MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
SQUABS AS FAT AS AN OLD HEN, I 
have 100 pairs of Plymouth Rock Homers 
and_am well pleased with them. I dressed 
16. Homer squabs. yesterday. that averaged 
just a pound apiece. Several were only 26 
days old. My principal feed is cracked and 
whole corn, red wheat and millet seed, also 
feed some Kaffir corn and think well of it. 
I use tobacco stems for nesting material. 
My squabs are as fat as an old hen at four 
weeks. My birds are healthy, snappy and 
strong and working fine. In banding squabs 
or young birds before leaving nest how can 
I tell male from female, as I want to know 
which lez to place band on?—H. R., Ohio. 
Answer. You cannot tell at that age. 
Put the band on either leg and transfer it to 
-the correct lez when the bird discloses its 
sex by its actions at four to five months. 
LUMP OF ROCK SALT. 
This kind of salt and no other should be fed to 
pigeons. By peckinz at it they get off enough and 
cannot harm themselves by eating too much. If you 
sa on Health Grit you do not need to provide this 
rock salt. 
A BOY’S PLEASURE. You have treated 
me very nice. I am fully satisfied with what 
birds I have got from you. I have done 
everything you recommend in your Manual. 
The red checkers raised one pair of squabs 
which weizhed almost two pounds when 
three weeks old. I would like very much to 
order some of your: specials, but I am only 
12 years old and just starting out. Iam also 
a cripple, not being able to do very much 
maaele consequently I must depend entirely 
on my father for assistance. do not like 
to ask too much of him. I feel that he does 
all he can for my pleasure. My education 
is from him, as I have never been able to go 
to school,—E. D., Illinois. 
HAD EXPERIENCE WITH COMMON 
PIGEONS, POOR HOMERS AND PLYMOUTH. 
ROCK HOMERS. I had a notion that the 
common pigeons would. do as well.in.raising 
and raise as large squabs as the Homers. 
would, but I was greatly mistaken as you will 
see. I kept my common pigeons for about 
four or five months, which was enouth for me 
because it cost more to feed them than I got 
for my squabs, so I sold out all of my common 
pizecns and bought some Homers. These 
omers I got from men who were selling for 
75 cents and $1.50 a pair which cid no: do 
much better than my common pizecns, so I got 
thoroughly disgusted with pigeons and sold 
out again. About two weeks later I saw your 
advertisement, which was thes.cr.ing of 
my success, I liked your advertisement 
and sent off for your catalogue. What 
I found in your catalogue was true and it 
sounded like the truth. I lixed the cata-. 
logue so well that I sent for your Manual, 
which you sell for 50 cents, which is not 2 
hundredth of its value. After I read the 
Manual I ordered some of your Extra Homers. 
I thought you would give me good birds the 
first time and bad birds the second time, but 
the second order was filled with as good birds 
as the first. I got my first birds from you in 
the winter, about February, 1908. By mail 
you sent me a slip of the most valuable 
information that I ever read or will read in 
my life. ; 
I kept fresh water before my birds all the 
time, I did not let the birds drink the 
bathing water at all. In the winter time 
the water would freeze at night but fresh 
water was put inevery morning. My pigeons 
did better in the winter than in the summer. 
feed my pizeons wheat, cracked corn, 
hemp seed and about a double handful a week 
of Kaffir corn and sunflower seed, which 
altogether is about the most dizestible and 
fattening for the squabs. keep salt. 
charcoal, grit and oystershell before them all 
the time. I give my pigeons about four or 
five heads of lettuce every week. I followed 
your Manual in every way possible. In a 
few days I will send you a third order for 
your Extra Homers.—P, A., North Carolina, 
BUSY WORKING ALL THE TIME. As 
you, no doubt, remember, I bought 15 pairs 
of your Plymouth Rock Homers last March, 
Am very well pleased with them. My 
Homers are doing fine, busy workinz all the 
time. When I want more Homers will place 
the order with you.—H. J., Ohio. 
SELLING SQUABS REGULARLY FROM 
A SPLENDID FLOCK OF BREEDERS. In 
February, 1906, I bought a few pairs of very 
good pigeons from you, from which I have 
raised a splendid flock of breeders from which 
I have been selling squabs regularly for the 
last eight months.—G. A. W., Ohio. 
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