1906 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS 
STORIES OF SUCCESS ON THIS PAGE ARE NEW. 
1906 
THEY WERE RECEIVED BY 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY OF BOSTON IN NINE MONTHS OF 1906. 
big they just about can't sit in the nest. I 
think if you would put an advertisement in 
some of the evening papers you would get 
some more trade. I am advertising your 
birds to everybody I know.—J. S., Wisconsin. 
COMPLIMENTED BY AN EXPERIENCED 
IDGE. One of my hens made her nest and 
thought she was ready to lay but she sat all 
one day and part of the next and did not, but 
had her mouth open panting and seemed very 
sick. I telephoned to Mr. M. to come and teil 
me what to do. en he came he held her 
in warm water for 15 minutes and then fast- 
ened her in her nest. In ten minutes she laid 
her egg and got all right. 
Mr. M. holds the world’s record for three 
hurdred miles and has some of the most val- 
uable birds in Chicago, and he said my birds 
were very fine, in fact he said he could have 
hardly told them from his own, they resembled 
them so much. : 
en so good a judge will compliment 
them so highly I feel very proud of them.— 
A. B., Illinois. 
SQUABS WEIGHING ONE POUND AT 
TWO WEEKS. I thought you might like to 
hear from the birds you sent us a year ago. 
They have been working overtime since. e 
have 54 birds now with several nesting. Every 
one is a solid color the same as the old ones. 
The squabs we have weighed have averaged 
a pound at three weeks old. One weighed a 
pound 2t two weeks. 
There is a party here getting birds of all 
kinds and colors and claims they are better 
than what we got for Extras on account of the 
bands..—_J. W., South Dakota. f 
Answer. It is quite common for parties 
selling poor Homers to put bands on their_legs, 
some of them quite ornamental, in an endeav- 
or to enhance their value, same as putting 
a gaudy label on cheap goods. It is the pig- 
eons that count, not the bands. ands are 
useful to number the birds, that is all. 
NO. 1 PLYMOUTH ROCKS ARE GOOD 
HOMERS: It will probably be fall before I 
get my house built and give you an order for 
more birds. If money is not too scarce the 
order will be for your best birds, for the No. 
1 Plymouth Rocks are doing even better than 
the Manual claims them to. Your Extra 
birds must be wonderful.—W. H. W., Massa- 
chusetts. 
WE “ SHOW THEM ” OUT IN MISSOURI. 
I received the grits and oyster shell all O. K. 
My birds jump on to the grits and hemp seed 
in a hurry. They are doing well. I will have 
abcut sixty squabs this month and quite a 
number mating this week. I had an order 
for 100 squabs this morning. It made me 
sick to think I could not fill it, but my time 
came after awhile, I will build another house 
soon and I want 100 more of your birds: + Mr. 
Hall’s birds look well. They came through 
nice. He is well pleased and I think he will 
order more. There are two more people talk- 
ing of going into the squab business. I will 
try to get an order for you.—J. W. H., Mis- 
souri. 
HAS NEVER SOLD ANY SQUABS LESS 
THAN NINE POUNDS TO THE DOZEN. 
‘About three years ago I purchased of you six 
pair of Homer pigeons for which I paid $2.50 
per pair. My flock are all from the stock I 
bought of you and I have some nice birds. I 
have never sold any squabs under nine pounds 
to the dozen at four weeks old. I never sell 
my birds after they have left the nest for 
squabs,. Will you send me your price list for 
ains, that is, Kaffir corm_and red wheat. 
would like the address of Boston dealers.— 
C. E, W., Rhode Island. 
LETTING BIRDS FLY. I would like to 
have your opinion and advice on a matter that 
is very important to me. I have a beautiful 
start with your birds, have followed your book 
exactly and the result has been very gratifying. 
Now what I want to do is to buy about three 
hundred more old birds from you and pen 
them. Will the young birds be as prolific, 
mate and hatch as well if properly fed, watered 
etc., exactly as my pens are, if I allow them to 
run loose on my farm? There is no danger of 
them being shot and I would much _prefer 
allowing them the run of the farm, I have 
the buildings that I could convert into com- 
fortable houses at once, and I will appreciate 
your thoughtful opinion and advice in the 
matter for I know you are headquarters—- 
T. W., Tennessee. 
Answer. Birds which you raise you.can 
let fly because they know no home. but yours, 
but Homers which you buy you cannot let fly 
safely because they know another home (their 
old home) and their instinct and desire to go 
home may lead them to leave you. 
NEW JERSEY NEIGHBORS ALL AGREED. 
The six pairs of birds received from you the 
first day of May are still, doing fine (July). 
One pair has her third pair of oe at this 
writing—less than three months. ‘he rest 
will hatch this week. Mr. Tevis (the neighbor 
I spoke to you about in a former le ::ar) came 
over after me to see the birds that he had 
just received from you. They are fine birds 
and he is very much pleased with them and 
sorry that he did not take my advice and send. 
The squab industry is growing every year.. e 
Drives were etter na they are Le es to be as good or better in 1907. The habit of 
before.  bett i 
squab eating is growing in every section. 
More squabs were bred in 1906 than ever 
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