1907 



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1908 



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AT THE BACK OF A BARN. 

 Showing how a New York customer made a handsome home for his birds without doing any building. (This 

 flying pen is shown in detail on next illustrated page.) 



THAT THE WORK IS NOT BEYOND THE PERSON OF AVERAGE ABILITY IS PROVED 

 BY THE SUCCESS OF THIS 15-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO HAD NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 



AND NO GUIDE BUT THE MANUAL. Please send me prices on pigeon supplies, also prices 

 on breeding stock, as I have mislaid those that I received from you about a year ago when I 

 purchased pigeons of you. I am only a boy of 15 and must wait imtil I can earn enough from 

 the ones I have. My Extra Plymouth Rock Homers have done very well. My brother bought 

 six pairs of you and he sold them to me immediately after they began work before winter was 

 half way begun, One pair died, so that left me only five pairs of breeders. I was so interested 

 in these that I forgi.^t about the pair that diecl. They worked fine until cold weather set in, 

 having averaged a pair of squabs from each pair every seven weeks, but during the cold 

 weather we raised less. Our loft being upstairs, in an old granary, was pretty cold. 



This spring (1907) they began work in earnest again, laying their eggs again before the squabs 

 were two Aveeks old. One young pair only four months old raised a pair of squabs weighing 

 one and one-half pounds. 1 have now about seventy-five (75) birds old and young and lots of 

 eggs. 



We got 50 cents a pair for the squabs we sold, but I did not wish to sell many because I am 

 to raise them for breeders. 



It certainly pays to buy the Extras, for everybody who sees them says they are splendid, but 

 I believe your Manual is just as necessary to make it a paying business. I do not see how I 

 could raise them without it. Perhaps I will want some more breeders if I get the building 

 ready this summer. — G. L. G., Wisconsin. 



ONE SALE LED TO ANOTHER. No 



doubt you are acquainted with Carlton 

 Daniel, who is a first cousin of mine. His 

 pigeons looked so fine that they encouraged 

 me to buy of you. I don't think mine can be 

 beaten. — F. W., Indiana. 



OUTGROWN THE COOP. Please send me 

 five dozen nestbowls and one drinking 

 fountain by express. My coop has got too 

 small to hold the birds. The dozen pairs 

 you sent me have increased to 125 birds. — 

 F. C. W., Massachusetts. 



LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 



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