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APPENDIX G 



OSTRICHES AND WHITE HOMERS. 



NO ADVANTAGE IN BREEDING 

 CROSSES, by J. Wallace Williams. I do not 



raise any crosses. I believe in improving the 

 thoroughbred Plymouth Rock Homers and 

 Cameaux. I've never seen the advantage in 

 crosses, if there's any. When you breed a 

 first-class Cameau to a first-class Homer, 

 Where's the advantage? You get a freak 

 pigeon. Let us improve the thoroughbreds. 

 Plymouth Rock Homers for squab breeders 

 are hard to beat. I put thirty pairs in each 

 pen. Every month in the year you wUl find 

 from sixty to one htmdred eggs and squabs 

 in each pen. Before writing this article, I 

 counted in one pen of thirty pairs, fifty-six 

 squabs, twenty-eight eggs and six new nests. 

 What's the name of the freak pigeon that will 

 come up to that record? 



Squabs well sold are easily raised. 



ARIZONA SQUABS AND 

 OSTRICHES, by Francis Shaw. 



We have twelve himdred Ho- 

 mer pigeons here in Arizona. 

 We have good birds in Arizona 

 and plentyof good fanciers, but- 

 not many good squab breeders. 

 The Salt River Valley can't be 

 beat for poultry and pigeon 

 climate. Squabs are a side line 

 wi^th us as we are in the ostrich 

 business, and have over four 

 hundred of them on this farm, 

 and are now hatching more, 



HOMER SQUABS SELL 

 WELL IN MONTANA, by 

 James T. Fisher. I have been 

 raising pigeons on a city lot, 

 and can't enlarge very muci. 

 I have a good market here, 

 (Montana.) I get from thirty- 

 five to fifty cents each for all I 

 can raise. I have only eigjity- 

 one pairs of breeders, from 

 which I sold thirty-nine squabs 

 in December and forty-two in 

 January, I also have one hun- 

 dred and twenty young, which 

 are mating up now. The 

 smallest squab I raised in the 

 last three months weighed 

 eleven ounces. There were 

 only two iinder twelve ounces. 

 They will average thirteen and 

 fourteen ounces dressed. I 

 have one (a Homer) that 

 weighed twenty-two ounces 

 alive at four weeks. This is 

 the largest I have ever raised. 

 I have raised several that 

 weighed eighteen and nineteen 

 ounces. I bought my stock of 

 Homers in 1904 from the 

 Plymouth Rock Squab Com- 

 pany, I feed mostly wheat, 

 whole com, millet and hranp- 

 seed. I mix salt, grit, charcoal 

 and a little alum together and 

 keep before them all the time. I bum and 

 grind bones for them in place of oyster 

 shell. I clean my houses every week and 

 spray with carbolic every other week. I have 

 lost but one squab in three months with canker. 



The eight pigeons I bought of you nearly 

 three years ago have increased greatly. I 

 have 214 mated pairs and I am making a nice 

 profit on them. — ^Ward Edwards, Texas. 



Percy Perkins likes to write letters asking 

 for information, about his pigeons. It takes 

 more time than studying the birds, but he gets 

 a splendid collection of opinions. 



Pigeons for breeding or squabs for eating 

 cannot be sold by advertising where nobody 

 exists. Get into the marketplace, not the 

 cemetery. 



