238 NATIONAL STANDARD SQUAB BOOK 



HOW MY SQUABS INCREASED IN SIZE WHEN I FED PLYMOUTH 

 ROCK HEALTH GRIT 



B-Y S. T. Cameron, District of Columbia 

 Eleven months ago I purchased from you eleven pairs of No. 1 Plymouth 

 Rock Carneaux. I now have over one hundred birds and over thirty pairs 

 working. Apropos of the Plymouth Rock health grit, I have to say that I have 

 my birds separated into two pens, to one of which I have supplied the health 

 grit. In the other, by reason of my supply having run short, I have not given 

 the health grit for some months. I observe a very remarkable difference in 

 the size of flie squabs in the two pens, those in the pen having the health grit 

 being much the larger, and as the birds have been handled exactly the same 

 in every respect, except the health grit, I am forced to the conclusion that this 

 has something to do with the improved size of the squabs. Enclosed find check 

 for a new" lot of five hundred pounds of Plymouth Rock health grit. 



THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN GRITS. ARE YOU FEEDING THE RIGHT 



KIND? 



By Fred Armstrong, Illinois 

 Enclosed find check for one thousand pounds of Pljrmouth Rock health grit. 

 I have been using other grits but have not found any that gave the satisfaction 

 yours does. 



PLYMOUTH ROCK GRIT IS CHEAPER THAN GRAIN. FEED IT FOR 



ECONOMY 



When our grit is fed, the squabs not only are larger, and there are more of 

 them, but the grain bill is smaller. It is more economical to feed Plymouth 

 Rock health grit at one cent a pound than grain at two and three cents a pound. 

 Grain which you do feed goes farther and better along with our health grit. Our 

 grit is the product of many years of experience and it is right. In view of the 

 two letters from Mr. Cameron and Mr. Armstrong, it is the best economy" to 

 feed it. If you are not feeding it, you are missing a profit. Think this over. 

 If you are not feeding it, teU us why. Let us talk it over. 



1 WAS SCARED, MY PIGEONS ATE SO MUCH OF IT — PLYMOUTH 

 , ROCK HEALTH GRIT IS FOR USE, NOT FOR ORNAMENT 



By William Laub, Ohio 



Up to about three weeks ago I was using a grit that is advertised quite a bit, 

 and it certainly went a long way. Then I bought two hundred pounds of Ply- 

 mouth Rock health grit and became very much worried the first week for fear 

 my pigeons would all get sick. They would be in the grit box from morning 

 until night. .1 can also notice a saving in the feed they now consume. 



Pigeons which are fed on wholesome grain and plenty of Plymouth Rock health 

 grit are never sick. A breeder finds by examination that very few sick birds 

 have anything like a proper amount of grit in their gizzards, many of them indeed 

 being entirely without it. The effect on a bird of going without grit is the same 

 that swallowing food whole has on humans. The body demands nourishment 

 and there is a continuous craving for food, because what is eaten ferments instead 

 of digesting. The bird is unable to rid himself of the fermented food rapidly 

 enough to prevent self-poisoning. 



