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POOR WHEAT SET HIM BACK. HE SELLS ALL HE RAISES, THE SOUABS BEING 

 ENGAGED BY CUSTOMERS EVEN WHILE THEY ARE ON THE NEST. I write to you for 

 information concerning my flock of birds. I got my stock from you in 1904, and have been 

 building up my flock. I got along finely with fiiem until the latter part of last summer when I 

 had the bad luck to lose about 20 or 25 of the old birds, which broke the mated pairs up. I 

 woiald like to increase my flock to the full capacity of the house built from your unit plan, 12 

 by 16. I lay the loss of my birds to some poor wheat I got from the mill here that must have 

 contained a good deal of ergot that caused the females to die. I wrote to Mr. Rice at the time 

 and he told me it was the wheat, at least I have had no more trouble since I commenced 

 feeding first quality grain. The squabs weigh 12 to 14 pounds a dozen. 



I herewith send an order for 12 females to balance my flock. 

 , My original purchase of you in 1904 was six pairs Extra Plymouth Rocks. The birds arrived 

 all safe and in good condition and attracted a good deal of attention at the time, for some of 

 my friends put on a broad smile and have been expecting me to bu&t up in the pigeon business, 

 but have been at it now for over two years and the order accomipanying this don't look much 

 like it for I can sell all the squabs I can raise. They are even engaged before they are fit to 

 take off the nest. I get 50 cents a pair just killed, and if I dress them ready for the oven I get 

 75 cents a pair in the local market. My squabs will weigh 12 or 14 pounds per dozen, and 

 think it is on account of the way I am handling and feeding, for I find you cannot ma^e meat 

 unless you feed for it. _ \ 



I make my own grit of glass and it has b«en very satisfactory, I keep a couple of bricks 

 of salt cat in the hous**, also a codfish occasionally, and they are doing fine now, if I did have 

 some bad luck, but then one must expect drawbacks in any kkid of business. — A. D. D., 

 Pennsylvania. 



Note. Yoa will never have sickness of any kind with pigeons if you provide sound grain 

 Mid clean water. If your grain dealer needs watnhiiig, and has not your interests at heart, 

 examine especially the wheat and corn, tasting both. Some grain dealers will take whole com 

 which has germinated and make cracked com of it. You can always tell sour grain by smell, 

 taste and sight. 



It is quite true, as this customer states, that feed is a factor in the weight of the sqiiabs. Too 

 much wheat keeps the old birds thin, and the squabs dark and thin. Plenty of com and 

 peas makes the squabs fat. 



DISPOSING OF THE SQUABS IN SOTTTH CAROLINA WHEN THEY REACH THE AGE 

 OF 23 DAYS. RECEIVING THREE DOLLARS A DOZEN. Our order for 17 pairs of Extra 

 Plymouth Rock Homers was placed with you early in March (1907) and the birds arrived and 

 were placed in our pen about the 20th. They were all in good shape, having stood the trans- 

 portation well, and made themselves entirely at home in their new quarters. The day follow- 

 ing their arrival one of the hens laid, and from that time until now (June 24) the flock, as a 

 whole, has 'worked splendidly, and results have far exceeded our expectations. At the present 

 time 15 of the 17 pairs are at work, having either eggs or yoimg squabs. We believe that 

 every pair wotild have been at work, but two of our hens escaped, and we had to order two 

 more to replace these, and this accident upset our flock considerably. 



We find that the squabs will weigh from three-quarters to seven-eighths of a poimd when they 

 are titree weeks and two or three days old, and we have been disposing of them at that age. 

 No doubt, this fast growing is due to the equable climate which we have in South Carolina. 

 We have no trouble in disposing of all our birds at that age at 25 cents apiece. 



The pigeons do not require much of our time, and we are so thoroughly satisfied with our 

 experience that we are considering ordering 20 more pairs in the next few days. — Mrs. C. B., 

 South Carolina. 



SQUABS WEIGHING FOURTEEN TO RECEIVES $4.20 A DOZEN. My squabs 



SIXTEEN OUNCES. It is now July. 1907. from your birds weigh when dressed nine 



SIX months since we purchac^^d from you 44 j j. j.t. j j t - ^ xi. 



pairs of your Extra Homers. Ccven pairs met Pounds to the dozen and I repeive at the rate 



with accidents, because they were disturbed of $4.20 per dozen for them. 'I have fed com, 



several times on account of the plant not being wheat, peas a-''d millet, buckwheat and bread, 



finished. The remaining 37 pairs are in I have Lad su.::cess by letting the squabs on 



every way satisfactory. We have at present the floor when they are fom- weeks old,. that 



11 pairs on eggs and 21 squabs. On accotmt is, when I am going to keep them for breeders, 



of not having too much room for the birds and They are not troubled by the other birds and 



also to answer the many demands of our sick, they feed themselves sooner and the old birds 



we are killing the squabs at three to four weeks get to work earlier. I have had no sickness or 



when we find ^em to weigh 14 to 16 ounces, uce. Your Manual is all right and is good for 



and at which time the mature birds are again the starter and experienced. — P. E. D., Dis- 



breeding. — S. E., Illinois. trict of Columbia. 



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