Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24

Select your breed and stick to It.
If you plant pear trees In rich soil
you invite blight
1t is work worth while to scald the
calf's feed pail every day.
A peach tree will stand heavier
heading back than an apple tree.
Do not allow the stock to run in the
orchard during the winter months.
Scatter the manure as you haul 1t,
don't put into little piles all over the
land.
Keep the feed troughs clean. It is
wasteful practice to mix manure with
grain.
Letting the calf suck the cow the
first day or two lessons the danger OF
milk fever.
If sows are expected to produce a
fall litter, the spring litter should be
weaned when about 10 weeks old
Five or six of the twelve or thirteen
species of beetles attacking stored
grains are found usually in farmers
bins.
If you are still so far behind the
age as to be dairying with no separa-
tor, get one now, If you sell a COW
to do it.
An occasional colt or young horse
to sell, even when one is not making
a business of raising horses, is a help
to any farmer.
The litter carrier will do much to
keep the barn clean, because 1t en-
courages the boys and men to do
their work better.
The training of colt cannot be
too thorough. A half-broken horse is
not broken at all, and is always a
dangerous animal
Calves should have plenty of water
as early as they want to drink it, but
1t is best not to let them have it right
after their milk feed.
Where from four to eight COWS are
milked the churn should hold from
six to ten gallons. Better a little
large than too small.
Currant bushes must also be watch.
ed carefully. and be thoroughly spray
| cd at leaGSStNice or you will find more
green worms on your bushes than
fruit.
A vessel which would hold 1000
pounds of water would hold 1,03f
pounds of whole milk, 1,03S pounds Of
sldmmilk, or 1000 pounds of good
cream.
When you see the little ghost-like
winged creatures rising like tiny
clouds from your rose bushes, be sure
1t is the aphis. Get after them witt
the spray.
Young climbing roses ought to bt
cut back to a strong eye, and the
side shoots pruned as grapevines are
pruned-that is, couple of eyes from
the stem.
When cream foams In the churn ant
butter will not come, put in a handful
or two of salt and little water, slight
ly warmed. This usually remedies
the trouble.
Get some variety in the poultry ra
tion. II the chickens are not eating
heartily they may need little chang,
In their food to put their appetite
back in tone.
Not few of our dairy folks are go
ing to raise crop of cowpeas as ha.
feed for COWS this year. Cowpeas ha.
is next to alfalfa and clover In milk
making qualities.
Eggs to be preserved should be pei
fectly fresh and be placed in the &c
luton the same day as laid to obtail
the best results, although eggs severa
days old will keep very well. Washe,
eggs should not be used.
With gravel and sand to be had o.
most farms, the purchase of som
Portland cement will provide the or
tire material for root cellar, drinl
Ing trough. milk house and man
other convenient buildings which vii
last for many years.
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Where there is hardly enough mil
from single milking to make seps
rating worth while it may be set ava
until next milking time. when tn
cream should be thoroughly stirre
In and the milk warmed up befor
running through the machine.