1907 MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 1908 



POOR WHEAT SET HIM BACK. HE SELLS ALL HE RAISES, THE SQUABS BEING 

 ENGAGED BY CUSTOMERS EVEN WHILE THEY ARE ON THE NEST. I write to you for 

 information concerning my flock of birds. I got my stock from you in 1904, and have been 

 building up my flock. I got along finely with them until the latter part of last summer when I 

 had the bad luck to lose about 20 or 25 of the old birds, which broke the mated pairs up. I 

 would like to increase my flock to the [uU capacity of the house built from your unit plan, 12 

 by 16. I lay the loss of my birds to some poor wheat I got from the mill here that must have 

 contained a good deal of ergot that caused the females to die. I wrote to Mr. Rice at the time 

 and he told me it was the wheat, at least I have had no more trouble since I commenced 

 feeding first quality grain. The squabs weigh 12 to 14 pounds a dozen. 



I herewith send an order for 12 females to balance my flock. 



My original purchase of you in 1904 was six pairs Extra Plymouth Rocks. The birds arrived 

 all safe and in good condition and attracted a good deal of attention at the time, for sonie of 

 my friends put on a broad smile and have been expecting me to bu&t up in the pigeon business, 

 but have been at it now for over two years and the order accompanying this don't look much 

 like it for I can sell all the squabs I can raise. They are even engaged before they are fit to 

 take off the nest. I get 50 cents a pair just killed, and if I dress them ready for the oven I get 

 75 cents a pair in the local market. My squabs will weigh 12 or 14 pounds per dozen, and 

 think it is on account of the way I am handling and feeding, for I find you cannot make meat 

 unless you feed for it. 



I make my own grit of glass and it has bf^en very satisfactory, I keep a couple of bricks 

 of salt cat in the housp, also a codfish occasionally, and they are doing fine now, if I did have 

 some bad luck, but then one must expect drawbacks in any kind of business. — A. D. D., 

 Pennsylvania. 



Note. Yoii will never have sicknc-ss of any kind with pigeons if you prov.dt soun^i grain 

 and clean water. If your gr-nin dealer nccr^s watr-^iiip:, and has nrit yonr interests at heart, 

 examine especially the wheat and corn, tasting both. Some grain dealers will take whole com 

 which has germinated and make cracked com of it. You can always tell sour grain by smell, 

 taste and sight. 



It is quite true, as this customer f.tates, that feed is a factor in the weight of-the squab's. Too 

 much wheat keeps the old birds thin, and the squabs dark and thin. Plenty of com and 

 peas makes the squabs fat. 



DISPOSING OF THE SQUABS IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN THEY REACH THE AGE 

 OF 23 DAYS. RECEIVING THREE DOLLARS A DOZEN. Our order for 17 pairs of Extra 

 Plymouth Rock Homers was placed with you early in March (1907) and the birds arrived and 

 were placed in our pen about the 20th. They were all in good shape, having stood the trans- 

 portation well, and made themselves entirely at home in -their new quarters. The day follow- 

 ing their arrival one of the hens laid, and from that time until now (June 24) the flock, as a 

 whole, has worked splendidly, and results have far exceeded our expectations. At the present 

 time 15 of the 17 pairs are at work, having either eggs or young squabs. We believe that 

 every pair would have been at work, but two of our hens escaped, and we had to order two 

 more to replace these, and this accident upset our flock considerably. 



We find that the squabs will wtigh from three-quarters to seven-eighths of a pound when they 

 are three weeks and two or three days old, and we have been disposing of them at that age. 

 No doubt, this fast growing is due to the equable climate which we have in South Carolina. 

 We have no trouble in disposing of all our birds at that age at 25 cents apiece. 



The pigeons do not require much of our time, and we are so thoroughly satisfied with our 

 experience that we are considering ordering 20 more pairs in the next ^ew days. — Mrs. C. B., 

 South Carolina. 



SQUABS WEIGHING FOURTEEN TO RECEIVES $4.20 A DOZEN. My squabs 



SIXTEEN OUNCES. It is now July. 1907 f^om your birds weigh when dressed nine 



six months since we purchased from you 44 jij.i.j it ■ j. ±1 



pairs of your Extra Homers. C-ven pairs met POunds to the dozen and I receive at the rate 



with accidents, because they were disturbed of $4.20 per dozen for them. I have fed corn, 



several times on account of the plant not being wheat, peas a.^d millet, buckwheat and bread, 



finished. The remaining 37 pairs are in I have had success by letting the squabs on 



every way satisfactory. We have at present the flo-r ivhen they are four weeks old, that 



11 pairs on eggs and 21 squabs. On account is, when I am going to keep them for breeders, 



of not having too much room for the birds and They are not troubled by the other birds and 



also to answer the many demands of our sick, they feed themselves sooner and the old birds 



we are killing the squabs at three to four weeks get to work earlier. I have had no sickness or 



when we find them to weigh 14 to 16 ounces, lice. Your Manual is all right and is good for 



and at which time the mature birds are again the starter and experienced, — P. E. D., Dis- 



breeding. — S. E., Illinois. trict of Columbia. 



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