1907 
MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
1908 
MATED PAIRS START QUICKLY. BEST 
BREEVERS IN A LIFE-TIME OF EXPERI- 
ENCE. SUGGESTION FOR CITY PEOPLE. 
SURE WAY OF MATING. I have received 
yours of the 18th and am following out your 
request. About the color, either a blue or 
a red checker cock will do. I should like to 
know how I am to get him. I started in 
just one month ago with my shipment of 12 
irds and about five days later, in which time 
they had to pick up from the fatigue of the 
journey, a pair of blues were sitting on eggs. 
This was kent up at intervals by the others 
until now when I have ten young ones and 
two eggs, which are being hatched by a pair 
of flights. 
Barring one sick one I can honestly call this 
a good investment because have had 
pigeons since I was ten years old and in that 
time I have not seen any better done. Should 
they keep this up, I find the market good, I 
shall buy some more this spring. You said 
the Eagle and Sun had quotations on squabs, 
but unless it is somewhere else tian on the 
market page, neither of these papers has 
them. They want a dollar a pair for them in 
butcher shops. 
The Manual is all right, but if you want 
suggestions I should say that the way you 
describe for having pigeons in the city is very 
seldom used. The most popular way is 
putting a coop and screen on a flat roof or 
on poles in the yard. This is the way you 
will see most coops in Brooklyn and New 
York. However, the way you describe is a 
very good advice for those with peaked roofs, 
as I kaow many people would have pigeons 
if their roofs weren’t peaked. On mating 
birds I should also tell of a very effectual 
way I have for mating stubborn pigeons who 
absolutely ‘refuse to mate. This is to put 
them in a box or something so that they 
cannot get any light and leave them so until 
you think they ought to be taken out and 
then put them together and in most cases 
they will be so glad to get back to light and 
see another pigeon that they will mate right 
away. Should they still refuse repeat the 
method until they do, but this method has 
worked so that I have yet to come across the 
one could not mate this way.—H. H.. New 
ork, 
FIRST SQUABS WHEN TWO WEEKS OLD 
WEIGHED TWELVE AND FOURTEEN 
OUNCES. Perhaps you will be interested 
to know that the first pair of squabs at two 
weeks weigh 12 and 14 ounces respectively. 
Am pleased with the weight—A. T. V., 
New Hampshire. 
ONE YEAR OF PROGRESS. Enclosed 
find money order for which please send me 
six dozen wood fibre nestbowls by freight. 
The Homers I got from you about a year ago 
are working splendidly.—E. A., Pennsylvania, 
MONEY-MAKING STORY BRIEFLY 
TOLD. BIG FLOCK RAISED FROM SMALL 
PURCHASE. PROLIFIC BREEDERS. If 
you remember, I bought from you in the 
autumn of 1906 12 pairs of squab breeders. 
One pair went to work the second day after 
arrival, the others following in close order. 
In two weeks every pair but one had eggs. I 
now have (October, 1907) 576 pigeons, two 
pairs having raised 11 pairs per year, the 
others nine and ten. I feed cracked corn, 
whole wheat, hemp seed, barley, kaffir corn 
and rice. During the moulting season I 
feed a good quantity of hemp seed. I think 
the squab business is a very good money 
making enterprise if well attended to.— 
R,. F.S., New York. 
AN INEXPENSIVE START. 
TWO YEARS’ SUCCESS. GOING TO 
SHIP TO BIGGER MARKET. _ I am now 
raising more squabs than our local market 
demands at reasonable price and in order 
to obtain good prices must find market 
elsewhere. an you put me in the way of 
same? I bought my first Homers of you in 
August, 1905, and have had remarkable 
success with pigeons, having lost but 15 that 
were able to fly, in all the time since then. I 
will feel very grateful for any information 
you may be able to give me. Also’ kindly 
uote me price on 50 pairs Plymouth Rock 
omers, as I think of adding another loft.— 
C. H., Wisconsin, 
ALL PAIRS AT WORK 
MOUTH ROCKS RECOMMENDED ABOVE 
ALL IN DELAWARE. My Homers arrived 
safe and I am certainly pleased with them. 
They are all mated and I expect eggs soon. 
I recommend your birds above all. I told. 
several parties about my birds and I think 
they will give youan order.—R. W., Delaware. 
UICKLY. PLY- 
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