Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-29


ter.
A bushel of seed corn will plant
six to eight acres of land
A hog cannot sleep comfortably in
draft or wind: he catches cold very
easily.
In proportion to his size, a hog
needs twice the air space that a COW
or horse does.
Frozen alfalfa will kill hog as
quickly as it does cow or a horse.
1t is usually indigestible.
| A bunch of ripe grapes will hang in
hive Of bees until It dries up and
the bees will not touch 1t.
Corn meal, meat and potatoes are
three of the most valuable ingredients
of the fattening bill of fare
There is only one way of positively
diagnosing hog cholera, and that is by
a post-mortem examination.
After pigs are weaned, one of the
most common causes of runts Is the
feeding of straight corn diet
There are many troubles of swine
that are called hog cholera and yet
they have very little resemblance to
that disease.
The capons when mature will aver
age to weigh between and IL pounds,
depending, of course, on the variety of
| fowls caponlzed
II hog misses a feed, watch him !:
II he misses the second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis.
infect where he has been.
Prepare warm, dry, but ventilated
quarters for the brood sows. and dc
It now. Cold storms will be here be
fore we are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never be
saved from the litter of vicious old
brood SOW, which Is always restless
and chasing about the pasture.
Composted or well-decayed ma
nures serve their best purpose when
applied to the surface Of the garden
and thoroughly disked into the soil.
Fowls in confinement must have
light feed and plenty of grit, oyster
shell, and a little bone cut green.
little chopped onion is fine about
once day.
Corn silage is an excellent feed
for steers on account of its succu
lence and palatability, and because
of its comparative richness in carbo
hydrates end fat
Baby beef Is a term applied tC
steers or heifers from fifteen to TWEEN
ty-two months Of age that show sufi
cient thickness of flesh and quality tt
be used as block beef.
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
ture lands valued at SIS to 500 pc
acre, are stocking them with sheel
and the mutton industry in that sec
tion Is being rapidly revived.
Hogs that are allowed considerable
plenty of water and good sleeping
quarters in a well-drained area ar
not very liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping more and bette
animals, more attention should b
paid by farmers to such crops a
restore the fertility of the soil. Tn
chief among these are clover an
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes OF III
thriftiness with fall pigs. Wheneve
nits or lice are seen the pigs shoul
be dipped at ten-day intervals or els
given one coating of crude oil apple
with a broom.
Oats is one of the best dairy feed
which we have Bran Is also a yer
good dairy feet Cottonseed meal
also high in protein. Glover ha,
which we can raise directly on ou
farm, is very good.
No time should be lost in fattenin
the light shearers and disposing {
them to the best advantage. Tt
longer sheep is kept that will nj
clip quantity of clean bright wo,
above the average the poorer II
owner will be.
Some farmers seem to imagine thl
Just because sheep has q fleece
protect 1t that shelter from cold an
storms is not necessary. but the
, should know that sheep are more su
ceptible to cold and dampness ths
any other animal Oh the farm.