Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-08-26
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few trees in the sheep pasture
will turn it into a paradise.
Cement or concrete silos, when well
built, are practically everlasting.
Allowing weeds to go to seed now
means increased labor next season.
The best method to determine If
your hens are good layers is the trap
nest.
A strong swarm of bees will furnish
a hundred pounds of honey aside from
what they themselves consume.
If you grow late-maturing crops in
the orchard they will keep the wood
growing too late to make them safe for
winter.
Cowpea vine hay has feeding value
practically equal to that of wheat
bran, which Is worth now more than
$50 per ton.
1t is folly to raise hogs, feed them
high-priced feeds, get them in good
shape and then let them die on their
way to market.
Early potato blight is liable to at
tack the potato crop at any time from
June until the crop is ripe, but is
most seriously destructive in July and
August.
A heifer becomes a COW after she
drops her first calf and begins CIV
ing milk-no matter at what age, and
she remains heifer until these ma
ternal obligations are assumed.
In dairying, there are special breeds
enough and reliable information
enough, so there is no excuse for a
man who goes it blind and blames
luck and the weather for his failure.
With dairying, as with other lines
of farming, the dairyman should IA
miliarize himself as much as possible
with every fact which can be brought
to bear upon the quality of his pro-
duct.
Bacon is only the intermingling of
fat and lean meat, and if the meat is
grown along rapidly it will be more
tender and palatable than If it is
pinched until the lean is dry and taste
less.
In all those portions of the coun
try where dairying is leading and
distinctive feature, and other grains
than corn are used as growing and
fattening ration the bacon hogs can be
raised to advantage and profit.
AS the days wax warmer and warm
er ones efforts are apt to relax, but
the young fowls destined to take theil
places in the show room must not bt
neglected. They must have their fee(
regularly, and water in abundance.
Upon the horse-collar depends
much more than appears at frs
glance. The day-in-and-out efficienc!
of the team, it's labor service, itl
thriftiness depend very largely upol
the proper kind and fitting of thu
collars used.
The man with silo will be in &
position to congratulate himself thi
winter and we urge every farmer t,
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fall. No other means will proyid
so much palatable and nutrition
feed from an acre of land.
Cultivation as the plants develop re
Quires not only care and skill, bu
forethought also. If heavy rains hav
beaten the soil into hard mass an
sary to go as deeply as possible with
out injuring the roots in order t
aerate the ground properly.
Once the calf is we'll started towar
an early and profitable marketabl
maturity by liberal feeding and goo
care at this season of the year, ther
TO his future feeding care, as tn
owners good sense will tell him tina
It will pay to continue to feed an
care for him well.
Fowls will lay occasionally in VIII
ter If they are not cared for other tina
having few scoopfuls of corn tosse
to them in a filthy house, but they wi
make a profit over and above the fee
and housing If they are well sheltere
and fed variety of clean and who'll
some grains and have a bit of gree
food and cut bone every day. The da
of keeping chickens in the haphazar
way is about over.