The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-25

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 Have you a shelter for your stock and all of your farm implements, also a work shop to repair all tools during rainy weather? Did you ever try after a good rain blowing in the bottom or a ditch you wished to make deeper, and let the next heavy rain wash the
 Have YOU done aii the fencing you wish to do this season7 Posts will drive easy in wet weather, and the man using the siedgehammer would like for 1t to be a little cool I am sure you have gotten up all the firewood you can use between now and next Tall. ana that it has been cut and housed ready for use. It takes twelve months work on a farm to make a success in farm- ing. just as much so as 1t does In mak- ing a success in any other vocation. Too many of our farmers try the six
 month plan, and then condemn farm ing because they make failure. As said in a previous article in this paper. there is more in the man than in the
 land. If you work six days in the
 week and ffty-two weeks in the year, you are only obeying one commandment of the ten God has given us-"Six days
 shalt thou labor and do all thy work"
 
 Condensed from U. S. Farmers Bul- letin, No. TIT, by William E. Rice. Though the house may be well con- structed and pigeons well selected ana properly matted, no success can be ex- pected unless proper kinds of feed are
 procured and the birds are regularly fed. When some breeders have fair success for a while by feeding only
 cracked corn and wheat, long contin- ued feeding on these two staples alone invariably fails to produce as good squabs or as many as when a further variety of grain Is fed. Keep generous supply of sifted cracker corn, Canada peas. wheat. German mill
 let. Kaffir corn and hemp. These are six principal feeds. On the floor of each pen keep about a peck Of clean sand evenly spread. Procure three boxes about the size of small cigar i boxes: fill one about one-third full of fine table salt, the second with cracked oyster shells. pigeon size, and the third with ground charcoal. about as fine as ground coffee. These three sub stances are very essential to the health of pigeons. Clean out and replenish each of these boxes weekly. Do not
 fail to keep the salt box filled and be- fore them all the time. for the health
 of pigeons demands 1t.
 Feeding Troughs--ln each pen IS placed feeding trough, made of inch
 stuff. ten inches wide. four feet long, and with sides one and one-half inches high. This trough is placed in the
 middle of the pen to avoid feeding in the open fly, where the birds and grain
 would both be subject to the weather.
 In feeding. a tin pail holding a peck
 Is convenient. as Is also grocer's
 tin scoop No. 8, which holds about three pints.
 Rations--For the morning ration give equal parts of cracked corn. wheat and peas. we'll mixed, using two scoop
 fuls to each pen of fifty pairs of birds,
 and taking good care to see that all
 droppfngs are cleaned out of the
 troughs before feed is put in. The ra- , tion for the afternoon Is composed of cracked corn, Kaffir corn, millet and
 peas in equal parts. If at any feed- ing time any of the previous supply has not been used, reduce the quanti- ty. If. however, the troughs should be entirely bare, slightly increase the Special Feeds-Cn Thursday and Sundays use hemp in the ration instead of miliet. Care must be taken that
 the birds do not get this feed too often, nor in too large quantity, as 1t Is very fattening and if fed in excess has a tendency to give the birds vertigo For the same reason caution must be used in feeding millet. A small quan- tity of rice may be fed once a week
 with advantage. Regularity in time of
 feeding, should be strictly observed
 The morning feed in summer should
 be given at 6:30 and in the winter at
 or 7:30. The afternoon ration should
 be given at o'clock in the summer
 and o'clock in the winter. The after
 noon hours are quite important, and
 must be adhered to in order that the
 birds may have ample opportunity to
 fill themselves and feed their young before nightfall. Be sure to attend to the feeding yourself. Always go alone. Never feed out of doors under any circumstances in either summer or winter.