STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 



is the product of the washing of the ocean's 

 waters. This incessant beating and washing 

 have worn off all the sharp corners. As a 

 matter of fact (as skillful breeders of poultry 

 in Florida know), if the birds can get no grit 

 and are forced to eat sand, then the sand 

 which they eat packs tight within them, and 

 if you cut open one which has died from 

 some inexplicable cause , you will find the 

 bunch of sand. It is not grit at all, and does 

 not cut and grind the grain as grit does. 

 This is the cause for many failures with 

 poultr\' in Florida. ^lack of grit. The 

 breeder thinks he has grit all around him, 

 when he has none. It is all right to co\'er 

 the flying pen with sand; it is clean stuff and 

 the pigeons will not eat it unless they are 

 forced to by their owner's failure to provide 

 grit. Make no mistake, pigeons can tell grit 

 from sand. For further remarks on grit see 

 Supplement to Manual. It is fully as im- 

 portant as grain and grain is not good for 

 anything without it. Just a word about the 

 Florida squab outlook while I am answering 

 this Florida query. I spent four months in 

 the winter of 1905, in Dade Cuunty, three 

 hundred miles south of Jacksonville, to get 

 rid of a cough. I fijund three of my custom- 

 ers in and around Palm Beach. One lived 

 in Jupiter and was raising them all right 

 but the market was not to his liking, and he 

 was a good man, too. Another at Man- 

 gonia, two miles from Palm Beach, was an 

 experienced poultry man, and he was a good 

 business man. Although well-to-do, he gets 

 on his bicycle every day during the winter 

 season and sells his poultry and eggs to the 

 rich cottagers at first hand. You would not 

 believe me if I told you what prices he gets. 

 As for squabs, I state here with full knowledge 

 of the facts, that any number of squabs may 

 be sold in Palm Beach from January 1 to 

 Aoril 1, for $1 apiece, $12 a dozen provided 

 they are good squabs, such as Plymouth Rock 

 Homers breed. The Hotel Royal Ponciana 

 at Palm Beach (called the largest in the world) 

 the winter I was there had fifty-two thousand 

 separate names on its register in its three 

 months' season. These were the richest 

 people, in Florida for amusement, and ac- 

 customed to the choicest table delicacies. 

 This is only one hotel; there are many others, 

 including the chain of great Flagler hotels 

 from St. Augustine to Miami and Nassau. 

 "Who also in Florida has the business sense 

 to see an opportunity and U illow it up by 

 providing these tens of thousands of rich 

 northern people every winter with squabs? 

 I always considered California the _ ideal 

 climate for breeding squabs, but Florida is 

 just as good; it is perpetual summer there 

 and the winter market beats anything I have 

 ever seen or heard of. As for the summer 

 and fall market, it is not good for much. If 

 you must sell squabs and poultry then to keep 

 a-going, you will have to ship North by the 



Clyde line, or else sell your goods to native 

 folks at about half the price you get 

 from northern sojoiumers in the winter. 



"WOMAN HAS RAISED ONE HUNDRED 

 PAIRS. Two years ago we bought some 

 pigeons of you. We have some fine ones 

 now, about two hundred, or one hundred 

 pairs. — Mrs. "W. B., Pennsylvania. 



BRED SATISFACTORILY ALL WINTER. 



Enclosed find muney order for supplies, 

 etc. I have some stock whose parents came 

 from you and can say they are certainly all 

 you claim for them. They have bred satis- 

 torily all winter and bid fair to continue. — 

 R. A. $., Massachusetts. 



SYSTEM AND DIRECTIONS PERFECT. 



Your system and directions for handling 

 birds are about perfect, and your Manual is 

 almost indisp jnsable for any one who is in the 

 pigeon business. The drinking fountain, 

 bath pan and nest bowls reached me. They 

 are just what I have been looking for for a 

 longtime. — Mrs. H. J. S., Pennsylvania. 



VIRGINIA WOMAN ORDERS A SECOND 



LOT. My pigeons came safely Saturda\' 

 morning and are exceedingly fine birds. I 

 like them so much that I enclose remittance 

 for another lot. — Miss A. M. D., "Virginia. 



THEY PLEASE EVERYBODY. The one 

 dozen pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers 



I received from you on November '■) are all 

 doing well. Quite a number of pers'jns have 

 seen the birds an^l all seem to think them 

 fine.— W. B. R., New York. 



RUGGED STOCK. HE HAS LOST BUT 

 FEW EGGS AND BIRDS IN HIS EXPERI- 

 ENCE. I now have in my fiock about two 

 hundred birds which are producing squabs 

 rapidly and seem to be doing well. Have 

 lost but few eggs or birds during my experi- 

 ence . I have two parties figuring to buy 

 me out. I have been enlarging my plant 

 and will divide the flock unless I sell. I will 

 send for more nest bowls in case I do not sell 

 out. — H. H. K,, Missouri. 



STRENGTH AND VIGOR OF OUR STOCK 

 SHOWN BY AN EXCELLENT JOURNEY 

 TO CALIFORNIA. The pigeons you shipped 

 me on the 2d reached me the 9th in excellent 



condition. The first thing they had after 

 being put in the squab house was a bath, 

 and I never saw anything more grateful 

 than they seemed to be. I am glad you 

 sent the extra pair of birds. I think the way 

 the birds stood the long, trying trip speaks 

 volumes for the strength and vigor of the 

 flock. Thank you for the promptness with 

 which the order was filled. — Mrs. J. F. P.. 

 California. 



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