MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
19. RICE UNHULLED. 20. 
SOME PEOPLE THINK SQUABS ARE 
YOUNG BANTAM CHICKENS. My Ply- 
mouth Rock Homers arrived in fine condition 
and in three weeks were all nesting. I now 
have 97 birds with them and _ their young. 
The young that hatched_in February and 
March laid in August, so I think I did well. 
J Have not seen any that could compare with 
them. Others that see them say they are a 
fine lot of birds. Each pair has averaged a 
pair every six weeks, except in the moulting 
time when they dropped off laying for a 
while. The squabs that I raise weigh from 
three-quarters to one pound before they leave 
their nests. 2 ; 
Mr. Haganbothan saw my_ birds and sent 
for 12 pairs from you. ‘They have been doing 
fine since he got them. : 
I have fed principally cracked corn and 
wheat, buckwheat and mixed feeds, changing 
from one to another. I do not think it a good 
fan to feed long the same grains. In moult- 
ing time I feed corn, whole rice and a few 
peas and poultry powder. This is m first 
experience in_the pigeon business. have 
one of your Manuals and have followed it 
mostly. For a-tonic I give them a table- . 
RICE. 21. 
BUCKWHEAT. 
No. 19 is a sample of rice with the brown hulls on. No, 20 shows the same rice with the hulls taken off. This, 
the unhulled kind, is what should be fed to pigeons as needed to correct diarrhea, or as desirable where it is cheap 
and plentiful. Do not cook rice to feed to pigeons, You feed the white raw grains same as you do any other 
grain, uncooked. No, 21 is buckwheat. 
spoonful of vinegar in the water'once a week 
and some poultry powder, which I think is a 
good help to producing eggs. The birds 
are not much care—only a few minutes in the 
morning and eveninz. : 
Your Manual is a great help to those in the 
pigeon business. If the loft is kept clean, 
with fresh water and change of feed there will 
be no sick birds or lice. To keep lice out, 
take slaked lime and wood ashes and sprinkle 
in loft. Ihave not been bothered with them. 
The cost of the birds per pair is something 
like 65 cents per pair per year. 
I shall keep most of my birds that I raise 
this year and by next year will commence to 
sell some squabs. They sell from 25 cents to 
40 cents apiece and I could sell them to good 
advantage. Some people do not know what 
squabs are and think they are young Bantam 
chicks —J- L. M., Indiana. . 
GETTING ALONG VERY WELL IN 
FLORIDA. Please find enclosed check in 
payment for 200 fibre nest bowls. We are 
getting along very well with the pigeons. 
‘We have between 300 and 400 young birds. 
I think I should build another. house: and 
fly. —H. B. L., Florida. : 
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