Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-09-13
Keep after the mites.

Chickens relish cracked corn.
Silage Is the cheapest feed
The incubator is always on the job.
Thorough milking tends to develop
a cows udder.
The silo makes the best crib on
earth for soft corn.
Better get at that new silo right
away after harvest.
Water, should be supplied in the
pasture these hot days.
Don't make the mistake of pastur-
ing the clover meadow too close.
| 1t Is a pretty safe rule to select
breeding pigs from the largest litters.
Where apple trees blight, remove
the affected limbs at once and burn
them.
The practice of keeping the COWS in
thu yard at night with no feed, is most
wasteful.
The work horses appreciate an oc-
casional chance to roll and get
bite of grass.
It is best to make haste slowly
while plowing corn, especially the
first time through.
A wet soil causes corn roots to
grow nearer the surface, while dry
soil sends them deeper.
Silage must be put into the feeding
program of every beef producer who
wants to fit steers for market.
A nationwide movement for the pre-
vention of waste would do more than
nationwide revival of industry.
When each cultivator shank col
lects handful of corn roots in once
across the field something is wrong.
Giving COWS a good dry feed before
turning them on rank growing for.
age crop does away with danger of
bloat
II your hogs have to get their drink
ing water out of muddy pond, don't
complain If they are wormy and un-
thrifty.
The uniform excellence of bunch
OF feeders from poor side address
much to the profit of raising and
feeding pigs.
During the first years Of an orchard
proper pruning is one of the impor.
tant items that means much in the
years to follow.
Cement floors slightly roughened are
the best for the COW stable, easy to
keep dry and clean II plenty of sun.
light is let in on them
Oats and peas should be cut for
hay when the oats are in the milk
tage and the advance pea pods con
tain reasonably good sized peas.
shadeless pasture Is but little
better than a prison for the cows
these hot, sultry days. If there are
no shade trees. an open shed will dc
quite WELL
Hot! Yes. But when we see how
the sunlight makes vegetable life
how 1t revivifies, purifles and sustains
life-we do not wonder that there
were sun worshippers.
Bran is very satisfactory feet
for the dairy COW, since 1t gives bull
to a ration, is slightly laxative ant
provides protein and phosphorus 81
necessary in milk production.
About this time of the year the
farmer will do well to look up prom
Using candidate from his barnyard OF
pasture, or from his grain field, tt
| run for the first prize at the county
| and state fairs.
| No more chickens will be hatchet
| this year; why keep not needed roost
| ers around another day? If you can
| not eat or sell them. let some need.
| neighbor have them. You will max,
| money by doing SO.
The time to stop churning has mucl
to do with making good butter. t,
j keep on until the butter is in BIZ
Jumps makes 1t waxy and greasy. Th'
time to stop is when the grains ar,
about the size of wheat kernels.
In market quotations the term "As
paragus chickens" is often used an,
not understood. II refers to chicken
largo enough to brcl with early as
paragus. They are usually hatched Ii
late July and August. pushed alonl
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