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MISSISSIPPI SQUAB HOUSE. 



The house is 14x26 feet and the flying pen 20x26 feet 11 feet high. There .ire two Ralvanized iron linthpans 

 in the flying pen with water piped to each. Tlie drinking fountain is inside t!ic squab house and is made of six 

 one inch T's put together with nipples, making the whole eight feet long witN water running through it all the 

 time, and the T's nearly full. This gives them plenty of fresh drinking water all the time and it eannot be fouled 

 by the birds. The house has 70 egg crates for nest boxes and can take forty mure when needed. The white line 

 seen at the back of the piciure is a much traveled shell roadway and the birds are much admired by pa^-crs-by. 

 Of course it is not necessary to build a squab house so warm in Mississippi as in the North. 



NINETEEN PAIRS INCREASED IN TWO YEARS TO FIVE HUNDRED BIRDS WITHOUT 

 SPECIAL INSTRUCTION AND WITHOUT SYSTEM. I never had one of your Manuals. 1 

 merely put the 19 pairs of pigeons I first got from you about two years ago in a hovise 12 feet 

 square and about 9 feet high, with a flying pen 20 feet by 12 feet by 9 feet, and have let them 

 be there ever since. I have now about 500 birds and a nicer bunch of birds I have never seen. 

 They are very much crowded at this time and many of the young are being killed by the push. 

 I have now let contract for larger quarters and expect to remate the flock (if such a thing is 

 advisable), and have separate pens, thus dividing the flock, and I am very anxious to get all the 

 information possible so that I will mare no more mistakes. I enclose 50 cents in stamps for 

 the Manual. There are three or four persons in town who have small flocks of pigeons and they 

 sell squabs at $1.50 a dozen, but thev are small and mixed breeds, and do not have enough to 

 supply the wants of the people. We have not as yet sold any squabs, but expect to charge at 

 least %3 a dozen. We have a start now and my brother is going to help with the birds and we 

 feel that there is a nice income ahead of us. I have been closely confined to my ofilce duties, 

 thus the birds in the past have been neglected. — G. J. G., Kansas. 



RAISED A FINE FLOCK FROM A FEW. 



I visited a friend of mine in Erie, Pennsyl- 

 vania, last week (August) and he showed 

 me a fine flock of pigeons that he has raised 

 from 12 he bought from you in the spring. 

 Will you kindly send me prices for six pairs 

 and 12 pairs, also illustrations and different 

 kinds you have. — B. K., Pennsylvania. 



FIVE TIMES BETTER THAN COMMON 

 PIGEONS. The three pairs of Plymouth 

 Rock Homers are doing as much as the 15 

 pairs of common pigeons I had in the same 

 quarters last summer. — G. S., Wisconsm. 



BREED RAPIDLY IN FLORIDA. The birds 



received from you have done extra fine. 

 Our stock has more than doubled already. 

 Enclosed find check for which send by 

 freight 100 pounds of your health grit, 100 

 pounds of oyster shells, 100 pounds mixed 



5igeon grain, and two dozen nest bowls. — 

 , D. C. Florida. 



NO MORTALITY. I have followed your 

 Manual's instructions to the letter and have 

 never lost a bird, when once out of the nest, 

 and only three squabs, and they were only 

 two or three days old. — W. O., New Jersey. 



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