Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-05-27
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little mulch.
If you are ready to plant do not wait
| upon the moon.
Boiled milk is good for chicks and
will help bowel trouble.
| Colony houses are of two kinds
stationary and movable.
Where there is will there is way
to clean the farm of weeds.
Where there is a will there is
way to clean the farm of weeds.
A good farm level costs little COM
pared with its worth and usefulness.
There is something wrong on the
dairy farm that does not have few
hogs.
If there is one clean farm in the
neighborhood, they can all be clean.
or nearly so.
Do not plant trees when the soil is
wet and sticky, or it is liable to be
packed too firmly.
Feeding the dairy COW is one of the
| first things that the successful dairy
man must thoroughly understand.
| COw-tpCtinO QGCnpintinnG started
some years ago, have been a wonder
full help in wedding out Improbable
cows.
Roots of young trees should never
be allowed to become dry. Cover
with earth or wet sacks while waiting
to be planted.
Whitewash the trunks of the fruit
and orchard trees with lime. This
will repel borers, bark beetles and
other insects for time.
Plant plenty of hay crops. Work
stock and dairy cows must have
roughage if they are to do their part
in making the farm profitable.
Perhaps the most effective and sat.
isfactory method of making a eve
own her lamb is to place her in a
hurdle where she can eat and com.
fortably lie down.
Ten years ago the quality of the
range horses on many of the large
western ranches was so Indifferent
that carload lots sold as low as $40 a
head Now they will bring $3.50.
1t will not cost the farmer more
than ten cents an acre to select out
of his wheat bin the plumpest and
heaviest kernels for seed He will
then improve his crop and yield.
Much kindness and respect for ami
mails can be taught children by giving
them pets. A pet pony has often
taught children valuable lessons about
the horse and given them incentives
for outing in the fresh air.
We should select our hens from
some good flock that Is well bred and
where the hens have uniform ap'
pearance and then buy first class
rooster from some breeder who has
a different strain of the same breed
so as to avoid inbreeding.
The question of the proper amount
of seed to SOW Is never settled. Two
and one-half bushels IF average oats
sown broadcast, are not too many or
average land, average seasons; and
about one-half bushel less wheI
drilled in, is looked upon as about
right by most oatsgrowers.
Common wood ashes, with a few
poultry droppings. are cheap ant
most approved fertilizer for the grape
vines. Too rich q fertilizer, such az
stable manure alone, produces &
growth SO rank that rot is apt to bt
encouraged, while the flavor of the
fruit is impaired by the nature ant
rapidity of growth.
Thorough tarring Of corn will, to 6
great extent, prevent pulling by crows
and blackbirds, but perhaps gophers
and ground squirrels would only laugh
at 1t. Moisten the seed with warn
water, then stir in coal tar at the
rate of teaspoonful to the peck be
ing sure to stir until every kernel IL
black, Dry with ashes. land plaster
or slaked lime.
Don't imagine, unless you have aI
extraordinary large bank account
that you can go out and buy goot
dairy COWS any time you take no
ton. The only way to get an ficien
herd Is to raise your own COWS. Yol
may start In by buying some goot