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-r Jffi^T.9PST*^ME^ ^S A TIN ROOFER AND MAKES GOOD WAGES BUT HAS FOUND OUT 

 THAT HIS TIME IS WORTH MORE RAISING GOOD SQUABS. I will try and give you an 

 account of how my birds are doing in the State of West Virginia. About 18 months ago I saw 

 tlie advertisement of the Plymouth Rock Squab Company in a magazine and I decided to try a 

 small lot of birds. I first wrote for Uterature, then sent hfty cents for a Manual^ which I got by 

 return mail, and would not take $5 for it now. As soon as I got my book I sent for six pairs 

 of Extra Homers, and to say they were fine would not begin to express my opinion of them. 

 They were the finest birds I ever saw and every one says the same. I built a small house 6 by 

 6 feet for them at first, but soon had to build a larger one. I have a house 10 x 12 with a 12 x 20 

 foot fly, but this is too small now. I am trying to get a place in the country near town and will 

 go into the squab business right. I have had my birds about 15 months, have had 180 birds 

 hatched and have about 30 mated pairs now. I have sold all my squabs since March 1 at $3 

 per dozen. One hotel takes all I have and could handle three or four times as many. I sell about 

 a dozen a week. Feed is very high here, but there certainly is money in them anyhow. I have 

 one pair that I bought of you that I have kept careful account of since they started to work. 

 They went to work the week after I got them, and have laid and set every month since. They 

 have hatched and raised 26 squabs, having lost two eggs, and today are building for the 15th 

 time. If all were like them, I certainly would make the best record ever known. I have lost 

 a few eggs and three or four young birds that were two or three davs old, but I think that is 

 a very small loss. I hope to get a location soon for I am convinced that there is good pay in 

 raismg squabs. I advise any one who is thinking of going into the business to buy their stock 

 of Mr. Rice, for I consider him a perfect gentleman and a& for the Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, 

 I carmot say too much for them. They beat anything 1 ever saw. My birds are producing 

 about nine pairs of squabs per pair, per year. The average weight of the squabs is ten pounds 

 per dozen, which I consider very good. I hope to be able to send an order for more breeders 

 before the fall and they certainly will be Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. I am a tin roofer by 

 trade and make very good wages, but a squab plant of a thousand pairs I know will pay me much 

 better. I use the self-feeder and your drinking fountain and find them perfectly satisfactory. 

 I use tobacco stems and straw for nesting material. — W. M. C. West Virginia. 



MARKET FOR SQUABS IS LOW IN HIS 

 PART OF TEXAS BECAUSE BREEDERS 

 DO NOT PUT UP PRICES. " I got my 

 pigeons from the Plymouth Rock Squab 

 Co.," is the proud answer I give to any one 

 asking me where I got my pigeons. When I 

 tell them that I started with only 12 and have 

 raised about 150, they say I have done 

 wonderfully. Some other squab raisers 

 around me have not raised half that many 

 in twice that time. (They have common 

 pigeons, that is the secret of it.) My pigeons 

 have fully repaid me, I think they are 25 

 per cent better than any Homers around me. 

 My birds raise from seven to nine pairs per 

 year and I can sell all I can raise. I have 

 about 100 breeders and they keep me stocked 

 very well. The market prices down here are 

 very low. They have been used to common 

 squabs and do not know what is good, but 

 I am going to raise the price all I can. It is 

 only $1.25 to $1.50 and I hope to raise it to 

 $2.50. My squabs weigh from 10 to 12 

 pounds to the dozen. I have a self-feeder 

 like the one in your Manual. I feed them a 

 mixture of wheat and com. I have followed 

 your Manual strictly and have not departed 

 from it in any way, and let me say right 

 here that any one (even of those who do not 

 know a thing about squabs) can take your 

 Manual and read it through, follow it care- 

 fully and make a success. They are bound 

 to make a success. I think the squab busi- 

 ness is a great one and is increasing every day. 

 I have not had sickness of any kind. I can 

 sell at home all I raise. — W. P. C, Texas. 



FOUND INSTRUCTIONS CLEAR AND 

 CONVINCING. I thank you for your courtesy 

 of September 22, and it is just what I wanted 

 to know. I am so situated in regard to my 

 present occupation that I cannot do anything 

 before this time next year and then I hope to 

 place my order with you for 300 pairs of your 

 Extra Plymouth Rock breeders and 10 pair 

 of the red Cameaux. I know you must be a 

 busy man, but I wish to tell you I have been 

 looking over every field that I know of for 

 a man with $1000 to $1500. 



I spent $10 for poultry information which 

 was so contradictory that I threw them all 

 into the Atlantic and vowed never to have 

 one near me. I then got your information, 

 and everything has been so clear and concise 

 that I have no hesitancy in knowing what I 

 will do. The plans enclosed from you were 

 about what I had figured out for myself, 

 only I had given more room and consequently 

 would have made the cost more if I had not 

 spent 50 cents for your Manual and 10 cents 

 for your plans. By so doing I consider I 

 saved, or rather, will save, from $75 to $100 

 on my pens and buildings. 



Pardon this long-winded letter, but I feel 

 that apart from your trying to sell your stock 

 to a probable customer I think all the more 

 of you and your business methods, and know 

 you will give me all you repfesent your stock 

 to be when the time comes. Wish you and 

 the Plymouth Rock Squab Company all the 

 success you deserve, and that squabs will 

 be eaten by a larger number of people. — 

 R. H. W.. New York. 



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