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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
January 21, 1922 
Great Opportunites in 
Canadas Mariti me Provinces ^ 
Nature Notes 
Carrier Pigeons 
From time to time cur readers tell us 
about carrier pigeons which alight on 
their buildings and remain around the 
farm. These pigeons are generally tired 
out from some long flight, nud seem to 
have lost their reckoning. At times they 
are injured in the wing or leg. They 
usually carry bands with certain numbers 
or letters, and farmers who find them 
are usually interested enough to try to 
return the pigeons to the owners. In 
several cases we have succeeded in dis¬ 
covering the owner. The letters and fig¬ 
ures on the band evidently refer to en¬ 
tries in some association, and through 
these letters we are sometimes able to 
locate the breeder of the pigeon. Not long 
ago there was a contest between flying 
pigeons which started in Washington and 
ended in New York. One pigeon flying 
in this race evidently became tired and 
settled down on the barn of one of our 
readers in New Jersey. The bird was 
thoroughly exhausted, and made himself 
at borne with the farm poultry. The 
farmer was anxious to have him deliv¬ 
ered to the proper owner, but just as 
we were at the point of learning about 
it the pigeon, fully rested, flew into the 
air again, circled about the farm several 
times and then started east, evidently to 
finish his original course. If there were 
more men as faithful to their duty as 
this pigeon was the world would be a bet¬ 
ter place to live in. 
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Power at Drawbar or 
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Tractors: 
BELT 
Threshers 
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Huskers and Shredders 
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Cane Mills 
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\Y7HY do thousands of successful farmers own Inter 
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ment with them? Here are plain reasons. 
They know: 
1. That the International Harvester Com¬ 
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sign and build long-lived practical farm tractors. 
2. That International Harvester tractors 
and machines are designed to work together 
as field units. 
3. That the most practical and helpful 
service is quickly and easily and always 
available to them. 
4. That reliable service has always a defi¬ 
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3. That these factors are guaranteeing their 
investments for years of usefulness. 
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Headers 
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Wagons 
Neighbors to a Cat Farm 
Why is it that there is no tax on cats 
as well as dogs? I never minder! n family 
cat, and do not despise a cat. But when 
people keep cut farms and let them roam 
around people’s gardens and porches I 
think they should pay a tax. We have 
a neighbor who keeps 12 or 1 ( full-grown 
cats. No one can raise little chicks un¬ 
less under wire. Sometimes we can see 
three or four running along on the fence, 
then down they jump into some of our 
choice plants—either flowers or vegeta¬ 
bles—and there they will have a battle, 
leaving the plants broken and most times 
destroyed. It seems to me there should 
be a tax and a law compelling the owner 
to keep them at home. Very often we are 
awakened at night and kept awake by 
their awful screaming and fighting. 
MRS. 0. E. L. 
This is a real trouble and nuisance. 
Efforts have been made to provide for a 
license and tax on all cats—the same as 
on dogs. There is an organization formed 
.for the purpose of making such a tax 
legal. They have not made much prog¬ 
ress. Ridicule has killed the plan. We 
think, however, that such a tax plan will 
be adopted some day. Most farmers would 
object to it, as they regard the cat as one 
of the most, useful of farm animals. In 
the case of a “cat farm" the owner has 
no business to let these cats run at large, 
lie should be compelled to keep them 
confined. When they run out as here re¬ 
ported they are ns much trespassers ns 
cows or horses would be. We think the 
board of health would have power to 
abate this nuisance. If they will not do 
so, the neighbors should combine and 
make a protest to the owner of the cats. 
Tell him that if he does not keep them 
at home they will be shot. If he refuses 
to provide for them get them in the act 
of killing chickens or destroying property 
and promptly shoot a few of them. We 
do not know 7 any more effective remedy. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
Improving Fish Bait 
The writer sympathizes with the little 
lady who got the sucker instead of the 
trout which she had requisitioned. Now, 
to make up for the disappointment, let me 
suggest that no fisher will approach our 
Schuylkill River without a hall of flour 
rolled into a stiff dough and mixed in the 
making lg a few minims of assafeetida, 
just enough to allow the smell to travel 
in the water. They say the fish come a 
mile, grab the pill of dough, which they 
pinch off the large ball nud put on the 
hook. The ball is about as large as a 
marble as I see them use it.. I would mix 
a little olive oil if I were making it, to 
keep the water from dissolving the dough 
too quickly. They keep the large hall of 
dough wrapped in oiled paper to preserve 
the smell. Many ancient negroes who 
have fished all their lives for a living, 
being too lazy to work, won’t “go fish in’” 
without the doped bait. I don't vouch for 
it. but 1 know the} 7 all use it here and 
come home with good strings of fish. I 
never used it. Would like to know re¬ 
sults if it is tried. Jersey fish may be too 
aristocratic for such food. They might 
require doughnuts. JOHN gormly. 
—the historic scene of early settlement in what are now the 
} Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward 
X. Island—may today be the land of opportunity for which you have 
^ been looking. Lying out into the Atlantic, close to the biggest 
5 markets in America, nearerto Europe than any port in the U.S. they 
^ Offer Special Advantages to the Farmer 
r fruit raiser, dairyman and market gardener. Land of great natural fertility, 
in many cases with substantial improvements, may be bought at very reason¬ 
able prices from farmers who are retiring to enjoy the reward of their fore¬ 
sight and industry. The apple, potato, and fodder crupa of these Provinces 
are world famous, and modest capital will here start you on the highway to 
success. Industrial cities and towns afford a ready market for produce of 
X the farm, and near at hand are ocean ports awaiting your shipments to the 
great centers of the world. If your present conditions do not assure you 
of the success you desire, investigate what these Provinces can do for you. 
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