Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-08

Look we'll after heifer calves.
The best land for strawberries Is a
sandy loan.
A cattle feeder should be encour
aged by every corn seller.
The farmer can produce clean milk,
but 1t means added expense.
The harrow is an excellent tool for
cultivating potatoes the first time.
1t is deemed an injury to let the
sheep carry its fleece into the hot sea-
son.
The climbing or trailing nasturtiums
can be planted either with or without
support.
Scaly legs on hens are caused by
small parasite insect working under
meath the skin.
The colt should early be taught the
use of the halter. and made to know
that his master is his friend.
All hog raisers know that corn will
go twice as far in feeding hogs in
summer If the hogs are kept on good
| pasture.
Unless one is gardening on large
scale it is cheaper to buy cabbage
plants for the early crop than to
grow them.
Do not let the manure accumulate in
the cow stall so that the animal must
lie with her hind quarters higher than
her front quarters.
Never buy a brood SOW with short
legs and short, chunky body. She
must have big feeding capacity in
order to produce plenty Of milk.
AS rule, the average farmer al
lows his hogs to get along on slim
rations in summer, at time when
they could make most profitable
growth.
Nothing is more injurious to the
poults than tainted or infected meat
Of any kind, as it will disturb their
bowels in very few hours and cause
great trouble.
Wedding out the poorest cows is the
best way to improve the record of
any dairy in the amount of milk and
butter produced in proportion to the
number of COWS kept.
So many fruit trees were ordered
this spring for planting in British Col
umbia that the nursery supply of stock
suited for that region was not nearly
great enough to meet the demands.
Sunshine is a great purifier and nat
, ural disinfectant and the poultry
houses should be so arranged thai
there will be an abundance Of sun
, shine in the buildings on fair days.
; Natures greatest purifying agents
are sunshine and air. Soils need thor
ough aeration that are frequently fer
tilized with animal manures; ther
, they will not so soon become non-pro
| ductive.
In buying a bull for use in milking
herd, look far beyond the animal him
self and see what kind of mixers hi.
; dam and granddams were and wha
| 1t @f h{o nQ1a ancestors
r were able to get.
Sow fodder corn thickly, either witt
a grain drill or corn planter, at the
rate of 80 to 80 pounds per acre. cult
vate one way, cut with corn binder
shock in the field, allow to stand unit
, fed or hauled to the barn.
!, Every hen that does not pay for he
, keep by laying eggs should be sold a
once. There are thousands of hens II
! the poultry yards that are losing
money for their owners. Find on
. whether you have such hens, and, l
. 80, get rid of them.
In setting out cuttings, If willows
;, currants, Virginia creepers or any 9th
er stock of this sort, put the cutting
we'll down into the soil. One or tw
buds above ground Is quite all that
? needed. A cutting a foot long may b
= put down ten inches into the soil an
: two above.
The ideal sheep pasture is blue gras
= and white clover. 1t makes the dries
! closest sod, and dry land is best fo
D sheep. There Is no sod that will pr'
: duce more pasture and no sod that wi
make q better winter pasture tina
p blue grass sod protected free from pa
turing through the autumn season.
:. winter pasture for breeding eve
where they may run out during cleal