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plan for this damp climate. I may send for 

 one or two dozen pairs more by spring. — Mrs. 

 E. N., State of Washington. 



A PERFECT SHIPMENT OF HOMERS 

 TO FRANCE. The pigeons arrived this day 

 in perfect condition, but I am sorry to say I 

 have neither the nappies nor the bases. I 

 d\ily received yoxir letter of December 16 

 which i answered at once. I have this day 

 written to Puritan Line of steamship asking 

 for information concerning the non-arrival 

 of the nappies. — G. D., France (Europe). 



DOING WELL. The pigeons purchased 

 of you last fall are doing well. Am in im- 

 mediate need of more wooden nappies. — F. 

 C. J., Massachusetts. 



GOT ONLY TEN CENTS EACH FOR 

 SQUABS BUT MADE MONEY. I built two 

 rustic seats for a neighbor for three pairs 

 of Homer pigeons, and put them in a pen 

 eight by eight feet. They increased at about 

 a pair of squabs a month. We turned the 

 youngones out as soon as they were able to 

 fly. We soon had a flock of pigeons of about 

 fifty or seventy-five. Suddenly we found 

 that we cotild sell the young ones for ten 

 cents apiece and the butcher took them off 

 the nest for us. We killed the three original 

 pairs as we did not want any in coops. I 

 built a pigeon hoi^e sixteen feet high and 

 ten feet square on the ground, two stories. 

 The birds come in at the top and nest where 

 they please. I took up a homestead seventy 

 irdles north. , On this my whole family lived 

 for most of the time. While. we were away 

 from this place, the butcher came regularly 

 and took away the squabs and left the money 

 or h^ account with a neighbor. We never 

 kept any account of the profit of these splen- 

 did birds except last year, when the profit 

 was $34.50, and the feed would not amount 

 to a dollar, as they fly out and rustle their 

 own feed. My wife feeds them a little to 

 make them friendly. I have a large wagon 

 shed and they used to nest in this. I shot 

 some of them and they have never bothered 

 me there now for two years. They are wise 

 and I think they can talk. As a comparison 

 of profit between chieken3 and squabs, we 

 hacf a coop of chickens that required con- 

 stant care. After deducting $19 for chicken 

 feed, the profit on them was $33_. The 

 chicken coop and corral are quite a distance 

 from the pigeon house and the pigeons never 

 feed with them. — W. S. M., CaUfomia. 



NEVER LOST A BIRD BY SICKNESS. 

 In June, 1902 I got twenty-four pairs of 

 you, paying sixty dollars for them. I have 

 aever lost a bird by sickness. I killed one. 

 He was ailing and did not look well, so I 

 killed him. This was three or four months 

 after I got the birds. Right off after 1 got 

 them I raised twenty-five pairs, then I be- 

 gan to kill sqtiabs, as I had no room. 1 sold 



the first lot of squabs in Febniary.^ 1903, 

 and got 25 cents apiece at first (this was 

 much too low) , then I sold for 30 cents apiece 

 until May, 1903. I should say I sold in all 

 150 squabs up to May 1. From that time 

 on the marketman to whom I was selling 

 refused to give me more than 18 cents apiece, 

 so I rigged up a new place and put forty 

 pairs in there, then 1 sold a few more. Since 

 then to now (November, 1903) have sold 

 abjut 60 to 75 squabs. I have sold only 

 squabs, but the other day I sold six pairs of 

 breeders for two dollars a pair. All the 24 

 origiaal pairs I got of you have kept workipg. 

 I have three or four pairs which have maie 

 a nest almost every month since I have had 

 them. They had eleven nests, others fouj 

 or five nests a pair. I have eighty-eight 

 pairs of breeders now. I have got confi- 

 dence now to go ahead and am going to start 

 a large plant in the country and will buy 

 some more birds of you. — H, C, Massachusetts. 



A YOUNG WOMAN'S SUCCESS. A year 

 ago last July I received from you one-half 

 dozen pairs and paid you $15. I have tried 

 to take good care of them and they have 

 increased till now I have some one hundred 

 young birds. I did not try to sell any of their 

 as I wanted to let the flock grow. I took gooo 

 care of the young birds mating and so there 

 are not any of them that are related to each 

 other now that are breeding. I had built for 

 them a good warm house according to your 

 directions and they have done very well. 

 Some few died during this Winter, but I think 

 they were crowded and so the older ones 

 would push the little fellows out of the nest 

 and they froze during the night. — Miss E. M, 

 C, Kansas. 



A GOOD HEALTHY FLOCK. I bought 

 24 pairs Extra of you a little over a year ago. 

 I now have besides the 24 pairs about 40 pairs 

 of mated birds, all leg banded. Also I have 

 about one hundred young birds and all but 

 about thirty of these will be old enough to 

 mate by the first of April. All of these are 

 leg banded and are good healthy birds in first- 

 class condition. — E. A. H., Iowa. 



GOING TO MAKE AN EXHIBIT. My 



birds that I received of you in July and 

 August are doing fine, and as there is a poultry 

 show here in this city next month, I thoug:ht 

 perhaps I would show a few of them. Could 

 you give me any pointers on putting them on 

 exhibition? — E. (j., Michigan. 



EXPERIENCE DEARLY BOUGHT. You 



may possibly think I am doing considerable 

 correspondence without doing much trading, 

 but I wish to get your advice in regard to a 

 little matter. Last April I jjurchased seven- 

 teen pigeons of a friend of mine for $5.95. I 

 knew nothing except what your Manual 

 taught me about the business. I purchased 

 in the fall of a Westerner what were suppose'' 



