MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



SQUABS AS FAT AS AN OLD HEN. I 



have 100 pairs of Plymouth Rock Homers 

 and am well pleased with them. I dressed 

 16 Homer squabs yesterday that averaged 

 just a pound apiece. Several were only 26 

 days old. My principal feed is cracked and 

 whole corn, red wheat and millet seed, also 

 feed some Kaffir com and think well of it. 

 I use tobacco stems for nesting material. 



My squabs are as fat as an old hen at four 

 weeks. My birds are healthy, snappy and 

 strong and working fine. In banding squabs 

 or young birds before leaving nest how can 

 I tell male from female, as I want to know 

 which leg to place band on t — H. R., Ohio. 



Answer. You cannot tell at that age. 

 Put the band on either leg and transfer it to 

 the correct leg when the bird discloses its 

 sex by its actions at four to five months. 



LUMP OF ROCK SALT. 



This kind of salt and no other should be fed to 

 pigeons. By peckinp; at it tboy get off enough and 

 cannot harm themselves b\' eating too much. If you 

 feed our Health Grit yuu do not need to provide this 

 rock salt. 



A BOY'S PLEASURE. You have treated 

 me very nice. I am fully satisfied with what 

 birds 1 have got from you. I have done 

 everything \uu recommend in your Manual. 

 The red checkers raised one pair of squabs 

 which weighed alm.ost two pounds when 

 three weeks old. I would like very much to 

 order some of your specials, but I am only 

 12 years old and just starting out. I am also 

 a cripple, not being able to do very much 

 myself, consequently I must depend entirely 

 on my father for assistance. I do not like 

 to ask too much of him. I feel that he does 

 all he can for m^'" pleasure. My education 

 is from him, as I have never been able to go 

 to school. — E. D., Illinois. 



HAD EXPERIENCE WITH COMMON 

 PIGEONS, POOR HOMERS AND PLYMOUTH 

 ROCK HOMERS, I had a notion that the 

 common pigeons wotdd do as well in raising 

 and raise as large squabs as the Homers 

 would, but I was greatly mistaken as you will 

 see. I kept my common pigeons for about 

 four or five months, which was enough for me 

 because it cost more to feed them than I got 

 for my squabs, so I sold out all of my common 

 pigeons and bought some Homers. These 

 Homers I got from men who were selling for 

 75 cents and $1,50 a pair which did not do 

 much better than m y common pigeons , so I got 

 thoroughly disgusted with pigeons and sold 

 out again. About two weeks later I saw yoior 

 advertisement, which was the starting of 

 my success. I liked your advertisement 

 and sent off for your catalogue. What 

 I found in your catalogue was true and it 

 sounded like the truth, I liked the cata- 

 logue so well that I sent for your Manual, 

 which you sell for 50 cents, which is not a 

 hundredth of its value. After I read the 

 Manual I ordered some of your Extra Homers. 

 I thought you would give me good birds the 

 first lime and bad birds the second time, but 

 the second order was filled with as good birds 

 as the first. I got my first birds from you in 

 the winter, about February, 1908. By mail 

 you sent me a slip of the most valuable 

 information that I ever read or will read in 

 my life. 



I kept fresh water before my birds all the 

 time. I did not let the birds drink the 

 bathing water at all. In the winter time 

 the water would freeze at night but fresh 

 water was put in every morning. My pigeons 

 did better in the winter than in the summer. 



I feed my pi^'cons wheat, cracked com, 

 hemp seed and abuut a double handful a week 

 of Kaffir^ com and sunflower seed, which 

 altogether is about the most digestible and 

 fattening for the squabs. I keep salt, 

 charcoal, grit and oystershell before them all 

 the time. I give my pigeons about four or 

 five heads of lettuce every week. I followed 

 >-our Manusl in every way possible. In a 

 few da\'s I will send you a third order for 

 your Extra Homers. — P. A., North Carolina. 



BUSY WORKING ALL THE TIME. As 

 >'ou, no doubt, remember, I bought 15 pairs 

 of your Plymouth Rock Homers last March. 



Am very well pleased with them. My 

 Homers are doing fine, busy workinq; all the 

 time. When I want more Homers ^^'ill place 

 the order with you. — H. J., Ohio. 



SELLING SQUABS REGULARLY FROM 

 A SPLENDID FLOCK OF BREEDERS. In 



February, 1906, I bought a few pairs of very 

 good pigeons from you, from which I have 

 raised a splendid flock of breeders from which 

 I have been selling squabs regularly for the 

 last eight months, — G, A. W., Ohio. 



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