Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-02-20


Don't overload your horses.
Farming Is business proposition.
Don't simply keep cows. Make the
cows keep you.
Alfalfa insures larger yields from
the crops that follow.
Notice which hens are most active.
They are the best layers.
Sometimes 1t is a good plan to leave
the stnbble to catch the snow.
Only 25 per cent. of the land area of
the United States is improved farm
land.
Cut alfalfa or clover hay are good
green feeds for hens at this time of
the year.
A load of corn is more cheaply trans
ported when converted into animal
products.
The man who neglects to water the
poultry does not deserve amy profits
from them.
Give hens good care, and 1t goes
without saying that they will play fair,
and keep on laying.
Don't keep horse going after 1t be-
gins to show signs of exhaustion. You
will save time by resting bit
1t Is hard to choose between poor
ventilation in barn and too much
air. Better find the golden mean.
Dairymen can we'll give a little con-
sideration to several of the types OF
milking machines now on the market.
Early pullets and young hens up to
two years of age are the kind from
which to get liberal supply of eggs
in winter.
To realize how you are coming out
you must know what feed is costing
you, as well as how much butter fat
the COWS are giving.
The best way to mend straps on
! common farm-work harness is to rivet
with copper rivets. They never rot,
and hold better than wax-ends.
Experiments and investigations have
proved that the milking qualities of a
COW depend almost as much on her
sire's mother as on her own dam.
Unless the relation between protein
and carbohydrates in the ratio is
| about right either one or the other will
not be used at its fullest advantage.
| According to a report recently is
| sued, the total value of our agricul-
tural products in 1913 will be $5,0OO,-
100000, or s296.0o0,OOO more than
1912
An American patent has been grant
ed to an Englishman for process for
preserving eggs by dipping them first
in gelatine and then in solution of
amyl acetate.
Washing and drying cows udder
| before milking has been found to keep
about 90 per cent. of the filth out OF
the milk that usually gets in when an
open pail is used.
Cover crops are used for the pur.
pose of preventing the soil from wash.
ing during the hard rains of winter
and spring, as well as for the addi-
tion of fiber to the SOIL
Two acres of cornstalks placed in
the silo are worth in feeding about the
same as five acres of stalks cut and
fed as fodder This shows how the
corn crop may be utilized
A tractor for farm machinery that
is driven with reins is novelty. two
reins doing the steering and third
controlling the motor, while a fourth
may be used on the brake if desired.
The manure spreader and the silo
are two things that point the farmer
towards better bank account, and
1t is not going to be SO very long be
fore we will add to this the milking
machine.
A post that is well set may last long
er than one which has been made
smaller by sharpening SO as to drive
1t easily, but 1t is seldom as solid as
the driven post. When the soil Is
water soaked the set pot is more cas-
lily leaned by stock pushing on the
fence.
Sweet clover Is a great soil builder
1t is great feed and 1t Is great croI
but 1t Is Snly few years since swee
clover was looked upon as the rankes