Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-05
written by one NJ the most experienced farm
ers, gardeners, and fruit growers In the
Uuiied Siates.l


the setting hens as far apart as possible, 30
that they will, in coming of to eat, return
to their own nests If ono has the time TO
spare, it is good plan to take off all the
setting hens in the morning, feed and wa
ter them, and let them dust themselves IN
the ash box, II they are inclined to. and
then see that each hen returns to her own
nest before the eggs become cold. No bet
ter coops can be made than to make them
OF triangular shape, twosboards wide,
go to 2l inches,) about three feet high and
four and half feet wide at the bottom I.
he back side to be boarded up tight and
the front lathed up, (mason's lath,) with
open spaces about two inches wide; then
nail lath5 over the cracks where the coops
are boarded, to keep out rains, and you
will have as good coops as can be made, il
you were to spend So on each. Feed corn,
oats, wheat, barley, or buckwheat, but corn
and oats arc sufficient, once n day on each
ovERsToCKED DIARIES.
1t is better to keep 90 cows in good pas
ture, and to be we'll fed and cared for in
winter, than to keep 40 on poor pasture
and scanty winter feed. Good cows on
gool dairy lands, when not overstocked,
will average about 500 per season In butter
and cheese; but put on more COWS than
the land can feed as they ought to be fed
and the profits run down to $25 or $50 n
head. The proper way for farmers to do
is, in all their farming business to do every
thing we'll keep none but the best breeds
or grades OF stock, feed literally, have good
fences, and they will find it pays better
than contrary system.
TURKEYS.
There is no more profitable fowls than
turkeys, but they must be allowed to range
over the fields at their pleasure. They re-
quire no feeding when grashoppers are
plenty. am inclined to think that many
farmers who have 10 near neighbors TO be
molested, can make more money by raising
turkeys than by farming. 1t would re-
quire some capital to commence with, to
give them suitable accommodations, but
with 40 or 90 hens 500 turkeys may be
raised, worth 81 200, nt least. 1t would
require the attention of one person con-
stantly to watch them and see that they re-
turned at evening An acre of ground at
least, would have to be enclosed with high
pickets to confne them in the laying sea-
son, with barrels placed upon their sides
around the yard for them to lay in; or
small houses may be made for that pur-
cose, about three feet square with water
tight roofs. There is money in poultry OF
all kinds, when rightly managed
CURE FOR GAPEs.
At late meeting of the New York
Farmers Club q gentleman gave his RENE
dy for gapes in chickens MS follows: elias
tried one cure for gapcs forty years, and al
ways with success. His remedy is tobacco
smoke, which he blows down the throat of
the chicken as It opens its mouth. This
will soon make the fowls insensible, and TO
all appearances dead, but after about five
minutes they will wake up, and in an
hours time be all right The smoke de-
stroys the worm and does not harm the
fowl"
POTATOES MINING IN THE HILL.
For 20 years the question, ado potatoes
mix in the hill?" has been before the pub-
lie in the agricultural papers, but they do
not and never did mix-that is, To form
hybrid or cross. But sometimes "sport"
will appear rs n Dotatoe, white at one end
and red or some other color at the other
end, and If the sport" end be planted
new variety may be produced.
SUCCESSION OF VEGETABLES
A succession of certain kinds of yeretn.
bles is important in every garden. Sweet
corn should be planted every two weeks up
to July. Plant about three feet and a half
apart, with half shovelful of manure in
a hill, after applying heavy coat of dung
plowed in but let it be we'll rotted. Then
you need a succession of beans, both bush
and pole varieties; nlso of turnips and
beets, two sowlngs at least also of lettuce
and tomatoes. 1t does not pay to hire a
man to work a garden, except to prepare
the ground and plant the main crops, but
it does pay Uel to have a good garden, well
cultivated by ones own family. The boys
and girls can do the wedding.
COOKED FOOD FOR HOGS.
There is no advantage in cooking corn
or meal for hogs at any time except in the
fall, when mash Of boiled potatoes and
meal does very we'll, even to hogs that are
being fattcned but from numerous exper-
iments it appears that dry corn will make
as much pork as it will cooked Hogs that
are penned at this season Of the year, anl
during the summer, may be fed in part on
clover, cut and brought fresh daily to
them.
SALT on LAND.
Salt put on land or mixed in the manure
compost heap is not OF sufficient value to
pay at ordinary prices. II a waste article
can be bought at 10 or 20 cents a bushel,
it will pay to use it, but at no dearer rate
GROUND BONE FOR COWS.
A little ground bone, or finely ground
bone -four, may be fed to cows occasionally
with their salt to advantage. as they re-
quire it 10 be in the best condition. Good
pasture affords a certain quantity of phOs-
phate in the grasses, but not always enough
to satisfy the cows; consequently we nee
them licking old bones found in the field.
Abortion in cows can often be prevented
by timely feeding bone -four with the
weekly feed of salt.
GROW ROOT CROPS.
Three and n half tons Of sugar beets and
two and half carrots will 20 as far in
sustaining life as ton OF good hay. An
acre OF good land will produce about 900
bushels OF beets and 700 bushels Of carrots,
or from Is to % tons each. This il a very
small yield compared with crops in Eng
land, where root growing is carried on SCI
entifcally. Some cases are reported OF 90
tons OF beets being grown to the acre in
that country. Carrots afford the most nu-
trimeni, and are decidedly the best roots
for mileh cows. Beets should be sown
from May 10Th TO June lst, in drills about
Is inches apart. Carrots may be grown in
drills from Is to lS inches apart in field
culture. IL requires considerable labor 70
weed carrots AMI thin them out, but with
a rich soil and not sowed till the ground is
warm il will always pay to grow few hum
dred bushels, even IL one has to bury a
portion OF the crop for winter preservation,
MS the heaps can be open with a pick-aKe
/. ! ON a mild d,y onI ,La oon,o,,.. 1911 -