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the birds are always in good health. I scald the drinking fovintains several times a week and 

 clean the apartments every week. The bathpans are filled daily so that they can keep free 

 from vermin. I have not as yet been seriously troubled with lice for I disinfect thoroughly every 

 few weeks. I have tried to follow your Manual in every way possible and the results testify to 

 its great value as the book of all books on this subject. If a person has never engaged in this 

 pleasant pursuit he need but buy a Manual and follow its teachings and success is sure to crown 

 his efforts. It takes patience from the start and those who think of get-rich-quick schemes 

 had better not start in this industry. — H. F. S., Pennsylvania. 



HER BIRDS IN CALIFORNIA LIKE FINE 

 TWIGS FOR NEST BUILDING BETTER 

 THAN STRAW. We have now 28 mated pairs 

 and I have another pair in the mating coop, 

 also saw a pair in the squab pen making up 

 to each other this morning. We are very 

 much interested in the work and intend to 

 continue until we have about 2000 birds if we 

 can. Of course we will soon begin to sell 

 some, but we wish to have enough to supply 

 one certain place before we do, as we think 

 by so doing we can build up a better trade 

 and get a better price for our birds. Several 

 have offered to buy but we have sold none yet. 

 Every one says our birds are the prettiest 

 and best cared for they ever have seen. 

 They think we take unnecessary pains with 

 them, but we think it pays to do so. We 

 started in March last (1907) so none of our 

 squabs is more than nine months old and they 

 all mate up at about four or five months. 

 The oldest ones have had several pairs of 

 squabs of their own. We have followed the 

 Manual and think it all right. We feed 

 wheat, com, cracked com, Kaffir com, mixed, 

 as a daily feed and three times a week Canada 

 peas and hemp seed with now and then a 

 little rice. We have running water in our 

 pens and we use eucalyptus and pepper twigs 

 for the nest building, as they seem to like 

 the fine twigs better than straw. We keep 

 oystershell and charcoal and rock salt where 

 they can get it, and put fresh gravel in the 

 pens every now and then. We wish to keep 

 about 50 pairs in each unit, so we have oior 

 first one almost full. We expect to buy more 

 breeders as soon as we can and not depend 

 altogether on our own, but we wanted to get 

 a start and be able to handle a few pairs 

 properly before we tried so many. Wishing 

 you success and prosperity.— Mrs. W. W. , 

 California. 



WORTHY OF ENTIRE CONFIDENCE. 



Enclosed find postal money order for which 

 please send Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, 

 according to your Special Offer No. 3. This 

 is *ny third order. The National Standard 

 Squab Book is as nearly perfect as it can be 

 and has given me both pleasure and satis- 

 faction. Your improvements and additions 

 are admirable. I am ordering from you be- 

 cause you are I think entirely reliable, gen- 

 erous and worthy of my entire confidence. 

 My plans are not quite matured but they 

 mean more Extra Plymouth Rock Homers.— 

 Mrs. H. A. C, Georgia. 



SELLING SQUABS AT GOOD PRICES AND 

 BUYING MORE MATED PAIRS. I pur- 

 chased of your company six pairs of your 

 Extra Plymouth Rock Homers the 13th of 

 June, 1907, and six pairs the 27th of the same 

 month and had no trouble in getting them to 

 work. Some of them started to nest two 

 days after I received them. I now (May, 

 1908), have 60 mated pairs and have been 

 selling squabs right along for $3 and $3.50 

 a dozen. I have some pairs that hatch every 

 month. I have one pair that hatch three 

 birds quite often and raise them all. I have 

 some squabs that weigh one pound at four 

 weeks of age. They average from nine to 11 

 pounds to the dozen. I have sold some pairs 

 for $1.25 a pair. I feed the best of grain, 

 such as whole com, red wheat, Kaffir com, 

 millet, hemp seed and Canada peas and 

 cracked com, and use the self-feeder for the 

 wheat and com as shown in Aour Manual, and 

 like it. I like your Manual and would not be 

 without it. I have had no sickness or lice 

 in my flock as I use plenty of lime, and keep 

 my house well whitewashed inside and out- 

 side. I have been in the first stores in 

 Pittsburg and in several pigeon houses around 

 here and I have seen none to compare with 

 mine. I have some young birds finer than 

 the parent birds. I like the birds very much 

 and the business, or I would not be sending 

 for more birds. Your birds are more than 

 you claim them to be, for my birds have 

 shown so. It will pay me better to buy mated 

 birds that will hatch right off than it would 

 to wait on the young for breeders, as I can 

 be selling squabs all that time. — J. H. S., 

 Pennsylvania. 



BEST IN A LIFE TIME. I have read your 

 book with much interest. It is by far the 

 best I have ever seen on the subject of pigeon 

 raising. I have kept pigeons all my life, 

 or at least for 40 years, from, the common to 

 the high-priced carrier, and at present have 

 a coop of some dozen different varieties, all 

 of which I propose disposing of and putting 

 in the Plymouth Rock Homers. See enclosed, 

 order. — W. W. B., New Jersey. 



LARGEST HOMERS EVER SEEN. The 

 Plymouth Rock Homers I bought of you 

 last season are doing far better than I had 

 anticipated. Every one who has seen them, 

 without an exception, says they are the 

 largest Homers they have ever seen. — B. E., 

 District of Colurabia. 



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