Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-08
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Cabbage has several insect enemies.
Variety in the ration is necessary
for laying hens.
The application of lime to cabbage
soil is highly commended.
Don't forget the daily water supply
for the hens at this season.
The sucking lambs always do bet
ter after the mother Is shorn.
The lambs should nibble at grain
old.
1t is sometimes said that a good
breeder always has his ideal animal
in his mind.
A mule Is no more prone to kick
than horse unless he is taught to do
go by bad treatment.
| Cabbage and all other plants Of the
cabbage family require very fertile
and cool, moist soil for good growth.
1t Is a significant fact that corn
this year at this season Is going down,
instead Of up, as is the usual custom
in spring.
What we want to do In working a
horse for the first time is to teach
it to do things which 1t has never
done before.
When the butter is we'll drained 1t
Is ready to salt, and this is done in
the churn when the butter is in
granular form.
Begin to cultivate musk melons as
soon as the plants can be seen and
continue cultivation till after the
fruit begins to set
} Never use milking tube If 1t can
: be possibly avoided as there Is much
danger of injecting the entire quarter
by the use of the tube.
/ 1t pays to pasture pigs, but IL the
pigs root up the pasture it will pay to
ring them. Pasture sod is too valuable
to be destroyed when it can easily
, be avoided.
If an animal will ever make profit
able gains, it will make them in warm
weather on green grass, supplemented
with shade, cool water and some con-
centrated feeds.
Goats, more perhaps than any other
animal, have an exclusive affection for
their keeper, and sometimes fight des
perately even at home against being
milked by anyone else.
Where possible one should make
sure that the birds he selects fol
u breeders have been bred from sound
u healthy stock, so that they may have
a hereditary tendency to health.
It Is true that a farmer can, by
a careful selection and examination
y materially change the constituents oi
his corn, thus growing a corn that Is
of higher feeding value for his farm
animals.
Don't forget that the temperature
;, of the cream at churning should be 81
- to 5S degrees Fair. in summer and 81
to 81 degrees in winter. The bes
churning results will be had at thes'
respective temperatures.
A good hen is expected to lay in
year about five times her weight II
. eggs. This means a reproductive
process on an average, at least ever.
third day during the year, or perhaps
Y in rare instances. every other day.
~ When doing the tree planting, d.
not forget to put few trees In cor
ner of the pasture fields, If there II
:. such thing as fenced pasture OF
% the farm. Protect these for few
years, and they will protect the stool
. for many more.
The Minnesota experiment station
says barley has the advantage owe
- flax for cleaning the land Of weeds. be
% sides being often fed on the farm at
= profit over the market price. At pres
~ ~ ent prices, however, flax is in the lead
- and good flax land will undoubtedl
return a good profit.
IN After the young turkeys are sixteel
70 to twenty days old begin to feed light
n. ly on cracked corn, wheat, etc., an
n occasionally baked cornmeal or john
n nycake, which is simply cornmea
mixed with either sweet skimmilk o
water and very little salt, and thol
,r oughly baked. This is moistene