Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-09-10

The ounce OF prevention Is specially
potent In the summer time and Ia
worth fully two pounds OF cure.
Clean the work horses at night. and
frequently sponge OF the legs from
the knees down. Dry thoroughly.
The growing turkeys have reached
q point where they need little at
tention now. Keep track OF them.
however.
Where there Is much undecomposed
vegetable matter on the surface OF the
ground II is good plan to disk before
blowing.
Moulting time coming. egg produc-
tion lessening. Keep flock In thrifty
condition so rs to get them through the
moulting season and have them strong
for fall laying.
Never vary the rule to clean the
separator thoroughly after the milk Is
run through. A dirty separator will
turn out tainted milk and cream and
lead to all manner of troubles.
Have regular hours for doing the
milking. Great temptation to let 9TH
err work interfere with the thought
that the milking can be done most
any time. Such reasoning Is fallacious
for irregularity In milking lessons
the milk flow.
Il is estimated that II will pay the
farmer 10 own q manure spreader II he
has so tons Of manure TO spread
year. Spreading 100 tons will. 1t Is
claimed. save In cost Of labor rs to
80 per cent. on the cost OF the
spreader.
Props under apple trees supporting
heavily laden branches tell a story OF
ignorance or neglect earlier In the sea-
son. The fruit should have been
thinned. A good rule Is that branch
should not be expected to mature
more fruit than 1t can support easily.
Three essential rules should be kept
in mind in breeding dairy cattle. First.
constitution; second, utility, and
third, beauty. The last named quail
ity has cash value which must al
ways be considered. for the appear
ance OF an animal il often her best
selling quality.
From all reports an agricultural set
Element experiment seems to be work
ing out successfully In Austria-Hun-
gary. In order to turn the tide OF en-
igration the Hungarian minister OF
agriculture secured an appropriation
for the purchase of several thousand
acres of good land. This was par
celed out into rural districts, with
land prices and taxes reduced to q
minimum. Model farms and villages
are now in operation and apparently
succeeding in the purpose for which
they were intended.
With plenty OF good pasture, even
where cows are stabbed or yarded at
night, 1t Is q question whether any
grain Is needed, but II 1t be deemed
advisable to feed some grain there
could be nothing better than plain
ground corn, II 1t were not for the fact
that ground corn il so concentrated
that when fed alone It fails to be d.
gested as completely as 1t should be.
Il Is therefore expedient to mix the
corn with some more bulky material
and for this purpose there is nothing
quite 80 good as bran. We therefore
recommend q mixture Of ground corn
and bran in equal parts by measure.
Finely ground corn and cob meal
would probably do equally as we'll.
The best work can be obtained from
horses, and men too. for that matter.
when they are generously fed. The
old story Of the farmer who stingily
fed buttermilk and whey to his hired
men and found them dragging through
the work to the refrain, I'VE won't
get through to-day" Is worth re-tell-
ing. He did his best to drive the
men to faster work, but without avail.
and at last left the field in disgust.
But before he reached the house he
had taken q second sober thought and
wisely concluded that a more gener.
Gus diet might affect the spirits Of
his men and enable them to put more
vim into their tasks. So he had wife