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  • From: "bruce smith" <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Ten Acres Enough
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:05:06 -0400

my dad told me that they used to soak corn in pure grain alcohol and set it out for the mourning doves and pigeons and just wait till the were to drunk to fly walk over and wring their necks..free food..Depression times.. Corn licker was easy to make from laying mash.. LOL  my dad had some stories!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com> wrote:
LOL Norma. You would STILL be hungry even AFTER eating pigeon. Not much
meat there. You get more food value by feeding the pigeons to the cats
to keep the cats around to keep the mice out of your grain. The gain in
grain is greater than the calories from the squab, I think....;-) Costs
more for a bullet to shoot the pigeon than the meat is worth.
We have mourning doves around here. Same thing, only pathetic sounding.

Dan C.
Belgium,WI

As for the 10 acres book: I recommend "The Gift of Good Land" by Wendell
Berry instead. Sure, it might not have all those technical details, but
it gets you in the mood to do good things with the land and to learn
from your place. Our ancestors didn't have books, but they made things
and grew things. Attitude is probably 90% (and hunger).
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:39:02 -0400
> From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>
>
> I have it Mike.  It's a good book.  Has everything from how to lay out the
> "homestead" to what you can grow . . . including squab.  Call me squeamish,
> but I think I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat pigeon.
> Norma
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