STORIES OF SUCCESS WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS 
young birds. I am very much pleased with 
them and the way they have taken to their 
new conditions.—R. F. W., Kentucky. 
, GOTAGOOD START. The birds are doing 
fine now. I have seven pairs young and two 
on sees since March first—L. C. M., New 
ork, 
REMARKABLY WELL IN SHORT TIME. 
Several weeks ago I received one dozen of 
your Homer pigeons from you for which I paid 
$10. These are all mated up and doing fine, 
except two. Four of them are setting and 
another one will be setting in two or three 
days. I think this is doing remarkably well 
for the short time I have had them, as I did 
not expect them to lay until at least three 
weeks after they had been here.—B. W., 
North Carolina. 
SELLING SQUABS AS FAST AS THEY 
COME AND GETTING ORDERS FOR 
MORE—ANOTHER SMART WOMAN, Find 
enclosed post-office money order _and send 
me eighteen pairs. The last lot I got were 
$15 for six pairs; also want two extra hens 
for two extra cocks which I have. I have 
nm saving up some of my young during the 
fall and winter months and have two extra 
cocks, Am selling everything as fast as they 
come and even engaging ahead most of the 
time. The Country Club manager spoke to 
me a day or two ago to try and have squabs 
for their little dinner parties, which will begin 
to be popular about Tine: and as I have two 
standing orders at present for all I have to 
spare I must put in some more breeders. 
have about sixty birds now. Of the six pairs 
ordered last fall, one hen died within a week 
with diarrhcea.—Miss J. M., Illinois. 
BIRDS BREED SO FAST THAT HE 
HAS NO MORE ROOM FOR THEM. I have 
about seventy pigeons. They are six months 
to one year old. What can you allow me on 
them toward more breeders? These birds 
are all raised from stock I bought of you. 
The reason I want to exchange them is be- 
cause my house is too small for them and I 
have no more room. I am going to put up 
a large building in the spring and then I can 
take care of: more. I am satisfied there is 
money in the business if any one can get 
started right.—H. A. M., Massachusetts. 
A BRACE OF SQUABS BRED FROM 
PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS WEIGHED 
OVER TWO POUNDS..I weighed two 
squabs from) your birds and they weighed 
just two pounds, two ounces.—J, A. O., New 
Hain pehire, 
BEST HOMERS IN HIS FLOCK— 
THEIR SQUABS BRING HIM THIRTY- 
FIVE CENTS APIECE FROM BOSTON 
HOTELS ALL THE YEAR ROUND. The 
birds I poe from you are the cream of 
the flock, I have been selling the squabs 
at the Boston hotels for thirty-five cents 
apiece the year round, and Nathan Robbins, 
at the Quincy Market, was glad to take 
them at $3.50 per dozen. I have saved a 
few young birds, some of the very finest.— 
C. L. P., Massachusetts. 
KANSAS MARKET IS LOOKING UP. 
The birds arrived in good order and I am 
today well pleased with them. I think 
some of them have as fine plumage as I ever 
saw on a pizeon. There is a party here in 
town that has a flock but they are not first- 
class “birds, yet he gets $2.50 per dozen for 
the squabs and could sell five times as many 
if he had them in Kansas City. We are 
favorably located here, sixty-five miles to 
Kansas City, forty miles to St. Jo., Missouri, 
and twenty-five miles to Topeka, and we 
ought to do well. If I can get hold of a place 
just out of town I will increase my flock next 
spring or possibly this fall—C. H. K., Kansas. 
RATS TROUBLED HIM. I have not 
bought a bird since you sent me one hundred 
pairs of Homers. At first they did not do 
much. The very hard winter we had and 
I being away in New York most of the winter, 
and the birds not having the proper care, of 
course they did not do much; but now they 
are raising ‘‘Cain,’” and they are chasing 
each other to the nests. I now have about 
two hundred young ones that escaped the 
rats, and two hundred and twenty-two eggs 
hatching. I am satisfied with them and they 
must have been strong and hardy birds to 
have lived. I have lost as many as one hun- 
dred birds by rats. I have tried everything, 
and am now laying cement floors on three 
barns, but guess I will have to build new 
buildings. J will-mail-you-a photograph of 
the place in a week or so. I have not sold 
a bird as yet, but have had plenty of chances. 
—C. M. S., New York. 
ATTRACTED MANY ADMIRERS IN 
THIS EXPRESS OFFICE IN THE STATE 
OF WASHINGTON. In acknowledging re- 
ceipt of the six pairs Extra Homers I wish to 
thank you for the additional pair, and to 
say that they reached me in the pink of con- 
dition. My delivery man told me that many 
persons copied your address from the basket 
at the front of the express office, where they 
attracted considerable attention. The re- 
markably beautiful black bird I have named 
Black Champion and his consort Queen. 
She will hatch next week. At present I have 
five squabs, one egg failing to hatch. If 
beauty counts for anything, the birds ere 
worth the price.—Mrs. P. M. V., State of 
Washington. 
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