MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



HIS FRIEND PURCHASED 12 PAIRS OF US THREE YEARS AGO, IS NOW SHIPPING 

 SOUABS FROM 300 PAIRS AND CLEARED $1000 LAST YEAR, A HIRED MAN DOING THE 

 WORK. You liave been recommended to me by a friend who three years ago purchased 12 

 pairs of Homers from you and he has to-day 300 pairs and cleared $1000 last year without any 

 labor on his part. He simply instructed a common laborer. 



I am very much interested in smiab raisint?. I am now attending the Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. I live in Chicago and it seems to me that would be a good 

 market. The first six months I intend to raise for breeding purposes, and then if I succeed 

 can put $200 or $300 more in squab raising. Do you consider this plan practical as I have 

 outlined it? — Gr. C, Iowa. 



Answer. Remarkable successes are being made by customers of ours who started with 12 



fairs to 50 pairs and raised up their own birds. It is not wise, however, to start with less than 

 2 pairs of birds, unless your stock of patience is large and you can stand waiting for two or 

 three years before getting returns for yotir money. 'Hie trouble with beginners who have 

 failed is that they have tried to do too much too fast. 



RATS AND DIARRHOEA. As I am sure 

 you are very; good authority on the pigeon 

 question, being first in the business and 

 revolutiomzing it, I hope you will not count it 

 amiss or intruding for me to appeal to you (to 

 use court language) for help and advice. We 

 have lots of mice in our pigeon house.* What 

 could one use or do to kill or frighten them 

 away with perfect safety? The second 

 troublesome thing is what I call the shivers. 

 TTie pigeons get to shaking violently and seem 

 to lose nearly all interest in everything. 



Your birds beat anything we have from else- 

 where, at most every " turn," I might say. 

 Indeed^ some "we have from another near by 

 who gave us a written guarantee " for health, 

 good workers, hea^'y squabs, no canker and 

 all mated birds," proved in nearly every 

 instance a sham, for they were not even mated 

 except a few pairs, out of a1iim.dred pairs, and 

 died right along, and they were not mated for 

 over a year after they came. 



Yours are tame also , they will eat out of our 

 hands. I think those broad-shouldered, 

 thick-legged blue (with black broad bars over 

 wings) are very good ones, We raised some 

 nice "breeders from them. A friend of ours at 

 Marlton, New Jersey, spoke of getting nice 

 birds of you. I have made interesting visits 

 among the pigeon keepers in New Jersey. — 

 Miss M. H. B., Pennsylvania. 



Answer. Rats and mice, as we have ex- 

 plained so many times, must be kept out by 

 elevating the building. If it is impossible to 

 do this, take one-inch mesh wire netting and 

 bury it completely in the dirt floor, six inches 

 deep. At the sides and comers bring it up 

 above the sills of the building and fasten it 

 with staples. This will give you a wire-net- 

 ting carpet for your squab hotae (buried six 

 inches under the ^ound), and through this 

 barrier it is impossible for rats or mice to get. 

 It is a hard task 'to exterminate them by 

 poison or traps after they have once got in to 

 an improperly-arranged place, and " yo.TJ 

 succeed they are bound to come again. Do it 

 right by elevatincr your building or burying 

 wire netting and that will end the bother. - 



What this customer calls the shivers is 

 diarrhcea caused by feeding too much wheat. 



I am going into the 

 ill \ 



TWO PAIRS ONLY. 



squab industry in a very small way to raise 

 a few birds for our own use and find a pleasur- 

 able occupation as an aside. I shaU later 

 want a few pairs of your birds. I bought 

 some time ago ten pairs of another company, 

 but so far am sure of only two pairs in the lot 

 and they have given me no little trouble. — 

 Rev. G. B. L., Vermont. 



NINE AND ONE-HALF POUNDS TO THE 

 DOZEN AND SOLD FOR FOUR DOLLARS. 



Will yoy. kindly inform me to whom to write 

 alDout disposing of pigeon droppings. I made 

 the first sale of squabs last week. They 

 weighed nine and one-half potmds to the 

 dozen, plucked, bled, empty crops. I received 

 four dollars for them. How is that ? — F. H. S., 

 Ohio. 



GENERAL VERDICT. Please send me 

 addresses of New York squab dealers. I 

 received the three pairs of Extfa Plymouths; 

 all were in fine condition. My friends all say 

 they never saw a nicer lot of Homers. I also 

 thank you for the prompt shipment. I 

 expect to send for another lot in about a 

 month. — ^J. B. S., Pennsylvania. 



SQUABS TWO WEEKS OLD WEIGHING 

 THREE-QOaATERS of a POUND IN 

 COLORADO. Birds ordered of you some 

 days ago reached me in pretty fair shai>e, 

 with the exception of one male dead. Thank 

 you for your splendid treatment to my order. 

 Squabs from the first lot at two weeks 

 weighed three-quarters of a potmd. How is 

 that? Will return baskets in a few days. — ■ 

 J. F. B., Colorado. 



BEST BOOK ON BIRDS HE EVER READ. 



I received your Manual and find it just 

 what you say. It is the best book on birds 1 

 ever read. I have a large plant of common 

 pigeons but since I read your book I have 

 bmlt one of the prettiest pigeon houses and 

 flying pens in which to put the pigeons I am 

 ordering of you to-day. If yoiir birds are 

 as fine as you say I will get rid of all my 

 common pigeons.-— C, E. G., North Carolina. 



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