Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-07


Weather-beaten, implanted buildings
are no credit to the farm.
Sell off the surplus chickens, and
thus save on feed and trouble.
Improve your soil by putting humus
into it by every possible means
The unthrifty chick offers the favor
able soil in which to grow the roup
germ
The farmer who is eager to get
other folks thinks is apt to be a
thinker himself.
An Office for the farmer! Why not?
Good place to keep his books, ac-
counts, seed catalogues, etc
Virgin soil should have a certain
amount of cultivation with crops be-
fore being set out to fruit trees
The best feed for making muscle Is
oats, the best for fat building is corn,
the best for milk production is silage-
afford to have around is the dead
louise. See that that is the only kind
you keep.
Make friends with the new ideas.
Don't let them run away with you
| but harness them and make them
work for you.
Did you attend the fair? If not, have
you reason that will justify you with
your conscience and square you with
your neighbors?
Always sort fruit intended for mar
ket First-class fruit mixed in with
| that of inferior quality always sells
| for less than it would had it been kept
by itself.
Get in line with a few trap nests
and test out the best of the pullets.
Then use their eggs for Matching next
spring and thus begin the improve
ment of your flock.
Put new planks in the approaches to
| the barn before the horse gets his
| foot through the cracks made by the
| decaying OF the edges of the board and
causes himself serious injury.
| Pillow the ground this fall that is in
| tested with wireworms, cutworns,
| etc. and then let the chickens at EN-
An occasional narrowing will keep
! the worms where the chickens can
get them.
No two horses require the same
r a mo of tn icon in
condition. any more than do two per-
sons. Intelligent feeding must be
| based upon knowledge of the individu-
| al traits of the animals fed
| Have you tried getting a stand of
alfalfa? Prof Ten Eyck declares his
/ belief that alfalfa is going to do more
| for the western farmer during the
| next so years than any other crop
which he may be able to grow
Make the acquaintance of the Bah
| cock tester. 1t may cause you to
| lose faith in some of your cows, but
| the sooner a false faith is broken
down the better. The COW that does
not pay it's way is no friend to you
| Get rid of her.
| Tests made by the Indiana expert
ment station with SIS varieties of win
| ter wheat showed that the best yields
| in bushels per acre were obtained
from the following varieties in the
| order named: Rudy, Red Wave,
| Early Harvest, Tennessee F'ultz, Poole.
| The farmer who does not read a
good farm paper and take the bulle-
| tins of his state experiment station
| cannot hope to raise the standard of
| his farming any more than the man
| who takes hold of his own boot straps
| can hope to raise himself from the
| floor.
| You have heard of the muslin cur
| tain front for poultry houses Why
| not try such a covering over at least
| one of the windows of your poultry
| house this winter? Verdict of those
| who have tried them is that the hens
| are healthier and lay better where
houses are SO equipped.
Never let the cream become over
| heated or overripe If you wish to pack
the butter made from it, Remember
| that the best butter can only be made
| from cream that is in the best of con-
| dition, and that the keeping quality
| of butter depends upon the condition
| of the cream from which it was made.
| Whitewash the helhouse. 1t will not
| only kill off the lice but will act as
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