APPENDIX B 
Many interesting points with regard to squab raising, the management 
of a plant, and so forth, are disclosed by the letters which we receive from 
customers, and the following pages will repay reading as showing the practical 
side of the business. 
The stories of success, letters from customers, which appear in this Appen- 
dix B, were received by us in 1905, along with hundreds of others of similar 
character. These show results duplicated over and over again by our cus- 
tomers, and they came to us in the ordinary run of business, day by day. 
We do not print the names and addresses of these customers. Many of 
them are regular buyers of our birds. We would advertise them as breeders 
to our loss. We guarantee the genuineness of the letters here printed, and will 
prove it in any way desired. The originals are on file at our office at Boston 
and may be seen there. 
Here are stories which tell of hardy, vigorous parent stock; of one-pound 
squabs; of quick results from a small purchase; of flocks from us bred for 
Gas without a single death; of remarkable breeding qualities; of handsome 
omers which attract admiration wherever they go; of prizes won at fairs; of 
excellence demonstrated over Homers of any breeding in every State; of many 
women who are making success with our birds; of customers who started with 
small flocks and later bought of us by the hundred pairs; etc. 
See page 153 for the difference between sand and grit. Same page also for 
conditions in Florida. 
See page 155 for points about moulting. 
On page 157 read what a correspondent says about inbreeding, and the 
author’s reply; also causes of failure in squab raising. 
More about the excellent market for squabs in the State of Washington is 
given on page 159. 
Breeding without having any sickness or deaths is told on pages 159 and 
160. - 
The experience of a squab breeder with five hundred common pigeons 
is told on page 164. 
OUR PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS ARE 
IN AND AROUND BRIDGETON, 
IERSEY, WHERE THERE ARE 
ITICAL BUYERS AND BREEDERS 
AD THIS LETTER FROM A CUSTOMER 
IN SOUTH VINELAND. Will you kindly let 
me know when is the best time for me to buy 
more pigeons, as those I bought of you three 
years ago are doing finely, and I am perfectly 
satisfied with them and I tell people where 
I got them, and several persons told me they 
were going to send for some from you. There 
are lots of people come to see them, as the 
are fine birds, and when I send for more 
want them mated like the ones I got before; 
but I will not send until I hear from you. I 
got twenty-four pairs the last time. There 
were two that died a little while after I got. 
them, but that was all I lost.—O. W., New 
Jersey. (This customer lives in South Vine- 
d, New Jersey, a few miles from Bridge- 
ton, New Jersey, and in this territory are a 
great many pigeon fanciers. We have sold 
more Plymouth Rock Homers in this [Cum- 
berland] county, around Bridgeton, than any 
breeder or set of breeders in that county, 
and the reason for it is just what our cus- 
tomer in South Vineland states above.) © 
SAND IS NOT GRIT—CONDITIONS IN 
FLORIDA, AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE 
GREAT MARKET THERE. I have plenty 
of beach sand and would like to know if you 
really need to ship me the grit, for I am going 
to cover the oe the flying pen with 
the sand.—J. 8., Florida. 
Answer: Gravel is grit, but sand is not 
grit. It is all right to cover the ground of the 
fiying pen with sand and use sand generally 
about the squab house. In Florida there is 
nothing but sand, and this is true of other 
localities also. I wish everybody who has 
igeons or poultry would read and remem- 
r what I say about sand and grit. Sand 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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