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

Deep plowing in the the fall.
Rape has high feeding value.
Lime prevents poultry diseases.
Colts should be weaned when Eve
months old.
Few hen houses are equipped with
enough nest boxes.
Kindness to live stock has money
value often overlooked.
1t Is best to milk the cows in the
barn, even in hot weather
A good COW should have a good flow
of milk ten months out of twelve.
When proper care is exercised the
life of a peach tree Is from IL to l6
years.
Good roads in your vicinity add
to the selling price of the products of
your farm.
The amount of humus in the soil in
dicates in great measure it's richness
in nitrogen.
Keep the horses well cleaned, but re-
member that you can be cruel with
the curry comb.
Dispose of all the old Improbable
hens for they will only be profit eat
ers during the winter.
In fattening turkeys, better feed
lightly the first ten days, gradually
increasing their rations.
Never work team Of colts together
until they are thoroughly broken, as
they will worry each other.
A handful Of shelled grain Is always
more effective than a club in inducing
a pig to travel where you want 1t.
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The poultry houses must be scene
of constant effort to prevent lice and
vermin from this time until spring
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You cannot expect a COW to give
large quantities of milk unless she has
plenty of feed and quantities of water.
Young trees heeled in over winter
should be in a location where water
cannot collect, and stand about the
roots.
1t is not advisable to keep the late
Matched turkeys for breeders. The
more mature the fowl the better the
breeder
In most localities the building
should face the south, as this insures
the greatest amount of sunlight dur
ing the winter.
1t is all right to dehorn calves as
soon as the button starts, either with
caustic potash or any of the prepared
J dehorning compounds.
Time spent in clearing up ar or
chard in the fall of the year will be
, amply rewarded with better and
, cleaner fruit the next season.
The young heifer that is not kept
growing, that Is not kept in good con-
dition during the early months of her
, life will never make up for 1t later.
| The horse that is all the time being
! tapped with the whip never knows
what his master means by it, and
comes to think he means just nothing.
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!. Keep the drinking fountains not
= only we'll rinsed out, but from time to
n time wash off the slime that will accu-
mulate with sand, q rag and warR
water.
/ Wheat makes good hog feed, fully
4 equal pound for pound to corn, but It
r should be either ground or soaked.
The hogs cannot make good use OF
wheat fed dry.
o If you build hoppers to feed your
l. birds in this winter, build them in
It such a manner that there are no
rough protrubences to iniure the
combs of the birds.
h The season for studying the feed
IT ration is at hand. Be sure that you
ir feed your cattle most economically
and in such way that they can make
the best use of their feed.
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q, Sheep are very particular about the
n condition of their feed They will not
lg touch hay that has been nosed by
n other stock, neither will they eat grain
over which rats or mice have played.
h Did you know that one-half of an
Is egg is nutriment while only one
al fourth of meat is so? Therefore it is
'e easily seen that one pound of eggs
IA ia euual in food value to two pounds