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SEE THE BIG SIZE OF THESE EXTRA PLY:\rOUTH ROCK HOMERS IN TEXAS. 



TEXAS JUDGE ON SQUABS vs. 

 CHICKENS, by Ocie Speer. I am one of the 



justices of the Court of Civil Appeals for this 

 State (Texas) and my interest in pigeons and 

 poultry is purely for diversion, and I must say 

 I have found it most interesting. As between 

 pigeons and chickens, I am decidedly for the 

 former. This conclusion has been reached 

 after a very thorough comparative test, for 

 one season, at least. During the past spring 

 I have expended nearly two hundred dollars 

 in incubators, coops, chickens, eggs, oil, and 

 feed. Have set nearly two thousand eggs, 

 hatched nearly one thousand chicks, eaten 

 only about twenty, and now have, of all ages, 

 only about one hundred. They began dying 

 immediately after they were hatched • — • indeed, 

 hundreds of them made greater haste, and 

 died in the shell — and those that didn't die 

 of bowel trouble waited to die of sore head 

 and roup. I have fertilized my kitchen 

 garden with their decaying carcasses. I have 

 tried all the remedies, from copperas to car- 

 bolic acid, and fed everything /rom bran to 

 alfalfa. I have all the chickens I want — 

 in a Pickwickian sense. I have eaten more 

 broilers and had more pies from my few pigeons - 

 than from all my chickens. I have never lost, 

 a pigeon, but a few squabs have died of canker. 

 I fed many bushels of grain and chops in an 

 automatic feeder and finally canker appeared 

 in my loft. I immediately ceased using the 

 box and threw the grain on the gravel bed of 

 the flyer, and the trouble disappeared entirely. 

 If I use the feeder again I shall remove the 

 board bottom and replace it with screen wiie, 

 which will act as a sieve for the dust to which 

 I attribute the canker. 



The plain way to get good prices for squabs 

 is to refuse to sell at poor prices. 



ONE YEAR'S GROWTH. I would Uke to 

 write to let you know how I have succeeded 

 with my Carneaux and Homers which I pur- 

 chased from Mr. Rice of the Plymouth Rock 

 Squab Company about one year ago last 

 March. Starting with twenty-six pairs of 

 Carneaux, nine pairs of colored Extra Homers 

 and four pairs of Whites, I now have over 

 three hundred Carneaux, one hundred Extras 

 and fifty Whites. In fact, so many that 

 I have no more room, and will have to sell 

 some. — William McK. Ewart, Pennsylvania. 



I have been very successful in the squab 

 business. Have one hundred pairs of the 

 finest Homers that you ever saw, all raised 

 fron thirteen pairs of Plymouth Rock Extras. 

 All my squabs are sold to private trade for 

 five cents an ounce. My lowest weight has 

 been ten and one-half ounces, highest seventeen 

 and one-quarter ounces each; average weight 

 thirteen and three-quarter ounces each. Have 

 sold several pairs of breeders for four dollars 

 a pair. Trusting that you are doing a success- 

 ful business, I still remain a friend of the 

 Plymouth Rock Squab Co. — J. E. Ross, New 

 York. 



Replying to your favor of recent date, as 

 to how my ten pairs of Plymouth Rock Car- 

 neaux were doing, I beg to advise that I now 

 have about three hundred very fine birds, 

 sixty working pairs, and all in the very best 

 of health, never yet had a sick bird. I expect 

 to be in the market again soon, either for more 

 Carneaux, or some of your famous Plymouth 

 Rock Homers, as I hke your way of doing 

 business very much. I thank you for your 

 kindly inquiry, and wish you continued 

 prosperity. — ^W. A. Sharp, Minnesota. 



