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. 
account of labor I would prefer the one ange 
fly, but I want no experiments and leave the 
matter with you. I can get $4.00 per dozen 
for a large portion of my squabs, and would 
like to have an opinion as to what 5000 of 
your breeders would net us yearly when we 
taise our own feed on the farm. 
WE SUPPLY HENS TO THOSE WHO 
NEED THEM. After recommending your 
firm to A. F. Kennelley of this city and he 
%eing a.purchaser from you recently, I find 
that he is well pleased with treatment accord- 
ed him. Enclosed please find $5.00 for five 
female birds to be used as breeders. I bought 
some birds from a friend of mine and he had 
five odd cocks which I want to mate up. 
You will forward these by first express to my 
address.—H, E, W., Ohio.. 
BEST BIRDS HE EVER SAW. The 
Homers ordered from you reached me in due 
time and in excellent condition. They 
certainly are the finest birds I ever saw. I 
really believe they are a finer lot than the 
first consignment, if that be possible. The 
second day after their arrival they commenced 
building their nests, which I imagine is a 
pretty good record. : 
Some of my friends have secured birds from 
other parties and although I have not seen 
their birds, I am confident they can’t tell me 
that they have a finer lot than mine. 
If I have an_opportunity of securing you 
any customers I shall be only too glad to do 
so.—B. Y., New York. 
BEST HOMERS IN CALIFORNIA. Birds 
teceived in Al condition. Your birds have 
stirred up quite some interest here and what I 
Ahear from people who know is that your birds 
ware the best in the colony. As it is I am well 
leased with the bunch. I have a house 
2x32 feet divided into four pens 8x9 feet 
with a three-foot passage running the length 
and everything up to date. That also has 
opened their eyes in the building and arrange- 
ments in an up-to-date squab house. I have 
had the birds less than a week and am pretty 
well advertised already. The market here 
is strong at $3.00 to $3.50 and the demand 
far exceeds the supply.—C. H., California. 
SOLD YOUNGSTERS FOR $2 A PAIR IN 
KANSAS. Enclosed find remittance for one 
leg band outfit. My pigeons have been doing 
fine, and are keeping busy all the time. Have 
‘sold off the young pigeons at eight weeks old 
for $2.00 per pair. at is the difference in 
‘Canada peas and the peas we raise here? 
‘Will the common peas do to feed to the 
pigeons?—G, W. S., Kansas. 
LATEST NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK 
T; HIGH PRICES WHICH ARE 
GOING HIGHER BECAUSE OF THE NEW 
LAW FORBIDDING ENTIRELY THE SALE 
OF QUAIL EXCEPT IN NOVEMBER AND 
DECEMBER. I take the liberty of askin; 
you for a little more advice for the birds 
bought from you last November. Of sick-" 
ness I have not seen any sign of it. I lost only 
two of them, one of apoplexy I think, because 
it fell like shot dead, the other one died of 
diarrhoea. Of the young squabs, the cas- 
ualties have been a little higher, but out of 
50 I did not lose more than six, or 12 per 100. 
Now I wish you would give me your 
opinion how I have progressed, if I am on the 
ee average or if I am under it. 
e prices for squabs on the New York 
market have been very high all winter—have 
reached as high as $6.50 a dozen for squabs 
of over 10 pound a dozen, and $4.50 for birds 
of near eight pound or so. Of course private 
trade is better and I have been able to sell 
squabs for 50 cents apiece easily. 
have a set ot birds that give me three 
eggs and have hatched them successfully 
with three days late for the extra one. Does 
that happen often?—H,. G., New York. 
WILL NOT BUY ANY HOMERS BUT 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Last May I ordered 
from you twelve Plymouth Rock Homers. 
They arrived on the eighth of May and on the 
twelfth of the same month the first egg was 
laid. Five pairs of them went to work almost 
immediately and have been at work ever 
since. I raised the squabs during the summer. 
Ihave now 13 pairs of mature pigeons. Twelve 
pairs work constantly and I am very much 
pioaee with them and want to thank you 
or them and as you are so kind as to offer to 
answer questions and to help we people who 
do not know all about raising squabs I shall 
be so much obliged if you will give me a little 
help.’ My present ambition is to increase my 
plant. I want to buy some Extras from you 
as soon as I can raise the capital. JI can buy 
Homers nearer home but yours have done so 
well for me that whatever new stock I get I 
would like to get from you. You say in your 
book that you will ae your patrons the 
address of a good New York buyer. Will you 
lease send me the address?—C, O., New 
ersey, 
BRANCHING OUT. Please quote me your 
best figures on the following: Homer Ca 
in vars teady to go to work in lots of 20, 50 
and 100 pair lots. Hemipeced in_ bushel lots. 
Health grit in 100 pound lots. I have your 
prices of last year but presume there are some 
changes. I purchased 12 pairs of Homers 
from you last spring and they raised me about 
These are strong letters. 
Read them over. 
You want some assurance, when you buy 
Pigeons, that you will be treated right, as these customers were, 
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