96 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 



Some advertisers selling breeding stock try to give the 

 impression in their advertising that they control the matings 

 and love affairs of the pigeons they sell, to the uttermost 

 degree. " We are the ones who can start you right," they 

 say, "with our guaranteed mated pairs." Their pigeons, how- 

 ever, behave just the same as all pigeons. You have just as 

 much control over the minds of your pigeons as anybody. 

 We have the finest equipment for mating in America, as it is 

 the largest, a thousand mating coops being in constant use. 

 One of the buildings is heated by a hot-water plant so as to 

 get quick results in mating in the winter. It is natural for 

 pigeons to breed, same as all animals. Do not believe that 

 the man who offers to sell you pigeons has it in his power to 

 control them after they have left his hands. The control of 

 your pigeons is in your hands absolutely. If you raise an 

 excess of cocks, or if you have an excess of either sex, for any 

 reason, you should procure enough of the opposite sex to 

 match up evenly. You should have some mating coops 

 (ordinary boxes with wire fronts will do) and in them you 

 should pair up birds to suit yourself as to color of plumage, or 

 size, or special characteristics, as you raise them. 



We fill all orders, large or small, with equal care and 

 thoroughness, for it is just as much to our interest to please 

 the customer and get more orders in the one case as in the 

 other. 



There is not much choice as to what time of year a start 

 in squab breeding should be made. Our customers who 

 start in the winter have been exceptionally successful because 

 then prices for squabs are at the top notch, and it takes only 

 a few sales to make a new breeder thoroughly convinced to 

 go ahead to success. We ship breeders all the year round. 

 A pigeon will not break down under either stifling heat or 

 bitter cold, being different from other animals. 



We fill orders in rotation and treat customers alike, and 

 ship promptly. Frequently we get orders to ship by first 

 returning express, and it is very difficult to do this. One 

 customer in Chicago planned to start for Alaska with twelve 

 pairs of our birds, but he held back his letter so that we got 

 it with only two hours to fill crates and get birds to him before 

 his departure. We filled his order as a matter of accommoda- 

 tion. 



