Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-09-24

Burn out the tent caterpillar nests.
The sheep should never be handled
roughly.
The non-layer makes a good eater
for the table.
Gunpowder and lard is good for
scratches on the horse.
Horses with tender shoulders should
have sweat pads used upon them
With the tightening of the work
tighten up on the feed ration for the
horse.
handful or oil meal daily in the
horses ration will help put gloss
upon his coat.
The wife will prove your best coun-
sellor Listen to her and many legal
complication will be spared.
Milk is good for the hens as well
as the pigs. See if you cannot spare
them some. 1t helps to make eggs.
How are the drains about the
house? Time to think about getting
them in good shape for the winter
months.
Hold the wheat in the bin rather
than sell at too low price. 1t is al
most certain to run into money before
the year is over.
Food left in the trough by the hogs
is the best kind of evidence that you
are feeding too generously. Feed only
what will be eaten up clean.
Without some system of accounts
how could the merchant do business
safely. And yet such business ac-
counting is as important for the farm
er as for the merchant.
Be sure the bit is not so narrow as
to irritate and pain the mouth of the
horse. Such condition leads to un-
easiness which often may result in
the horse taking the bit in his teeth
and boiling in sheer desperation,
To produce good eggs and get them
on the market in the best possible
condition one must provide good
housing, food and water regularly,
and above all keep the nests clean.
Eggs should be gathered daily, and
when the temperature is high they
should be gathered twice a day Re-
ject all doubtful eggs and keep the
eggs in as cool a place as possible
The simplest form of silo is the
stave silo. 1t should be made from
two-inch narrow plank, properly bev-
eled and held together by strong
iron bands. The slaves, after bevel-
ing so that when fitted together they
will form a circle of the desired size,
are placed on end on solid founda-
tion and properly fitted. These are
strengthened and held in place by
strong iron hoops, which are so made
that they may be tightened or loos-
ened at will. Doors should be built
at intervals from the top to the bot
tom so that the silage may easily be
got out. 1t is not necessary to put
a roof on this silo, but it is much to
he preferred. This style of the silo
should be kept well painted. both in.
side and out. If properly built and
taken care of a stave silo is durable,
rigid and air-tight.
Gapes in young chickens is caused,
according to Prof II. A. Surface,
state zoologist of Indiana, by eating
of earthworms. There are parasites
In the earth-worms which find their
way into the windpipe of the chicken
and lodge there, where they take the
form of little red worms. The best
preventive is to keep the chickens
from the surface of the ground, OF
use salt or strong water on the soil,
so as to kill the earth-worms, OF
strew strong lime or something OF
the kind on the ground, so that the
chicks will not get hold of the worms
sto eat them. After the chicks have
Vbeen attacked with gapes, however
you can dislodge the worms by max.
ing very small loop of twisted
horse hair, draw out the tongue OF
the chick slightly, insert the horse
hair loop in the windpipe opening,
which will be seen between the forks
at the base of the tongue, and, twist
ing the hair around, withdraw it. The
worms are likely to be found within
the loop. or some of them will have
been thus removed, and the operation
can be repeated. Another remedy is
TO dip the tip of a soft feather into
kerosene and insert 1t in the wind.
pipe opening to dislodge and kill the
worms. Such treatment. although Sc
we're, is better than letting the worms
ramain undisturbed. to severely an.