Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-01-28
Hogs need to be fed often.

A special bee cellar is desirable,
Manure spreaders are all right ii
used enough.
Bees winter poorly on honey dew,
fruit juices or cider.
It's sure sign that horses teeth |
need looking after II he voids whole
grain.
Incubator chicks are never infest-
hatched
Slow decay is just what proves best
for supply of potash, phosphorus
and lime for the trees.
"Limberneck," in chickens, is
caused by the absorption of poison
'ound in decayed animal food.
Sorghum. cut and cured when the
heads are slightly brown and the
seed in dough, makes fair winter
feed
AS to the best time to market young
stock, 1t is, as general proposition,
when they are in finished market
condition.
handful of oil meal given to the
horse once q day will keep him in
good condition and makes his coat
soft and sleek.
Ten COWS that average 800 pounds
of butter fat per year produce as
much as 20 cows tha. average only
$50 pounds per year.
Oil meal is being shipped by the car
load to Europe, where 1t is fed by
dairymen. 1t would be to our advan-
tage If this were fed at home.
A man should have q good strong
nand and he should know how to use
1t in order to get the milk out of the
udder and get it out rapidly.
Chopped onions are very good for all
kinds of poultry. Onions are not only
invigorating, but are excellent when
the fowls are subject to colds.
The precaution against possible
danger, where work is pressing and
farmers want to get their corn in
out of the way. is ventilation of the
crib.
Onions must be kept in a dry, clean
place, although protection from cold
is not so necessary. In fact, freezing
with moderate thawing out, makes the
flavor milder.
A pail of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of a
strong-smelling stable, or any other
offensive odor, will imbibe taint that
will not leave it.
Well fattened young stock always
sells at good price, and it is general
ly better to let the condition of the
animal rather than that of the marke
determine the date of selling
With good milking cows, well fec
and well kept, milk can be produced
at a cost of 65 cents per hundred anC
butterfat for 16 cents per pound. This
is an average for the year round.
Ii some of the brooder chicks ar
rot quite so thrifty as the others the
should be put by themselves If pos
sible. where the stronger ones will no
run over them and rob them of thei
feed
There is so much difference in tn
composition of milk from differen
] cows that many large butter an
\ cheese factories now test all the mil
= they buy, and pay for it according t
its butterfat content.
The automobile has not spoiled tn
2 horse market nor has the incubato
D spoiled the demand for Biddy. On
: Nebraska firm alone reports the sal
I of $4,000 incubators the past season
yet hens are higher than ever.
While our hardest varieties c
k roses may endure the evaporation {
d our trying winters, they will, hov
/ ever, come through stronger and Civ
d better results the coming season
6 they can receive fair measure {
protection during the winter,
S Scraping old apple trees to remoy
l. loose bark is good practice whe
s combined with judicious pruning.
& makes the trees look better and 4
Il better and it reduces the number
insect hiding places. Once in thrt
to five years is often enough to do
n Remember that the man who picl
up his birds, throws them into a era
1t and ships them off to a show rare