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A Terra Cotta TILE ROOF 
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with your peas and beans. 
It will inoculate them 
with the nitrogen-gath¬ 
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B RIEFLY and pointedly— 
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continue fertility production. 
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to their attacks. Setting hens need to 
be dusted once a week with insect 
powder and as soon as the poults are 
a day or two old, the tops of their 
heads must be touched with a little 
vaseline. 
The best nesting box is one with 
high sides all round or else a low 
one with a circular wire netting T 
high all round it. One reason for 
this is found in the fact that when 
young pheasants hatch they almost 
pop out of their shells and in a short 
time are running about. Unless con¬ 
fined, some of them are almost cer¬ 
tain to stray away and be lost. 
It is wise to keep young pheasants 
under cover several weeks, although 
if hatched as late as the latter part 
of May, they can be put outdoors in 
coops right away. They must not be 
allowed to get wet or chilled, how¬ 
ever, or their earthly existence will 
be brief. Also, they must not be 
placed on tainted ground, that is, 
ground where poultry have been run¬ 
ning, unless some green crop has been 
grown there. Poisoned soil, damp¬ 
ness and vermin constitute the fatal 
triad responsible for the untimely de¬ 
mise of most pheasant poults that fail 
to grow up. 
All sorts of complicated methods 
of feeding pheasants have been advo¬ 
cated and many breeders keep mag¬ 
gots on hand for them all the time. 
This is quite unnecessary. Hard 
boiled eggs, stale bread soaked in 
milk and squeezed dry, oat flakes and 
dry bran with finely ground Hamburg 
steak three times a week will keep 
the poults thriving until they can eat 
the same kind of rations that the 
chickens get. There must he no lack 
of green stuff, however, from the 
first. It is even more important 
than when chickens are being raised 
and there must he grit and charcoal 
as a matter of course. Although deli¬ 
cate at first, pheasants are exception¬ 
ally hardy when well feathered. 
Of course, prices vary in different 
parts of the country and in different 
seasons, but it may be said in a gen¬ 
eral way that ring-neck pheasants 
are worth about $8 a pair, while 
goldens and silvers sell for from $15 
to $18. About $25 is usually obtained 
for Reeves pheasants, while Lady 
Amhersts sell for as much as $35 a 
pair when in full plumage. The price 
is usually reduced several dollars 
when the birds are not in feather. 
Although peafowl are closely re¬ 
lated to the pheasants they have more 
domestic habits and have been kept 
in this country for generations. Few 
birds are more beautiful or better 
acquainted with the fact. Indeed, his 
vanity is one of the things that makes 
a peacock interesting. On every large 
estate there is a place for a peacock 
or two, but these birds resent con¬ 
finement and must be allowed to 
roam. They subsist readily on regular 
barnyard fare and spend their nights 
in the trees. As peacocks do not get 
their trains or fans until the third 
year, they should not be bred until 
then. The peahen will set on her own 
eggs and bring off a brood in about 
twenty-eight days. Peacocks live for 
twenty-five years or more, so it is not 
necessary to buy new stock very 
often. 
The Waterfowl 
Coming now to the waterfowl, 
which surely deserve consideration on 
every country place of any size, the 
beginner finds a long list of interest¬ 
ing and attractive birds offered by 
the breeding farms. Comparatively 
few are to he recommended to the 
amateur, and the rarer kinds, as well 
as those difficult to manage, will not 
be mentioned here. 
Doubtless the mallard is the best of 
all water birds with which to make a 
start, for it is one of the easiest to 
raise. Mallards have been hatched 
successfully in incubators for some 
years and reared with equal success 
in brooders. In their wild state they 
are supposed to mate in pairs, but 
when domesticated they soon become 
polygamous and breed very freely. 
A few of these ducks may be kept 
around the house with only a tub for 
water. They do no harm in the 
garden, but, on the contrary, consume 
a vast number of flies, mosquitoes 
and garden pests, and they are dis¬ 
tinctly ornamental as they roam 
about. Old ducks may be kept at 
home by pinioning them, and the 
young will usually stay close by in 
any event. 
Raising Woodducks 
Woodducks are not so easy to raise, 
but there are several reasons for 
working with them. In the first place, 
the wood drake is one of the hand¬ 
somest creatures that wears feathers, 
carrying many colors, including 
purple, green, black, white and chest¬ 
nut. In the second place, it is wholly 
an American bird, summering and 
wintering within our borders, and was 
well on the way to extermination be¬ 
fore united efforts to save it were 
undertaken. Woodducks may be in¬ 
duced to breed on large estates by 
putting lip nest boxes made to repre¬ 
sent hollow logs. In their wild state 
the ducks nest in trees and often 
carry their young down to the water. 
When woodducks are kept in an 
aviary in a small place, a moderate 
sized pool will answer their needs if 
the water can be kept fresh, and a 
wired yard 8' x 10' will accommodate 
half a dozen of these wonderfully 
handsome birds. The yard must be 
wired over if the ducks are not pin¬ 
ioned, and a box with a few evergreen 
houghs thrown over it will provide 
all the shelter needed, even in winter. 
Curiously enough, mandarin ducks, 
which come all the way from China, 
closely resemble our native wood¬ 
ducks, and it is difficult to decide 
which is the handsomer. They may 
be cared for in the same manner, but 
the mandarins require the greatest se¬ 
clusion in order to breed freely. It 
used to be supposed that mandarins 
must have a warm house, but that is 
not the fact. They need dry quarters, 
though, and shelter from the wind. 
Of course, the ideal aviary for any 
of these birds is one with a good sized 
pond or pool and shrubs growing 
around it. It is not difficult or very 
expensive to make a pool with cement, 
for it need be only 2' deep. Even a 
tiny aviary is a joy and pleasure when 
stocked with woodducks and manda¬ 
rins, but if other ducks along with 
Canada geese, Chinese geese and pos¬ 
sibly swans can be kept, it will be still 
more attractive. Among the easiest 
ducks to raise are Indian runners and 
muscovies, which are thoroughly do¬ 
mesticated and may be allowed full 
liberty if there be no garden for them 
to trespass on. Both are handsome 
as well as useful, but the muscovy 
sometimes becomes rather domineer¬ 
ing. Woodducks and mandarins are 
not cheap, costing about $25 a pair. 
From $4 to $6 will buy a pair of mal¬ 
lards, while Indian runners and mus¬ 
covies are still cheaper. 
White Chinese geese, which cost 
about $10 a pair, may well be classed 
among the ornamental waterfowl, al¬ 
though they serve utilitarian purposes 
as well. Doubtless the white variety 
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