1906 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS 
1906 
STORIES OF SUCCESS ON THIS PAGE ARE NEW. THEY WERE RECEIVED BY 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY OF BOSTON IN NINE MONTHS OF 1906, 
tor which kindly send us one dozen drinking 
fountains. We would like you to get these 
off as soon as possible. 
I was very much pleased with my visit to 
your plant at Melrose which I made yesterday, 
especially with your facilities for mating 
birds up. Got some new ideas along with a 
lot of good advice from your superintendent, 
and to-day have started in to make a few 
new reforms here.—T. H. D., Connecticut. 
KNOWS PLYMOUTH ROCKS BY EX- 
PERIENCE. I saw your advertisement -of 
Homer Pigeons in a magazine. I would like 
very much for your company to send me one 
of your catalogues, and how much you charge 
for Homers a pair. I know from experience 
that a Plymouth Rock Homer is a good 
breeder. A friend of mine got some from 
your people a short time ago, but I did not 
inquire as to the price of them. In answer 
to letter from you, I will send for some, and 
if they are satisfactory, I will be glad to get 
more, as I am a great pigeon fancier—W. 
A., Illinois. 
ONE YEAR’S SATISFACTION. Send one 
bushel of Kaffir corn and one bushel of Canada 
peastome. It may interest you to know that 
the birds I bought from you a year ago are in 
every way satisfactory. I have doubled the 
number of workers in that time and have had 
all I wanted for my own table, and sold quite a 
number.—J. B. H., Massachusetts. 
SOME WEIGH 14 OUNCES WHEN 15 
DAYS OLD. I received your picegns in May 
when I was in Longueuil. They have done 
well, as I have had some which weigh 14 
ounces at 15 days old. What do you think 
of a mirror in my squab house? I will be 
very pleased to receive all your advertising 
booklets.—G. C., Canada. 
SUNFLOWER SEEDS ARE GOOD. Your 
book doesn’t say anything about feeding 
pigeons sunflower seeds. Will they eat them 
or isn’t it good for them to have them? Please 
let me know. The pigeons I ee from you are 
doing pretty well, I think. may get more 
next year.—B. J., Vermont. 
Answer. Sunflower seeds are a good pigeon 
food and are used by many of our customers. 
They are rich and oily and should not be fed 
in excess, but as a dainty. A good way to 
feed them is to throw the whole head in front 
of the birds and let them pick out the seeds 
themselves with their bills. 
BREED WELL IN CALIFORNIA. En- 
closed find money order for 40 cents for which 
kindly send me two feet of your aluminum 
tubing for bands. Also send one of your 
price lists, as mine has been mislaid. 
Twenty-four pairs of Homers purchased of 
you one year ago are doing fine. Flock now 
numbers 150.—W. J, M., California, 
CONTINUOUS SATISFACTION. Enclosed 
find check which is to cover enclosed order, 
All the birds which you have sent me so far 
are very satisfactory.—G. S., New York, 
FINEST BIRDS AROUND. Your birds I 
bought of you a year ago are going fine—the 
finest birds around, so my friends say.—Mrs. 
J. J. M., Massachusetts. 
HOTEL KEEPER RAISING HIS TABLE 
SQUABS. Am very glad to know that you 
were pleased with our menus and will con- 
tinue mailing them to you from time to time 
if you do not object. I hope that the temp-. 
tation will be strong enough to cause you to 
come to our city and look over our squab 
farm. I have been quite successful and have 
a fine lot of birds. It is more than likely, 
however, that I shall want some additional 
birds in the very near future. I would like a 
few show Homers, Dragoons and Runts’ 
For squab raising purposes, I could not ask 
anything better than I now have. Will mail 
you an order for supplies in a few days.—W. 
S., Georgia. i 
BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY BIRDS. Will you 
please quote me the price of your wicker 
shipping baskets, size for 12 pairs, or kindly 
forward me the address of the manufacturers. 
of same. Also state in your letter if the drop- 
pings must be entirely free from straw and 
feathers, or reasonably so, to satisfy the pur- 
chasers at the tanneries. The six pairs I pur- 
chased of you two years ago have increased to: 
150 or 170, besides what I have killed, and the 
stock has proven entirely satisfactory in every 
way. I have taken pains to follow your 
instructions to the letter so now I have the 
above number of beautiful, healthy birds — 
W.H. Y., New York. 
Answer. It is impossible to get all straw 
and feathers entirely out of the manure. 
Sweep out what you can with a broom before 
cleaning the squab-house. The leather peo- 
ple do not care if some straw and feathers get 
in but they do not want gravel and tobacco 
stems. The latter discolor and stain when 
wet. 
BIRDS THAT FLY AWAY. On about 
April 20, 1905, we bought of you six Plymouth 
Rock Homer pigeons. Since then they have 
For six years we have had a complete monopoly of the fine trade cf rhe United States. We 
sell more Homers every year than all other firms and breeders combix-d. The reason for this 
is that our birds demonstrate their value and make friends wherever they go. This supremacy 
we intend to maintain. 
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