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1908 



HOW TO PRESERVE, COLLECT. BAG AND SELL THE MANURE. HOW TO USE 

 TOBACCO DUST FOR BOTH PIGEONS AND POULTRY. I have several hundred Homer 

 pigeons raised entirely from stock purcJiased of you a little more than three years ago. I wish 

 to write you to obtain information in regard to selling the manure. I have your National 

 Standard Squab Book in which you say you ship to tae tannery and obtain 60 cents a busheh 

 I would like to know how you ship it. In bags or barrels? Tne manure has always been used 

 on our farm, but I have recently been deprived of my husband and need the money very much, 

 and as I cannot do the farming that he has done, feel obliged to sell the manure. It is free 

 from sand or sawdust. The most foreign substance will be feathers and some little nesting 

 material that they have scattered around, as of course I should not try to sell the old nests 

 that would be nearly all nesting material. The packing will ha-ve to be done by my daughter 

 and myself. I have been told that it is bought by the bushel, but it would be a hard task to 

 measure it all, as I am. considerably over 60 years of age and very lame. I find the freight 

 will be 21 cents per 100 from here and if I ship by weight it will be easier to measure it all 

 by the bushel and they would have to take the freight agent's figures instead of my measure. 

 I have quite a quantity. Have measured up one bushel and found the weight 36 potmds, 

 which at that rate would take only three bushels to weigh a little more than 100 pounds and 

 I think I have 30 bushels or more. — Mrs. M. W., Rhode Island. 



Answer. Feathers and common nesting material in the manure will not hurt it any in the 

 estimation of the tanners, but they like it free from gravel and from tobacco stems. The 

 stems will discolor the hides in the vats. The manure varies in weight according to the amount 

 of moisture in it. It should.be dried and then bagged, two bushels to a bag. Buy a bushel 

 measure and use it. Always ship in bags and' get the bags back empty. They are worth at 

 least five cents apiece even if second hand, as burlap has gone up. 



Squab raisers who use tobacco stems for nesting material cannot sell the manure to tanneries. 



The only reason for using tobacco stems is to ward off possible lice. The same result may 

 be attained when'straw 6f-*pine nee.dles are used by dusting the nests now and then with tobacco 

 dust. We sell tobacco duSt'f6r 11 -cents" a pound. It is equally good for poultry and is better 

 than many fancy lice'^owders' selling for two or three times that price. We will supply 25 

 pounds of tobacco powder for-$2; ■ In^smaller quantities 11 cents a pound. The use of this 

 powder will not injure the man,iire forjtanneries. 



SOME AGREEABLE DISAPPOINTMENTS 



I havfi- not written you since ■ receipt . of 

 birds, consequently will send you a word at 

 this time. My first agreeable disappointment 

 was the promptness with which you filled my 

 order, I live 500 miles from Boston. I 

 mailed my order for the pigeons at eight 

 o'clock Wednesday' rnoming and at , five, 

 o'clock Friday evening the birds were waiting 

 for me at the express office, just about - 53 

 hours from the time I mailed my order until " 

 shipment was received. I had not expected 

 to receive the shipment before eight days. 

 The birds reached me in first-class condition — 

 except for a few broken tail feathers you would 

 have thought they had never been out of their 

 native loft. They lost very little time in 

 getting climated, for three days after turning 

 them loose they were nesting and soon all 

 were hatching. 



In comparison with other Homers I have 

 seen, everytiiing is in favor of the Plymouth 

 Rock breed. They are cleaner, better pro- 

 portioned and less shy than any others I have 

 seen. The squabs frorn these birds are 

 everything an epicure could desire, big, fleshy 

 and meat the whitest. I have only words of 

 commendation for the stock of breeders you 

 handle. I can only wish you increased sales 

 of your excelle"t ifioney makers. You are at 

 liberty to use this letter to interest prospective 

 customers or my name as a reference. — P. F., 

 Pennsylvania. 



TEN PAIRS OUT OF THIRTEEN SPLEN- 

 DID PAIRS QUICKLY AT WORK. Our 



cheese maker at Aldenville, Penn., ordered 

 thirteen pi^irs of Homers from you. We have 

 encouraa«ed his going into the business for the 

 reason that several months of the year they 

 are not busy at the- trade and could just as 

 well care for a nice flock of Homers. 



The thirteen pairs received from you a fevt 

 weeks ago are splendid specimens and ten pairs 

 are at work at present. Not being contented, 

 we wanted to mix the blood and ordered thir- 

 teen pairs from an imitation squab company. 

 The birds came yesterday and we are so badly 

 disappointed in them that we would like yery 

 much to return them, and not mix with our 

 high-class birds received from you. We want 

 eventually to put in a few hundred pairs of 

 the party and will want from twenty to 

 twenty-five pairs of your selected birds in a 

 few weeks time. What will bathe price and 

 can you give us a fine lot? — G. S., Penn- 

 sylvania. 



RAPID BREEDING IN MICHIGAN. I pur- 

 chased of you last year three pairs Extra 

 Plymouth Rock Homers and at tlus writing J 

 have^ had them just one year and seven days 

 and instead of having three pairs I now have 

 24 pairs that can fly besides a dozen squabs 

 aad as many eggs. What do you think about 

 that? As I am in need of nestbowls, please 

 send me three dozen of your wood fibre nest 

 bowls. — Tt . E. F., Michigan. 



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