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MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
25, HEALTH GRIT. 26. COARSE OYSTER SHELL. 27. PIGEON OYSTER SHELL 
No. 25 is another view of our Health Grit same as the larger picture on page 286. No. 26 is a sample of lar; 
sg shell such as is sold for poultry. It is too large for pigeons. The correct size for pigeons is shown in sample 
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BEING DEAF, SHE WAS HANDICAPPED IN BUSINESS, BUT SQUAB RAISING SOLVED 
THE PROBLEM. My birds bought of you several years ago are doing splendidly and paying 
me amply for the care and cost given them. I have found your National Squah Book of the 
eatest practical value. I like the business better than anything I ever tried.” Being deaf, 
found it especially hard to get hold of a business I could manage miyself, but in squabraising 
one is not thrown so much in contact with the world and one is able to feel independent. I 
began last fall and had several months of discouragement at first, failing to find a satisfactory 
market. As there is a good demand for good birds at all times I succeeded in making a per- 
manent arrangement with a summer resort, they agreeing to take all I could send at $4 per 
dozen, and pay express charges, too. My birds generally weigh 10 pounds to the dozen and are 
fine-looking birds. At four weeks they are hard to tell from the parents. 
T have only 50 or 60 birds but have just sent off 24 squabs, have 36 in the house and about 
two dozen eggs. I think that is doing a very brisk business for so small a flock. I have gone 
in regard to feed almost exactly by your Manual, indeed I have followed it in every respect 
and could not have managed without it. I have had no sickness except once, when I left the 
birds in charge of some one who did not treat them properly, and once when I was without grit 
for several weeks. Both times they had diarrhoea and were all fearfully thin, what you call 
“going light,” I believe. Occasionally the parents desert the squabs before they are big 
‘enough to kill and begin on a new family; but these cases have been rare.—Miss B. R., Virginia. 
PRACTICAL NEW YORK MARKET MEN SUCCESSFUL WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS. 
In looking over your new Manual (1908) I noticed a letter from a firm that does business in 
front of our store. It is ‘‘ Heineman & Co.” I am personally acquainted with them and told 
them I had bought pigeons from you.. William Heineman wished me to mention his name to 
you when I wrote again, so I have taken this opportunity to do so. I feel amply repaid _for 
having bought my birds of you and I will Pas my future orders for stock with you. Just 
as soon as I am able to branch out more I shall send for more birds. Thank you for your 
ereat kindness and clean business dealings with me and wish you still further success in your 
‘business.—R. L., New York. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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