Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-07-05
Leghorns are natural fcragers.

The first essential in making good
butter is good cream
Camphorated oil is good for caked
udder OF other Inflammation.
Frequent stirring while cream is
rlpening will make better butter.
A hog can be starved to eat al
most anything, but It Is poor economy.
Make very liberal estimates as to
the number OF chickens you are to
save.
This is the time to begin knocking
out another possible feed shortage next
winter.
For the young calf just learning to
eat there is nothing better than
ground oats.
Milking with wet hands Is one of
the most undesirable habits that a
man can form.
Turkeys often get puny and die
when several weeks old, from no 9TH
er cause than lice.
The longer a calf is allowed to suck
the COW the harder it will be to make
it drink from bucket.
It never pays to keep more cattle
than one can be sure to furnish with
ample feed the year round.
By using q little patience a calf can
be taught to drink quickly by letting
1t suck the finger held IN the milk.
There are many reliable breeders Of
Holstein cattle whose entire herds av-
erage 10000 pounds Of milk per year.
If thin SOW has more pigs than
she can suckle to advantage. take
part of them away and raise them on
bottle.
Anybody can raise an ordinary horse
and sell it for an ordinary price. It
the average.
The main points to make sure about
in buying a separator are durability.
clean skimming, easy washing, and
easy running.
Almost any feed that is high in pro-
tein, such as milk or middlings, and
the like, is good for sows, pigs and
growing hogs.
Don't let the young turks out until
dew is off the grass in the morning
If you want turkeys to sell next
Thanksgiving.
Why not a concrete vat in the milk
house this spring? They are reason.
ably cheap, eternally durable, and
highly sanitary.
Geese, after they get their feathers,
are rarely, if ever, attacked by in
sects, but this will not hold good in
regard to goslings.
Put bell on some of the COWS If
they run in the woods or q brush
pasture. 1t will save time and steps
in looking for them.
A heifer that has long milking
Y,k 10,
to establish the habit Of long periods
If she Is we'll handled.
See that the harness, and especially
the inside of the collars where they
come in contact with living flesh and
blood, are smooth and clean.
In the push of farm work the truck
patches should not be neglected, for
in these little things lie the farmers
living and his success as farmer
On every dairy farm there should be
two pasture fields, by feeding off first
one and then the other, the COWS have
a succession Of rich tender grass and
clover
Mix half bushel of dry ashes with
a pint of carbolic acid. pint of coal
oil, and pint of sulphur. Put some
in the nests and the hens will not be
bothered with lice.
Good quality of wheat straw which
is neither moldy nor dusty will make
q fair roughage for horses, and when
fed in moderate amounts should not
prove injurious iu any way
Barb wire fences are bad for horses,
but there should be barb wire strung
along the top of the wozen fence or
the horses will ride it down. The barb
wire placed there will do no harm.
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