Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-06-03
Give spring pigs good pasture.

Crude oil is now being used to kill
the Texas fever tick.
The well-bred hen with good lay.
ing record is cheap at any price.
For fruit spot on apples use bor-
deau the middle to last of June.
Every man who raises hogs should
provide good pasture for them.
With alfalfa hay the summer pas
ture conditions are most nearly real
ICED.
Hogs should not be allowed access
to stream where there is cholera on
| farms above.
road drag used occasionally after
rains on the farm roads will help to
| keep them in good condition.
Some claim cape worms can never
be gotten rid of once soil is infested
| with them, but this is not always true.
| Horses and mules are now barred
from crossing the state line of Kansas
until they have certificate of good
| health.
The middleman gets Jolt in the
statement that American beef is now
selling in London cheaper than 1t is
in New York
No sow can bring litter of thrifty,
well developed pigs unless she is fed
liberal quantities of the right kinds
of food during pregnancy.
There are very few gardens in the
rural sections that are provided with
asparagus, which is as easily grown as
weeds when once established.
Be sure to mulch the newly planted
trees. The hot, dry days will come
and these cost the lives of many young
fruit trees that are not so protected.
Much of the danger that comes to
the pigs at birth will be eliminated IL
the sows are kind and tractable, allow
ing all necessary help at narrowing
time.
Colonies of so chicks do very we'll,
but colonies of 20 will do better
still, for it does not pay to crowd
young chicks any more than 1t does
to crowC old fowls.
Every calf fed to eighteen or twenty
months of age (of q beef bred) will
bring the farmer $50 to $50, and will
consume much feed that otherwise
would not be of much profit.
Different rams will cost varying
prices, but the returns they each will
give are to be wholly the guide in
order that you will purchase the ram
which will give the largest net money
returns.
When the silo is filled thorough
: wetting down and tramping of the top
will prevent the entrance of air, and
will save more of the top layer from
spelling than would be the case If this
is not done.
A hen should be fed some grain
: that she doesn't have to scratch for
/ Although exercise is necessary tc
keep her in good health, she needs
time to rest and dust herself in the
, middle of the day.
r Lettuce can be put to good advan
r a large supply of quickly available
r plant food. Its culture demands the
most liberal feeding to realize the bes
results. The heads must be large a,
8 well as early to secure the bes
4 prices.
Chicken hawks, weasels, rats an,
e other marauders often prey upon tn
small chickens and all efforts to car
ture them in traps prove unavailine
8 where good gun will often be O
more assistance in ridding the farm
f of their depredations.
}, Where one has thoroughly wei
drained land and once gets a goo
catch of alfalfa 1t makes most e1
6 cellent pasture, but 1t costs som
n money in getting stand and also
# large run, as alfalfa under the mos
6 favorable circumstances will not &C
% init of close pasturing.
The conditions, which man creates
causing loss Of humus, are brough
n about by continued cropping withou
g supplying anything to form humu
c. and by improper cultivation whic
IT permits a rapid evaporation of tn
n soil moisture and an excessive aer,
u ton of the soil and oxidation of tn