1907 



MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



1908 



BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF SPLASHES. 

 The second bird on the left and the last bird on the right are types of oddly-marked Plymouth Rock Homers 



FEEDS HIS BIRDS LOCUST LEAVES AND PEPPER GRASS. BOSTON DEALER 

 ALWAYS GIVES HIM MORE THAN THE MARKET QUOTATIONS BECAUSE HIS SQUABS 

 ARE WORTH MORE. I purchased 12 pairs Extra Homers of the Plymouth Rock Squab 

 Company, in February. 1906, the best stock I could buy. I saved all my squabs for breeders up 

 to January 1907, when I began to ship the squabs. They average 9 pounds to the dozen, 

 and I receive from $3 to $4 per dozen for them. I ship to the Boston market. 



I feed my birds on wheat, cracked com and kafhr com in equal parts, with peas and hemp- 

 seed as dainties. I feed them in wooden traps, not finding any self-feeder which I like. A 

 box containing grit, oyster shells and charcoal is kept before them all the time and the flying 

 pen outside covered with coarse sand. I find pine needles to be the best nesting material, 

 the birds building a small, neat, compact nest with them. 



I sell the pigeon manure to parties in town at 50 cents per bushel. My squab house is 36 

 feet long by 14 wide, with a passageway three feet wide on one side. The birds are watered 

 by fountains placed in the passageway. My flying pen is 36 feet wide, IS feet long and ten 

 feet high, divided into three parts. 



I find my birds to be very fond of locust leaves and pepper grass, eating it like grain. They 

 like peas and hempseed so well that they will fly on to my hand for them. My birds are mostly 

 blue checkers, with a few reds and silvers among them. 



I ship nearly every week to a large commission dealer in Faneuil Hall Market, who always 

 gives me more than the market quotations. My birds are all in fine dondition, no poor ones 

 among them, and are raising big, fat squabs at the present time. (June, 1907.) — E. B. K., 

 Massachusetts . 



MOVING, GOING INTO THE BUSINESS 

 ON A LARGER SCALE. Our Homers have 

 done fine since we have had them. We have 

 doubled. So far we have lost only one pair 

 of squabs and we think the parents smothered 

 them. Then one of our young birds of our 

 first pair got out and away and we think he 

 was frozen or caught by a cat, for the night 

 was a cold one. Now we are going to move 

 and take a place where we can go into the 

 business on a larger scale, so we will hope to 

 send for more birds as soon as we get coops 

 ready. — Miss H. L. A., New Jei-sey. 



PLYMOUTH ROCKS BEST IN MEMPHIS. 



I have lost only one bird from sickness I 

 have had no trouble with lice at all. My 

 birds keep very clean and are also very tame. 

 I go to see all the pigeons around Memphis 

 but find none as fine looking as yours. Your 

 Manual is a fine teacher, why it is worth a 

 dollar. I hope to have success by following 

 vour Manual as I have done so far. — W. A., 

 Tennessee. 



SQUABS TEN POUNDS TO THE DOZEN. 

 GOING TO SHIP TO NEW YORK FROM 

 IOWA. If you remember I bought some fine 

 Homers of you a year ago last September. 

 They were the Extras. They have done well. 

 Must have now 150 birds, fine large ones at 

 that. I can send squabs to New York from 

 here for $1.50 per 50 pounds. That is what I 

 want to do eventually. I weighed 12 squabs 

 just as they came, one month old. They 

 weighed a trifie over 10 pounds. One pair 

 weighed two pounds exact. — J. C, Iowa. 



SUPERIOR HOMERS BREEDING EX- 

 TREMELY LARGE SQUABS. Accept my 

 thanks for your fair treatment with regard 

 to my order of June. The birds are breeding 

 extremely large squabs. Since then I have 

 had given to me twelve pairs pedigreed 

 Homers, but yours are superior in every way. 

 F.nclosed find P. O. money order, for which 

 rlease send me six pairs Extra mated adult 

 Homers and twelve wood-fibre nestbowls. — 

 P. R. M., Massachusetts. 



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