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Show D'JCKS AND OTHER LIVE STOCK." Bow n Ingenious F (timer Gets Plenty i TVntor, Dark nnd FUh. 1 will endeavor to tell my readers as briefly an posrible how I have plenty of cio'-k w;it-r convenient to my lots, plenty of fish my table and plenty of tiwe PeMn di.cka for the table, and also for their fine feathers. Some five or six years ago, not having water convenient, I built a tank, say thirty steps from my lots and a little above them, by building a large dam across a ravine, and just here I will say to prevent leaking plow a land the width of the base of the dam across the ravine or wherever the dam is to be made, then build on top of plowed land. My tank is in black land with yellow clay 6ubsoil and will hold water from January till the late fall rains. In it we put a few small perch and yellow and speckled or blue catfish; they multiplied very rapidly and we now have all the fish we want for table use both of perch and catfish, the former I think the finest I ever saw. For a while after the tank was built I was fearful of it being ruined "by crawfish, they being very numerous in it. 1 noticed, however, that the ducks feasted upon them. So 1 went to work to raise more ducks; procured a trio of Pekins, and at this time have forty-one of them and no crawfish to be seen. The ducks are a very superior fowl, being be-ing entirely free from disease, and u-urpassed u-urpassed for the table, besides nearly equaling the goose for feathers, of a very fine quality. So you see I have plenty of water for stock, fish for the table, and the white beauties for the table and also for their feathers, besides the pleasure afforded my wife by showing them to her friends. Now perhaps some one will want to know how to raise them. Our best success has been in the following follow-ing way: We hatch them under a chicken hen. Then put in a pen made by placing three or four planks a foot wide edgewise on & dry spot of ground, with cover at one side to house them in bad weather. Keep them in pen until they are at least a month old, with all the feed they want, and just enough water to drink, as they are injured by having water to dabble in when young. They will then do well in the yard with just enough water to drink, but much better if they have a pond or plenty of water. Ours spend nearly all their time on the water, coming com-ing out to eat two or three times a day. E. V. Taylor in Southern Farm. |