STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 
SOON TO SEND FOR MORE BIRDS. 
Enclosed find money order for $2.88, for 
which please send to my address three dozen 
nest bowls for pigeons. My birds that I got 
of you last fall are doing well. Thanking 
you for past favors, and that soon J am send- 
ing for more birds—Mrs. M. H Con- 
necticut. 
PIGEONS WERE MOULTING. Can you 
explain to me why my birds start in and make 
their nests and then stop? They have done 
very little since October tit is now December). 
They are looking fine. They are all mated 
Their house is cleaned twice a week. They 
are fre2 from lice. ‘hey have shell, salt and 
codash in front of them all the time, no rats 
or-mize to trouble them. I have about sixty. 
‘The house is twelve by thirty. The house is 
not cold. The; have plenty of nest material. 
Not a sick or dumpish bird in the lot. If you 
can tell me what else I can do, you will con- 
fer a great favor. I bought my birds of you 
in May, twelve pairs. I have over sixty; do 
you think they have done well?—F. E. G. 
New York. 
Auswer: If you had applied to one of the 
kno w-it-alls (who know nothing about pig- 
eons), he would ha-e told you that your 
trouble came from the fact that you did not 
orizinally buy your birds from him, but the 
simple truth is that your birds were moult- 
on 
ing late, and would not lay until through 
shedding their feathers and getting their 
new coats. 
GOOD GRAIN NE, D FOR GOOD 
BIRDS. Enclosed findifemittance for one 
hundred pounds best réd wheat and one 
hundred pounds hempseed. I havehad hard 
work to get good red wheat lately, and-I find 
it poor practice to feed the inferior grain, as 
the birds scatter it all over the house, so 
thouzit I would try and get some from you. 
I think my birds are doing first class, and 
I intead to put in two or three more lots as 
soon as I can arrange for them.—C. E. 
New Hampshire . 
CONVINCED HIM THAT THEY ARE 
PROFITABLE. About a year ago I bought 
from you half a dozen pairs of Homer pigeons, 
and at present time they number over fifty 
birds. The way they have increased and the 
little, but necessary, care they need convinces 
me that they must be profitable. I enclose 
twenty-five cents for the working plans for 
enlarzed house, which I intend to build as soon 
as the weather permits, with the idea of stock- 
ing it in the early spring.—H. B. R., New York 
MORE THAN PLEASED IN ARKANSAS. 
The pigeons that you shipped arrived here 
O. K.—twenty-six in all. any thanks for 
the extra pair. They are doing fine, and 1 am 
more than pleased with them, and hope to 
send for more soon.—A. H., Arkansas. 
SATISFIED WITH SQUAB HOUSE AND 
BIRDS. The pigeons and also the letter 
statinz they were shipped arrived yesterday 
morninz at nine_o’clock. This certainly was 
fast time froin Boston as the stamp of your 
letter showed 5.40 p.m., forty-eight hours 
previois. fo say that we are pleased with the 
birds dozs not express it. ‘Chey are certainly 
fine birds, and we will try to do our part to 
make a success of the business. We built our 
houses after the plans given in your squab 
book, and are well pleased with them. As 
soon as we get them painted we will send you 
photographs of them so you can see where we 
keep our birds and how we care for them. 
The birds were all in good shape and seem to 
have received good care from the express 
company.—H, A. B., Illinois. 
DOING NICELY. Enclosed find stamps 
for which please send me some aluminum tub- 
ing for leg bands. The birds we bought from 
you are doing nicely—-A. H. W., Pennsyl- 
vania, 
GOING TO SELL HIS COMMON PIGEONS 
—EXIRA PLYMOUTH ROCKS THE BEST 
BREEDERS TO BE HAD. Ihave had pigeons 
only about a year. At present I have -about 
seventy, half Homer and half common pig- 
eons. Iam going to sell the common pigeons, 
and in the fall you shall have my order for 
breeders. I think your Extra Plymouth Rock 
Homers are the best breeders that are to be had. 
Mrs. Street, who lives here has some of your 
Homers, and I think they are all you claim for 
them.—W. W. P., Arizona. 
FINE AND HEALTHY. Enclosed find 
$1.70 in two-cent stamps, for which please 
send me the lez-band outfit. My birds are 
doing very nicely. They look fine and are 
very healthy.—C. C. R., Pennsylvania. 
FIRST SHIPMENT DOING WELL, SO HE 
ORDERS ANOTHER. Enclosed find money 
order for which send eighteen pairs and four 
dozen nest-bowls. The first order of mine 
was received O. K. The birds are doing fine. . 
N.S. R., Iowa. 
FAST WORK—HAS NOT HAD HIS BIRDS 
A MONTH, BUT HAS PLENIY OF NESTS, 
AND SQOABS ARE DUE. I am very agree- 
ably surprised with the pigeons which you 
sent me. I received them on May 18. They 
were so quiet and seemed so much at home 
that I let then into the fly on the 22d and had 
no trouble with them, They went in and out 
and did not have to bother with them. On 
May 24 I received the nest-bowls and put 
them in the hose the same afternoon. The 
next dav one of them commenced to make a 
nest and lay. She is setting now and should 
hatch about the 16th of June; so I think I will 
have some squabs before I have had the nig- 
eons a month. I think this is pretty fast 
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