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COST HIM ABOUT EIGHTY CENTS A 

 PAIR A YEAR. My birds bottght o£ you work 

 well, raising a pair about every sLx weeks. 

 I have about 40 young ones now that are 

 beginning to mate. One pair have raised 

 one pair of nice squabs already, I would 

 have had more now, but the rats killed quite 

 a few. I have not sold any yet, have been 

 saving them for stock. I have had several 

 chances to sell some for breeders, but I 

 thought I would rather keep them myself. 

 I have not had any trouble with lice or sick- 

 ness so far. I always keep the lofts cleaned 

 out, I feed mostly cracked com, Kaffir com 

 and wheat, with buckwheat mixed in when 

 I can get it. About three times a week I 

 throw in some red millet, they are alwa^^s 

 looking for it. I have followed the Manual 

 in regard to feeding. In the winter I feed 

 more com than wheat, and in the summer 

 more wheat than com, I think it has cost 

 me about 70 or 80 cents a pair for the year. 

 I made a self-feeder like the one outlined in 

 the Manual and think it is all right. Feed has 

 been high here for quite a while. I think 

 anybody can make money raising pigeons 

 if they tend to business and read their Manual. 

 I think it is all right. I like to work around 

 the lofts and watch the old ones take care of 

 the young. I have two sections, one to 

 keep the old ones in and the other for the 

 young. I keep all my pigeons banded. I 

 use the open legbands. I like them better 

 than the others. Part of the birds seem to 

 like to build on the floor better than in the 

 nest bowls. I use clean straw for them to 

 make nests. — E, L, Y., Illinois. 



NEARLY ALL HIS PLYMOUTH ROCK 

 SQUABS WEIGH ONE POUND EACH. 



I would like to say that your Plymouth Rock 

 Homers are fine birds. The second week I 

 got them they started to work, although it was 

 last February and very cold weather. I 

 have now over 40 young ones and I sold some 

 also. I certainly would not have any other 

 kind of a pigeon about me. It used to worry 

 me for fear I could not get my squabs to 

 weigh up to some of your customers, Who say 

 in your National Standard Squab Book that they 

 have squabs weighing 10 to 12 pounds to the 

 dozen. Now I have some that weigh more 

 than that. I have had some that weighed 

 14 ounces, but most all weigh a pound apiece. 

 I am going into the pigeon business on a large 

 scale, and every one of my birds will be from 

 you, as soon as I get a place where I can 

 enlarge my plant. — C, H. P., Pennsylvania. 



BUILDS A NEW HOUSE AFTER FIFTEEN 

 MONTHS' EXPERIENCE WITH A TRIAL 

 LOT. Fifteen months ago I bought six 

 pairs of Plymouth Rock Homers of you. 

 They are doing splendid. I think I will want 

 another small lot when I have my new house 

 done that I am building. — W. A. R., Maryland. 



HAD SUCCESS WITH HIS BIRDS FOL- 

 LOWING PLYMOUTH ROCK METHODS. 



Please send me some of yovu* pigeon literature 

 for 1908 if you have any. I bought one of your 

 Manuals in 1907 and am very much pleased 

 with it and I would not part with it for five 

 dollars. I have had success with my birds 

 since I had it and recommend it to all my 

 friends. It is full of facts that are true, 

 and is written so that any one can understand 

 it that reads it. I love pigeons and I like 

 to see others make a success with them. — 

 E. H., Maryland. 



CLEVELAND (OHIO) MARKET. Monday. 

 October 19,1908,1 was offered $2.50 a dozen 

 for squabs just taken off the nest, not killed. 

 It has been stated in this city (Cleveland) 

 that squabs will go up as high as $3 a dozen 

 wholesale. — W. E. P., Ohio. 



TOBACCO STEMS. 



Used for nesting material. You should not use 

 these stems if you are going to eell tlie manure to 

 tanneries because they do not want manure containing 

 tobacco stems, as the stems stain the hides. If you 

 are not going to sell the manure to tanneries but to 

 gardeners and florists you can use tobacco sterna aa 

 they are an excellent preventive against lice. 



WOMAN'S SUCCESS LEADS TO AN- 

 OTHER ORDER. Some time last winter 

 I was at Spring City, Tennessee, and advised 

 a woman to order some of your pigeons. 

 They having proven very satisfactory to her, 

 and upon her recommendation after a trial, 

 I am enclosing you herewith New York 

 exchange for $30 f^r which x?lease send me 

 as early as possible your Special Offer No. 1, 

 Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, etc. — J. M. C, 

 North Carolina. 



DOING WONDERS IN VERMONT. Our 



birds are doing fine and for the care they 

 have had have done wonders since we got 

 them. We find very few inbreeding. If you 

 have any new literature, please advise us. — 

 J, O. S., Vermout. 



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