Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-08-23
All animals need salt,

The hog is debt payer.
Every farm should have silo.
A silo built of concrete will pre-
serve silage well.
Milk and corn meal makes a fine
forcing feed for friers.
A good time to Gull out inferior
birds is when the market is up.
The finer the soil, the better the
vegetables, both in quantity and quail
ity.
Feed the soil IL you would have the
soil feed you, applies forcibly to worm
out lands.
Grape vines require frequent shall
low cultivation throughout the en-
tire season.
In setting an orchard stick to the
proven varieties. Let some one else
do the experimenting.
The thermometer must be used as
regularly in the dairy during the
summer as during the winter.
At this time of the year care should
be exercised in housing the pullets
that are to be the winter layers.
In breaking a colt, remember that
It is an easy matter to overload and
ruin him by causing him to balk.
Bran is a very good feed for COWS.
1t is light, palatable and rich in min
eral matter, especially phosphorus
With fruiting orchards, mineral fer
tilizers are often great assistance, but
an excess of nitrogen should be avoid
ed.
Annual flowers can be hurried along
by watering them with tablespoon
full of nitrate of soda to pailful of
water.
Heroic pruning measures are needed
ed to bring many old trees into bear
ing; but it need not all be done the
first year.
The theory that one can overfeed
the growing pullets has been exploded,
and many flock has been retarded by
under feeding
The earlier in the season after the
"June crop" that thinning can be done,
the better it will be for the tree and
remaining apples.
The most humane method of de-
horning a COW is to do the work with
little caustic potash when the horns
are just starting on the calf
When the Strawberries are off the
vines remove the mulch and cultivate
thoroughly to kill off the weeds and
put the soil in fine condition.
Some folks have their houses so
that they can open them up all around
the foundation walls when 1t is hot,
and let the air circulate everywhere.
From early spring until August SOW
two weeks or so, and thus try to pro
vide a continuous supply of good
heads.
Throw open the windows every
might, but tack stme wide-meshed
cloth of some kind over them to keeI
out things that have no business in
the house.
Alsike clover is perennial and car
be grown on ground that is too low
and moist for the medium red ol
mammoth, but 1t is grown equally
well on high ground.
g. Men who are inexperienced in al
! falfa growing should have forced OF
their attention the important lessor
that 1t pays well to put a little labor
on the surface after removing eacl
crop.
In selecting eggs for Matching mucl
care should be used. Select only nic'
brown, wellformed and good-sizet
eggs from healthy stock Keep then
n just cool and incubate them as sool
as possible.
y When buying pedigreed stock tn,
wise buyer will study the pedigree O
he man who bred the animal as care
PLY as the animal itself. A good rep
ation is a valuable asset when sell
g registered animals.
From Is to 18 pounds OF hay shoul,
given horse during the day Thi
equivalent to five or six pounds t.
neal. But II is not well 10 give S,
ch at noon or morning, as the.