MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
THIS CUSTOMER IS A TIN ROOFER AND MAKES GOOD WAGES BUT HAS FOUND OUT 
THAT HIS TIME IS .WORTH MORE RAISING GOOD SQUABS. I will try and give you an 
account of how my birds are doing in the Scate of West Virginia. About 18 months ago I saw 
the advertisement of the Plymouth Rock Squab Company in a magazine and I decided to trya 
small lot of birds. I first wrote for literature, then sent fifty cents for a Manual, which I got by 
return mail, and would not take $5 for it now. As soon as I got my book I sent for six pairs 
of Extra Homers, and to say they were fine would not begin to express my opinion of them. 
They were the finest birds ever saw and every one says-the same. I built a small house 6 by 
6 feet for them at first, but soon had to build a larger one. I havea house 10 x 12 witha 12 x 20 
foot fly, but this is too small now, 1am trying to get a place in the country near town and will 
go into the squab business right. I have had my birds about 15 months, have had 180 birds 
hatched and have about 30 mated pairs now. I have sold all my squabs since March 1 at $3 
perdozen. One hotel takes all I have and could handle three or four times as many, I sell about 
adozenaweek, Feed is very high here, but there certainly is money inthem anyhow. Ihave 
one pair that I bought of you that I have kept careful account of since they started to work. 
They went to work the week after I got them, and have laid and set every month since. They 
have hatched and raised 26 squabs, having lost two eggs, and today are building for the 15th 
time. If all were like them, I certainly would make the best record ever known. I have lost 
a few eggs and three or four young birds that were two or three davs old, but 1 think that is 
a very small loss. I hope to get a location soon for I am convinced that there is good pay in 
Taising squabs. I advise any one who is thinking of going into the business to buy their stock 
of Mr. Rice, for I consider him a perfect gentleman and as for the Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, 
I cannot say too much for them. They beat anything 1 ever saw. My birds are producing 
about nine pairs of squabs per pair, per year. The average weight of the squabs is ten pounds 
per dozen, which I consider very good. I hope to be able to send an order for more breeders - 
before the fall and they certainly will be Extra Plymouth Rock Homers, I am atin roofer by 
trade and make very good wages, but a squab plant of a thousand pairs I know will pay me much 
better. 
I use the self-feeder and your drinking fountain and find them perfectly satisfactory. 
I use tobacco stems and straw for nesting material.—W. M.'C., West Virginia. 
FOUND INSTRUCTIONS CLEAR AND 
CONVINCING. I thank you for your courtesy 
of September 22, and it is just what I wanted 
to know. I am so situated in regard to my 
present occupation that I cannot do anything 
before this time next year and then I hope to 
lace my order with you for 300 pairs of your 
xtra Plymouth Rock breeders and 10 pair 
of the red Carneaux. I know you must be a 
busy man, but I wish to tell you I have been 
looking over every field that I know of for 
a@ man with $1000 to $1500. 
I spent $10 for poultry information which 
was so contradictory that I threw them all 
into the Atlantic and vowed never to have 
one near me. I then got your information, 
and everything has been so clear and concise 
that I have no hesitancy in knowing what I 
will do. The plans enclosed from you were 
about what I had figured out for myself, 
only I had given more room and consequently 
would have made the cost more if I had not 
spent 50 cents for_your Manual and 10 cents 
for your plans. By so doing I consider I 
saved, or rather, will save, from $75 to $100 
on my pens and buildings. 
Pardon this long-winded letter, but I feel 
that apart from your trying to sell your stock 
to a probable customer I think all the more 
of you and your business methods, and know 
you will give me all you represent your stock 
to be when the time comes, Wish you and 
the Plymouth Rock Squab Company all the 
success you deserve, and that squabs will 
be eaten by a larger number of people.— 
R. H. W., New York, 
MARKET FOR SQUABS IS LOW IN HIS 
PART OF TEXAS BECAUSE BREEDERS 
DO NOT PUT UP PRICES. ‘I got my 
pigeons from the Plymouth Rock Squab 
Co.,”’ is the proud answer I give to any one 
asking me where I got my pigeons. When I 
tell them that I started with only 12 and have 
raised about 150, they say have done 
wonderfully. Some other squab raisers 
around me have not raised half that many 
in twice that time. (They have common 
pigeons, that is the secret of it.) My pigeons 
have fully repaid me. I think they are 25 
per cent better than any Homers around me. 
My birds raise from seven to nine pairs per 
year and I can sell all I can raise. have 
about 100 breeders and they keep me stocked 
very well. The market prices down here are 
very low. They have been, used to common 
squabs and do not know what is good. but 
I am going to raise the price all I can. It is 
only $1.25 to $1.50 and I hope to raise it to 
$2.50. My squabs weigh from 10 to 12 
pounds to the dozen. have a self-feeder 
like the one in your Manual. I feed them a 
mixture of wheat and corn. I have followed 
your Manual strictly and have not departed 
from it in any way, and let me say right 
here that any one (even of those who do not 
know a thing about squabs) can take your 
Manual and read it through, follow it care- 
fully and make a success. They are bound 
to make a success. I think the squab busi- 
ness is a great one and is increasing every day. 
I have not had sickness of any kind. I can 
sell at home all I raise.—W. P. C., Texas. 
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