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I will now leave it all to you in regard to 

 sending me another pair. It is a pleasure to do 

 business with you. There are so many dis- 

 honest people in business that a person doesn't 

 know whom to deal with, but I will say for the 

 Plymouth Rock Squab Company. I will have 

 no hesitancy in recommending you to others.-^ 

 Clarence Kerr, Ohio. / 



I am glad to state that I just took two blue 

 ribbons at the Pigeon Show of the California 

 Pigeon Club, Oakland, 1912. They were won 

 by two pens of Exhibition Homers, Red Barred, 

 Silvers and Black Homers. They ^ were bred 

 from the stock that I bought from the Ply- 

 mouth Rock Squab Company two years ago. 

 These birds, also your Carneaux, are excellent 

 breeders, raising fat, white-meated squabs. 

 I handle the squabs of a good many other 

 people here and noticed that those that have 

 Plymouth Rock Squab Company stock are 

 abvays sending me the best. — Ste/an Schwarz, 

 California. 



As you wanted to know how I made out at 

 our show with Plymouth Rock pigeons, I am 

 proud to say: I showed 16 birds and got 14 

 ribbons — 7 blues, 4 reds and 3 yellows, alsq 

 got a silver cup for best display of working 

 Homers. — ^William R. MoIIineJ.ux, New York. 



It may interest you to know that my Ply- 

 mouth Rock Carneaux took the blue ribbon 

 over all exhibits of their class at the poultry 

 show last week. — ^Dr. C. L. Rion, State of Wash- 

 ington. ' 



Enclosed you will find two dollars, for which 

 please send me by first boat one hundred 

 pounds of your Plymouth Rock Health Grit. 

 There is nothing which will take its place. My 

 birds are doing nicely now. They have gone 

 to work in earnest. I will send some more 

 pictures soon. — Mrs. H. F. Maxwell, Florida. 



You will recollect that I bought from you six 

 or seven lots of the Extra Homers. These have 

 given excellent satisfaction. At present I am 

 breeding about ten dozen squabs i)er week from 

 eight hundred breeders. Practically all of 

 these have been raised from your Extra Homers 

 within the last two years. Your Extra Hom- 

 ers are breeding nine to eleven-pound squabs 

 for us regularly. — ^K. C. Jursek, Pennsylvania. 



We are more than delighted with the birds 

 we bought of you nearly two years ago. We 

 have now 250 pairs, besides selling most of our 

 young squabs at fifty cents each. . You remem- 

 ber we started with twenty-five pairs. We are 

 going to extend our plant and order some 

 Carneaux. — ^Lewis A. Briggs, Rhode Island. 



SIX TO SIX HUNDRED, by A. S. Temple, 

 New York. I started in the squab business 

 June 15, 1910, with three pairs of Extra Homers 

 which I purchased from you, and the flock has 

 increased (January 7, 1913) to more than six 

 hundred birds that will all be old enough to be 



workers by April 1, 1913, and I have kept only 

 the best of the production, killing and selling or 

 using for our own table all that were not up to 

 standard in size. Some of my best squabs 

 weighed from sixteen to twenty ounces at 

 twenty-seven to thirty days of age. We are in 

 the business to stay, and think after I get a 

 steady market for my production will increase 

 my flock by buying mated pairs from you, as 

 it is quicker than waiting to raise them , although 

 the experience of the past two years with the 

 aid of your invaluable squab book has been of 

 great advantage to me. 



$7.50 TO $9 A DOZEN, by Karl C. Jursek. 



We are receiving from private families from 

 $7.50 to $9 for nine and ten-pound Plymouth 

 Rock Homer squabs. From hotels this a^pnth 

 Qanuary) we received $6.25 to $7 for nine-and- 

 one-half to ten-and-one-half-potmd squabs. In 

 this list are included the Port Pitt, Lincoln, 

 Henry and Monongahela houses. We cannot 

 of course give a list of the private families. We 

 start building a good-sized addition in the 

 spring. 



NO SET RULES, "by Fred H. Dodge. Please 

 tell ine the cost of keeping for one year one 

 hundred pairs of breeding pigeons at the present 

 prices of pigeon grains. How many squabs 

 could I market by taking the best care of the 

 birds? Answer. The matters you speak of 

 ■vsxy up and down the scale with management. 

 We cannot give you a set of rules, nor can any- 

 body. You might get a certain number of 

 squabs per year while another breeder more 

 skilful might get more, or still another- person 

 not so skilful would get less. The same applias 

 to grain, whether you buy it in paper bags, as 

 the owners of a few pairs do, or whether you 

 buy it in 100-pound lots or whether you buy it 

 in ton lots. ^ The TDest g^ide for you is to read 

 actual experiences in which breeders tell in their 

 own words what they have accomplished. 

 Success with squabs depends more on your acts 

 than on what you may read or not read, al- 

 though you should study as much as you car 

 and then adapt yourself accordingly. 



BOSTON GLOBE QUOTATIONS Oil 



SQUABS. January 26, 1912, $5 and $6 a 

 dozen. February 16, 1912, $5 and $6.50 a 

 dozen. March 1, 1912, $6 and $7.50 a dozen. 



HOW SPLIT PEANUTS FATTENED OUR 

 SQUABS, by H. A. Henkel. We are located 

 right on the western edge of the peanut belt 

 and up to two months ago had never thought 

 of peanuts as a food for pigeons. However, 

 after learning that pigeons were very fond of 

 them, we decided to' give them a thorough trial 

 and secured from one of the big shellers a few 

 himdred pounds. ^ These we commenced feed- 

 ing to our birds in one pen which contained 

 thirty-five pairs. We thought it best to feed 

 only to one pen of birds for a while to see how 

 the breeders thrived and how the squabs would 

 be. We fed this pen of birds a proportioned 

 mixture of kaffir corn, cracked com, red wheat, 



