MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
THIS MINNESOTA CUSTOMER IS A PROMINENT LAWYER WITH A FINE FARM ON 
WHICH HE RAISES HIS OWN PIGEON FEED. The publication of my place in the Si. 
Paul Press came about not upon my solicitation, All said is true enough and I doubt if I 
could improve it myself. Then I had the ranch and residence halftoned and stamped on 
envelopes and letter heads as per enclosed. 
Of course, I have so much to look after that 1 am not able to give the pigeons much attention, 
but find them _‘ good to eat ’’ and nice in appearance. We have no difficulty now in disposing 
of all the squabs we can produce in St. Pauland at home. We get only $3 per dozen which does 
very well here as the farms produce wheat, buckwheat, and corn enough for all the birds, 
pore: cows, hogs and chickens I.have. This year I tried Canada peas with satisfactory 
results. f 
Our main house is 58 feet long, 16 feet wide, with seven-foot posts. It rests upon a stone 
foundation with stone piers in the center supporting the sills, and is about two feet above the 
surface. Drop siding is used for weather boarding and matched fencing for inside lining. 
The space between the lining and drop siding is filled with cinders, The floor is of two thickness 
of inch flooring and brake-jointed. Ten feet of this house is used as a storing room and for 
filling the drinking fountains. The building is supplied with heat and city water. There are 
six flying pens each eight feet wide, 10 feet high and 24 feet long, with roosts'as shown in the 
picture and are covered with one-inch mesh wire number 18. ‘The entire framework support- 
ing the wire rests upon concrete foundations four inches wide and let into the ground about one 
foot. Each loft contains 140 nests, 70 nests on each side, leaving a space in the center of six 
feet. An entry way three feet wide extends along the entire north side of the building with a 
door opening into each pen. The small building is eight feet by ten feet with shed roof eight 
feet and five and oné-half feet respectively in height. This is used as a mating pen, where an 
equal number of males and females are placed and when mated are banded and placed in 
larger lofts. 
H. W. M., Minnesota. 
ENLARGING AFTER AN EXPERIMENT 
WITH THREE PAIRS. I am now making 
preparations to occupy a new building in the 
spring, and as soon as I can scare up the 
money, I want to order more breeders and 
about 20° dozen nest bowls, as I expect to have 
a two-unit house besides the one now oc- 
cupied. I can’t say enough about the breeders 
I bought of you. My first pair of squabs 
weighed two pounds, two ounces, the second 
pair two pounds, and by the looks of the 
third pair, I believe they will weigh more 
than any of the first ones. I am going to 
keep my young ones for breeders, also expect 
to add more of your stock in the breeding 
line. If I get my other house up, I can easily 
accommodate 150 pairs of breeders, and I 
want them just as fast as I can get them. 
I feed a little red wheat, Kaffir corn, millet 
and hemp-seed, buckwheat and barley and 
Canada peas. I have all told 10 kinds of 
feed, use the self-feeder for staples and my 
relishes I feed on a board with raised edges, 
which I remove from the pen after the birds 
have finished eating.—R. E. B., Pennsylvania. 
PLEASED WITH WHAT HE SAW AT 
MELROSE FARM. I write to let you know 
I was very much pleased with what I saw at 
your farm in Melrose and the treatment 
which I received from your superintendent, 
and shall send you another order for some 
more of your birds by spring, as they are all 
right. If youhaveany new fiterature, would 
you kindly.send me the same, as I want to 
keep in touch with youin regard to an hing 
that I can learn for my benefit.—C. H. H., 
Massachusetts. 
The floor of each flying pen is covered with sand from four to eight inches deep.— 
BETTER HOMERS THAN THIS FANCIER 
HAD IN HIS COOPS VALUED BY HIM AT 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS A PAIR. Since 
I wrote you Saturday I had a great pigeon 
raiser call upon me to ask the privilege of 
looking at my birds you sent. asked him 
to express himself in a candid way as to his 
opinion of the quality and also if he had any 
finer birds. He replied, “ Well, have 
several kinds. Some I consider are worth 
$25 a pair, but I confess I have none that can 
hold a candle to those birds. They are 
extremely fine.’ He made strict inquiry 
about you and seemed wonderfully enthusi- 
astic and, on his leaving me, remarked he 
certainly would have to send for some of 
those birds. I just simply mention this to 
you for your credit. This is one of the 
peru I mentioned to you in my first letter 
wrote you, asking you to send me some 
good birds, as I did not want to be laughed 
at. I think you will receive some orders 
from this part of the country, at least I am 
hoping so.—T. §., Illinois. 
RICH PEOPLE SURPRISED BY QUALITY 
OF PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS. Two 
years ago I bought 12 pairs of Plymouth 
Rock Homer i hag of you with the intention 
of raising squabs for market. have never 
lost but one of the old birds and now have 
a flock of 225 or 250. About 100 are just 
beginning to mate. I sold some of the squabs 
to alady from New York who comes here for 
the summer, and her colored servant, who 
came to buy them, said they were the nicest 
ones he ever saw. The lady lives in an 
expensive part of the city ——W, R., Vermont. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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