1907 . .1908 
MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS  _. 
HOW TO PRESERVE, COLLECT, BAG AND SELL THE MANURE. HOW TO USE 
TOBACCO DUST FOR“BOTH .PIGEONS ‘AND POULTRY. I have several hundred Homer 
pigeons raised entirelyxfrom stock purcnased of you a little more than three yeats ago. 1 wish 
to write you to obtain ‘information in regard to selling the manure. I have your National 
Standard Squab Book in which -you.say you ship to tae tannery and obtain 60 cents a bushel. 
I would like to know how you ship it. In, pags.or barrels? Tne manure has always been used 
on our farm, but I have recently been depsived of my husband and need the money very much, 
and as I cannot do the farming thaf he has done, feel obliged to sell the manure. It is free 
from sand or sawdust. ‘The most foreign substance will be feathers and some little nesting 
material that they have scattered around, as of course I should not try to sell the old nests 
that would be nearly all nesting material. The packing will have to be done by my daughter 
and myself. I have been told that it is bought by the bushel, but it would be a hard task to 
measure it all, as I am considerably over 60 years of age and very lame. I find the freight 
will be 21 cents per 100 from here and if I ship by weight it will be easier to measure it all 
by the bushel and they would have. to take the freight agent’s figures instead of my measure. 
T have quite a quantity, Have measured up one bushel and found the weight 36 pounds, 
which at that rate would take only three bushels to weigh a little more than 100 pounds and 
I think I have 30 bushels or more.—Mrs. M. W., Rhode Island. 
Answer. Feathers and common nesting material in the manure will not hurt it any in the 
estimation of the tanners, but they like it free from gravel and from tobacco stems. The 
stems will discolor the hides in the vats. The manure varies in weight according to the amount 
of moisture in it, It should be dried and then bagged. two bushels to a bag. Buy a bushel 
measure and use it. Always ship in bags and get the bags back empty. They are worth at 
least five cents apiece even if second hand, as burlap has gone up. 
Squab raisers who use tobacco stems for nesting material cannot sell the manure to tanneries. 
The only reason for using tobacco stems is to ward off possible lice. The same result may 
be attained when straw or pine needles are used by dusting the nests now and then with tobacco 
dust. We sell tobacco dust for 11 cents a pound. It is equally good for poultry and is better 
than many fancy lice powders selling for two or three times that price. We will supply 25 
pounds of tobacco powder for $2. In smaller quantities 11 cents a pound. The use of this 
powder will not injure the manure for tanneries, 
SOME AGREEABLE DISAPPOINTMENTS 
I have not written you since receipt of 
birds, consequently will send you a word at 
this time. My first agreeable disappointment 
was the promptness with which you filled my 
order. I live 500 miles from Boston, I 
mailed my ogder for the pigeons at eight 
o'clock Wednegday morning and at five 
o’clock Fridjy-e¥ening the birds were waiting 
for me at*tihe express office, just about 53 
hours from’ the time I mailed my order until 
shipment was received. I had not expected 
to receive the shipment before eight days. 
The birds reached me in first-class condition— 
except for a few broken tail feathers you would 
have thought they had never been out of their 
native loft, They lost very little time in 
getting climated, for three days after turning 
them loose they were nesting and soon all 
were hatching. 
In comparison with other Homers I have 
seen, erecting is in favor of-the Plymouth 
Rock breed. ‘They are cleaner, better pro- 
portioned and less shy than any others I have 
seen. The squabs from these birds are 
everything an epicure could desize, big, fleshy 
and meat the whitest. I have only words of 
commendation for the.stock of breeders you 
handle. 
of your excelle-t money makers. You are at 
liberty to use this letter to interest prospective 
customers or my name as a reference.—P. F., 
Pennsylvania. 
T can only wish you increased sales, . 
TEN PAIRS OUT OF THIRTEEN SPLEN- 
DID PAIRS QUICKLY AT WORK. Our 
cheese maker at Aldenville, Penn., ordered 
thirteen pairs of Homers from you. We have 
encouraged his going into the business for the 
reason that several months of the year they 
are not busy at the trade and could just as 
well care for a nice flock of Homers. 
The thirteen pairs received from you a few 
weeks ago are splendid specimens and ten pairs 
are at work at present. Not being contented, 
we wanted to mix the blood and ordered thir- 
teen pairs from an imitation squab company. 
The birds came yesterday and we are so badly 
disappointed in them that we would like yery - 
much to return them, and not mix with.our - 
high-class birds received from you. We want | 
eventually to put in a few hundred pairs of 
the party and will want from twenty to 
twenty-five pairs of your selected birds ‘in a . 
few weeks time. What will be the price and 
can you give us a fine lot?-—G. S., Penn- : 
sylvania. 
RAPID BREEDING IN MICHIGAN. I pur: 
chased of you last year three pairs Extra . 
Plymouth Rock Homers and at this writing J 
have had them just one year and seven days 
and instead of having three pairs I now have 
24 pee that can fly besides a dozen squabs 
aad as manyeggs. What do you think about . 
that? As ] am in need of nestbowls, please 
send me three dozen of your wood fibre nest ; 
bowls.—R. E. F., Michigan. 
LETTERS RECEIVED FROM CUSTOMERS BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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