STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 



SOON TO SEND FOR MORE BIRDS. 



Enclosed find money order for S2.88. for 

 which please send to my address three dozen 

 nest bowls for pigeons. My birds that I got 

 of you last fall are doing well. Thanking 

 you for past favors, and that soon I am send- 

 ing for more birds. — Mrs. M, H. P., Con- 

 necticut. 



PIGEONS WERE MOULTING. Can you 



explain to me why my birds start in and make 

 their nests and then stop? They have done 

 very httle since October (it is now December). 

 They are looking fine. They are all mated 

 Their house is cleaned twice a week. They 

 are free from lice. They have shell, salt and 

 codfish in front of them all the time, no rats 

 or mice to trouble them. I have about sixty. 

 The house is twelve by thirty. The house is 

 not cold. They have plenty of nest material. 

 Not a sick or dumpish bird in the lot. If you 

 can tell me what else I can do, you will con- 

 fer a great favor. I bought my birds of you 

 in May, twelve pairs. I have over sixty; do 

 you think they have done well? — F. E. G. , 

 New York. 



Answer: If you had applied to one of the 

 know-it-alls (who know nothing about pig- 

 eons) , he would have told yoti that your 

 trouble came from the fact that you did not 

 originally buy your birds from him, but the 

 simple truth is that your birds were moult- 

 ing late, and would not lay until through 

 shedding their feathers and getting their 

 new coats, 



GOOD GRAIN NEEDED FOR GOOD 

 BIRDS. Enclosed find remittance for one 

 hundred poimds best red wheat and one 

 hundred pounds hempseed. I have had hard 

 work to get good red wheat lately, and I find 

 it poor practice to feed the inferior grain, as 

 the birds scatter it all over the house, so 

 thought I would try and get some from you. 

 I think my birds are doing first class, and 

 I intend to put in two or three more lots as 

 soon as I can arrange for them. — C. E. B., 

 New Hampshire . 



CONVINCED HIM THAT THEY ARE 



PROFITABLE. About a year ago I bought 

 from you half a dozen pairs of Homer pigeons, 

 and at present time they number over fifty 

 birds. The way they have increased and the 

 little, but necessary, care they need convinces 

 me that they must be profitable. I enclose 

 twenty-five cents for the working plans for 

 enlarged house, which I intend to build as soon 

 as the weather permits, with the idea of stock- 

 ing it in the early spring. — H. B. R., New York 



MORE THAN PLEASED IN ARKANSAS. 



The pigeons that you shipped arrived here 

 O. K. — twenty-six in all. Many thanks for 

 the extra pair. They are doing fine, and I am 

 more than pleased with them, and hope to 

 send for more soon. — A. H., Arkansas. 



SATISFIED WITH SQUAB HOUSE AND 

 BIRDS. The pigeons and also the letter 

 stating they were shipped arrived yesterday 

 morning at nine o'clock. This certainly was 

 fast time from Boston as the stamp of your 

 letter showed 5.30 p.m., forty-eight hours 

 previous. To say that we are pleased with the 

 birds does not express it. They are certainly 

 fine birds, and we will try to do our part to 

 make a success of the business. We built our 

 houses after the plans given in your squab 

 book, and are well pleased with them. As 

 soon as we get them painted we will send you 

 photographs of them so you can see where we 

 keep our birds and how we care for them. 

 The birds were all in good shape and seem to 

 have received good care from the express 

 company. — H. A. B., Illinois. 



DOING NICELY. Enclosed find stamps 

 for which please send me some aluminum tub- 

 ing for leg bands. The birds we bought from 

 you are doing nicely. — A. H. W., Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



GOING TO SELL HIS COMMON PIGEONS 

 —EXTRA PLYMOUTH ROCKS THE BEST 

 BREEDERS TO BE HAD. I have had pigeons 

 only about a year. At present I have about 

 seventy, half Homer and half common pig- 

 eons. I am going to sell the common pigeons, 

 and in the fall you shall have my order for 

 breeders. I think your Extra Plymouth Rock 

 Homers are the best breeders that are to be had. 

 Mrs. Street, who lives here has some of your 

 Homers, and I think they are all you claim for 

 them. — W. W. P., Arizona. 



FINE AND HEALTHY. Enclosed find 

 $1.70 in two-cent stamps, for which please 

 send me the leg-band outfit. My birds are 

 doing very nicely. They look fine and are 

 very healthy. — C. C. R., Pennsylvania. 



FIRST SHIPMENT DOING WELL, SO HE 

 ORDERS ANOTHER. Enclosed find money 

 order for which send eighteen pairs and four 

 dozen nest-bowls. The first order of mine 

 was received O. K. The birds are doing fine. 

 — N. S. R..Iowa. 



FAST WORK— HAS NOT HAD HIS BIRDS 

 A MONTH, BUT HAS PLENTY OF NESTS, 

 AND SQUABS ARE DUE. I am very agree- 

 ably surprised with the pigeons which you 

 sent me. I received them on May 18. They 

 were so quiet and seemed so much at home 

 that I let them into the fly on the 22d and had 

 no trouble with them. They went in and out 

 aiid did not have to bother with them. On 

 May 24 I received the nest-bowls and put 

 them in the house the same afternoon. The 

 next day one of them commenced to make a 

 nest and lay. She is setting now and should 

 hatch about the i6th of June; so I think I will 

 have some squabs before I have had the pig- 

 eons a month. I think this is pretty fast 



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