MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 



25. HEALTH GRIT. 



26. COARSE OYSTER SHELL. 



27. PIGEON OYSTER SHELL 



No. 25 is another view of our Health Grit same as the larger picture on page 286. No. 26 is a sample of large 

 oyster shell such as is sold for poultry. It is too large for pigeons. The correct size for pigeons is shown in sample 

 No. 27. 



BEHfG DEAF, SHE WAS HANDICAPPED IN BUSINESS, BUT SQUAB RAISING SOLVED 

 THE PROBLEM. My birds bought of you several years ago are doing splendidly and paying 

 me amply for the care and cost given them. I have found your National Squab Book of the 

 greatest practical value. I like the business better than anything I ever tried. Being deaf, 

 I found it especially hard to get hold of a business I could manage myself, but in squabraising 

 one is not thrown so much in contact with the world and one is able to feel independent. I 

 began last fall and had several months of discouragement at first, failing to find a satisfactory 

 market. As there is a good demand for good birds at all times I succeeded in making a per- 

 manent arrangement with a summer resort, they agreeing to take all I could send at $4 per 

 dozen, and pay express charges, too. My birds generally weigh 10 pounds to the dozen and are 

 fine-looking birds. At four weeks they are hard to tell from the parerits. 



I have only 50 or 60 birds but have just sent off 24 squabs, have 36 in the house and about 

 two dozen eggs. I think that is doing a very brisk business for so small a flock.. I have gone 

 in regard to feed almost exactly by your Manual, indeed I have followed it in every respect 

 and could not have managed without it. I have had no sickness except once, when I left the 

 birds in charge ofsome one who did not treat them properly, and once when I was without grit 

 for several weeks. Both times they had diarrhoea and were all fearfully thin, what you call 

 " going light," I believe. Occasionally the parents desert the squabs before they are big 

 enough to kill and begin on a new family; but these cases have been rare. — Miss B. R., Virginia. 



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them I had bought pigeons from you. William Heineman wished me to mention his name to 

 you when I wrote again, so I have taken this opportunity to do so. I feel amply repaid for 

 having bought my birds of you and I will place my future orders for stock with you. Just 

 as soon as I am able to branch out more I shall send for more birds. Thank you for your 

 great kindness and clean business dealings with me and wish you still further success in yoiu: 

 business. — R. L., New York. 



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