STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 
is the product of the washing of the ocean’s 
waters. This incessant beating and washing 
have worn off all the sharp corners. As a 
matter of fact (as skillful breeders of poultry 
in Florida know), if the birds can get no grit 
and are forced to eat sand, then the sand 
which they eat packs tight within them, and 
if you cut open one which has died from 
some inexplicable cause, you will find the 
bunch of sand. It is not grit at all, and does 
not cut and grind the grain as grit does. 
This is the cause for many failures with 
poultry in Florida.—lack of grit. The 
breeder thinks he has grit all around him, 
when he has none. It is all right to cover 
the flying pen with sand; it is clean stuff and 
the pigeons will not eat it unless they are 
forced to by their owner's failure to provide 
et Make no mistake, pigeons can tell grit 
rom sand. For further remarks on grit see 
Supplement to Manual. It is fully as im- 
portant as grain and grain is not good for 
anything without it. Just a word about the 
Florida squab outlook while I am answering 
this Florida query. I spent four months in 
the winter of 1905, in Dade County, three 
hundred miles south of Jacksonville, to get 
rid of a cough. I found three of my custom- 
ers infand around Palm Beach. One lived 
in Jupiter and was raising them all right 
but the market was not to his liking, and he 
was a good man, too. Another at Man- 
gonia, two miles from Palm Beach, was an 
experienced poultry man, and he was a good 
business man. Although well-to-do, he gets 
on his bicycle every day during the winter 
season and sells his poultry and eggs to the 
rich cottagers at first hand. You would not 
believe me if I told you what prices he gets. 
As for squabs, I state here with full knowledge 
of the facts, that any number of squabs may 
be sold in Palm Beach from January 1 to 
April 1, for $1 apiece, $12 a dozen provided 
they are good squabs, such as Plymouth Rock 
Homers breed. The Hotel Royal Ponciana 
at Palm Beach (called the largest in the world) 
the winter I was there had fifty-two thousand 
separate names on its register in its three 
months’ season. These were the richest 
people, in Florida for amusement, and ac- 
customed to the choicest table delicacies. 
This is only one hotel; there are many others, 
including the chain of ie Flagler hotels 
from St. Augustine to Miami and Nassau. 
Who also in Florida has the business sense 
to see an opportunity and follow it up by 
providing these tens of thousands of rich 
northern people every winter with squabs? 
always considered California the ideal 
climate for breeding squabs, but Florida is 
just as good; it is perpetual summer_there 
and the winter market beats anything I have 
ever seen or heard of. As for the summer 
and fall market, it is not good for much. If 
you must sell squabs and poultry then to keep 
a-going, you will have to ship North by the 
Clyde line, or else sell your goods to native 
folks at about half the price you get 
from northern sojourners in the winter. 
WOMAN HAS RAISED ONE HUNDRED 
PAIRS. Two years ago we bought some 
pigeons of you. We have some fine ones 
now, about two hundred. or one hundred 
pairs.—Mrs. W. B., Pennsylvania. 
BRED SATISFACTORILY ALL WINTER. 
Enclosed find money order for supplies, 
etc. I have some stock whose parents came 
from you and can say they are certainly all 
you claim for them, They have bred satis- 
torily all winter and bid fair to continue.— 
R. A. S., Massachusetts. 
SYSTEM AND DIRECTIONS PERFECT. 
Your system and directions for handling 
birds are about perfect, and your Manual is 
almost indi p nsable for any one who is in the 
pigeon business. The drinking fountain, 
bath pan and nest bowls reached me. They 
are just what I have been looking for for a 
long time.—Mrs. H. J. S., Pennsylvania. 
VIRGINIA WOMAN ORDERS A SECOND 
LOT. My pigeons came safely Saturday 
morning and are exceedingly fine birds, I 
like them so much that I enclose remittance 
for another lot.—Miss A. M. D., Virginia. 
THEY PLEASE EVERYBODY. The one 
dozen pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers 
I received from you on November 9 are all 
doing well. Quite a number of persons have 
seen the birds and all seem to think them 
e.—W. B. R., New York. 
RUGGED STOCK. HE HAS LOST BUT 
FEW EGGS AND BIRDS IN HIS EXPERI- 
ENCE. I now have in my flock about two 
hundred birds which are producing squabs 
rapidly and seem to be doinz well. Have 
lost but few egzs or birds during my experi- 
ence. I have two pasties figuring to buy 
me out. I have been enlarging my peat 
and will divide the flock unless I sell. will 
send for more nest bowls in case I do not sell 
out.—H. H. K., Missouri. 
STRENGTH AND VIGOR OF OUR STOCK 
SHOWN BY AN EXCELLENT JOURNEY 
TO CALIFORNIA. The pigeons you shipped 
me on the 2d reached me the 9th in excellent 
condition. The first thing they had after 
being put in the squab house was a bath, 
and I never saw anything more grateful 
than they seemed to be. I am glad you 
sent the extra pair of birds. I think the way 
the birds stood the long. trying trip speaks 
volumes for the strength and vigor of the 
flock. Thank you for the promptness_with 
which the order was filled.—Mrs. J. F. P., 
California. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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