1907 



MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



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EVERY PAIR AT WORK IN DOUBLE- 

 QUICK TIME. BUILDING UP A PLANT. 



I think a few lines to you is my duty, I 

 expected to be at your office and plant before 

 now. My young son got struck by a trolley 

 car about the time I was going to go to 

 Boston, and just escaped very serious results, 

 so I have stayed pretty close at home, but 

 have a vacation in July and will call on you 

 then. 



About the birds , the y are doing fine . 

 They went to work at once and some of them 

 are now on their third lot of eggs. They held 

 their matings, every pair. I feel very much 

 encouraged and appreciate your fair and 

 honest business principles. Ynu will receive 

 orders from us in the future as we are going 

 to build up quite a plant. — H. I. L., Massa- 

 chusetts. 



SQUABS THREE WEEKf^ OLD. 



BRANCHING OUT FROM A SMALL 

 BEGINNING AFTER SUCCESSFUL EXPERI- 

 ENCE WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 

 IN UTAH. I have dscided to go into the 

 squab business on a larpe scale and when my 

 business interests are cared for will move to 

 Salt Lake City where I hope to work up a 

 good business The birds purchased from 

 you have been very satisfactory in every 

 particular and my business in the futiu-e will 

 be done direct with your good company. My 

 health is poor through confinement and I am 

 determined to try squab raising for the 

 purpose of making a success and money. — 

 W. B.,Utah. 



SQUABS AS A SIDE LINE. Please send 

 me two dozen w^ood-fibre nestbowls by 

 express. The birds I received from ycu 

 April 1 are all working satisfactorily (May 

 13, 1907). I do this as a side issue. I work 

 in the factory all day and take care of my 

 pigeons nights and mornings, and find it very 

 pleasant work, — E. D. D., Mas-sachusetts, 



TEN PAIRS OF SQUABS A YEAR FROM 

 ONE PAIR. MARKET BROADENING AND 

 DEMAND INCREASING. The pigeons that 

 I bought from you are doing nicely. Most 

 of them seem to be in good condition and 

 keep steadily at work. One pair raised ten 

 pairs of squabs a year and there are others 

 that almost equal them. I began last fall to 

 save those from the best breedeis. I had 

 to ke2p them in the house with the older 

 birds because I had nowhere else for them 

 to stay. They disttu"bcd the pigeons through 

 the winter, but they are mating and getting 

 to work now. 



I sell all the squabs I can raise to one of the 

 local marketmen. At first there was no sale 

 for them except in summer when wealthy 

 people frcim the larger cities are sojourning 

 here, but he bought all I had last winter. (See 

 note below.) 



When ready for market they weigh from 

 two pounds to two and one-half pounds a pair. 

 They are white and fat and the dealer has 

 complimented me a number of times about 

 them, 



I f^d the business very interesting and 

 would like to engage in it more extensively 

 if I could get more time to devote to the 

 birds, but it is impossible to do so at present. 

 — Miss M. D., Connecticut. 



Note. The squab market has broadened 

 tremendously since we first began advertising 

 in the high class periodicals advising people 

 to eat squabs as well as raise them. This 

 habit of eating squabs has a steady hold all 

 the year round on thousands of families who 

 ten years ago did not know what a squab 

 was. This demand is increasing every year. 

 In spite of the steady growth in production 

 of squabs, the prices are as high, and in many 

 cases, higher than ten years ago. 



DELAWARE MAN FINDS IN OCTOBER, 

 1907, THAT NEW YORK MARKETS ARE 

 HOLDING GOOD. PRICES ARE LIKELY 

 TO GO HIGHER. I received your Manual 

 yesterday and am very much pleased with it 

 and stayed up until 1.30 last night reading it. 

 I believe that if I follow your instructions 

 and make up my mind to make a success of 

 it, I will be able to do it. I knew a little 

 about pigeons before, as my brother and I 

 kept a flock of common pigeons when we 

 lived in Long Island City, but had to move 

 to New York City and had to do away with 

 them. 



I have a few mongrels on hand now and 

 am experimenting a little, but as soon as able 

 will send you an order. It will not be very 

 large, but if your stock is as good as repre- 

 sented (like your Manual) it will be all right. 



I have written to New York markets for 

 prices and find they are still holding up good 

 and I believe next year they will go higher. 

 Hoping yoti the best of success. — ^. H. C., 

 Delaware. 



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