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Show DUCKS AND OTHER UVC ITOCIt Burn mm Infvatoas Farmer Gets Iteatjr t TTr, Decks a4 Ftskw T Trfll enfiiT9r te tell my rea4ert a briefly M peMffcle hew I have plenty ol toek water ooaTeitteiaylots, plenty cf fish for ray table ani plenty ef fine Peldn ducts for the table, and also for their fine feather. Some fire r sia years ago, not having water convenient, I built a tank, say thirty steps from my lot 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 dara is to be made, then build on top of plowed land. My tank is in black land with yellow clay subsoil and will hold water from January till the late fall rains. In it we put a few small perch and yellow and rpeckled or blue catfish; they multiplied very rapidly and we now have all the fish we want for table nse both of perch and catfish, the former 1 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 numeroue in it. I noticed, however, that the dncka feasted upon them. 80 1 went to work to raise more ducks; procured a trio of Pekins, and at this time have forty-one f them and no crawfish to be peon. The duoka are a very superior fowl, being be-ing entirely free from disease, and unsurpassed un-surpassed 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 a 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 ere 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. |