. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 1907 MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 1908. BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF SPLASHES. The second bird on the left and the last bird on the right are types of oddly-marked Plymouth Rock Homers FEEDS HIS BIRDS LOCUST LEAVES AWD PEPPER GRASS. BOSTON DEALER ALWAYS GIVES HIM MORE THAN THE MARKET QUOTATIONS BECAUSE HIS SQUABS ARE WORTH MORE. I purchased 12 pairs Extra Homers of the Plymouth Rock Squab Company, in February, 1906, the best stock I could buy. I saved all my squabs for breeders up to Janiiary 1907, when I began to ship the squabs. They average 9 pounds to the dozen
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 1907 MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS 1908. BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF SPLASHES. The second bird on the left and the last bird on the right are types of oddly-marked Plymouth Rock Homers FEEDS HIS BIRDS LOCUST LEAVES AWD PEPPER GRASS. BOSTON DEALER ALWAYS GIVES HIM MORE THAN THE MARKET QUOTATIONS BECAUSE HIS SQUABS ARE WORTH MORE. I purchased 12 pairs Extra Homers of the Plymouth Rock Squab Company, in February, 1906, the best stock I could buy. I saved all my squabs for breeders up to Janiiary 1907, when I began to ship the squabs. They average 9 pounds to the dozen, and I receive from $3 to $4 per dozen for them. I ship to tile Boston market. I feed my birds on wheat, cracked com and kaffir com in equal parts, with peas and hemp- seed as dainties. I feed them in wooden traps, not finding any self-feeder which I like. A box containing grit, oyster shells and charcoal is kept before tl^m all the time and the flying pen outside covered with coarse sand. I find pine needles to be .the best nesting material, the birds building a small, neat, compact nest with them. I sell the pigeon manure to parties in town at 50 cents per bushel. My squab house is 36 feet long by 14 wide,,with a passageway three feet wide on one side., • The birds are watered by fountains placed in the passageway. My flying pen is .36 feet -wide,- -18 feet long and ten feet high, divided into three parte. I find my birds to be very fond of locust leaves and pepper grass, eating it like grain. They like peas and hempseed so well that they will fly on to my hand for them. My birds are mostly blue checkers, with a few reds and silvers among them. , , , ,. , I ship nearly every week to a large commission dealer in Faneuil Hall Market, who always 'gives me more than the market quotations. My birds are all in fine condition, no poor ones among them, and are raising big, fat squabs at the present time. (June, 1907.)—E. B. K., .Massachusetts. MOVING, GOING INTO THE BUSINESS ON
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