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A SOUTH CAROLINA PLANT. 

 What this breeder has accomplished here he telis in the letter printed on this page. 



GOING TO MAKE IT A REGULAR BUSINESS. NESTING MATERIAL IN THE MANURE. 

 A little over a year ago I bought 12 pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers- from you. Now 

 I have over 100 birds in my houses and have started to sell some squabs. I am more than 

 pleased with my birds, they are doing fine. After a while I expect I will have to get a few more 

 from you so as to mix in some new blood. 



My birds have averaged nine pairs of squabs to the pair tor the year. I find the squabs at the 

 kilUng age weighing from 13 to 15 ounces per bird, and for what birds I have sold, which has 

 been only a few, I have received $3 per dozen. I have been holding most of my birds for stock, 

 as it was my intention at the beginning to raise a stock before entering the market. I am 

 feeding a scratch feed with a little hempseed about once' a week. My birds have been perfectly 

 healthy. Out of the original 12 pairs I have lost only foi^ birds. It costs at an average of 

 five cents a month per bird and I have in my houses 130 tJirds; which I consider a very good 

 increase. I am more than pleased with the birds^ and intend to go into it on a business basis, 

 making it a regular business, and I do not see why it should not be a success. 



My houses are of the plainest kind, costing about $125. They will accommodate 300 ' ffds 



I have one pair of birds that I have raised, which lay four eggs to the setting. This I *he 

 first incident of its kind that I have ever heard of. _ They will set on these four eggs ff about 

 10 days, and then throw the eggs out, one by one, in consequence of which I lose the detting. 

 These birds have done this thing on three occasions. Two of the eggs would be fertile and two 

 infertile. I at first thought that perhaps some other pair had laid in the nest with these, but 

 after watching carefully f foimd that the eggs came from the one pair of birds. 



The manure from the birds is amounting to something and I would like to get the address 

 of some good party who will take it off my hands so that I could communicate with them. 

 Would you kindly advise how to get rid of the nesting material or do you let it go in with the 

 manure? — ^T. L. O., South Carolina. 



Answer. Straw and feathers caked in with the manure are acceptable to the tanners. 

 They do not like to get manure in which is a large amount of discarded tobacco stems, as these 

 stain the hides. 



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