MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
A PAIR OF SQUABS FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK EXTRAS. 
These squabs weigh a pound apiece as you see them on the platter. 
IN TWO AND ONE-HALF YEARS THIS ILLINOIS CUSTOMER BRED A FLOCK OF 650 
FROM 12 PAIRS EXTRA PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS, ALSO SELLING SQUABS. On 
March 13, 1906, I ordered 12 pairs of your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. I kept a record of 
them all the first year and found the best pair hatched the tenth pair of squabs on April 11, 1907, 
the average being nearly seven pairs of squabs to each pair of breeders. I consider this pretty 
good for the first year.- : f sh ts 
In the winter and spring of 1907, I built a new loft 50 feet long, 12 feet wide, divided into 
five pens with orange crates which I used for nests. Each pen has a wire run 10 x 20 feet. 
facing the south. The whole building is covered with roofing. I now (October, 1908) have 650 
birds altogether, About 400 of them are mated and I presume the rest of them will be mated by 
next spring. The first ten squabs raised from your birds I sold for $1 each when about six 
weeks old to a party here who was very anxious to buy them. Since then I have been keeping 
all the choicest squabs for breeders and the smallest squabs I have been shipping to market with 
the squabs of the common pigeons which we have breeding ec iaae around the barns. The 
last two months I have been shipping all of the squabs to the Chicago market,'as I now have 
birds enough for my building capacity. My intention is to sell squabs for a while, then I may 
put up more buildings and start ona larger scale if everything looks satisfactory. I am at 
| emeos getting from $2 to $2.50 per dozen for the squabs from the commission men in Chicago. 
n some of the large hotels they are paying forty cents each for squabs weighing 9 to 10 pounds 
to the dozen. I have not started to sell to the hotels yet. My best squabs weigh about 10 
pounds to the dozen. . . i 
Corn and wheat are the staple articles of feed, and twice a week I feed Kaffir corn, Canada 
peas, buckwheat, hemp and some barley. For nesting material I use tobacco stems and there- 
fore have not had any trouble with lice or vermin. 
Your birds are the largest I have seen as I have been to other squab raisers near here. If 
ever any time I purchase more birds, it will be from your plant.—E. M., Illinois. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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