Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-12-24
Sheep are efloient weed killers.

Drooder can easily be kept free
rom vermin. Not so the hen.
Good management of the poultry
plants allows no waste or leaks
Wood ashes are good in their place,
but that place is not in the hen house.
Too constant sitting makes the hens
Of bad disposition and difficult to man.
age.
Molasses is highly recommended as
a portion of the ration for draft
horses.
Many farmers are finding the use of
hameless collars a remedy for shoul-
der gals.
Roots should not, generally speak
ing, be fed alone, as they carry too
much water.
Some trees will bear planting quite
thick, while heavy foliaged trees must
be set far apart.
The hands of mixers must be
washed and thoroughly dried immedi-
ately before milking.
Swine need more room, more free
dom, more grass and succulent feed
than they get on the average farm.
If an orchard is on low ground 1t
should be drained because air must
be admitted to the soil or the trees
will die.
Breeders should be in no hurry to
dispose of rams in service, as some
times lambs of little promise develop
into good sheep.
A two-year-old tree can be started
more easily than three-year-old.
With some varieties one-year-old
tree is even better than a two-year
old!
One cannot afford to pay for gain
on an animal, then lose it. Making
stock live on scant pasture, when
there is plenty of feed in the field,
Is poor economy.
The more than usual number OF
wormy apples this season is a remind
er that we must spray the trees thor
oughly in the spring in order to have
clean fruit in the fall.
Since the farm is the source of our
wealth it behooves us to learn more
OF our property, and the methods tc
keep it at its fullest producing capaci
ty without impoverishment.
If there is patch of late corn, cure
and store it away. When chopped
into sizeable pieces. 1t will be found
valuable feed, when all green forage
Is sealed up with snow and ice.
Were the turkeys good judges oi
human nature they would know that
the extra feed and kindness now be
ing bestowed upon them are but the
beginning of plot for their downfall
Do not have pullets and hens in the
same pen, for n you do it will be i'm
possible to so feed that the pulleti
will come to laying at the right time
The house should be kept open anC
the pullets allowed outdoor condition,
as nearly as possible.
When cabbage is to be stored ovel
winter, the heads should be examined
critically and diseased ones rejected
and kept by themselves. Black ro
may be detected by breaking off tn,
lower leaves and examining the stalk
If the fibers of the leaf stalk ar'
blackened the head should be de
stroyed.
The farmer is not dependent on the
prosperity of his neighbor for success
The husbandman is close to nature
and derives his wealth from her in
| 0NnduSIlUlG tSSOuiSCo WhiiS olhSi Al
dustries depend on success in the ex
ploitation of their fellow men. Th'
farmer looks to the soil for his sue
cess and becomes responsible for hi
own failures. 4i
In grading the surplus poultry ant
dividing it into lots for fattening, nfte
the plan suggested a few weeks age
farmers having pure-bred flocks will
find an occasional cockerel which
seems pity to send to the slaughter
ing pen. The owner instinctively feel
that more cash would be realized froI
the sale of such fellows as breeder
than in the form of market poultry
and he is tempted to remove them bt
fore the lot enters the fattening pen.