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APPENDIX G 



ALL RAISED FROM ONE PAIR. 



It is just a year ago since I purchased six pairs of the Plymouth 

 Ro(Je Extra Homers and I had very successful results. I have at 

 present (December 7) fifty mated pairs and have sold just 387 squabs, 

 which brought me $218.50. I find that my expenses were $74.50, which 

 leaves a profit of $144. I find that the birds like the wood-fibre 

 nappies better than any other sort of a nest. I also find that squabs 

 are reared fifty per cent easier than chickens. Enclosed you will 

 6Dd picture of birds, seventeen of them, all reared from one pair of 

 blue checkers. — George Briggs, Jr„ Connecticut, 



HOMERS ARE MOST RE. 

 LIABLE FOR SQUABS, by 



Fred Fisher. I have close onto 

 two hundred mated pairs of 

 Homers; I am selling between 

 $35 and $40 worth of squabs 

 to San Francisco markets per 

 month. Some people here are 

 in favor of the Maltese and 

 Runt pigeons crossed. To be 

 sure they raise a large, fine 

 squab, but in the moulting sea- 

 son they act like a poor chicken, 

 taking from two to three months 

 to moult, and at the same time 

 they eat their heads off. This 

 year in moulting season I did 

 not notice it at all with my 

 Homers, and shipped just as 

 many squabs then each week as 

 I am shipping now. The Ho- 

 mer is the squab breeder. 



I feed in open troughs twice 

 daily, about 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., 

 living each pen enough so they 

 will have feed before them all 

 the time, I feed my birds dry 

 blood once a week with good 

 results. I give each pen the 

 top of a fruit jar filled with the 

 dried blood, and the birds are 

 very fond of it. It keeps them 

 in good health and sharpens 

 their appetites. I feed red 

 wheat, kaffir com, red oats, 

 cracked corn, whole barley and 

 cracked horse beans. 



Last May I bought one hundred pairs of 

 pigeons crossed between a Maltese and Runt, 

 bought them at first sight on account of their 

 size, but have foimd out since that they can- 

 not deliver the goods like a Homer, ^id am 

 very much dissatisfied v/ith them. Thought 

 you might be in a position to let me know 

 where I might get rid of thetn, and if not, 

 let me know the best advertiang medium. 

 They cost me five dollars a pMr. As soon as 

 I can imload them I will be in the market for 

 two himdred pairs of your Plymouth Rock 

 Homers, — ^F, j. Baker, Lidiana. 



I am glad to say that the twelve pairs of 

 Homers you shipped me in March are doing 

 fine and have increaseed to about seventy-five 



Sairs (August 20, 1911).— Williani M. Wilson", 

 forth Carolina. 



Enclosed find fifty dollars for 

 which send me your Special 

 Offer No. 5 at the earliest pos- 

 sible date, as I have a good 

 summer trade here that I can- 

 not supply. I want to get the 

 birds started as soon as pos- 

 sible. You will no doubt par- 

 don my delay in acknowled^ng 

 the receipt of your Manual. I 

 am positive that any one follow- 

 ing your instructions is sure of 

 success. If I could not get another book like 

 it, you could not buy it for twenty times what 

 I paid for it. Every one I have talked with 

 has praised your Homers. The marketman told 

 me that if- 1 had Homers I could get a better 

 price for my squabs. I am now receiving the 

 highest market price for mine, which is three 

 dollars a dozen, alive. — F. L. Thomas, California. 



We would like to exchange some Cameaux 

 raised from the two pairs gotten from you last 

 June, with a friend who has some thorough- 

 breds but he will want a guarantee that ours 

 are the same. Will you send us proof of some 

 kind to show him? From the' four birds 

 gotten just one year ago, we now have thirty- 

 four in all, twenty-two of which are mat<4 

 pairs. Don't you think that is doing well?— 

 Mrs. J. H. Moynodier, Maryland. 



