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NINETEEN PRIZES WON ON 21 ENTRIES AT THIS LARGE WORCESTER COUNTY 

 EXHIBITION. I ha\'e been breeding your Plymouth Rock homer stock for several years. I 

 have been a breeder o£ piKCons for a long time and enjuy the worlc very much and I want to 

 tell you that I have ne\'cr seen better Homers anywhere, nor do I beheve that better stock 

 exists than the strain you sell. 



At the Worcester poultry show held in December, 1907, in Mechanics Hall, I entered 21 birds, 

 nearly all yuur Homers, or bred from Homers sold by you. 1 had a few pigeons of another 

 fancy variety in the show along with your Homer stock, but the Homers did nearly all of the 

 prize winning. On the 21 birds I won 19 prizes, made up of 10 first prizes, five second prizes, 

 three third prfees and one fourth prize. 



The birds were very much admired by the people in attendance at the exhibition. On one 

 white Homer which came from you and on which 1 won first prize 1 was offered $5, but declined 

 the offer. For another beautiful red checker Plymouth Rock female Homer which won me a 

 first prize I was offered $5 by another exhibitor, but I declined the offer. The judge of the 

 pigeons told me 1 ought to send these two birds to the Boston show in January, as they were 

 " world beaters." Sometime I am going to enter my birds at the Boston show when I get 

 around to it and can spare the time from my regular business. I am confident that I will make 

 them " sit up and take notice." 



Your Homer st< >ck is distinguished not only by the large size (which I have never seen equalled 

 anvwhere) but by their prolific breeding qualities. 



A good proportiim of m\' birds are the red checkers, and I value them highly. None of the 

 Worcester pigeon men has birds approaching mine. In fact, there are two Englishmen in this 

 city who have been breeders of birds all their lives and they told me that they never saw any that 

 could equal my stock. A professional man of this city is a breeder r.,f fancy pigeons well knovvn 

 o\'er the United States. He entered some white Homers in competition at the Worcester poultry 

 show mentioned abr)\-c but my white Homers went way over anything which he had. 



These large Plymouth Rock Homers of which you have sold so many during the past ten years 

 have completeh' driven the small nati^■e American Homer out of the market. The old breeders 

 of these small nati\'e Homers have hated to admit that your Belgium stock was better than 

 theirs, but anybody with half an eye can see that a Homer which is almost half as large again 

 as were the best American Homers is to be preferred, not only for squab raising but for fancy 

 breeding, for anybody who wants the best. The enormous popularity of your business in hand- 

 ling this magnificent strain is well accounted for. — H. M. W,, Massachusetts. 



FIRST AND SECOND PRIZES AT THIS WISCONSIN COUNTY FAIR. It was February 1, 



1907, when I got my first lot of Homers. They were the Extras. The pigeons are the largest 

 and the best of their kind I e\'cr saw, I would advise every new beginner to study the Manual 

 before starting. I feed my birds twn-thirds cracked corn to one-third red wheat in winter, 

 two-thirds red wheat to one-third cracked corn in summer; dainties such as hemp seed, rice, 

 peas. Kaffir corn and vetches. I have invented a little mill to crack corn. I bought some 

 cracked curn but it was not half cracked. I can adjust my mill to crack any size corn I want it 

 to. I have chickens in the same \-ar(l with the pigeons and they get along good. Your Manual 

 is the best it could be. I don't think it could be improved much. I haven't had any trouble 

 with lice or sickness. I think we will send am .ther order as soon as we can get a place ready for 

 them. The squab business is O. K.. as well as a paying business. My pigeons took first and 

 second prizes at Ocotno County Fair, September 3, 4, 5. — E. G., Wisconsin. 



WON FOUR FIRST AND SECOND PRIZES AT TOPEKA, KANSAS, EXHIBITION. My 



birds that I got from you are doing very nicely At the Topeka show I was awarded four first 

 and second prizes out of 16 birds shown, I would have gotten another first, but I classed the 



bird wrong. The judge gave her first, but they looked on the judge's card and she was not undei 

 that class. At the show, t wo of my Homers got out of the cage and also out of the hall. They 

 were fine-looking birds and built for flying. They started east and that is the last I have heard 

 of them. --F. L. K., Kansas. 



FIRST AND SECOND PRIZES WON BY PLYMOUTH ROCKS IN FLYING COMPETITION. 



I bought several pairs of your Homer stock about a ^'■ear ago and am raising, and also flying 

 those which I raised. I ha\'c also Belgiums which I fly, but the young of your stock are equal. 

 I can recommend your birds to anybody, and the fiying club which I am in also know what 

 they are. The last fly I made was 300 miles, at which I ti.nk first and second prizes on your 

 stock. I thank you for sending me such quality of birds. "W. J. K., Michigan. 



AGAIN A SWEEP OF PRIZES AT ANOTHER NEW YORK COUNTY FAIR BY PLYMOUTH 

 ROCK HOMERS. We had a county fair here and there was quite a large exhibition of fancy 

 pigeons and a few Homers, but noi any as nice as the ones that I had on exhibition. I took 

 six pairs of old ones and five pairs of young about eight weeks old to match the old ones. I 

 got first and second premiums on all. — F. S. S.. New^ York. 



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