96 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 
Some advertisers selling breeding stock try to give the 
impression in their advertising that they control the matings 
and love affairs of the pigeons they sell, to the uttermost 
degree. ‘‘ We are the ones who can start you right,” they 
say, ‘‘with our guaranteed mated pairs.”’ Their pigeons, how- 
ever, behave just the same as all pigeons. You have just as 
much control over the minds of your pigeons as anybody. 
We have the finest equipment for mating in America, as it is 
the largest, a thousand mating coops being in constant use. 
One of the buildings is heated by a hot-water plant so as to 
get quick results in mating in the winter. It is natural for 
pigeons to breed, same as all animals. Do not believe that 
the man who offers to sell you pigeons has it in his power to 
control them after they have left his hands. The control of 
your pigeons is in your hands absolutely. If vou raise an 
excess of cocks, or if you have an excess of either sex, for any 
reason, you should procure enough of the opposite sex to 
match up evenly. You should have some mating coops 
(ordinary boxes with wire fronts will do) and in them you 
should pair up birds to suit yourself as to color of plumage, or 
size, or special characteristics, as you raise them. 
We fill all orders, large or small, with equal care and 
thoroughness, for it is just as much to our interest to please 
the customer and get more orders in the one case as in the 
other. 
There is not much choice-as to what time of year a start 
in squab breeding should, be made. Our customers who 
start in the winter have been exceptionally successful because 
then prices for squabs are at the top notch, and it takes only 
a few sales to make a new breeder thoroughly convinced to 
go ahead to success. We ship breeders all the year round. 
A pigeon will not break down under either stifling heat or 
bitter cold, being different from other animals. 
We fill orders in rotation and treat customers alike, and 
ship promptly. Frequently we get orders to ship by first 
returning express, and it is very difficult to do this. One 
customer in Chicago planned to start for Alaska with twelve 
pairs of our birds, but he held back his letter so that we got 
it with only two hours to fill crates and get birds to him before 
his departure. We filled his order as a matter of accommoda- 
tion. 
