STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 



young birds. I am very much pleased with 

 them and the wav they have taken to their 

 new conditions. — R. F. W., Kentucky. 



GOT A GOOD START, The birds are doing 

 fine now. I have seven pairs young and two 

 on eggs since March first. — L. C. M., New 

 York. 



REMARKABLY WELL IN SHORT TIME. 



Several weeks ago I received one dozen of 

 your Homer pigeons from you for which I paid 

 $10. These are all mated up and doing fine, 

 except two. Foiu" of them are setting and 

 another one will be setting in two or three 

 days. I think this is doing remarkably well 

 for the short time I have had them, as I did 

 not expect them to lay until at least three 

 weeks after they had been here. — B. W., 

 North Carolina. 



SELLING SQUABS AS FAST AS THEY 

 COME AND GETTING ORDERS FOR 

 MORE— ANOTHER SMART WOMAN. Find 

 enclosed post-office money order and send 

 me eighteen pairs. The last lot I got were 

 $15 for six pairs; also want two extra hens 

 for two extra cocks which I have. I have 

 been saving up some of my young during the 

 fall and winter months and have two extra 

 cocks. Am selling everything as fast as they 

 come and even engaging ahead most of the 

 time. The Country Club manager spoke to 

 me a day or two ago to try and have squabs 

 for their little dinner parties, which will begin 

 to be popular about June, and as I have two 

 standing orders at present for all I have to 

 spare I must put in some more breeders. I 

 have about sixty birds now. Of the six pairs 

 ordered last fall, one hen died within a week 

 with diarrhoea. — Miss J. M., Illinois. 



BIRDS BREED SO FAST THAT HE 

 HAS NO MORE ROOM FOR THEM. I have 

 about seventy pigeons. They are six months 

 to one year old. What can you allow me on 

 them toward more breeders? These birds 

 are all raised from stock I bought of you. 

 The reason I want to exchange them is be- 

 cause my house is too small for them and I 

 have no more room. I am going to put up 

 a large building in the spring and then I can 

 take care of more. I am satisfied there is 

 money in the business if any one can get 

 started right. — H. A. M., Massachusetts. 



A BRACE OF SQUABS BRED FROM 

 PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS WEIGHED 

 OVER TWO POUNDS. I weighed two 

 squabs from your birds and they weighed 

 iust two pounds, two ounces. — J. A. O., New 

 Hampshire. 



BEST HOMERS IN HIS FLOCK— 

 THEIR SQUABS BRING HIM THIRTY- 

 FIVE CENTS APIECE FROM BOSTON 



HOTELS ALL THE YEAR ROUND. The 



birds I purchased from you are the cream of 

 the flock. I have been selling the squabs 

 at the Boston hotels for thirty-five cents 

 apiece the year round, and Nathan Robbing, 

 at the Qtiincy Market, was glad to take 

 them at $3.50 per dozen. I have saved a 

 few young birds, some of the very finest. — 

 C. L. P., Massachusetts. 



KANSAS MARKET IS LOOKING UP. 



The birds arrived in good order and I am 

 today well pleased with them. I think 

 some of them have as fine plumage as I ever 

 saw on a pigeon. There is a party here in 

 town that has a flock but they are not first- 

 class birds, yet he gets $2.50 per dozen for 

 the squabs and could sell five times as many 

 if he had them in Kansas City. We are 

 favorably located here , sixty-five miles to 

 Kansas City, forty miles to St. Jo,, Missouri, 

 and twenty-five miles to Topeka, and we 

 ought to do well. If I can get hold of a place 

 just out of town I will increase my flock next 

 spring or possibly this fall. — C. H. K., Kansas. 



RATS TROUBLED HIM. I have not 



bought a bird since you sent me one hundred 

 pairs of Homers. At first they did not do 

 much. The very hard winter we had and 

 I being away in New York most of the winter, 

 and the birds not^having the proper care, of 

 course they did not do much; but now they 

 are raising "Cain," and they are chasing 

 each other to the nests. I now have about 

 two hundred young ones that escaped the 

 rats, and two hundred and twenty-two eggs 

 hatching. I am satisfied with them and they 

 must have been strong and hardy birds to 

 have lived. I have lost as many as one hun- 

 dred birds by rats. I have tried everything, 

 and am now laying cement floors on three 

 barns, but guess I will have to build new 

 buildings. I will mail you a photograph of 

 the place in a week or so. I have not sold 

 a bird as yet, but have had plenty of chances. 

 — C. M. S., New York. 



ATTRACTED MANY ADMIRERS IN 

 THIS EXPRESS OFFICE IN THE STATE 

 OF WASHINGTON. In acknowledging re- 

 ceipt of the six pairs Extra Homers I wish to 

 thank you for the additional pair, and to 

 say that they reached me in the pink of con- 

 dition. My delivery man told me that many 

 persons copied your address from the basket 

 at the front of the express office, where they 

 attracted considerable attention. The re- 

 markably beautiful black bird I have named 

 Black Champion and his consort Queen. 

 She will hatch next week. At present I have 

 five squabs , one egg falling to hatch . If 

 beauty counts for anything, the birds are 

 worth the price. — Mrs. P. M. V., State of 

 Washington. 



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