Show rig pigeon eolis on th farm fam R 1 1 ift Allie american rican A agriculturist A I 1 I 1 there are beveral reasons why ig farmers should keep pigeons the tile co common pigeons as many mully as 83 he can get usually they mabo may bo t obtained for little or nothing nail U up p a codfish where the pigeons can I 1 it or better mix a little cum cuin M min in seed with loam and old mortar 1 I and a little salt the whole kept I 1 I 1 I 1 moist and if nesting places be provided and a little grain scattered the pigeons will remain pigeons around ground a place give life and interest I 1 aina t and add something of beauty to I 1 n 1 the domestic scene and they I 1 I 1 7 are useful in the fall they gather k countless seeds from weeds and I 1 every seed thus disposed of icay tray I 1 I 1 make one weed less the next set season tion it the tho crop of a i pigeon bo opened in the crof fal fall this statement may bo be I 1 verified i I 1 it ia is true that pi pigeons geons go il into 0 grain fields but what for not I to take the standing grain rain only ci 1 to gather tb the e 8 shelled belleb grain that f would be lost if the birds di did not 4 betit get it there is no fertilizer better etter I 1 I 1 than pigeon dung indeed for some gome i I 1 I 1 I 1 crops nothing can equal it and pigeon pie ia is it not a good dish I 1 and squabs squats taken about the time I 1 they a are re ready to leave leavo the n neat eit b are they not aa rich as anything I 1 that flies many a farmers boy I 1 owes his skates hia his sled and a great many other things to the I 1 quabg be he found in the barn and sold oid fur for a good bit of mone money y the I 1 cost of keeping is not worth reckoning they pick up nearly ill all they have on many farma lax capt perhaps in mid midwinter wirter and i when the bottom I 1 I 1 yet they stay 11 I 1 of a hay mow is keched let the pigeons ig cons have the seeds collected 1 I 1 phe t there re better that thit the pignona eat them than they thy go into the manure to 0 spring up in in the cornfield next season eason there is plea pleasure suto and nd 11 1 profit in ia keeping keepin 1 I F pigeons dafin or in I 1 providing ro viding a place for them and I 1 C I 1 bettio letting them as they will n birly jo themselves 11 keep 11 |