MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



19. RICE UNHULLED. 



20. RICE. 



21. BUCKWHEAT. 



No. 19 is a sample of rice with the browa hulls on. No. 20 shows the same rice with the hulls taken off. This, 

 the unhulled kind, is what should be fed to pigeons as needed to correct diarrhcea, or as desirable where it is cheap 

 and plentiful. Do not cook rice to feed to pigeons. You feed the white raw grains same as you do any other 

 grain, uncooked. No. 21 is buckwheat. 



SOME PEOPLE THINK SQUABS ARE 

 YOUNG BANTAM CHICKENS. My Ply- 

 mouth Rock Homers arrived in fine condition 

 and in three weeks were all nesting. I now 

 have 97 birds with them and their yoimg". 

 The young that hatched in February and 

 March laid in August, so I think I did well. 

 I have not seen any that could compare with 

 them. Others that see them say they are a 

 fine lot of birds. Each pair has averaged a 

 pair every six weeks, except in the moulting 

 time when they dropped oflf laying for a 

 while. The squabs that I raise weigh from 

 three-quarters to one poimd before they leave 

 their nests. 



Mr. Haganbothan saw my birds and sent 

 for 12 pairs from you. They have been doing 

 fine since he got them. 



I have fed principally cracked com and 

 wheat, buckwheat and mixed feeds, changing 

 from one to another. I do not think it a good 

 plan to feed long the same grains. In moult- 

 ing time I feed com, whole rice and a few 

 peas and poultry powder. This is my first 

 experience in the pigeon busmess. X have 

 ^me of your Manuals and have followed it 

 mostly. For a tonic I give them a table- 



spoonful of vinegar in the water once a week 

 and some poultry powder, which I think is a 

 good help to producing eggs. The birds 

 are not much care — only a few minutes in the 

 morning and evening. 



Your Manual is a great help to those in the 

 pigeon business. If the loft is kept clean, 

 with fresh water and change of feed there will 

 be no sick birds or lice. To keep lice out, 

 take slaked lime and wood ashes and sprinkle 

 in loft. I have not been bothered with them. 

 The cost of the birds per pair is something 

 like 65 cents per pair per year. 



I shall keep most of my birds that I raise 

 this year and by next year will commence to 

 sell some squabs. They sell from 25 cents to 

 40 cents apiece and I could sell them to good 

 advantage. Some people do not know what 

 squabs are and think they are young Bantam 

 chicks, — J. L. M., Indiana. 



GETTING ALONG VERY WELL IN 

 FLORIDA. Please find enclosed check in 

 payment for 200 fibre nest bowls. We are 

 getting along very well with the pigeons. 

 We have between 300 and 400 young birds. 

 I think I should build another house and 

 fly.— H.B.L., Florida. 



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