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APPENDIX G 



' to rid a loft of lice. Some advised perman- 

 ganate of potash, in the bath water, moth balls 

 in the nests, various kinds of insect powder, 

 several kinds of nest sprays, carbolized lime, 

 etc. I tried all these. For three months I 

 wrestled with the lice. I caught and dusted 

 every bird at least three different times, I was 

 getting desperate. I even made a revolving 

 cylinder or dust bag through which. I passed all 

 the birds. It was an immense amount of work 

 but did not do the business. It killed some 

 lice, to be sure, but in ten days they were as 

 bad as ever. Finally I hit it, and it is easy 

 when you know how. Simply spray the birds 

 with a mixture of two-thirds kerosene and one- 

 third crude carbolic acid. I close the birds 

 in the loft and take a continuous spray pump 

 full of the mixture and give their feathers a 

 good dose of the evil-smelling stuff. I try 

 especially to hit their backs. They sneeze and 

 sputter and it does spoil their beauty for a 

 while, but no harm ever has resulted in my 

 lofts. A better and more thorough method is 

 to catch each bird and pour about a dessert- 

 spoonful among the feathers along the back, 

 especially just above the tail. This place is 

 the last stronghold of the louse. You will find 

 him here when he has been driven from every 

 other quarter. This treatment, taken with the 

 tri-weekly bath and the usual spraying of the 

 nestboxes, has completely solved the problem 

 for me. May it do as much for you^ 



We are to have a poultry and pigeon show 

 next month. There are quite a few people en- 

 gaged in the business here. I have had a 

 couple of orders of birds from you. I bought 

 them when I was in Kellogg, Idaho. I am not 

 engaged in the business now, but intend to 

 start again in the spring. I thought ■ perhaps 

 you would like to have some advertising left 

 at the show. I am always interested in telling 

 people about the Plymouth Rock Squab Com- 

 pany, as you sent me fine birds on both of my 

 orders, I am in a position now to tell lots of 

 people about you, as I am soliciting for a tea 

 house here and call on a good many people 

 who raise poultry and pigeons. If you will 

 send me some advertising I will pass it out to 

 good advantage, and possibly I can send you 

 on some orders. I will feel amply paid if you 

 send me good birds wheni order next spring. 

 The demand for squabs increases every day. 

 The price paid depends on the size and color 

 and mostly on one's ability to sell them to the 

 right people. — G, Evans, Utah. 



The birds you sent me last April are doing 

 nicely. Have saved considerable squabs as 

 breeders, and have sold enough to more than 

 pay *or feed. I have never sold squabs for 

 less than $3.75 per dozen to dealers, and re- 

 ceive $6 per dozen from private trade. These 

 were raised from your Extra Homers. Have 

 had squabs run as high as seventeen ounces, 

 but they average fourteen ounces each. You 

 can use above as an unsolicited testimonial if 

 you wish. Yours for continued success. — H. A> 

 Parkhurst, New Jersey, 



I recently moved to Utah from Bedford, 

 Indiana, and while in Bedford I bought some 

 Homers from you. They were beauties, and 

 I can't get along without some_ pigeons out 

 here. The prospects for squab raising here are 

 good. I am trying to get some one interested 

 who owns property and can put up a large 

 plant. I have misplaced your catalogue and 

 must ask for another one. Squabs bring $6 

 to S7 a dozen here now (1913) .—George G, 

 Ci'ocker, Utah. 



Plymouth Rock squabs are bringing sixty 

 cents apiece with prospects of very heavy sales 

 this winter. My private trade is rapidly in- 

 creasing, due to the fact that^ my customers 

 are doing a little free advertising for me. A 

 satisfied customer surely is your best advertise- 

 ment. — ^R. W. EdsoxL, Ohio. 



Received your dollar Manual and it is the 

 plainest and easiest understood of anything 

 that has ever come under ray eyes. You may 

 use my letter and name if it will help to get 

 amateurs to read the Manual, as it is surely a 

 great help. — ^A. E. Edgerton, Michigan. 



I have only a few hundred now, but will en- 

 large my squab plant as it furnishes the capital. 

 I am greatly pleased with the magazine and 

 look to yoiir National Standard Squab 'Book 

 for advice, and have implicit confidence in it. 

 I know its advice is good because I have been in 

 the poultry business for twenty years, and have 

 had pigeons for pleasure and have natural love 

 for all the feathered tribe. — Mrs, Edith Love, 

 West Virginia. 



We find a ready market for squabs in Chicago 

 at $3.50 for eight-pound, $4.50 for nine-pound 

 squabs. We ship at 3.45 p.m. and they are in 

 Chicago for the next morning's market. We 

 had a severe case of canker in one bird, his own 

 fault, as he must have eaten the dirty feed 

 from the floor, and we cleaned out the mouth 

 with a bit of cotton wound around a match, 

 moistened with vaseline, then'we covered the 

 spots with sulphur. Had to treat him for a 

 week and a day and the canker was all gone. — 

 Griffin & Hazen, Wisconsin. 



I went to one of the markets in Vancouver to 

 buy a chicken and after making a purchase I 

 inquired the price of squabs that were in a 

 crate nearby. The marketman thought I 

 wanted some, I suppose, and said, " Seventy- 

 five cents a pair." When he found out that I 

 had no intention of buying he talked with me 

 about them and said he paid sixty cents a pair 

 and sometimes more, but never less. — ^Harry 

 Gardner, British Columbia. 



An easy way to lose money in the squab 

 business is to follow the advice of those who 

 talk but have nothing to show for their talking: 

 and, conversely, the successful pigeons ana 

 methods are found on the places of the money- 

 makers, who have eager attention when they 

 talk or write. 



