Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-09-03

Every farm an experiment station.
is good slogan.
System and sense are as useful on |
the farm as in the business world. |
Reports are that this is the great
est crop year in the history of the
country.
Don't let the days work drag into
the evening hours. Have time for
quitting and then quit.
There is never an overcrowding of
the market for choice livestock of any
kind. Make it a point to raise the
best.
1t is absolutely necessary during
these hot days to keep every utensil
used in caring for the milk scrupu-
lously clean Scald, scour and set in
the sun.
One good brood SOW is valuable
more money than any other animal
on the farm in proportion to the mon
ey invested.
1t is foolish economy which bor-
ders on the criminal to try and make
the weak and wornout harness serve
little longer. Many fatal acci-
dent has been caused by failure to
recognize that fact.
The fair season is on. Plan to take
them in. 1t may seem hard to get
away sometimes. but it will pay
you. The work will go easier after
you get back and you will find many
new idea sproutIng into careers of
usefulness.
A new stallion law has been passed
by the Illinois legislature which goes
into effect January l next. 1t pro-
vides a fine of $25 to s100 for failure
to enroll any stallion offered for pub
lie service, or for failure to comply
with any of the other provisions of
the law regarding his examination,
transfer and advertising. No stallion
will be registered unless certified by a
veterinarian to be free from periodic
ophthalmia, bone SPAWN, ring bone,
bog SPAWN, curb accompanied by cur
by shaped hook or any contagious or
| infectious disease. The law requires
that a stallion must be enrolled and
advertised as either pure bred, cross
bred or grade. The stallion registra-
ton board is required by the law to
use funds derived from enrolment
for publishing lists of stations and
other information pertaining to horse
breeding. StallionerS who comply
with the law will be given lien on
foals, the same as under the old law.
Prof William DIETRICH, swine spe,
cialist at the Illinois Experiment sta
ton, declares that nobody knows yet
how to feed hog. He complains that
in pig feeding we have not been work
ing on any fundamental basis. Some
men have obtained good results, but
they are not uniform from year to
year, and these results cannot be sure
ly traced to their causes. 1t has beer
too much like guessing and gambling
He says that pig feeding will not be
mastered until We get the largest anG
most economical gains and get then
every time. We must know what the
hog is made of, and supply the kline
and amount of each food material re
quired and no more than will be prof
itably used. He has been able t
make 40 per cent. greater gain in live
weight and at less cost per pound, b,
his method of feeding than by tn,
long accepted Wolff-Lehmann feedinI
standard. In two lots he made hi
pigs weigh $50 pounds at eigh
months. More than 400 pigs, all bre,
at the University farm, have bee1
used in seven feeding experiment.
and two digestion experiments sine
1904. But the work is incomplete
some parts uncertain, and he suggest
that some of the important factors II
swine feeding may not have been cor
sidered at all yet.
Prof. w. G. Coffey has tust com
pleted some feeding experiments witt
lambs at the Illinois experiment sta
ton, the chief object being to deter
mine the effect of silage upon the es
tent and economy of gains when sur
plementing these feeds. Since feet
: ers have at times reported troubl
from the use of silage, the experimen
was planned to ascertain, if possible
whether 1t may be fed in combinatio
with the above feeds without injur
to the health of lambs, and, if no
what may be the cause of troubl,
Following describes the ration of eac
lot of 16 lambs: Lot 1. Shelled corr
clover hay. Lot 2. Shelled corn, 81
age-small amount through exper
( ment-clover hay. Lot g. Shelle
$ corn, silage-medium amount for frs