MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



FIVK PRIZES TAKEN BY PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS AT TENKESSEE POULTRY AND 

 PIGEON SHOW. It would probably be of interest to you to know of my success with your 

 Plymouth Rock Homers in our recent Potiltiry and Pigeon Show. I entered six of the eleven 

 pairs that you sent me. I won two firsts, two seconds, and one third prize. The fine Homers I 

 purchased from you won one, two, three, while two pairs of colored Homers that I raised from 

 some birds bought of you won one, two. 



Those grand white Homers you shipped me attracted more attention and were admired by more 

 people than all of the other birds in the show put together. They are superb. 



I placed the birds in my breeding pen at noon on Monday and on Friday afternoon fotir pairs 

 had built nests and one pair hkd laid two eggs. 



The youngsters raised from some of your birds that I referred to before are only eight months 

 old and have been at work three months. I am enthusiastic over Plymouth Rock Homers. — 

 E. D. R., Tennessee. 



WON TEN PRIZES, TAKING ALL BUT ONE (A THIRD) WITH TEN PAIRS. At the North 

 Adams Poultry Show I entered ten pairs of '* esdiibition Homers " made up largely from Ply- 

 mouth Rock stock and was awarded five firsts, three seconds, one third, one fourth. I was 

 " headed " but once and that was for a third place. The entries were made up of one pair reds, 

 one pair red checkers, two pairs silvers, three pairs blue checkers and three pairs blue bars. — 

 J. T., Massachusetts. 



PAIR OF PLYMOUTH ROCKS THE BEST PAIR OF HOMERS IN THE 1908 TORONTO EX- 

 HIBITION. Only one pair of those Plymoutn Rock Homers_ which I purchased from you were 

 exhibited at the fair but they took first prize. The judges in examining theni commented on 

 the perfect wings, only one little feather being wrong. I know nothing of the stendard but you 

 will doubtless know what they meant. — T. S, C, Ontario, Canada. I 



PLYMOUTH ROCKS FIRST AS WELL AS SECOND AT THIS IOWA EXHIBITION. Our 

 blue Plymouth Rock Homers took first and our silvers second at the show here. — -C. D., Iowa. 



HAS BRED THOUSANDS OF SQUABS IN 

 INDIA FROM PIGEONS POORER THAN 

 OURS. About a month ago when staying 

 in Chicago I made an inquiry for your cata- 

 logue and about a week later I sent yo.^i 50 

 cents for your National Standard Squab Book. 

 I read yotir book with great interest and must 

 say it is the best written instruction to the 

 he^nner that I ever saw. I have bred 

 thousands of squabs in India, where I was 

 bom and came to America to start a squab 

 farm here. Of course, the kind of pigeons 

 we use over there is not as good as what we 

 use here. I have succeeded in getting a fine 

 farm in MissoiuH, a very dry, healthy climate. 

 Tomorrow I am going to the place and when 

 settled there about a month (this time I 

 want to make the squab houses) I will send 

 you an order. — V. K., Missouri. 



LONG SHIPMENT OF PLYMOUTH ROCK 

 HOMERS ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO 

 BRITISH COLUMBIA AND FROM THERE 

 TO AUSTRALIA. I duly received your 

 letter of May 12, and the birds came safely 

 and in good order by the Dominion Express 

 Company to Vancouver. You will be glad 

 to know that they arrived safely at Mel- 

 bourne on June 27. The Cameaux pecked 

 three or four Plymouth Rock Homers, but 

 today they are in splendid cpndition, having 

 gone through the long, hot voyage very well. 

 We, of course, looked after them on the 

 steamer to see that the cage was kept clean 

 and followed your instructions as to food, grit, 

 etc. — Mrs. A. B., Australia. 



SQUAB MARKET WAITING TO BE 

 DEVELOPED IN THE PROVINCE OF 

 ONTARIO. The National Standard Squab 

 Book has given me much satisfaction, pleas- 

 ure and also a longing to get into the business. 

 I am a poultry plucker, bench-hand, feeder, 

 etc, employed by the largest wholesale live 

 and dead poultry handlers here. I originally 

 sent for yoiu- Manual not with the idea of 

 starting to breed squabs, but to add to mv 

 knowledge of feathered life. I found the 

 book so interesting I have read it through 

 several times and could answer correctly 

 any question asked me from it. It is the 

 most exhaustive treatise on the subject 

 imaginable and I now consider myself an 

 authority on pigeons. To show you how 

 undeveloped the squab trade is here: I may 

 say we do not receive proportionately one 

 squab to every 100 chickens. — J. E., Ontario, 

 Canada. 



IMITATION NEST BOWLS. I must say 

 my Plymouth Rocks are the best Homers I 

 ever saw. Are the bowls as seen on page 48 

 of the Manual what are known as the Rice 

 Wood Fibre Nest Bowls? I must say that 

 I like them very much better than what 

 are sold here as " Rice Wood Fibre bowls," 

 as the ones here are almost flat. — M. R. K.. 

 Tennessee. 



Note, The genuine wood fibre nest bowls 

 can be obtained only direct of us from Boston. 

 We do hot supply stores with them. If 

 bowls are offered you in stores as ours, they 

 are not. 



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