Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-07-25
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Keep eggs in a cool, dry place.
Regular milking improves the COW.
1t pays to have good stock water
all the year round.
One way, to increase the profits Of
your farm is to build silo.
Movable, separate nest boxes. with
wire bottoms, are easy to clean.
Never feed little chicks wet, slop-
by food. 1t is bad enough for mature
stock.
Pure food judiciously given is the
only material the hardy, working hen
| needs.
The currant bush is great pro-
good crop.
Split carrots, turnips, beets, ETC., in
two, and allow the hens to pick at
them at will.
The horse cannot rest while fight
ing flies. Better shade or screen the
barn windows.
Whenever farmer gets the auto
fever he at once becomes a good
road preacher.
The prime purpose of fruit trees in
their natural conditions is to repro
duce their kind.
Alfalfa can be cut as soon as the
new growth is we'll started from the
crown of the plant.
Two or three times a week rub
kerosene rag over the horses legs to
, kill the bot fly eggs.
Seeding alfalfa after early potatoes
has proved the most satisfactory meth.
cd at the Ohio station
Cheese may be kept moist and free
| from mold by wrapping in a cloth
r moistened with vinegar.
The clover-seed crop depends very
: largely upon the conditions of the
3 ground and the weather.
To kill Canadian thistle in field
: put the field in some cultivated crop
4 and keep the weeds down.
In vineyards grape vines are plant
z ed nine feet apart in the row with the
s rows eight to ten feet apart.
The boy who can test milk is a big
o ger hero than the hired man with al
8 endless string of dirty stories.
Hogs are mortgage lifters, but if al
" lowed to root hog or die" the lifting
s will not be in race with airships.
Study your birds closely and learr
s. their habits. The better you know
a them the better success you will have
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n healthy strain of animals the pig
8. rarely need attention at farrowin
y time.
There is no stock about the farr
t that will not eat good silage. II car
IT is exercised working horses may b
er fed on silage.
Sheep are such sensitive creature
to make for success or failure, no ma
ID ter what the breed.
When setting any Of the bus
ee fruits the top should be pruned
ut correspond to the root pruning th
er plant gets in transplanting.
The farmer often makes a mistah
to by trying to do too much. Till LEI
"a ground and cultivate 1t better ar
NJ there will be more profit in it.
AS rule the heifers calving at abo,
ne two years old develops milk-giving te
ng dencies which grow with her grow
re and strengthen with her strength.
Properly managed, the silo will
ne crease the amount of milk that can
ce. produced upon the farm and will al
ew aid to cut down the cost of productio
Sheep that get lazy and don't wa
ire to go round are apt to be sick. Ma
up them exercise, if only to go ht
IN. mile to get drink. Better for the
be every way.
1t is a good plan to have grazi
Ide lot of some green crop near the bar
as where the COWS may pick at night.
of helps to keep up the milk flow duri
'ig- the hot months
While more good dairy cows will