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I SELL SQUABS AT MY DOOR FOR $5 

 A DOZEN, by Harriet L. Ayres. I have 

 bought the share in chickens and pigeons from 

 the young woman who started with me, so I 

 own the stock now complete. I began three 

 years ago last September with six pairs of 

 Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. They started 

 to lay within two weeks after they arrived. 

 I purchased six pairs more Extras of the 

 Plymouth Rock Squab Company one year 

 ago last July. I have raised about five hun- 

 dred. 



I have had a great many compliments on 

 my pigeons for their size and beauty as well as 

 for their hatching. I have been with them 

 and watched them so often that I know their 

 little ways very well. I find it very interesting. 

 I have kept track of some and know they have 

 hatched nine pairs to the year. They average 

 about one pound apiece, over ten pounds to 

 the dozen. I get $4.50 and $5 a dozen right 

 at my door in private trade. I sell them for 

 luncheons and for the sick and have sold some 

 ^t our hotel here (New Jersey). 



I feed a mixture and find my birds do better 

 on that. I give them their dainties of hemp 

 and Canada peas separately. They have 

 plenty of fresh well water. They have a lump 

 of rock salt, and oyster shell, pigeon grit and 

 charcoal before them all the time. The 

 sickness I have had would not be worth 

 mention and have not been troubled with 

 lice, as I believe keeping them, in a clean place 

 is the root of health. 



I keep a cash record of everything and will 

 gay they more than pay for themselves. The 

 pigeons alone paid Jor my partner's half of 



EoiUtry and pigeons when I bought her out 

 ,.i&t May and a great many other things I 

 liave not the room to mention. I am pleased 

 with the business and am convinced there is 

 money, in it and expect as soon as I can get 

 the plans and material to put up two unit 

 houses and progress in that business. I 

 ^eep on raising chickens for the eggs as the two 

 are well combined. I consider Rice's Manual 

 a good one. If followed, one cannot help 

 succeed. I have found experience a very 

 good teacher but one must love the work 

 and be interested in the birds to make a good 

 success. 



On three previous occasions we have bought 

 your pigeons and found them satisfactory, 

 especially the white ones. We find that your 

 birds go to work rapidly, and we have a good 

 demand here at a good price. — Olympian 

 Homer Squab Company, Kentucky. 



My stock were Homers received from your 

 company. They have been doing excellent 

 work for me. I began the business in a very 

 small way about two years ago' with three 

 pairs; now I have about 250 breeders on hand. 

 — C. H. Burton, Maryland. 



Squab breeders, don't forget that no one is 

 interested in your getting good prices for good 

 squabs but yourself. 



HOW TO CURE PECKING, by Eleanor G. 

 Ames. There is one thing I have to offer 

 which may be of help to the breeders who have 

 trouble with squabs being pecked. It is a 

 remedy I have used with great success. Dust 

 a pinch of powdered aristol on the spot. It 

 will cure the sore, and as the pigeons do not 

 seem to like either the taste or smell of the 

 aristol, the squabs are let alone. The powder 

 is quite expensive, but a little will last a long 

 time. I have had great success with my 

 Plymouth Rock Carneaux as breeders of squabs 

 averaging seventeen ounces each. I cannot 

 supply the demand for squabs among my own 

 friends and acquaintances. 



I have one Plymouth Rock squab just 

 three weeks old that weighs one pound, two 

 ounces. I think there is some class to the 

 Plymouth Rocks. The squab is a Homer and 

 the largest I have raised. I have about three 

 hundred now. We get $4.50 per dozen and 

 all we have sold have weighed from ten to 

 twelve pounds to the dozen, which I think is 

 very good. I bought three pairs of Cameaux 

 from another party over a year ago. One 

 pair has done very well, one other pair laid a 

 few times, but never hatched a squab, and the 

 third pair never laid for the whole year, and 

 they were turning gray and I thought I had 

 fed them long enough , so killed them. If 

 I ever get any more it will be from the Ply- 

 mouth Rock Squab Co. — A. H. Eldredge, 

 New York. 



In looking back over my file of your Squab 

 Magazine, I find that I have received twelve 

 copies of the paper since I sent you my last 

 subscription of a dollar, and as I would not 

 miss a copy of the pigeon man's best standby, 

 the Squab Magazine, I am sending you an 

 express money order for one dollar, for which 

 please send the magazine for another year. 

 I have about fifty pairs of Homers, as fine, 

 racy, broad chested and fast breeders as any 

 one would wish to own. They are from 

 Plymouth Rock stock mostly and that accounts 

 for it. Though only in the business one year 

 this month, I find that poor stock at any 

 price is dear and as for my part I wouldn't 

 take any as a gift and mix them with mine. — 

 R. R. Muirhead, Washington. 



There is a great demand for squabs in 

 Colorado Springs. The butcher charges eighty 

 cents a pair for them. Our butcher, while 

 selling us a pair last week, said that he thought 

 they made the most popular dish. I men- 

 tioned the Plymouth Rock Squab Co. and he 

 said, " Their squabs are quite famous." — 

 Howard B. Carroll, Colorado. 



I hope to be able to build another pigeon 

 house this spring, in which case I would place 

 an order for birds with you of about the same 

 number as last year, because I was and I am 

 well satisfied with them. — Stefan Schwarz, 

 California. 



