MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
1908 
BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF SPLASHES. 
The second bird on the left and the last bird on the right are types of oddly-marked Plymouth Rock Homers 
FEEDS HIS BIRDS LOCUST LEAVES AND PEPPER GRASS. 
THE MARKET 
tian ae 12 pairs Extra 
Company, in February, 1906, the best stock I could buy. 
, when J began to ship the squabs. 
ALWAYS GIVES HIM MORE THAN 
ARE WORTH MORE. I 
to January 1907 
and I receive from $3 to $4 per dozen for them. 
I feed my birds on wheat, cracked corn and 
I feed them in wooden traps, not finding any self-feeder which I like. 
seed as dainties. 
BOSTON DEALER 
UOTATIONS BECAUSE HIS SQUABS 
omers of the Plymouth Rock Squab 
Isaved all my squabs for breeders up 
_ They average 9 pounds to the dozen, 
I ship to the Boston market. 
corn in equal parts, with peas and “ger 
box containing grit, oyster shells and charcoal is kept before them all the time and the flying 
pen outside covered with coarse sand. 
find pine needles tobe the best nesting material, 
the birds building a small, neat, compact nest with them. 
I sell the pigeon manure to parties in town at. 50 cents per bushel. 
“My squab house is 36 
feet long by 14 wide, with a passageway three feet wide on one side. . The birds are watered 
by fountains placed in the passageway. My flying pen is 36 feet wide, ‘18 feet long and ten 
ae high, divided into three parts. 
find my birds to be very fond of locust leaves and pepper grass, eating it like grain. They 
like peas and hempseed so well that they will fly on to my hand for them. My birds are mostly 
blue checkers, with a few reds and silvers among them. : 
I ship nearly every week to a large commission dealer in Faneuil Hall Market, who always 
‘gives me more than the market quotations. 
among them, and are raising big, fat squabs a 
-Massachusetts. * 
MOVING, GOING INTO THE BUSINESS 
ON A LARGER SCALE. Our Homers have 
done fine since we have had them. We have 
doubled. So far we have lost only one pair 
of squabs and we think the parents smothered 
them, Then one of our young birds of our 
first lesa got out and away and we think he 
was frozen or caught by a cat, for the night 
was a cold one. Now we are going to move 
and take a place where we can go into the 
business on a larger scale, so we will hope to 
send for more birds as soon as we get coops 
ready.—-Miss H. L. A., New Jersey. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS BEST IN MEMPHIS. 
I have lost only one bird from sickness. 
have had no trouble with lice at all. My 
birds keep very clean and are also very tame. 
I go to see all the pigeons around Memphis 
but find none as fine looking as yours. Your 
Manual is a fine teacher, why it is worth a 
dollar. I hope to have success by following 
your Manual as I have done so far.—W. A., 
Tennessee. 
My birds are all in fine condition, no 
Boer ones 
. B. K., 
t the present time. (June, 1907.)—. 
SQUABS TEN POUNDS TO THE DOZEN. 
GOING TO SHIP TO NEW YORK FROM 
IOWA. If you remember I bought some fine 
Homers of you a year ago last September. 
They were the Extras. They have done well. 
Must have now 150 birds, fine large ones at 
that. I can send squabs to New York from 
here for $1.50 per 50 pounds. That is what I 
want to do eventually. I weighed 12 squabs 
just as they came, one month old, They 
weighed a trifle over 10 pounds. One pair 
weighed two pounds exact.—J. C., Iowa. 
SUPERIOR HOMERS BREEDING EX- 
TREMELY LARGE SQUABS. Accept my 
thanks for your fair treatment with regard 
to my order of June. The birds are breeding 
extremely large squabs. Since then I have 
had given to me twelve pairs pedigreed 
Homers, but yours are superior in every way. 
Enclosed find P. O. money order, for which 
plese send me six pairs Extra mated adult. 
comers and twelve wood-fibre nestbowls.— 
@,R. M., Massachusetts. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED 
BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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