Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-11-07
Build a scratching shed.
Please your egg customers.


Give the chicks the sour milk.
Constant vigilance is the price of
clean swine herd.
Do not waste by feeding more
than the animal can digest.
Milk that is kept clean ana properly
cooled needs no preservative.
Equal parts OF corn and oats are
hard to excel as grain feed for sheep.
Paint all the wounds made In prun-
ing with pure white lead and pure lin
seed oil.
1t is cheaper to remove the cause
of disease than to doctor the chick
ems afterward.
The young calf should have an
abundance of good clean clear water
before It at all times.
The moisture going in with the sill
age should be kept in. This keeps the
silage from "dry-firing."
1t pays to grade all small fruit 1t
demoralizes prices to have small, bad
berries mixed In with large ones.
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Spraying with whitewash once a
month will go long way toward
keeping down vermin in the poultry
house.
1t never pays to market stock that
is not fat. Plenty Of good yellow corn
will make any healthy bird fat In two
weeks.
with strong vitality and plenty of
masculine characteristics make the
largest gains.
II you have any chickens roosting
in the orchard trees, you had better
let them know what the hen house
was built for.
Don't allow your horses to drink a
large amount of water on coming into
the stable very warm. Allow them
to cool off bit first.
The profit in pig feeding depends
upon the cost of the feed given them.
Therefore anything that cheapens the
feed increases the profit.
Bitter rot and blotch are two of the
most difficult diseases of the apple
to control. Late spraying with bor-
deaux mixture Is most effective.
No matter how healthy and strong
the chick may be when Matched, the
strength will soon disappear when not
given the proper feed and attention.
, Humus is the name applied to the
: partially decomposed organic (animal
and vegetable) matter of the soil. 1t
is the principal source Of nitrogen in
the soil.
4 The farm mortgage that has out
3 lived every other line of activity very
frequently succumbs to the dairy COW
and the milk check which she brings
d in every week.
Q The profit in a cow consists of the
/. money the milk or butter will sell for
over and above the cost for feed. This
cost will not be materially different be
r tween the cows kept on the average
:. farm.
n The object of sanitation in the hog
yards and houses is to secure the
greatest degrees of bodily health ano
q vigor, because the animal will de
/, velop better and be less susceptible
9 to disease.
;. Many orchards are not fruitful
for the reason that there is no
enough nutritive properties in the
! soil to supply the requisite amoun
II of nourishment to enable the tree!
= to properly mature fruit.
o A few dollars spent in improving
fences. especially along the roadside
will be money well used, for it viii
n not only help the appearance Of tn
I. farm and make more ready sale
I. such is desired, but 1t will also add t
W the self respect of the farmer and tn
" farmers boys, all OF which has rea
II value.
A good way to handle manure 70
garden purposes ia to spread 1t II
n broad. fiat piles and allow 1t to rot
" then apply 100 pounds of acid phos
d phate and 100 manure and mix thi
~ well when you put 1t in pile. Thi
"a will add to the manurial value of tn
ID pile and will prevent the loss of an
m monia to great extSnt.
The heavy feeding Of corn to pou
70 try, especially where there Is an al
ar sence of good. hard. sharp grit, vii
70 bring on bad cases of indigestion