Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-03-10
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Select seed corn early.
The COW never tires of silage.
Don't put sick fowl in coop with
healthy ones.
Scraps from the table will help to
reduce the feed bills.
Old corn is the best feed until the
new gets we'll cured out.
Every corn grower should test ev-
cry ear Of seed corn this year.
In buying a COW the first thing to
do is to look well into the breed.
Green-cut bone must not be con-
founded with ground bone or bone
meal.
A great deal OF interest is being
manifested these days In the small
farm.
Horses, hogs, pigs and calves eat
silage and thrive on 1t as we'll as does
the dairy COW.
The milk from COW in poor run
respondingly poor.
Every orchard ought to be planted
in checks to admit of clean cultivation
with the smallest amount of hoeing.
On the average farm, fifty hens
bring as big returns as the best cow
in the herd with less feed and care.
Many times, one hill will produce
six eight-ounce potatoes; which is
at the rate of $40 bushels per acre.
Chicken-e eating sows are said to be
cured by tablespoonful of baking
soda in slop three times a day for a
week.
The cream separator, the silo and
the manure spreader should find a
place In the equipment of every dairy
farm.
The feeding of clover hay to poultry
is very simple matter and can be
successfully done by any farmer or
poultryman.
Scales are a good thing for a man
to have. They enable him to know
Just what he has to sell and also
what he buys.
Ewes that go into their winter quar-.
ters in an unthrifty and low flesh con-
dition cannot bring good vigorous
lambs in the spring.
There Is often a tendency on the
part of beginners to increase their
herds too rapidly. Better go slowly
and breed only the best.
A variety of crops certainly adds tC
the pleasure of living, II he can have
on his table the early Strawberries
and the late blackberries.
Go carefully over your farming
scheme as you worked it last season
try to discover the weak spots and
set to work to remedy them
II you have plenty of pasture an6
milk, that veal calf will make nice
baby beef this fall late, either for mar
ket or for the home meat supply
1t is estimated that 80 per cent o.
the poultry product of the country
come from the farm, and that the
value of these is close to $500, 1000, ,00t
yearly.
A few drops of tincture of iron II
the drinking water makes an excel
lent spring tonic for the poultry.
tones up the system and makes rich
red blood.
While there is more or les preju
dice against the use of rye as foo
for farm animals, it forms valuable
addition to oats and barley for liv
stock in Germany.
The matter of keeping records is i'm
portant. The farmer should be abl'
to take account of stock at the be
ginning of every year, the same a
any merchant does.
If we neglect the hen houses thi.
spring till they are alive with lice ane
mites, we deserve the consequences
1t will take but few minutes to clear
1t out thoroughly and not much long
er to soak roosts, boxes and every
thing else with kerosene. A coat o
whitewash can be put on almost al
quickly, and good dry clean eartl
shoveled In when the filthy floor ha
been cleaned out. Follow this kero
sene business up every ten days o
so for time and II will be a prett.
tough Iouaa or mite that atayg ano1nt