STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 
work, Several more are making nests and 
laying. I thank you very much for sending 
me the fine stock which you did. One of my 
friends told me the other day that he had 
written to you last fall about your pigeons 
but had never received an answer from you. 
I told him his letter must have miscarried. 
He is starting in the squab business with com- 
mon pigeons, and they will be likely to fail. 
My birds have been greatly admired by all that 
have seen them, and I hope to interest some 
of my friends in your Homers. Thank you 
for fair treatment.—E. W. T., New Jersey. 
BETTER HOMERS THAN THIS ILLINOIS 
CUSTOMER EXPECTED TO GET. My 
fifty pairs of pigeons arrived safe and sound 
yesterday. They are fine birds, better than I 
expected. The express was $5.05, which was 
reasonable enough. If these birds do well will 
order fifty pairs more in December. Thank 
ou for your prompt and square way of doing 
usiness,—C. D. P., Illinois. 
HIS EXPERIENCE WITH RUNTS A 
FAILURE. I have been raising squabs from 
runt pieces and have lost so much on them 
that I cannot afford to risk any more money 
on stock which may turn out to be as bad as 
some that has been passed off onme. _ Please 
give me your prices on your Extra Homers 
and nest-bowls.—G, W. M., Pennsylvania. 
PRETTY BIRDS IN TEXAS, ALWAYS 
HEALTHY, NEVER SICK. You will remem- 
ber that I bought six pairs of birds from you 
last July. I have now about twenty pairs on 
hand as nice and pretty birds as you ever saw, 
well marked. They are perfectly healthy, 
never sick,—Mrs, L. C., Texas. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS HAVE 
MORE THAN COME UP TO HIS EXPECTA- 
TIONS. My intentions are at present to give 
fifty pairs of your birds a thorough trial for one 
year, and if it proves successful I intend to 
move my place near New York City and then 
increase it to one thousand pairs to start with. 
The birds I received from you have more than 
come up to my expectations, and if the business 
moves along as it has I do not think I will 
hesitate one moment next spring to increase 
my flock to the amount stated. Thank you 
for past favors.—J, D., New York. 
BREEDING WELL IN FLORIDA. En- 
closed find money order for $1.70 for which 
lease send to me by mail your leg-band outfit. 
My birds are doing finely. I wish I had twice 
as many, but must be contented with these at 
present. The young squabs are leaving the 
nests every day or so.—G. A. G., Florida. 
LOUISIANA CUSTOMER BRED THEM. 
Enclosed herewith find money order for fifty 
cents, for which please send me your squab 
book also quote me your best prices on birds, 
si ag fountains, etc. You sold me twelve 
airs of your pigeons and shipped them to 
ilson, Louisiana, and I like them very much, 
and they did all you claim for them.—T. J. C., 
Louisiana. 
_ QUICK WORK IN OHIO. The birds ar- 
rived Saturday, May 6, and on Saturday the 
13th three had laid and were setting. Today, 
May 16, five are setting and one odd egg is in 
another nest without the nesting material.— 
C.G. A., Iowa. 
NO AILMENTS AND BREEDING SATIS- 
FACTORILY. The birds ordered of you on 
the 13th were received on the 16th, and find 
them the same as the other order—satis- 
factory in every respect. I also wish to thank 
you for the extra pair. My first order of 
birds, which I received from you five weeks 
ago, are doing finely—no pigeon ailments. I 
have squabs, and the majority of them are 
hatching.—D. & S., New York, 
SOMETHING ABOUT INBREEDING, TO- 
GETHER WITH REMARKS ON WHY SOME 
PEOPLE FAIL AT SQUAB BREEDING. 
Enclosed find draft for $40 for which please 
ship per Adams or Southern Express, to above 
address, twenty-four pairs Plymouth Rock 
Homer pigeons. Will want four times as 
many more if these prove satisfactory. I was 
que interested in your National Standard 
quab Book, but am a little inclined to criti- 
cise some statements. On page 41, it seems to 
me it would be well to substitute gizzard, for 
crop, when describing the necessity for grit in 
the digestive process, and in your comments 
on inbreeding, you evidently lose sight of the 
fact that in all doves and pigeons, in the wild 
or natural state, the young hatch in pairs, 
male and female, almost invariably, and 
that they almost invariably mate, and have 
done so for centuries without deterioration. 
The Gentry swine, which took about all of the 
high ee at St. Louis, have been inces- 
tuously inbred for twenty-five years. The 
Hart herd of Jerseys, finest in the State of 
Ohio, have been bred sire to daughter, son to 
mother, brother to sister for ten generations, 
and have constantly improved in size, vigor 
and productiveness. The Bishop merinos 
started with three animals and never had a 
drop of outside blood in forty years, and were 
then the finest in the world. So there is 
nothing to be feared from inbreeding if stock 
is well cared for and ordinary intelligence is 
used.—H. R. C., Ohio. 7 
Answer: Good; I am glad to get that kind 
of a letter because it shows that the writer is 
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