MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
1908 
1907 
BIRDS FED ONLY CRACKED BARLEY. 
KNOWS WHERE TO GET MORE BIRDS. 
I have some fine birds-and am ctuck on that 
last basketful you sent—those nice dark 
checkers, and some of the nicest sky blue I 
ever saw. I have some young birds from 
the last ones you sent me that will mate in 
two or three weeks, so you can see they did 
not lose much time after shedding feathers. 
There was a man at my place, whose name I 
forget. He said his birds were from your 
place and that my birds were livelier than 
his. I told him if he would follow your book 
he would be all right. I told him he was 
feeding too much, or he was not giving them 
the right feed, and he said he was feeding 
cracked barley so he cannot expect much 
from his birds. 
I went to the market to find out what they 
are paying for birds. They ate paying 25 
cents apiece for old common birds and he said 
that they pay more for Homer squabs. 
My birds are getting along finely. I am 
going to get 60 cents a bushel for manure 
with straw in it, which I think is a good price. 
If I want any more birds I know where to 
get them and that is from your place.—J. C., 
‘Wisconsin. 
READY SALE IN LOUISIANA FOR ALL 
SQUABS THAT CAN BE _ PRODUCED. 
PRICES ARE GOOD, RANGING FROM $2.50 
TO $4.00 A DOZEN. I received your 
National Standard Squab Book on the evening 
of the 5th inst. and have studied same over 
carefully several times and will say that I 
am perfectly satisfied with it and consider 
your Manual one of much value and indis- 
pensable to one who intends to raise squabs. 
I expect to order from you in half dozen and 
dozen lots, until I get me a good flock of 
breeders. (This I will have to do on account 
of my limited means and again I am not at 
my home. I am employed by the railroad 
company as foreman and my house is 25 
miles from my work. However, I am con- 
fident that I will be in a position to quit 
railroading in 12 months from now if I have 
good luck with birds.) I have an ideal place 
for a squab plant containing 12 acres of 
good land and nice dwelling and out buildings. 
I have also investigated the marketing of 
squabs in this territory and find that I can get 
ready sale for all that I can produce at from 
$2.50 to $4.50 per dozen, according to weight 
and plumpness.—T. H., Louisiana. 
THIS ILLINOIS YOUNG WOMAN HAS 
GIVEN US HALF A DOZEN ORDERS FOR 
BIRDS BETWEEN 1903 AND 1908. Please 
find enclosed two post-office money orders 
for $125 and send me 50 pairs Extra Plymouth 
Rocks. My mother’s sickness interfered 
with my plans. I have lost many orders by 
not having enough breeders. I think it safe 
to try now.—Miss J. M., Tlinais, 
HAS KEPT PIGEONS FOR YEARS. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS DO BETTER THAN 
ANY HE EVER BRED. I had 35 pairs of 
your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers to start 
with, They are fine birds and very good 
breeders. I have kept pigeons for years, 
but yours do as well and in some respects 
better than any I ever had. I intended to 
breed them for squabs, but there is such a 
call for good breeders that I have not had 
any chance to sel! squabs.—A. T. K., Massa- 
chusetts. 
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY EARNING 
POCKET MONEY FOR TWO _ YEARS. 
About two years ago I ‘bought three pairs 
of your best Homer breeders and they are 
getting along very nicely. I am only 15 
years old. I am running my business the 
way described in your National Standard 
Squab Book. Have you a 1907 copy of this 
book?—J. A. M., Wisconsin. 
NEST OF STRAW AND FEATHERS. 
Some birds build a scanty nest, using only. a few 
wisps of straw, with perhaps a feather or two. A 
nestbowl is an absolute necessity for such pairs, 
otherwise the eggs soon roll apart or out of the nest box. 
In April, 1907, a Missouri woman wrote us as follows: 
“Enclosed find draft for $11.52, for which please send 
me one gross of nestbowls. One year ago I started 
with 40 pairs of Homers. Now I have something 
over 400 birds. I have lost a great number of eggs, 
and feel like I-must have the nestbowls, as they pre- 
vent the eggs from rolling out. Send them at once.” 
GETTING RID OF COMMON PIGEON 
AND PURCHASING PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
THE MOST WEIGHTY BIRDS HE EVER 
SAW. I have a number of common birds 
which I am either going to sell, or kill them 
for my own use, but I will exert every effort 
to sell them and purchase more birds of you, 
as I think yours are the most weighty birds 
I ever saw. As soon as I am rid of what 
common birds I have on hand now, you may 
expect my_order for some more of your 
breeders.—T. W.. New York. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED 
BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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