Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-22
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Mares bred in November will drop
their colts the following October.
What great debt the world owes
he produces.
Never keep more hens than you can
accommodate comfortably, because
they never do well when crowded.
The sale of saddle horses in New
York city has been 20 per cent. more
during the present year than it was
last.
Give fruit trees plenty of light and
more danger of setting trees too close
together than too far apart.
1t may be necessary to have several
pens and follow a system of line
breeding so that there may not be
too much inbreeding or loose breed
ing.
Coaxing little loveliness into what
have been waste places is modern
mission, which is expected to have an
influence in extending the reaction
toward country life.
Hay farming is sometimes called
mining the land because 1t is sup
posed to gradually remove and ex-
1haust the fertility of the farm in the
same way that mining removes the
ore supplies.
One of the most common methods
of blanching is by means of boards
placed on edge along each side of the
row of celery. This method is also
in general use for blanching large
fields of early celery.
A horse that has been worked ~
to Is hours during the day is entitled
to a good feed. Twelve quarts of
oats, divided into three meals, and
from eight to ten pounds of hay, given
at night, make good ration
greatest menaces to the apple culture
to eradicate. 1t inhabits the interior
of the fruit and to destroy 1t means
the destruction of the apple itself.
To exhaust the land as little as pos.
sible 1t is necessary not to scrimp in
top dressing, but to put back the
greater part of the fertility that is Ia
ken out by the crop, returning 1t In
the form of manure or chemicals, OF
both combined.
-Four feet is high enough to permit
blackberries to grow. Slender, late
immature canes should be cut out en-
tirely if there are longer ones. 1t is
an immense bearer, and a severe cut
ting back often makes the difference
between profit and loss in the yield.
II hens are made comfortable II
every way and have only thee grow
ing of normal crop of feathers, ant
are fed literally with nutritious pro
tein feeds. they will come through tn,
pCiiou III 6OOu dut
will be ready in short time to la!
eggs for the high market.
An experiment with milking ma
chimes by the Nebraska experiment
stAtion shows that the majority O
tSSs yield their milk as freely ant
fully when milked with a machine al
when MIXED by hand, but with som,
individual animals the use of the ma
chine is not entirely successful.
Fall Is good time to give tn,
farm general overAauling. Espe
cial attention should be given to haul
ing and repairing. The roads ar
good and the fields solid where tn
hauling must be done. 1t is bette
time than spring to fix up the fences
as the ground is not wet. Building
of sheds and general repairing is bes
done when the material and groun
are dry.
Y Glover in wheat or oat stubble IN
\ tended for hay next year should nc
be too heavily pastured this fall GU
ting over the field once or twice wit
the moving machine will give tn
young plants better chance to ligh
and air, and the weeds and stubbl
moved off will help form mulch 70
holding moisture during the DIR
weather and keep the plants fror
freezing in cold weather.
Following the feeding of rye befor
other soiling crops mature an unuse
pasture should be kept in reserve an
the cows turned on when the gras
In the arly pasture is eaten short
II field of the farm is in winter whes
and another field in oats, and thes
fields are sown in clover in earl
4Ith