Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-05-21

| rauOn Win tno biabo'
The farm, large or small. 10 incom-
plete without an orchard.
To like cows and have good ones
are two essentials Of successful dairy
Ing.
Last call to get the wood pile built
ND to last through the rush OF the
summer work.
The hog even with his earning ca
pacity curtailed seems to be as popu'
lar a farm animal as ever.
Il may be q small aperture and
little draft gets In. but 1t may lead
to heap OF trouble with the stock
stabbed there.
Let no lamb or pig be lost through
carelessness on your part A reason
able amount of precaution VIII re-
duce your losses. =.
Look to the cellar where the vege-
tables have been stored. Decaying
stuff does not provide healthy atmos-
phere for the rooms above.
Do not get In the habit or doping
yourself or your stock. Right living
and right feeding will keep you and
your animals In thrifty condition.
H. B. Gurler of De Kalb, ILL.,. has
been elected president Of the National
Dairy show and the next meeting OF
the association at Chicago fixed for
December.
Cookie burs can be destroyed by 3
thorough cultivation, but 1t takes
wears of hard and patient effort. DIS
infect and clean up the hog lots. II
will save time and trouble later.
Plan the work so that there are al
ways some things you can attend 10
on the stormy days, such as making
repairs on machinery. Smelling the
seed corn, cleaning other seeds, test
ing seeds, etc.
Cowy odor in milk Is almost In.
yariably due to uncleanly methods In
the barn. II the COW is not brushed
and cleaned before milking and par.
ticles of manure get into the milk the
odor of the offal is sure to faint the
milk.
Why keep a hundred average cows
when so picked ones will return as
much profit as the hundred? E. F.
Winship, a successful Minnesota dairy
man, by testing and keeping an exact
record of every cow in his herd, now
keeps only so, one-half as many as
formerly and makes more money,
takes less risk, has less invested, uses
less stable room and hires less labor
The farmer who has provided tank
into which to run the liquid manure
may be surprised to know that such
liquid manure deteriorates In value
by being let stand, just as the solid
manure does, but such Is the case.
There is q bacteria which begins work
ON the organic matter In the liquid
manure as soon as It accumulates In
sufficient quantities I'd shut the bac-
terra away from the air. They go on
destroying the organic matter just as
the ferments in the sweet cider de-
stroy certain things in 1t and create
acids. In the course Of compare.
lively short time the manurial value
OF liquid manure Is destroyed by
them. The only way to prevent them
acting to the detriment Of the fertil-
izer is to get 1t into the land.
Soon you will be planting your corn.
Prof. Ten Eyck suggests that on fer
| tile land capable of producing 60 to so
bushels of corn per acre in IA
yorable season, plant three kernels
| in a hill, the hills being Sh feet apart
each way, or in drill rows plant one
kernel every IA inches in rows 3h
feet apart. On land Of medium fer
tility. capable Of producing 40 to 60
bushels of corn per acre, plant three
kernels per hill, in hills 8 feet 9
inches apart each way; or one kernel
in a place, 16 to Is inches apart. in
rows 3h feet apart. On soil deficient
in fertility and, moisture. on which
the yields may vary from 20 to 40
bushels. per acre, plant two kernels In
hills 81 feet apart each way; or one
kernel every % to "a inches in rows
81 feet apart. In the more northern
portions of the corn belt increase the
thickness q planting by one kernel
per hill under the several soil condi-
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