Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-10-15

Careful cultivation brings the farm
er crops. coin and resultant content.
ment.
Don't hang up the brush scythe I'M
I'll you have made q circuit Of the
fence corners.
Whltewash the stable, and y tSe
horse gnaws the stalls paint ths wood
with tar.
Sore shoulders on horses are "a
often caused by rough and dirty col.
lars as by those which are ill.fitting.
The horse Is made or marred by his
first year. Start him right, and keep
him going right II you would make
horse raising pay.
One acre OF turnips will provide
feed for rs to 30 sheep for three
months. Did you grow anyi A mis-.
take II you did not.
The hired man has rights. Try to
give him O square deal and he will
appreciate It and generally do the
square thing by you.
Don't worry over the thing you
can't help and don't kill yourself try.
ing to do what you have not time and
strength to accomplish.
The reason a woman makes q sue
cess OF poultry raising as rule Is
because she is careful. watchful and
mindful Of all the small details.
Clean up the garden plot and burn
up all the rubbish. This will make
the place look more tidy and will
destroy q host OF insect pests and
weed seeds.
Pluck OF the smut balls from the
corn and burn them. Corn smut
spreads rapidly II the smut-balls are
thrown on the manure pile and the
manure spread on corn-fields. Never
throw smut-ball on the manure pile!
Dairy note from Life: ''In the hot
days of fly.time there are the usual
kicks over the milk" and by way OF
III, roticx, tha ,ow to do,,tctad tirlr
ing over the pail and incidentally the
mixer himself.
Experiment seems to prove that
chicks grow faster upon soft mashes
than upon dry grains. There seems
to be least danger from bowel loose.
ness when the dry grains only are
fed, and It is very essential that the
mash be dry enough to crumble In
order to avoid that difficulty. Young
chicks like the moist mash better than
though 1t was not moistened and will
eat more OF It. There Is no danger
from the free use of the properly
made mash twice day, and being al.
ready ground the young birds can eat
and digest more of 1t than when the
food Is all coarse.
Do you know how much It costs you
to raise your calves? It would prove
and profitable for you to
keep a record. Prof. Shaw of Michi.
gan did SO, and found that the Hol.
stein calf used In the experiment the
first year Of its life SS1 pounds of
whole milk, 1858 pounds Of skim
milk, 1892 pounds Of silage. 219
pounds Of beet pulp, 1884 pounds of
hay, 1,247 pounds Of grain, lat pounds
Of roots, IA pounds OF alfalfa meal
and 80 pounds Of green corn. The
grain ration consisted OF three parts
each of corn and oats and one part of
bran and oil meal. At the end of the
year the calf weighed 800 pounds at
4 cost of $28.55 for feed.
BY the old pan process Of raising
cream in the summer time much Of
the butter fat is lost, as 1t fails to rise,
The milk is soured by the time little
more than half the cream contained in
the milk has risen to the surface, and
that which has already risen is soured
beyond the point where 1t makes good
butter. In the summer hand sep
arator 10 needed to get all the cream.
In the winter one is needed to get the
cream separated from the milk as
quickly as possible that the milk may
30 to the calves or pigs with the ami
NAL heat still there. There is no sea-
son Of the year when the hand sep
arator is not just the machine to have
IN fha dairy farm