1907 MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 1908 
POOR WHEAT SET HIM BACK, HE SELLS ALL HE RAISES, THE SQUABS BEING 
ENGAGED BY CUSTOMERS EVEN WHILE THEY ARE ON THE NEST. I write to you for 
information concerning my flock of birds. I got my stock from you in 1904, and have been 
building up my flock. I got raat finely with them until the latter part of last summer when I 
had the bad luck to lose about 20 or 25 of the old birds, which broke the mated pairs up. I 
would like to increase my flock to the full capacity of the house built from your unit plan, 12 
by 16. I lay the loss of my birds to some poor wheat I got from the mill here that must have 
contained a good deal of ergot that caused the females to die. I wrote to Mr. Rice at the time 
and he told me it was the wheat, at least I have had no more trouble since I commenced 
feeding first quality grain. The squabs weigh 12 to 14 pounds a dozen. 
I herewith send an order for 12 females to balance my flock. 
My original purchase of you in 1904 was six pairs Extra Plymouth Rocks. The birds arrived 
all safe and in good condition and attracted a good deal of attention at the time, for some of 
my friends put on a broad smile and have been expecting me to bust up in the pigeon business, 
but have been at it now for over two years and the order accompanying this don't look much 
like it for I can sell all the squabs I can raise. They are even engaged before they are fit to 
take off the nest. I get 50 cents a pair just killed, and if I dress them ready for the oven I get 
75 cents a pair in the local market. My squabs will weigh 12 or 14 pounds per dozen, and 
think it is on account of the way I am handling and feeding, for I find you cannot make meat 
unless you feed for it. 7 
I make my own grit of glass and it has been very satisfactory. I keep a counle of bricks 
of salt cat in the house, also a codfish occasionally, and they are doing fine now, if I did have 
some bad luck, but then one must expect drawbacks in any kind of business.—A. D. D., 
Pennsylvania. 
Note. You will never have sickness of any kind with pinecone if ‘you provide sound grain 
and clean water. If your grain dealer needs watching, and has not your interests at heart, 
examine especially the wheat and corn, tasting both. Some grain dealers will take whole corn 
which nes ce neated and make cracked corn of it. You can always tell sour grain by smell, 
taste and sight. ‘2 
It is quite true, as this customer states, that feed is a factor in the weight of the squabs. ~ Too 
much wheat keeps the old birds thin, and the squabs dark and thin. Plenty of com and 
peas makes the squabs fat. 
DISPOSING OF THE SQUABS IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN THEY REACH THE AGE 
OF 23 DAYS. RECEIVING THREE DOLLARS A DOZEN. Our order for 17 pairs of Extra 
Plymouth Rock Homers was placed with you early in March (1907) and the birds arrived and 
were placed in our pen about the 20th. They were all in good shape, having stood the trans- 
portation well, and made themselves entirely at home in their new quarters. The day follow- 
ing their arrival one of the hens laid, and from that time until now (June 24) the flock, as a 
whole, has worked splendidly, and results have far exceeded our expectations. At the present 
time 15 of the 17 pairs are at work, having ‘either eggs or young squabs. We believe that 
every pair would have been at work, but two of our hens escaped, and we had to order two 
more to replace these, and this accident upset our flock considerably. 
We find that the squahbs will weigh from three-quarters to seven-eighths of a pound when they 
are three weeks and two or three days old, and we have been disposing of them at that age. 
No doubt, this fast growing is due to the equable climate which we have in South Carolina, 
We have no trouble in disposing of all our birds at that age at 25 cents apiece. __ P 
The pigeons do not require much of our time, and we are so thoroughly satisfied with our 
experience that we are considering ordering 20 more pairs in the next few days.—Mrs. C. B., 
- South Carolina. 
SQUABS WEIGHING FOURTEEN TO 
SIXTEEN OUNCES. It is now July, 1907, 
six months since we purchased from you 44 
pairs of your Extra Homers, (Czven pairs met 
with accidents, because they were disturbed 
several times on account of the plant not being 
finished. The remaining 37 pairs are in 
every way satisfactory. We have at present 
11 pairs on eggs and 21 squabs. On account 
of not having too much room for the birds and 
also to answer the many demands of our sick, 
we are killing the squabs at three to four weeks 
when we find them to weigh 14 to 16 ounces, 
and at which time the mature birds are again 
preeding.—S. E., Illinois. 
RECEIVES $4.20 A DOZEN. My squabs 
from your birds weigh, when dressed nine 
pounds to the dozen and I receive at the rate 
of $4.20 per dozen for them. I have fed corn, 
wheat, peas ad millet, buckwheat and bread. 
I have :.ad su‘cess by letting the squabs on 
the flo-r when they are four weeks old, that 
is, wnen I am going to keep them for breeders, 
They are not troubled by the other birds and 
they feed themselves sooner and the old birds 
get to work earlier. have had no sickness or 
lice. Your Manual is all right. and is good for 
the starter and experienced.—P. E. D., Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 
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