MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 
A SOUTH CAROLINA PLANT, 
What this breeder has accomplished here he tells in the letter printed on this page. 
GOING TO MAKE IT A REGULAR BUSINESS. NESTING MATERIAL IN THE MANURE. 
A little over a year ago I bought 12 pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers from you. Now 
I have over 100 birds in my houses and have started to sell some squabs. I am more than 
pleased with my birds, they are doing fine. After a while I expect I will have to get a few more 
from you so as to mix in some new blood. 
My birds have averaged nine pairs of squabs to the pair for the year. I find the squabs at the 
killing age weighing from 13 to 15 ounces per bird, and for what birds I have sold, which has 
been only a few, I have received $3 per dozen. I have been holding most of my birds for stock, 
as it was my intention at the beginning to raise a stock before entering the market. I am 
feeding a scratch feed with a little hempseed about once a week. My birds have been perfectly 
healthy. Out of the original 12 pairs I have lost only four birds. It costs at an average of 
five cents a month per bird and I have in my houses 130 birds; which I consider a very good 
increase, Iam more than pleased with the birds, and intend to go into it on a business basis, 
making it a regular business, and I do not see why it should not be a success. , 
My houses are of the plainest kind, costing about $125. They will accommodate 300 birds 
Ihave one pair of birds that I have raised, which lav four eggs to the setting. This is the 
first incident of its kind that I have ever heard of. They will set on these four eggs for about 
10 days, and then throw the eggs out, one bv one, in consequence of which I lose the setting. 
These birds have done this thing on three occasions. Two of the eggs would be fertile and two 
infertile. I at first thought that perhaps some other pair had laid in the nest with these, but 
after watching carefully I found that the eggs came from the one pair of birds. 
The manure from the birds is amounting to something and I would like to get the address. 
of some good party who will take it off my hands so that I could communicate with them. 
Would you kindly advise how to get rid of the nesting material or do you let it go in with the 
manure?—T. L. O., South Carolina. 
Answer. Straw and feathers caked in with the manure are acceptable to the tanners. 
They do not like to get manure in which is a large amount of discarded tobacco stems, as these 
stain the hides. 
LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY 
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