Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-12-30

Mares do not usually give trouble
by abortion If given good food and
reasonable care. OF course, when
pregnant, mare should not be over
driven, nor be compelled To smell
blood or offal, and should not back
or hold back heavy loads Her stall
should not have much incline Nour-
ishing food, pure water and fresh air
are essentials. If one suspect ergot
or smut in hay or feed it should be
discarded.
1t is estimated that barn.yard ma
nures have value of about two.thirds
that of commercial fertilizers, there
fore the careful saving of farm ma
nures and their judicial application to
the soil are vital factors in farming
operations, and as essential to con-
tinued success as plowing the land or
planting the crop.
The price of dairy products in the
winter is SO much higher than in sum-
mer that only small extra effort as
to care and judicious feeding may re-
suit in considerable increase in the
profits from the entire herd at this
season.
The intelligent flock-masters are
fast coming to recognize the fact that
the man who makes the most of his
opportunities in handling a farm flock
must become breeder and feeder OF
high-class mutton. more especially
sheep.
The farmer who is breeding a flock
of improved mutton sheep and feeding
them in an intelligent and painstaking
manner, may plan his feeding opera
! tions SO that he may have good near
by city market every week in the year.
Farm-yard manures benefit the soil
by acting as mulch and make hui
mus, but their benefit to the growing
crops depends entirely upon the
amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash they contain.
1t is true that the generality of
farm mares are low in quality but
that is no valid excuse for farmers to
persist in breeding horses that no.
body wants, not even themselves
Sheep raising numbers among its
requirements quietness and content
ment in degree perhaps not so es-
sential to success in the handling of
other breeds of live stock
In the production of strawberries
the best specimens are obtained only
by careful culture. he plants should
be of large fruited and firm fruited
variety of the best flavor.
Begin to take the chill off the water
you give the horses when the weather
gets cold. You can heat it cheaper
on the stove than you can in the
stomach of the horse.
A thick coat of paint daubed ovel
the severed limbs when pruning in the
orchard or wood lot prevents cracking
of the wood and gives the trees bet
ter appearance.
The ordinary diversified farm will
its abundant use of horsepower fur
nishes ideal conditions for growing
developing and training draft horses
J 1t will pay anyone that keeps from
25 to 100 hens to build a shed clos,
? to the henhouse in which to deposi
the droppings during the winter.
) 1t is best to separate pullets from
: the rest of the flock, let them hav
= free range and feed largely of who'll
or cracked corn. wheat or oats
i 1t is impossible to create capacity
3 You may breed for it but you can
e create it and it's very importan
function in the dairy COW.
+ There is the most money in tn
: long run in dairying by selling tn
:, cream or butter only and keeping tn
other products on the farm.
K The Duroc Jersey sows are yer
/ docile; they are easily handled durin
s the breeding and farrowing season an
are very prolific breeders.
s Under no circumstances should an.
n thing be added to milk to prevent il
s souring. Such doings violate the la
of both God and man.
t The problem of keeping the boy
d and girls on the farnstead is solvin
1t itself, for farm life is becoming NOR
and more attractive.
g While it is some trouble to strai
n the cream before churning, but whe
d that is done there will be no whit
specks in butter.
1t The feeder is the only man that ca
n tell how much food the colts reuuil