIRDS IN TEXAS, ALWAYS 

 HEALTHY, NEVER SICK. You will remem- 

 ber that I bought six pairs of birds from you 

 last July. I have now about twenty pairs on 

 hand as nice and pretty birds as you ever saw, 

 well marked. They are perfectly healthy, 

 never sick. — Mrs, L. C, Texas. 



PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS HAVE 

 MORE THAN COME UP TO HIS EXPECTA- 

 TIONS. My intentions are at present to give 

 fifty pairs of >;our birds a thorough trial for one 

 year, and if it proves successful I intend to 

 move my place near New York City and then 

 increase it to one thousand pairs to start with. 

 The birds I received from you have more than 

 come up to my expectations, and if the business 

 moves along as it has I do not think I will 

 hesitate one moment next spring to increase 

 my flock to the amount stated. Thank you 

 for past favors. — ^J. D., New York. 



BREEDING WELL IN FLORIDA. En- 

 closed find money order for $1.70 for which 

 S lease send to me by mail your leg-band outfit. 

 [y birds are doing finely. I wish I had twice 

 as many, but must be contented with these at 

 present. The young squabs are leaving the 

 nests every day or so. — G. A. G., Florida. 



LOUISIANA CUSTOMER BRED THEM. 



Enclosed herewith find money order for fifty 

 cents, for which please send me your squab 

 book also quote me your best prices on birds, 

 drinking fountains, etc. You sold me twelve 

 pairs of your pigeons and shipped them to 

 Wilson, Louisiana, and I like them very much, 

 and they did all you claim for them. — T, J. C, 

 Louisiana. 



QUICK WORK IN OHIO.' The birds ar- 

 rived Saturday, May 6, and on Saturday the 

 13th three had laid and were setting. Today, 

 May 16, five are setting and one odd egg is in 

 another nest without the nesting material. — 

 C. G. A., Iowa. 



NO AILMENTS AND BREEDING SATIS- 

 FACTORILY. The birds ordered of you on 

 the 13th were received on the 16th, and find 

 them the same as the other order — satis- 

 factory in every respect. I also wish to thank 

 you for the extra pair. My first order of 

 birds, which I received from you five weeks 

 ago, are doing finely — no pigeon ailments. I 

 have squabs, and the majority of them are 

 hatching.~D. & S., New York. 



SOMETHING ABOUT INBREEDING, TO- 

 GETHER WITH REMARKS ON WHY SOME 

 PEOPLE FAIL AT SQUAB BREEDING. 



Enclosed find draft for $40 for which please 

 ship per Adams or Southern Express , to above 

 address, twenty-four pairs Plymouth Rock 

 Homer pigeons. Will want four times as 

 many more if these prove satisfactory. I was 

 quite interested in your National Standard 

 Squab Book, but am a little inclined to criti- 

 cise some statements. On page 41 , it seems to 

 me it would be we\l to substitute gizzard, for 

 crop, when describing the necessity for grit in 

 the digestive process, and in your comments 

 on inbreeding, you evidently lose sight of the 

 fact that in all doves and pigeons, in the wild 

 or natural state, the young hatch in pairs, 

 male and female, almost invariably, and 

 that they almost invariably mate, and have 

 done so for centuries without deterioration. 

 The Gentry swine, which took about all of the 

 high prizes at St. Louis, have been inces- 

 tuously inbred for twenty-five years. The 

 Hart herd of Jerseys, finest in the State of 

 Ohio, have been bred sire to daughter, son to 

 mother, brother to sister for ten generations, 

 and have constantly improved in size, vigor 

 and productiveness. The Bishop merinos 

 started with three animals and never had a 

 drop of outside blood in forty years, and were 

 then the finest in the world. So there is 

 nothing to be feared from inbreeding if stock 

 is well cared for and ordinary intelligence is 

 used.— H. R. C, Ohio. 



Answer: Good; I am glad to get that kind 

 of a letter because it shows that the writer is 



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