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MATED PAIRS START OUICKLY. BEST 

 BREEDERS IN A LIFE-TIME OF EXPERI- 

 ENCE. SUGGESTION FOR CITY PEOPLE. 

 SURE WAY OF MATING. I have received 

 yours of the 18th and am. following out your 

 request. About the color, either a blue or 

 a red checker cock will do. I should like to 

 know how I am to ^et him. I started in 

 just one month ago with my shipment of 12 

 birds and about five days later, in which time 

 they had to pick up from the fatigue of the 

 journey, a pair of blues were sitting on eggs. 

 This was kept u.p at intervals by the others 

 until now when I have ten young ones and 

 two eggs, which are being hatched by a pair 

 of flights. 



Barring one sick one I can honestly call this 

 a good investment because I have had 

 I»igeons since I was ten years old and in that 

 time I have not seen any better done. Should 

 they keep this up, I find the market good, I 

 shall buy some more this spring. You said 

 the Eagle and Sun had quotations on squabs, 

 but unless it is somewhere else than on the 

 market page, neither of these papers has 

 them. They want a dollar a pair for them in 

 butcher shops. 



The Manual is all right, but if you want 

 suggestions I should say that the way you 

 describe for having pigeons in the city is very 

 seldom used. The most popular way is 

 putting a coop and screen on a flat roof or 

 on poles in the yard. This is the way you 

 will see most coops in Brooklyn and New 

 York. However, the way you describe is a 

 very good advice for those with peaked roofs, 

 as I know many people would have pigeons 

 if their roofs weren't peaked. On mating 

 birds I should also tell of a very effectual 

 way I have for mating stubborn pigeons who 

 absolutely refuse to mate. This is to" put 

 them in a box or something so that they 

 cannot get any light and leave them so until 

 you think they ought to be taken out and 

 then put them together and in most cases 

 they will be so glad to get back to light and 

 see another pigeon that they will mate right 

 away. Should they still refuse repeat the 

 method until they do, but this method has 

 worked so that I have yet to come across the 

 one I could not mate this way. — ^H. H.. New 

 York. 



FIRST SQUABS WHEN TWO WEEKS OLD 

 WEIGHED TWELVE AND FOURTEEN 

 OUNCES. Perhaps you will be interested 

 to know that the fiist pair of squabs at two 

 weeks weigh 12 and 14 ounces respectively. 

 Am pleased with the weight. — ^A. T. V.. 

 New Hampshire. 



ONE YEAR OF PROGRESS. Enclosed 

 find money order for which please send me 

 six dozen wood fibre nestbowls by freight. 

 The Homers I got from you about a year ago 

 are working splendidly. — E. A., Pennsylvsmia. 



MONEY-MAKING STORY BRIEFLY 

 TOLD. BIG FLOCK RAISED FROM SMALL 

 PURCHASE. PROLIFIC BREEDERS. If 



you remember, I bought from you in the 

 autumn of 1906 12 pairs of squab breeders. 

 One pair went to work the second day after 

 arrival, the others following in close order. 

 In two weeks every pair but one had eggs. I 

 now have (October, 1907) 576 pigeons, two 

 pairs having raised 11 pairs per year, the 

 others nine and ten. I feed 'cracked com, 

 whole wheat, hemp seed, barley, kaffir com 

 and rice. During the moulting season I 

 feed a good quantity of hemp seed. I think 

 the squab business is a very good money 

 making enterprise if well attended to. — 

 R.F.S., New York. 



AN INEXPENSIVE START, 



TWO YEARS' SUCCESS. GOING TO 

 SHIP TO BIGGER MARKET. . I am now 



raising more squabs than our local market 

 demands at reasonable price and in order 

 to obtain good prices must find market 

 elsewhere. Can you put me in the way of 

 same? I bought my first Homers of you in 

 August. 1905, and have had remarkable 

 success with pigeons, having lost but 15 that 

 were able to fly, in all the time since then. I 

 will feel very grateful for any information 

 you may be able to give me. Also kindly 



Suote me price on 50 pairs Plymouth Rock 

 [omers, as I think of adding another loft. — 

 0. H., Wisconsin. 



ALL PAIRS AT WORK OUICKLY. PLY- 

 MOUTH ROCKS RECOMMENDED ABOVE 

 ALL IN DELAWARE. My Homers an-ived 

 safe and I am certainly pleased with them. 

 They are all mated and I expect eggs soon. 

 I recommend your birds above all. I told 

 several parties about my birds and I think 

 they will give you an order. — R . W. , Delaware. 



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