Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-07
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III FARM
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Slick up around the place before the
SHOWS fly.
The neglected hen is an Indifferent
profit maker
Overcrowdfng means under profits
with the poultry.
Open burrows through the grain
field to carry off the surplus water
Take little pride in your place and
have it trim and tidy on the road side.
Sunlight for the calf pens. Remem-
Der that, If you would have them
thrifty.
1t is a mistake to keep ewes that
are over five or six years old. Fat
ten and market.
Do not breed the ewes before they
are from a year to IS months old, if
you would have large sheep.
The better farmer is evolved from
the farmer that sees his mistakes
and tries to do better next time.
Certified milk is simply clean milk
whose quality is vouched for by the
producer and some accredited party.
Whatever it is that you have not
done that you have intended doing
quit your promissory attitude and DO
IT NOW.
Be sure that the stables and pens
are thoroughly cleaned and white
washed before the winter weather sets
in in earnest.
Dirty musty bedding does not make
good feed for the horses, and they
will not eat it if given enough good
hay and feed
Don't leave the potatoes in the
ground too long Water-soaked
ground or blistering sunshine do not
dead.
No farmer to-day can afford to let
his boy, whom he hopes to have sue
coed him upon the old farm, go
without a course at the state agri-
cultural college.
Not only oil the farm machinery
when putting it away, but paint the
wooden parts. 1t doesn't take much
paint, but it makes the machines and
tools last good sight longer.
Money in raising colts if you do the
square thing by mare and offspring
from start to finish. But don't think
you can get a good animal from
scrub stallion. Remember that blood
will tell.
When weaving two or more colts
at the same time take care that one
does not become the boss and rob
the others of their food. In many
cases of unthrift it is due to lack of
nourishment from this cause.
A sup of milk for the cats will keep
them tied to the dairy barn and make
them good partners in keeping the
place free from rats and mice. Re
member that many a farmer loses a
tidy sum in providing board for the
rodents.
If you do not clean the fertilizer at
tachment to the grain drill before put
ting away for the winter and oil the
parts, you will find in the spring an
incrustation on the inside that will be
hard to clean and which has eaten
well into the iron
Pianos. like many other things
which contribute 70 the joy and profit
of life, are finding their way more
and more into the farmhouses of the
land. and women folks are learning to
play them. too. Pleasant On the win
ter evenings to have a good play and
sing
In severe cases of ''kneestring" give
the horse complete rest, shorten the
toe and apply a high-heeled shoe and
hot lamentations continuously, or cold
astringent lotions When heat and ten
derness subside the high-Eeeled shoe
may be dispensed with, the foot shod
level and active blisters applied. To-
dide of mercury is the best
Where cheese is made on the farm
= new tin washboiler will serve as a
cheese vat, and a clean, splint basket
will do for a drainer- The mold can
be made from discarded peck mea-
sure If rennet tablets cannot be Sc
cured rennet can usually be purchased
of q butcher, since it comes from the
lining of the fourth stomach of a calf.
Tablets are the most convenient and
can be secured from most drug stores.
or all dairy supply houses One tab
let viii make 200 pounds of cheese.