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A PAIR OF SQUABS FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK EXTRAa 

 TRese squabs weigh a pound apiece as you see them on the platter. 



IN TWO AND ONE-HALF YEARS THIS ILLINOIS CUSTOMER BRED A FLOCK OF 650 

 FROM 12 PAIRS EXTRA PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS, ALSO SELLING SQUABS. On 



March 13, 1906, I ordered 12 pairs o£ vour Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. I kept a, record of 

 them all the first year and found the best pair hatched the tenth pair of squabs on April 11, 1907, 

 the average being nearly seven pairs of squabs to each pair of breeders. I consider this pretty 

 good for the first year. 



In the winter and spring of 1907, I built a new loft 60 feet long, 12 feet wide, divided mto 

 five pens with orange crates' which I used for nests. Each pen has a wire run 10 x 20 feet, 

 facing the south. The whole building is covered with roofing. I now (October, 1908) have 650 

 birds altogether. • About 400 of them are mated and I presume the rest of them will be mated by 

 next spring. The first ten squabs raised from your birds I sold for $1 each when about six 

 weeks old to a party here who was very anxious to buy them. Since then I have been keeping 

 all the choicest squabs for breeders and the smallest squabs I have been shipping to market with 

 the squabs of the common pigeons which we have breeding squabs around the baniB. The 

 last two months I have been shipping all of the squabs to the Chicago market, as I nbw have 

 birds enough for my building capacity. My intention is to sell squabs for a while, then I may 

 put up more buildings and start on a larger scale if everything looks satisfactory. I am at 

 present getting from $2 to $2.50 per dozen for the squabs from the commission men in Chicago. 

 In some of the large hotels they are paying forty cents each for squabs weighing 9 to 10 pounds 

 to the dozen. I have not started to sell to the hotels yet. My best squabs weigh about IS 

 pounds to the dozen. 



Com and wheat are the staple articles of feed, and twice a week I feed Kaffir com, Canada 

 peas, buckwheat, hemp and some barley. For nesting material I use tobacco stems and there- 

 fore have not had any trouble with lice or vermin. 



Your birds are the largest I have seen as I have been to other squab raisers near here. If 

 ever any time I purchase more birds, it will be from your plant. — E. M., Illinois. 



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