APPENDIX G 



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HOMERS MORE PROFIT ^ "-"m^tmml"^ ~ 1 



THAN LARGER BIRDS, by — '^^ 



Martin L. J. Steele. Two 

 years ago I became interested 



in squabs but as I knew noth- ^m HP \^y } 



ing of the care of pigeons I ^m ^K; ' *^ 



began raising them in mind ^t^ ^^ ^^ 



only. I spent nearly a year ^^^^ 



studying the question from all ^^f 



sides, and last February put in ' ^^r^ 



my first let of breeders, fifty |J|^^^^ Mf 



pairs straight Homers. March ^^■^^■■fc^"*"-^^ 

 first I bought fifty pairs more. 

 This lot consists of Homers, 



Dragoons, Mondaines and two .iA.^^**^^ 



pairs Maltese. ^r . "^^^n^ "^^tj^t.^ ^^ '*' '**^ 



After a careful comparison ^^HJMMHlu^Hp^ 

 of loft No. 1. Homers, and ^^■S9B^HiVT# 

 loft No. 2, crosses, I find the ^Hj^gl^^^B W 

 Homers are the more profit- "^^^^P^^^OT 

 able. -^ ^^^^^^W% 



One item in favor of the ^^ ^ , 



Homers is feed. For example, ' ' ^ 



my fifty pairs Homers are 

 doing well on five quarts of 

 grain daily, while the fifty 

 pairs of crosses take from 

 eight to nine quarts. 



The price of squabs in the PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS IN MONTANA. 



Washington, D. C, market did 



not appeal to me. Three dol- My pigeons are straight Homers raised fr m s"me I bought in Bos- 



lars a dozen for nine to ten- ton in 1904. I have a pair which raise squabs from eighteen to 

 pound squabs in December did twenty-one ounces at four weeks. They are both 1909 birds. 1 have 

 ■not sound right. So I began a rooster six months old from this pair that weighs 241 ounces, crop 

 advertising by using a card empty. — James T. Fisher, Montana. 

 headed with a picture of a pair 

 of squabs in the nest, and 



reading as follows, the date and prices being In January, 1910, I bought a few breeders 



written in ink: of you, six pairs of Cameaux. I have a nice 



We are pleased to quote you the following flock of one hundred mated pairs now (October, 

 prices on SQXJABS for the month of July, 1910: 1911). besides having sold all their produce 



Fresh dressed, per pair $0.75 since last May. I have been getting from 



Feathers on, per pair 65 S4.50 to S6.00 per dozen for them during the 



Live, per pair 60 summer, the town I live near being quite a 



I mail these cards about the first of each summer resort, and I had not breeding stock 

 month to a regular list, and to all who have enough to supply the demand. Now the 

 not ordered by the middle of the month I send market is over for this season, and I must 

 another card. I find it much better to vary look further afield for an outlet. I notice in 

 the cut at the head of the card. one of your books that you have requests 



from commission men asking you to send 



™- ,, . I.- 1. T i_ 1 ^ J- ■ them the names of your customers so they 



iv^^^? .a^^r. ^t^^^ ^^'^ ^ 1 ^f -i, °^ ?°^ '"^ can keep them posted on the price of squabs. 

 March 1909. have done splendidly. I now ^^^1^ esteem it a favor if you would advise 

 have forty-five pairs working and a few young- ^^^^ reUable commission houses to furnish 

 sters. Have sold a good many, and we have ^^e with quotations for the different grades 

 eaten a great many. I have worked up a of squabs. I am nearer Rochester and Toronto 

 fine trade and now sell to the swell clubs m ^j^an other large cities, but I suppose distance 

 Portland at thirty-five cents each. They will ^^ ^^^ j^uch of an obstacle if reach the best 

 take all I have. Enclosed find an order for market. My squabs will average about nine 

 thujeen pairs more of your Extra Homers. pounds to the dozen.— R. L. Ralls, Ontario. 

 If these only do as well as the ones I got 



before, we will be satisfied. We simply can- i ^^^i^ h^q to buy ten Cameaux hens, as 



not get along without the magazine. It is i have a surplus of cocks on hand and I would 

 line.— Mrs. W. R. Lycan, Oregon. lij^-e to mate them up and have them working. 



The birds I have came from your place and I 



If grand opera were fifty cents a ticket find they are very good. I do not want to 

 the 400 would not attend. The higher squabs buy the hens from any other, for I do not 

 are priced, the more the rich want them, think there are any to be gotten as good as 

 always provided the quality is there. yours. — H. D. Marsden, Pennsylvania. 



