Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-12-03
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you to feed generously and TO get the
eggs in return.
Provide plenty OF litter for the
chickens TO scratch In this winter.
Leaves are excellent.
Don't forget 10 pick some OF the best
OF the hickory sticks for ak handles.
You will need them.
A good way 20 feed molassss to
horses is to put It on the hay. This
ration will keep them thrifty.
Alfalfa pays II you get good stand,
bot remember that q good stand
comes only with faithful preparation
of soil.
About the only treatment which the
sheep-killing dog deserves is bullet
where 1t will put him out Of business
for good and all.
Give the hens a good dust bath. Put
the box in sunshiny place in the hen
house. 1t will do your heart good TO
watch them wallow In It.
Never get the conception that It is
clever schemipg that brings success.
IT'S hard work that brings enduring
success. The genius of hard work Is
the best asset in life.
The farmer who begrudges the time
necessary to feed and care for the
hogs is generally the farmer who on
market day is disappointed with the
return from the sales.
Before worrying over the fact that
your neighbor has more land than you
have, just study over the question
whether you are getting as much as
Is possible out of the land you already
have.
The manure from n dairy COW will
amount to over ten tons a year with
q value of upwards Of $50. But the
way the average farmer handles this
by-product, much of the value Is lost.
Why not stop this leak by putting
in cement cutters, make free use OF
bedding and get the manure out on
the land every day?
Get the boy q camera and get him
interested in taking pictures of the
buildings and the stock. 1t will be
one more link to bind him to the farm
and will be q step toward improve
ment in the appearance Of the farm
and better farm animals. Pictures tell
stories, and where the camera is on
the farm to bring their tell-tale mes
sages of neglect and disorder and
poor stock, you are apt to spruce up
I bit and to want stock that will look
well in picture.
The weather man by study and OBJ
servation may be able to pretty accu'
.ately predict what the weather Is 60
ing to be, but 1t is God who maketh
The sun to shine and the rain to fall,
he winds to blow and the crops to
grow. And It is we'll 1t is SO, for he
knoweth best. Let us never be i'm.
patient with what he sends. Always
make the best of the weather condi'
tons; order the farm work in har.
nony with the conditions God pro-
yides, and when 1t comes to taking
stock after the harvest Is over you
will, as you do this year, have to adj
NIT that things turned out better than
you had thought they would.
Remember that Of all the manure
produced on the farm that from TIE
poultry has the greatest value, and
vet with but few exceptions It is not
taken care of as 1t should be. The
New Hampshire experiment station
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pings of a flock Of rs hens should be
mixed with about eight pounds of
kainit or acid phosphate and half
peck OF sawdust. II one desires q
balanced fertilizer for corn and other
hoed crops, q mixture Of equal parts
of kainit and acid phosphate could be
used instead OF either alone. Good
dry meadow muck or peat would be
equally as good as sawdust, IL not
better, to use as an absorbent. In the
experiment mentioned, more than half
Of the ammonia was lost in hen
manure without chemicals when COM
pared with that which he'd been MIXED
with them.