MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
ANY OLD PLACE FIXED OVER. 
. Results which are really surprising may be accomplished in quarters such as these, with good birds. (See the 
letter from the North Carolina man printed below.) : : 
NO BIRDS ON EXHIBITION AT. THIS NORTH CAROLINA FAIR COULD TOUCH HIS 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Ireceived from you April 2, 1908, 13 pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock 
Homers. I have raised 60 birds, have sold 12 squabs and have lost 23, and I think that is doing 
well for six months’ work. They have bred at the rate of four pairs per month. Some are slow, 
others are very fast indeed, and I have lost about 18 eggs on account of not. having enough nest 
bowls, but have since put in more and will soon have to build. My house is of my own con- 
struction, very rough indeed, but I think answers the purpose very well, but in the future 
will build according to your plans except without the passageway. 
The birds I received from you and those I have raised and mated are indeed hard to beat. I 
have not seen any here that can touch them, in fact, none on exhibition at the fair here held 
October 13 to 16, could touch mine. The squabs at killing age weigh about three-quarters of a 
pound each. Have sold only one dozen squabs to people who are sick at $2.50 per dozen, [I 
have fed whole corn, cracked corn, Kaffir corn, Canada peas, a little red wheat and a little 
green clover, cabbage cut very fine, and some rice and hemp seed about three times a week, 
Cannot say that I have followed your Manual in-every detail, Please ship at once the enclosed 
order for feed, My birds are doing exceedingly fine and J.am in hopes of being able to keep them 
oe. : ant well pleased with the squab business and intend to go into it for a living.—J. A. P., 
ort colina, 
A WOMAN WHO GETS HER PRICE FOR LOST ONLY ONE BREEDING PIGEON IN 
SQUABS ALL THE YEAR. The people who . THREE YEARS, I have had my Plymouth 
have eaten my squabs say they are delicious, | Rock pigeons three years in July and have had 
plump, and so much better than the market splendid luck, having lost only one banded’ 
ones. I am getting $4.80 a dozen for them. pigeon by death, and one flew away. I have 
That is my price no matter what they are in studied the Manual and got lots of help from. 
the market.. They weigh over three-quarters it. I only wish I had. more room to keep 
of a pound each.—Mrs, E.G. A., New Jersey. more birds.—M. H., New Jersey. 
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