Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-01-09

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Don't burn the straw.
Sheep are good foragers.
Hogs suffer for the want Of water
For winter lambs the ewes should
be bred In July.
Eggs in winter mean money and the
lack of them means loss.
Good roads mean good schools;
good schools good citizenship
Good roads bring the producer and
consumer in personal contact.
Marketing the products of the farm
Is of equal importance as their pro-
duction.
In order to obtain eggs 1t is neces-
sary to have healthy, vigorous stock,
properly fed.
Butter churned too soft cannot be
properly washed, and so contains a
great deal of buttermilk.
Turkeys should always be allowed
free range because they are unprofit-
able when placed in confinement
Considerable loss is occasioned on
many farms every year by allowing
crops to become too ripe before har-
vesting.
One bushel of oats, four pounds of
rape, and a bushel of field peas makes
splendid acre seeding for temporary
pasture.
cement has come to be regarded as
one of the cheapest, as we'll as the
| best and most durable materials for
stable floors
Regular careful milking permanent
ly improves the animal as a milk pro-
ducer, aside from directly increasing
the milk flow.
Cows should be given all the pure
water they can drink, not less than
twice a day. 1t has decided effect
upon the milk production.
A good cold weather protector OIL
storm door for the house. can be made
by tacking a piece of oilcloth muslin
or roofing over the screen door.
Before you rid the dairy herd of the
"robber COW" make sure that she is
having fair show by being supplied
with the proper rations, care and shell
ter
There is no better time than now tc
get rid of the poorer COW. Feed Is toe
high to waste it on cows that could
not pay their board when feed wa,
cheaper.
No other farm animal requires s,
much Kindness as the dairy COW. Han
ding the heifer In a roughshod man
ner is an excellent way to make al
unruly, nervous COW.
The dairy farmer can raise hog
cheaper than anyone else and natural
ly more important than the cost @
feed this makes better profit fo
him from this one line.
When we put blinds on the bride q
the nervous horse we only add fuel t
the flames. Do not forget this in
portant fact when you go to work tina
fool horse" or that "onery cuss."
Your chickens require plenty of al
but not Of the drafty kind. 1t Is muc
better to have the whole side Of you
house open than to have the a
streaming in through a knothole.
To prevent bad 1avors in butte
, great care must be used in milking
in handling the milk and cream, an
; in making the butter Everythin
! used must be kept in a sanitary col
, dition.
The White Holland turkey althoug
: somewhat smaller than the Bronze,
i noted as a good layer and economics
: meat producer, and their feathers al
worth considerable more than thos
/ from the Bronze.
, In developing the pigs for breedfr
3 one should handle them rather diffe
2 emily than when he is feeding the
j for market. Such pigs need feed ric
+ er in protein. in other words, mo-
fiesh-forming foods.
An acre of soil nine inches deep,
i, of ordinary fertility, is estimated
4 weigh about 100000 pounds, al
3 contains about 1000 pounds of nitr
4 gent, 5000 pounds of phosphoric ac
!. and 5000 pounds of potash.
When the new stock SOW or boar
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