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plan for this damp climate. I may send for 
one or two dozen pairs more by spring.—Mrs. 
E. N., State of Washington. 
A_ PERFECT SHIPMENT OF HOMERS 
TO FRANCE. The pigeons arrived this day 
in perfect condition, but 1 am sorry to say I 
have neither the nappies nor the bases. I 
duly received your letter of December 16 
which I answered at once. I have this day 
written to Puritan Line of steamship asking 
for information concerning the non-arrival 
of the nappies.—G. D., France (Europe). 
DOING WELL. The pigeons purchased 
of you last fall are doing well, Am in im- 
mediate need of more wooden nappies.—F. 
C. J., Massachusetts. 
GOT ONLY TEN CENTS EACH FOR 
SQUABS BUT MADE MONEY. I built two 
rustic seats for a neighbor for three pairs 
of Homer pigeons, and put them in a pen 
eight by eight feet. They increased at about 
a pair of squabs a month. We turned the 
young ones out as soon as they were able to 
fly. We soon had a flock of pigeons of about 
fifty or seventy-five. Suddenly we found 
that we could sell the young ones for ten 
cents apiece and the butcher took them off 
the nest for us. We killed the three original 
pairs as we did not want any in coops. 
built a pigeon house sixteen feet high and 
ten feet square on the ground, two stories. 
The birds come in at the top and nest where 
they please. I took up a homestead seventy 
miles north. On this my whole family lived 
for most of the time. While we were away 
from this place, the butcher came regularly 
ani took away the squabs-and left the money 
or his account with a neighbor, We never 
kept any account of the profit of these splen- 
did birds except last year, when the profit 
was $34.50, and the feed would not amount 
to a dollar, as they fly out and rustle their 
own feed. My wite feeds them a little to 
make them friendly. I have a large wagon 
shed and they used to nest in this. I shot 
some of them and they have never bothered 
me there now for two years. They are wise 
and I think they can talk. As a comparison 
of profit between chickens and squabs, we 
had a coop of chickens that required con- 
stant care, After deducting $19 for chicken 
feed, the profit on them was $33, The 
chicken coop and corral are quite a distance 
from the pigeon house and the pigeons never 
feed with them.—W. S. M., California. 
NEVER LOST A BIRD BY SICKNESS, 
In June, 1902, I got twenty-four pairs of 
you, paying sixty dollars for them, I have 
never lost a bird by sickness. I killed one. 
He was ailing and did not look well, so I 
killed him. This was three or four months 
after I got the birds. Right off after I got 
them I raised twenty-five pairs, then I be- 
gan to kill squabs, as I had no room. I sold 
the first lot of squabs in February, 1903, 
and got 25 cents as por at tirst (this was 
much too low), then | sold for 30 cents apiece 
until May, 1903. I should say I sold in all 
150 squabs up to May 1. From that time 
on the marketman to whom I was selling 
refused to give me more than 18 cents aniece, 
so I rigged up a new place and put forty 
pairs in there, then I sold a few more. Since 
then to now (November, 1903) have sold 
about 60 to 75 squabs. I have sold only 
squabs, but the other day I sold six pairs of 
breeders for two dollars a pair, All the 24 
origiaal pairs I got of you have kept working. 
I have three or four pairs which have made 
a nest almost every month since I have had 
them. They had eleven nests, others four 
or five nests a pair. I have eighty-eight 
pairs of breeders now. I have got confi- 
dence now to go ahead and am going to start 
a large plant in the country and will buy 
some more birds of you.—H. C., Massachusetts. 
A YOUNG WOMAN’S SUCCESS. A year 
ago last July I received from you one-half 
dozen pairs and paid you $15. I have tried 
to take good care of them and they have 
increased till now I have some one hundred 
young birds. I did not try to sell any of them 
as I wanted to let the flock grow. I took good 
care of the young birds mating and so there 
are not any of them that are related to each 
other now that are breeding. I had built for 
them a good warm house according to your 
directions and they have done very well. 
Some few died during this winter, but I think 
they were crowded and so the older ones 
would push the little fellows out of the nest 
and they froze during the night.—Miss E. M. 
C., Kansas, 
A GOOD HEALTHY FLOCK. I bought 
24 pairs Extra of you a little over a year ago. 
I now have besides the 24 pairs about 40 pairs 
of mated birds, all leg banded. Also I have 
about one hundred young birds and all but 
about thirty of these will be old enough to 
mate by the first of April. All of these are 
leg banded and are good healthy birds in first- 
class condition.—-E. A. H., Iowa. 
GOING TO MAKE AN EXHIBIT. My 
birds that I received of you in July and 
August are doing fine, and as there is a poultry 
show here in this city next month, I thought 
perhaps I would show a few of them. Could 
you give me any pointers on putting them on 
exhibition ?—E. G., Michigan. 
EXPERIENCE DEARLY BOUGHT. You 
may possibly think I am doing considerable 
correspondence without doing much trading, 
but I wish to get your advice in regard to a 
little matter. Last April I purchased seven- 
teen pigeons of a friend of mine for $5.95. I 
knew nothing except what your Manual 
taught me about the business. I purchased 
in the fall of a Westerner what were supposed 
