Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-06-02


Good, clean runs are delight to
the hens.
A good COW is seldom sold, except
at high price.
Are you troubled with crows about
your chicken yards?
Feed very little soft feed and you
will raise more chicks.
Clover can be grOwn more cheaply
than timothy or fodder corn.
Bran and meat meal help to supply
the young sows with muscle and bone.
BY putting a little fine hay in the
calf's mouth daily she will soon learn
to eat.
Parsley is next to lettuce in winter
marketing-both profitable-when well
grown.
One Of the most important problems
Of the farmer Is to feed his animals
economically.
Borrowing tools, and sending them
| home dull or rusty, doesn't make the
other fellow grin.
o1d % rdo oh
be plowed in the fall, and thoroughly
narrowed in the spring.
| Celery seed should be sown in a
shallow drill and covered with just q
light sprinkling of fine earth.
| Don't cultivate the potatoes when
out in bloom, or coming out, unless
you want lot of stunted little tubers.
II there are signs of worms in your
hogs, feed concentrated lye. one-half
teaspoonful to each animal we'll mixed
In slop or soft feed.
If sweet butter is to be made which
will command the highest market
price, cleanliness must begin in the
stable where the milking is done.
Go over the young apple trees and
cut off every water sprout with a
sharp knife close to the trunk Do
1t early and they will heal this season.
The proper time to set out fruit
and deciduous trees Is the latter part
Of October and the latter part of
March or first part of April, in the
spring.
1t is estimated that Colorado farm.
ers last year received $7,500,000 for
their sugar beet crop, an increase OF
100000 over the product of the
previous year.
In the opinion Of many eastern
feeders, best development of livestock
cannot be had without the use OF
roots or silage to supply succulent
feed during winter.
String a stout wire overhead IN the
cow barn and hang the lantern to thii
while milking and feeding. II can b,
slid along from place to place and Il
safe handled this way.
In setting one fruit tree, or many
the ground should be deeply plowed
thoroughly narrowed and the rows
for the trees run out with the two
horse plow. Run the plow twice IL
each row.
A eve without milk makes poo
mother. Feed II necessary to get tn,
milk flow, and you'll find the invest
ment a good one. Roots of any kind
alfalfa hay, or small grain feed will
, work wonders.
.. A stout wire netting fence fastened
to stout posts set two and one-hal
feet deep in the ground and eight fee
apart makes the best hog fence; hav,
board at bottom and one at top u
keep the wire tight.
Might as we'll give the trees plent,
of room at the start because If yo'
don't they will have to be cut ou
later. Thirty feet apart is the righ
: distance for apple trees, although a
feet would not do any harm.
The future of the dairy business d,
pends upon the quality Of our proc
. /. ucts. 1t Is sad commentary on tn
.. dairy business. when we hear dealer
: and consumers argue that oleo is be
ter than one-half Of the butter, tha
finds It's way to the market
When the mothers milk cannot b
used for her calf. try to get the mil
. from a cow with calf as old as tn
one you are feeding on the bottle, q
the milk of COW in the seventh c
eighth month of her period of lacti
| ton is bad for q very young calf