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C, iTiii, t ■ " '"" "S , ''" °f ^? ?f ^^ °'1 ''"■Is. which broke the mated pairs up. I 

 would like to mcrease my flock to the Ml capacity of the house built from your ^itpSi. 12 



^Llhr^^k i L^l io 1 °f ^ ^'I?^*° ^"""l P,?°S ^^^* I «°t f™™ the mill here that must have 

 Sh^ t^l^ good deal of ergot that caused the females to die. I wrote to Mr. Kice at the time 

 £.^w w V* ™^ -^^ ^'i^^*' at least! have had no more trouble since I commenced 

 feedmg first quality gram. The squabs weigh 12 to 14 pounds a dozen. 



1 herewith send an order for 12 females to balance my flock 



My original purchase of you in 1904 was six pairs Extra Plymouth Rocks. The birds arrived 

 aU sate and m good condition and attracted a good deal of attention at the time, for some of 

 my tnenite put on a broad smile and have been expecting me to bust up in the pigeon business. 

 i:w -fT T ° "ii"°« x',?"" o™'' two years and the order accompanying this don't look much 

 like It for I can sell all the squabs I can raise. They are even engaged before they are fit to 

 take off the nest. I get 50 cents a pair just killed, and if I dress them ready for the oven 1 get 

 75 cents a pair m the local market. My squabs will weigh 12 or 14 pounds per dozen. Mid 

 thmk It IS on account of the way I am handling and feeding, for I find you cannot make meat 

 unless you feed for it. 



I make my own grit of glass and it has br.en very satisfactory. I keep a couple of bricks 

 ot salt cat m the housp, also a codfish occasionally, and they are doing fine now, if I did havp 

 some bad luck, but then one must expect drawbacks in any kind of business.— A D D ' 

 Pennsylvania. ■ '• 



Note. Yoj will never have sickness of any kind with pigeons if vou provide sounH grair» 

 and clean water If your gram de.ller needs wat^^hing, and has not voiir interests at heart 

 examine especially the wheat and corn, tasting both. Some grain dealers will take whole eoni 

 which has germmated and make cracked com of it. You can always tell sour grain by smell 

 taste and sight. •= j , 



It is quite true, as this customer ctates, that feed is a factor in the weight of the squabs Too 

 much wheat keeps the old birds thin, and the squabs dark and thin. Plentv of com and 

 peas makes the squabs fat. 



/^J'l^^SfSiP OF THE SQUABS IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN THEY REACH THE AGE 

 OF 23 DAYS. RECEIVING THREE DOLLARS A DOZEN. Our order for 17 pairs of Extai 

 Plymouth Rock Homers was placed with you early in March (1907) and the birds arrived and 

 were jilaced in our pen about the 20th. They were all in good shape, having stood the trans- 

 portation well, and made themselves entirely at home in their new quarters. The day foUow- 

 mg their arrival one of the hens laid, and from that time until now (June 24) the flock, as a 

 whole, has worked splendidly, and results have far exceeded our expectations. At the present 

 time 15 of the 17 pairs are at work, having either eggs or young squabs. We believe that 

 every pair would have been at work, but two of our hens escaped, and we had to order two 

 more to replace these, and this accident upset our flock considerably. 



We flnd that the squabs will weigh from three-quarters to seven-eighths of a pound when they 

 are three weeks and two or three days old, and we have been disposing of them at that age. 

 No doubt, this fast growing is due to the equable climate which we have in South Carolina. 

 We have no trouble in disposing of all our birds at that age at 25 cents apiece. 



The pigeons do not require much of our time, and we are so thoroughly satisfied with our 

 experience that we are considering ordering 20 more pairs in the next few' days. — Mrs. C. B., 

 South Carolina. 



SQUABS WEIGHING FOURTEEN TO RECEIVES $4.20 A DOZEN. My squabs. 



SEXTEEN OUNCES. It is now July, 1907 f„^ y„„r birds weigh when dressed nin^ 



SIX months since we ptirchased from you 44 ■,\ ^i_ ^ ,x - -^ "i^c- 



pairs of your Extra Homers. ' Ccven pairs met pounds to the dozen and I receive at the rate 



with accidents, because they were disturbed of $4.20 per dozen for them. I have fed com, 



several times on account of the plant not being wheat, ^eas a ■'d millet, buckwheat and bread, 



finished. The remaining 37 pairs are in I have lad suxess by letting the squabs on 



every way satisfactory. We have at present the flo-r when they are four wee-ks -old, that 



11 pairs on eggs and 21 squabs. On account is, when I am going to keep them for breeders, 



of not having too much room for the birds and They are not troubled by the other birds and 



also to answer the many demands of our sick, they feed themselves sooner and the old birds, 



we are killing the squabs at three to four weeks get to work earlier, I have had no sickness or- 



when we find them to weigh 14 to 16 ounces, lice. Yrtur Mafiual is all right aild is good for 



and at which time the mature birds are again the starter -and experienced, — P.E. D;. Dis- 



breeding.— S. E., Illinois. trict of Columbia. 



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