Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Vigilance is the price of safety.

1t Is not question of whether we
can afford silo, but rather can we
afford to do without one. Better plan
now for one.
This husking, bundling and storing
should be done as early as possible, |
as the fodder will not have lost any |
of its feeding value.
The general appearance of a ship
ping package aids greatly in making a |
sale in the market. Use only new |
cases and place only uniform sized |
fruit in these packages.
The colt may be weaned at from
five to seven months of age, according
to its habits of eating and its physical
condition. The sooner it learns to eat
grain and other nutritious feeds, the
sooner it may be weaned.
A number of tests to determine
which is more Notwithstanding oats
with a disk drill, or broadcasting, has
recently been made. The results were
all in favor of drilling. A study of {.
the root systems of young oats gives
us the reason why drilled grow much
more uniformly and therefore yield
more bushels per acre than broadcast
oats.
As selling crop cowpeas are very
satisfactory. AS they should not be
planted till the soil and weather are
warm the crop is not available for
feed until the latter part of summer,
when they fill a place in a we'll
planned system of soiling and furnish
an abundance of succulent green feed
although, perhaps, less palatable than
alfalfa.
1t is fact that sheep can do on
less water than most other domestic
animals, but they cannot do entirely
without 1t. 1t is lack of good man
agement to allow them shortage of
water during the dry season. Those
who allow their sheep to exist on
brush and weeds without water dur
ing the dry months will find that their
animals will be in thin flesh and in low
physical condition for entering the
winter.
The cowpea Is sometimes sown in
combination with other crops, such as
corn, Kafir corn and sorghum for hay.
When planted in these combinations
there is danger of the cowpeas becom-
ing stunted in growth If the crop with
which it is combined is planted too
thick. Sown broadcast, cowpeas often
make little growth with these crops,
but when planted in rows with corn
and cultivated the growth is quite sat.
isfactory.
Now that the seasons rush is over,
take vacation and go camping or
fishing for two or three days. Take
plenty of feed along for the horses and
let them rest while you are resting.
The value of an outing is in the change
of surroundings and forgetting to
think about your business. With a
pole and fishing line, thinking is easy,
and the mind becomes rested and re-
freshed. Camp life soothe3 the nerves
and makes the whole being stronger.
Wheat is selling at the highest
prices for many years, and farmers
are glad Of that. But the grain is
not the only value in. the wheat crop.
The straw is worth much If properly
handled. 1t makes fair rough winter
feed for variety of live stock, and
1t is the best of bedding for all kinds
stacked SO that it will not spoil and
SO that it will be good for bedding
during the winter and spring, when
most bedding is needed
With all plants the setting out in
the fall, while the soil yet contains
some stored heat from summer, en-
ables them to start new root growth
which in turn enables them to make
an earlier, more sure and more vgor
GUS growth the following season. Re
gardless of early or late setting, the
fall work will usually give bette
roots of the plants for more perfec
moisture and fon1 contact to carr,
them successfully ever the first sea
sons growth.
CoV'peas make excellent hay, which
II properly handled, is equal to alfalf
In nutritive value, although, as rule
cows 60 not eat cowpea hay as readil
as they do alfalfa. When sown 70
hay it is usually preferable to plan
1t in close drills, requiring about on
bushel to the acre, and when so plant
ed the plants have tendency to gro,
more upright, which makes the Gro
more easy to cut with the mower. ]
grown in rows, although the produs
tion of forage may he as great, it |
more diircult to har vest, and as tn
ranker rtoMth of the Individual nlant