Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05

starvation from many door,
Use the milk pals and cans for no
other purpose than to hold milk.
Yearly COW tests are becoming more
and more popular; try them yourself
Twenty acres of corn put into the
silo will supply 30 head Of thrifty
cows for year. Try it.
You cannot grow good crop OF
grain and a good crop of weeds on
the same ground in the same season,
The farmer who gets the best re
suits from the cows is not in the
habit of supposing everything to be
right
When the rain makes the ground
soft, dig out all the brush in the patch
of useless ground and plant fruit
trees. They will soon grow into
money.
A little brain work in planning short
cuts in dairy work will save an i'm
mense amount of time and big work
and time is money on the farm, as il
is elsewhere.
The farmers of Kansas plant $1,000,
600 bushels of wheat every year, from
which they harvest about 74,000,00t
bushels, most of which is ground up in
to -four in the home mills.
'Dry-land' alfalfa is merely the
common alfalfa which through contin
Gus culture without irrigation on aric
land has acquired more or less
drought-resisting qualities.
AS a rule, it is better to set out fruit
and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines
perennial roots and bulbs in the fall
than in the spring. OF course, the
work often can be done as we'll in the
spring as in the fall, but many times
the soil and season are unfavorable
and the proverbial spring rush comes
on so quickly that the job must be
sighted.
If the soil in which the plants are tc
be set has been prepared and the
holes dug, set out the plants as soon
as they are unpacked, but if the soil
is not prepared, Immediately prepare
deep trench, set the plants in it
spreading them out well-and cover
the roots deeply with fine soil. If the
soil is dry, moisten it so that it will
| not extract any moisture from the
roots.
For setting out trees, shrubs and
any plants at any season, spare no
time and labor in preparing the soil
and digging spacious holes for the
reception of the roots of the plants,
| for upon the successful starting of the
roots depends 10 very large degree
! the future success of the plant Pre-.
vious to setting, cut off any injured
or decayed roots and settle plant in
the hole prepared for it, so that none
of the roots will be bent or crainped.
Two or three weeks time will be re-
quired to complete the blanching OF
the early celery varieties, and the
boards must be kept in position until
the crop is removed from the ground
after which they may be used again
two or thre times during the season
If the celery is allowed to remain in
| bn nd
reached a marketable stage, it loses
in weight and flavor and is liable &c
be injured or even destroyed by the
attacks of blight.
Silage to keep we'll must be cut sc
that it will settle evenly. The leaves
must not be in one place and the
coarser parts of the stalks in another
1t must be thoroughly mixed, anC
nothing will do this mixing SO well al
man. The silage must also be packed
tightly next the sides of the silo, a.
that is where 1t is likely to lie so ligh
that 1t will permit the air to enter
The top of the silage should be com
posed of corn that is as green as pos
sible, as this will decay and seal tn,
whole, thus keeping out the air. TOT
dry silage can be improved by adding
water at the top.
Pasture lands receive too little al
tention from the majority of farmers
If the pastures thrive and produc
good growth, all right, and then,
they run out, and grow up in weeds
the man thinks he hasn't time to loo
after and improve matters. These cor
ditions are often allowed to exist til
the land has to be broken up an
put. to grain of some sort in order t
+, fight the weeds successfully; an
while few realize 1t, such lands hav
: lost their owners from two to thre
= dollars an acre every year they wer
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