The national standard squab book . sefind enclosed two post-office money ordersfor $125 and send me 50 pairs Extra PlymouthRocks. My mothers sickness interferedwith my plans. I have lost man\ orders bynot having enough breeders. I think it safetn try now.—Miss .1. M., Tllinnis. HAS KEPT PIGEONS FOR ROCKS DO BETTER THANANY HE EVER BRED. I had .35 pairs olyour Extra Plymouth Rock Homers to startwith. The\ are fine birds and \ery goodbreeders. I have kept pigeons for years,but yours do as well and in some respectsbetter than any I ever had. I intended tobreed them for squabs, but t
The national standard squab book . sefind enclosed two post-office money ordersfor $125 and send me 50 pairs Extra PlymouthRocks. My mothers sickness interferedwith my plans. I have lost man\ orders bynot having enough breeders. I think it safetn try now.—Miss .1. M., Tllinnis. HAS KEPT PIGEONS FOR ROCKS DO BETTER THANANY HE EVER BRED. I had .35 pairs olyour Extra Plymouth Rock Homers to startwith. The\ are fine birds and \ery goodbreeders. I have kept pigeons for years,but yours do as well and in some respectsbetter than any I ever had. I intended tobreed them for squabs, but there is such acall for good breeders that I have not hadany chance to sell squabs.—A. T. K., Massa-chusetts. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY EARNINGPOCKET MONEY FOR TWO YEARS. About two years ago I bought three pairsof your best Homer breeders and they aregetting along very nicely. I am only 15years old. I am running my business theway described in your National StandardSquab Book. Have you a 1907 copy of thisbook?—J. A. M., NEST OF AND FE.\THERS. Some birds build a scanty nest, using only a fewwisps of straw, with iierhaps a feather or two. Ancstbowl Ls an absolute necessity for such pairs,otherwise the eggs soon roll apart or out of the nest April, 1907, a Missouri woman wrote us as follows:Enclosed find draft for $, for which please sendme one gross of nestbowls. One year ago I startedwith 40 pairs of Homers. Now I have somethingover 400 liirds. I have lost a great number of eggs,and feel like I must have the nestbowls, as they pre-vent the eggs from rolling out. Send them at once. GETTING RID OF COMMON PIGEONSAND PURCHASING PLYMOUTH MOST WEIGHTY BIRDS HE EVERSAW. I have a number of common birdswhicli I am either going to sell, or kill themfor my own use, but I will exert every effortto sell them and purchase more birds of you,as I think yours are the most weighty birdsI ever saw. As soon as I am rid of whatcommon birds I have on hand now
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