Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18

A kerosene bath for roosts is urged.
The dairy COW should essentially be
a large ard rich milker.
There is more or less risk in feeding
ordinary silage to lambs or sheep.
1t is well-known fact that alfalfa
does not do we'll upon an impervious
subsoil.
In feeding dairy COWS give them all
they viii clean up at each feed but
no more.
Range-bred lambs are far superior
to native-bred lambs for breeding
purposes.
Goslings must be kept out Of damp
ness and fed only grass, water and
coarse sand.
Don't fail to divide the buttermilk
between biddy and the pigs. She rel
ishes 1t as much as they.
The grape root worm has commit
ted extensive depredations among the
vineyards of Pennsylvania.
A toothbrush and a little naphtha
will clean your velvet coat collars and
make them look new again.
Select one dairy breed and stick to
1t. Don't mix up the breeds or you
will spoil the sale of your stock.
All fowls. chicks, ducks and duck
lings that are kept in yards should
have plenty Of green feed every day.
IL the frost kills the vines of the
sweet poatoes cut them off as soon as
possible or the potatoes may turn
black.
The spring colt should be pretty
well broken by this time; If not, this
is good month to get acquainted
with him.
Clean the stock tank, and keep 1t
free from moss. Then fill 1t with
fresh cool water. The stock will ap-
preciate 1t.
The manager of the dairy farm
must supply the brain. The success
of the undertaking will depend large
ly upon him.
Early Six Weeks is a good potato
for a short time, but 1t soon loses
quality. few rows in the garden
come in handy.
Let the COWS sleep out in the
pastures until the very chilly nights
come on. Better for them than to
lie in stuffy barn.
If pastures are falling feed little
fodder each day to the stock. It
makes them more contented and less
inclined to try the fences.
Farmers and feeders will this year
welcome full corn cribs 1t is risky
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cent corn and we will all welcome
cheaper grain.
Farm orchards seem smaller and
worse neglected than they were ten
years ago. Perhaps the reason lies
in the fact that small lots of fruit
hardly ever sell profitably.
II the sheep are compelled to dig II
short pastures for their living they
will eat the roots of the grass. Bet
Z ter divide the pasture and feed one
part while the other is catching up
The number of silos in Kansan ha.
nearly IL not quite doubled in the las
year. II they were not profitable d.
you think they would be built? w,
are not working for the fun of 1t an!
longer.
After the pigs have been put int,
the fattening pen in the fall the,
should be fed all that they will ca
with relish. for, as rule, tn
shorter the fattening period tn
larger the profits.
A duckling does not know how +
get tout of danger. Instead it vii
become panic stricken and remai
easy prey for the enemy. On tn
contrary chicken is always on tn
alert. scampering of to some hidin
place the moment It hears som
strange noise.
Never fasten fencing wire dlrectl
to growing trees. II you do, in fey
years the wire will have become i'm
bedded In the tree and do 1t permanen
injury. When you wish to use tre
for this purpose, spike strip OF SCUM
board securely to the tree and faster
the wire to that. In this way yer.
little injury will ba done IN tha fraa