The national standard squab book . rom seven to nine pairs peryear and I can sell all I can raise. I haveabout 100 breeders and they keep me stockedvery well. The market prices down here arevery low. They have been used to commonsquabs and do not know \vhat is good, butI am going to raise the price all I can. It isonly $ to $ and I hope to raise it to$ My squabs weigh from 10 to 12pounds to the dozen. I have a self-feederlike the one in your Manual. I feed them amixture cjf wheat and corn. I have followedyour Manual strictly and have not departedfrom it in any way, and let me say
The national standard squab book . rom seven to nine pairs peryear and I can sell all I can raise. I haveabout 100 breeders and they keep me stockedvery well. The market prices down here arevery low. They have been used to commonsquabs and do not know \vhat is good, butI am going to raise the price all I can. It isonly $ to $ and I hope to raise it to$ My squabs weigh from 10 to 12pounds to the dozen. I have a self-feederlike the one in your Manual. I feed them amixture cjf wheat and corn. I have followedyour Manual strictly and have not departedfrom it in any way, and let me say righthere that any one (even of those who do notknow a thing about squabs) can take yourManual and read it through, follow it care-fully and make a success. They are boundto make a success. I think the squab busi-ness is a great one and is increasing every hive not had sickness of any kind. I cansell at home all I raise.—W. P. C. Texas. LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS RECEIVED BY PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB COMPANY MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS. FLYING PEN OF A New Jersey hreeders story is on this page. At the top of the next pa^e one of the ladies?is shown holding a nest bowl in which are three squabs from one hatch, two days old. if his household LOST ONLY ONE OLD BIRD AND THREE SQUABS IN FIVE MONTHS BREEDING. I have had, I think, remarkable success with the birds so far, and thought possibly you wouldbe pleased to hear it. The loss of one bird in the first lot shipped has been my entire mis-fortune, with the exception of three squabs, which I think the parent birds neglected. I havein the neighborhood now (August, 1908) of about 200 birds. Kind regards to your Mr. For breeding my flock, I have used about half my stable and have not been troubled with?either mice or rats, as I built another floor over the old one, raising the same about IS inches,and do not think that there is any way for the rats to get at the birds; besides I have threecats that spend part of each day u
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