Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-08-30

Plant some trees in the pasture.
Try keeping a few sheep on the
farm.
Sit on the milk stool-don't pound
the COW with It,
Hot, close weather brings lots Of
lice to the dirty pen.
Improved breeds of hogs are i'm
proving the hogs profit.
Are there any dead heads in your
dairy? If so weed them out
First-class fruit will command a
frst-class trade at first-class prices.
Shorts are a more economical feed
tor sows and growing pigs than for
cows
boy and dog make a poor combi-
nation to bring the cows home from
pasture.
In, spraying, drenching is not de-
sired stop spraying just before drip
ping begins
He who attends to the repair of ma
chinery before using it saves both
time and money.
When a dairyman learns to use the
Babcock test he is started on the way
to his economic salvation.
Frequent cultivation the remainder
of the summer will fit the strawberry
bed for its Eext years work.
The best dairyman is clean not
because he has to be. but because it
1t second nature for him to be.
When the calf gets old enough to
turn out to grass be sure and continue
feeding ration of grain or milk
AS the marketing season advances
companies congratulate themselves.
The dairy COW has capacity for
great amount of feed and unless this
feed is provided she cannot do her
best.
Milk may be tested for butterfat at
different temneratures II 40 walI to
have it between 60 and 80 degrees
Fahrenheit.
1t is hard to see where those pigs
that are growing up in dry pen are
going to make very much profit for
their owner.
If hog dies on the farm. no matter
from what cause. take no chances, but
remove the body long distance from
the feeding lots and burn it,
Never use crates or boxes more
than once. Neat, clean boxes sell
first even though the fruit may not
be up to the standard In every way.
II you are careless or neglectful of
spraying and get poo- results this sea
son don't say that spraying doesn't
pay 1t does pay-and pays big inter-
est.
1t is always safest to take no
chances with bull. no matter how
good his reputation beforehand. 1t is
so often the gentle" animals that
cause accidents.
A great many farmers do not real
ize that grass supplies feed entirely
different from corn and that 1t is a
bad practice to change entirely and
suddenly from one to the other.
Too many forget to speak kindly to
their horse, hence never have a kind
horse. Get the affection of your
horse, and you have taken a most
important step toward getting his best
services.
The grower who will sort his apples
into two or more grades. packed we'll,
will get more money for his fruit than
the one who throws all kinds together
in barrel and places a layer Of the
best ones on top
The best time to kill weeds OF any
kind is when they are small. Never
let weeds go to seed. Stop the foun-
tain of the trouble by planting only
clean seed. A good tanning mill will
solve the problem of clean seed.
Tomatoes should be canned in their
own juices. The U. S, department of
agriculture considers that the addition
of water or of extra juices Is an adul,
teration, and if 1t makes commercial
canneries observe this rule now much
more ought 1t be observed in private
canning where one wants the best for
family use