Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-05-28

Rolled oats, stale bread. corn-bread.
cheese curd, wheat and table scraps
make good feed for little chicks.
Five points to remember II you
would have q productive orchard:
Fertilize. cultivate, spray. thin, prune.
The hair OF the horse that has been
we'll fed from birth is as rule finer
and softer than that OF the horse not
80 fed.
After the breeding season Is over
separate the ROSTERS from the hens.
Better for both sexes and the eggs
will keep better.
A better living can be made by care
full, thorough cultivation Of 20 acres
than from five times that amount OF
land poorly managed.
The best way to market your crops
in on the hoof. Feed to your stock.
keep the fertility on the farm and
drive your stock to market.
Grow enough fruit for your own use.
Not q bad idea to have some to sell.
These little extras from the farm can
be made to aggregate quite sum.
After all the pig has more wisdom
than some people. He is content to
stay in the pig class while many
human wastes life in trying to seem
what he Is not.
No wonder the poultry business 10
growing each year. There are more
than 5000 poultry shows held annual.
ly in the United States and Canada
Surely the hen ia the American bird.
Don't cut of your farm reading be.
cause the busy season is on. The
rush season on the farm is just the
time to test out new ideas in a prac-
teal way. Get other peoples ideas
and set them to work for you.
The four points are made in favor
Of the portable hog house as follows:
Il is easily and economically construct
ed: it can be, easily moved and To-
Gated wherever desired; 1t is useful
both to the general farmer and 20
the breeder of pure bred stock. and of
all systems for housing swine 1t is
the most natural and sanitary.
The rule observed by q successful
hog raiser in selecting the brood sows
is to pick the long-bodied ones that are
rather coarse and long legged. They
make the best breeders and have bet.
ter constitutions than the small ones.
By selecting a male that has good
quality you can get larger hams and
shoulders from the pigs Of large
SOW than from small one.
The farmers are slow to take ad-
vantage of all the government agri-
cultural department and the expert
nent stations of the various states arc
ioing for them. Every farmer should
It least get the bulletins from the
station Of his own state,
md he would find It greatly to his
If he received the govern
nent bulletins as well. These are all
nailed free on application. and a pos
al card with the request that your
name be placed on the mailing list
will do the business. II you do not
ARE for all the bulletins and only
hose which deal with certain features
If agriculture you can so state and
,nly these will be sent you.
Three remedies for chicken cholera
which have been used successfully by
,oultrymen: The first is burnt corn.
When any chicken shows the least
,ign of the cholera, burn some corn
IN the cob and leave where the chick
ms can have free access to 1t at all
lines. The corn must not be burned
o a crisp, but scorched. Keep this
lind of feed before the flock until all
iigns of cholera disappear. Second
Shut the sick fowls away from the rest
II the flock. Whitewash the hen house
ind nests with hot whitewash con-
aiming a liberal supply of carbolic
lcid. Put one teaspoonful Of carbolic
lcid in two quarts Of water and give
he fowls to drink. Give some kind
II good poultry food according to d.
ections. II fowls are too sick to
at, put some Of the medicine In a
easpoonful Of sour milk and pour
Iown the throat Of the fowl. Third
Jet some red oak bark and boil It. CIV |
ng the tea to the chickens to drink In