1906 LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS 1906 



STORIES OF SUCCESS ON THIS PAGE ARE NEW. THEY WERE RECEIVED BY 

 THE PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY OF BOSTON IN NINE MONTHS OF 1906. 



big they just about can't sit in the nest. I 

 think if you would put an advertisement in 

 some of the evening papers you would get 

 some more trade. I am advertising your 

 birds to everybody I know. — ^J. S., Wisconsin. 



COMPLIMENTED BY AN EXPERIENCED 

 JUDGE. One of my hens made her nest and 

 I thought she was ready to lay but she sat all 

 one day and part of the next and did not, but 

 had her mouth open panting and seemed very 

 sick. I telephoned to Mr. M. to come and tell 

 me what to do. When he came he held her 

 in warm water for 15 minutes and then fast- 

 ^ ened her in her nest. In ten minutes she laid 

 her egg and got all right. 



Mr. M. holds the world's record for three 

 hundred miles and has some of the most val- 

 uable birds in Chicago, and he said my birds 

 were very fine, in fact he said he could have 

 hardly told them from his own, they resembled 

 them so much. 



When so good a judge will compliment 

 them so highly I feel very proud of them. — 

 A. B., Illinois. 



SQUABS WEIGHING ONE POUND AT 

 TWO WEEKS. I thought you might hke to 

 hear from the birds you sent us a year ago. 

 They have been working overtime since. We " 

 have 54 birds now with several nesting. Every 

 one is a solid color the same as the old ones. 



The squabs we have weighed have averaged 

 a pound at three weeks old. One weighed a 

 pound at two weeks. 



There is a party here getting birds of all 

 kinds and colors and claims they are better 

 than what we got for Extras on account of the 

 bands. — ^J. W., South Dakota. 



Answer. It is quite common for parties 

 selling poor Homers to put bands on their legs, 

 some of them quite ornamental, tn an endeav- 

 or to enhance their value, same as putting 

 a gaudy label on cheap goods. It is the pig- 

 eons that cotint, not the bands. Bands are 

 useful to number the birds, that is all. 



NO. 1 PLYMOUTH ROCKS ARE GOOD 

 HOMERS. It will probably be fall before I 

 get my hoiase built and give you an order for 

 more birds. If money is not too scarce the 

 order «Tvill be for your best birds, for the No. 

 1 Plymouth Rocl^ are doing even better than 

 the Manual claims them to. Your Extra 

 birds must be wonderftil. — ^W. H. W., Massa- 

 chusetts. 



WE " SHOW THEM " OUT IN MISSOURI. 

 I received the grits and oyster shell all O. K: 

 My birds jump on to the grits and hemp seed 

 in a hurry. They are doing well. I will have 

 about sixty squabs this month and quite a 



number mating this week. I had an order 

 for 100 squabs this morning. It made me 

 sick to think I could not fill it, but my time 

 came after a while. I will build another house 

 soon and I want 100 more of your birds. Mr. 

 Hall's birds look well. They came through 

 nice. He is well pleased and I think he will 

 order more. There are two more people talk- 

 ing of going into the squab business. I will 

 try to get an order for you. — J. W. H., Mis- 

 souri. 



HAS NEVER SOLD ANY SQUABS LESS 

 THAN NINE POUNDS TO THE DOZEN. 



About three years ago I purchased of you six 

 pair of Homer pigeons for which I paid $2.50 

 per pair. My flock are all from the stock I 

 bought of you and I have some nice birds. I 

 have never sold any squabs under nine pounds 

 to the dozen at four weeks old. I never sell 

 m.y birds after they have left the nest for 

 squabs. Will you send me your price list for 

 grains, that is, Kaffir corn and red wheat. 

 I would like the address of Boston dealers. — 

 C. E. W., Rhode Island. 



LETTING BIRDS FLY. I would like to 

 have your opinion and advice on a matter that 

 is very important to me. I have a beautiful 

 start with your birds, have followed your book 

 exactly and the result has been very gratifying. 

 Now what I want to do is to buy about three 

 hundred more old birds from you and pen 

 them. Will the young birds be as prolific, 

 mate and hatch as well 2 properly fed, watered 

 etc., exactly as my pens are, if I allow them to 

 run loose on my farm ? There is no danger of 

 them being shot and I would much prefer 

 allowing them the run of the farm. I have 

 the buildings that I could convert into' com- 

 fortable houses at once, and I will appreciate 

 your thoughtful opinion and advice in the 

 matter for I know you are headquarters. — 

 T. W., Tennessee. 



Answer. Birds which you raise you can 

 let fly because they know no home but yours, 

 but Homere which you buy you cannot let fly 

 safely because they know another home (their 

 old home) and their instinct and desire to go 

 home may lead them to leave you. 



NEW JERSEY NEIGHBORS ALL AGREED. 



The six pairs of birds received from you the 

 first day of May are still doing fine (July). 

 One pair has her third pair of young at this 

 writing — less than three months. The rest 

 win hatch this week. Mr. Tevis (the neighbor 

 I spoke to you about in a former letter) came 

 over after me to see the birds that he had 

 just received from you. They are "fine birds 

 and he is very much pleased with them and 

 sorry that he did not take my advice and send 



The squab industry is growing every year. More squabs were bred in 1906 than ever 

 before. Prices were better and they are going to be as good or better in 1907. The habit of 

 squab eating is growing in every section. 



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