Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-11-10
Winter is coming, batten the cracks,

There is profit in breeding turkeys
up to the nth year.
The value OF butter increases as
the quality improves.
A good horseman never trots a
draft horse, even when he has no
load.
Laying hens need from 15 to %
per cent meat scraps added daily to
their mash.
Don't feed hay or other forage.
which will raise dust, before or dur
ing milking.
Tainted, musty or mouldy feeds
should never be served in the dairy
herd rations.
The best market for skim milk on
the farm is afforded by good dairy
calves and quick growing pigs.
If the cream in the churn foams up
and runs over, the churn is too full
or the cream is improperly ripened.
Simply because a calf is given her
ration Of milk each day, 1t does not
signify that she does not need water
also.
Cholera and other diseases Of swine
| off onIr toh fx,
ton and consequently most suscep-
tible
If your horse Is troubled with in
digestion have the animal clipped
and it's teeth attended to by veterin-
arian
Until recent years the poultry busi-
ness, especially on the farms, was of
so little Importance that not much at
tention was paid to 1t.
Prune out old canes of raopberries
and blackberries and burn them. Thin
the hills to three or four shoots. Cul.
tivate, and add some manure 10 the
soil.
The red mites or lice do not stay on
the fowls during the daytime. but
ing forth after dark to seek their
prey.
Orchardists who have never used
dynamite should be sure to get all
J possible information from the manu-
facturers of the explosive before at
tempting to use 1t.
, If celery Is to be brought into the
] cellar for winter storage cut the tor
, root, lift it from the ground and then
with a strong knife cut OFF the branch
ing roots and most of the earth.
= Lousy fowls are necessarily weaker
/. than fowls that are free from lice, ant
strength and vitality are quite i'm
portant factors while the fowls are
J. producing their new suit of clothes
8 If your fowls have the range of tht
e fields and orchards and can pick up {
number of insects and worms daily
you will not need to bother mucl
n about the meat supply in the ration.
n The raising of poultry on the farm
d or in conjunction with fruit growing
can be made very profitable with th'
same kind of management that is de
O voted to raising good stock or goo'
a grain.
4 Everything should be kept as cleal
on the little chicks feeding floors a
II It is on the floor of the kitchen
:. II this is done the little birds vii
q never have gapes or many of tn
a chicken diseases.
If you are feeding clover, remen
ber to cut down the bulk. This Is
= hearty food and you can't use as muc
=. of 1t as you can Of timothy withou
q doing your horse harm.
In filling a silo attention must b
given to the outer edges, for whe
n the silage begins to settle there is a
rs ways a draw away from the wal
m leaving an air space that makes tn
in silage spoil.
There is no better germ slayer tina
Ia an ounce of carbolic acid added to
Ia pail of whitewash. Give the walls an
m ceiling of the hen house good Goa
Is ing, working 1t in rather thick in a
cracks and crevices.
is There is not farm in the countl
Mt where farming Is seriously attempte
of at all where 1t is necessary to try
to raise chickens without decent provi
ne ion for the safety of the flock and Il
the convenience of the attendant.