MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
FIVE PRIZES TAKEN BY PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS AT TENNESSEE POULTRY AND 
PIGEON SHOW. 
pairs that you sent me. 
I won two firsts, two seconds, and one third prize. 
It would probably be of interest_to you. to know of my success with your 
Plymouth Rock Homers in our recent Poultry and Pigeon Show. 
I entered six of the eleven 
The fine Homers I 
purchased from you won one, two, three, while two pairs of colored Homers that I raised from 
some birds bought of you won one, two. 
Those grand white Homers you shipped me attracted more attention and were admired by more 
people than all of the other birds in the show put together. 
They are superb. 
I placed the birds in my breeding pen at noon on Monday and on Friday afternoon four pairs 
had built nests and one pair had laid two eggs. 
The youngsters raised from some of your birds that I referred to before are only eight months 
old and have been at work three months, 
E. D. R., Tennessee. 
I am enthusiastic over Plymouth Rock Homers.— 
WON TEN PRIZES, TAKING ALL BUT ONE (A THIRD) WITH TEN PAIRS. At the North 
Adams Poultry Show I entered ten pairs of ‘‘ exhibition Homers ’? made up largely from Ply- 
mouth Rock stock and was awarded five firsts, three seconds, one third, one fourth. 
“headed "’ but once and that was for a third place. 
I was 
The entries were made up of one pair reds, 
one pair red checkers, two pairs silvers, three pairs-blue checkers and three pairs blue bars.— 
J.-T., Ma:sachusetts. 
PAIR OF PLYMOUTH ROCKS THE BEST PAIR OF HOMERS INTHE 1908 TORONTO EX- 
HIBITION. Only one pair of those Plymouth Rock Homers which I purchased from you were 
exhibited at the fair but they took first prize. 
the perfect wings, only one little feather being wrong. 
The judges in examining them commented on 
I know nothing of the standard but you 
will doubtless know what they meant.—T. S. C., Ontario, Canada. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS FIRST AS WELL AS SECOND AT THIS IOWA EXHIBITION. Our 
blue Plymouth Rock Homers took first and our silvers second at the show here.—C. D., Iowa. 
HAS BRED THOUSANDS OF SQUABS IN 
INDIA FROM PIGEONS POORER THAN 
OURS. About a month ago when staying 
in Chicago I made an inquiry for your cata- 
logue and about a week later I sent you 50 
cents for your National Standard Squab Book. 
I read your book with great interest and must 
say it is the best written instruction to the 
heginner that I ever saw. I have bred 
thousands of squabs in India, where I was 
born and came to America to start a squab 
farm here. Of course, the kind of pigeons 
we use over there is not as good as what we 
use here. I have succeeded in getting a fine 
farm in Missouri, a very dry, healthy climate. 
Tomorrow I am going to the place and when 
settled there about a month (this time I 
want to make the squab houses) I will send 
you an order.—V. K., Missouri. 
LONG SHIPMENT OF PLYMOUTH ROCK 
HOMERS ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO 
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND FROM THERE 
TO AUSTRALIA. I duly received your 
letter of May 12, and the birds came safely 
and in good order by the Dominion Express 
Company to Vancouver, You will be glad 
to know that they arrived safely at Mel- 
bourne on June 27. The Carneaux pecked 
three or four Plymouth Rock Homers, but 
today they are in splendid condition, ever 
gone through the long, hot voyage very well. 
We, of course, looked after them on the 
steamer to see that the cage was kept clean 
and followed your instructions as to food, grit, 
etc.—Mrs. A. B., Australia. 
SQUAB MARKET WAITING TO BE 
DEVELOPED IN THE PROVINCE OF 
ONTARIO. The National Standard Squab 
Book has given me mitch satisfaction, pleas- 
ure and also a longing to get into the business. 
I am a poultry plucker, bench-hand, feeder, 
‘etc, employed by the largest wholesale live 
and dead poultry handlers here. I originally 
sent for your Manual not with the idea of 
starting to breed squabs, but to add to my 
knowledge of feathered life. I found the 
book so interesting I have read it through 
several times and could answer correctly 
any question asked me from it. It is the 
most exhaustive treatise on the subject 
imaginable and I now consider myself an 
authority on pigeons. ‘To show you how 
undeveloped the squab trade is here: I may 
say we do not receive proportionately one 
squab to every 100 chickens.—J. E., Ontario, 
Canada. 
IMITATION NEST BOWLS. I must say 
my Plymouth Rocks are the best Homers I 
ever saw. Are the bowls as seen on page 48 
of the Manual what are known as the Rice 
Wood Fibre Nest Bow:s? I must say that 
I like them very much better than what 
are sold here as “ Rice Wood Fibre bowls,” 
as the ones here are almost flat.—M. R. K., 
Tennessee. 
Note. The genuine wood fibre nest bowls 
can be obtained only direct of us from Boston, 
We do not supply stores with them. If 
bowls are offered you in stores as ours, they 
are not. 
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