Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

Never let the surface Of tho ground
crust over.
Pure water for the COW II you want
pure milk from the cow.
Look for lice on the little chickens
which do not seem 10 be thriving.
Sour milk Ia good for the little
chicks. Good for the laying hens also
Spray tho currant and gooseberry
bushes with white helebore to kill the
worms.
Feed the lambs a mixture OF oats,
wheat bran and oil meal IL you want
them to make specially rapid growth.
Sow some rape for the pigs. II can
be drilled in or broadcasted. il viii
be ready for pasturing in about five
weeks.
II weeds gets mp before the corn
run a weeder through the field. II
will knock the weeds out and Will
bring up the corn faster.
The farmer who tests his seed corn
Is the farmer who Is saved tho dis
appointment OF planting whole field
and not having any Of 1t come up.
II is the pig that grows right from
the start which proves the most profit
able animal to raise. See that condi'
lions are right to produce the best re-
suits.
Too much stock on the pasture Is a
mistake. It provides insufficient food
for the stock and causes them to Craze
II down so close as to permanently In
jure It.
II takes generous feeding to build
I'D the muscle cells broken down by
the hard work of the busy season. You
cannot do this by. feeding corn to your
horses. Feed oats.
A bulls a bull to some farmers, no
matter Of what breed. or color. or dis
position. But never was greater mis-
take made by farmer than this. The
bull is more than half Of the herd.
The farmer who puts of securing
his seed corn until the last thing and
then plants anything he can get ready
quickly deserves no sympathy when
his cornfields prove a disappointment.
Almost every farmer will find the
silo a profitable investment. BY its
aid you can provide succulent feed
for the cows the year round, and thus
keep the milk flow up to the top notch
all the time.
On the first rainy day now get the
haying tools in shape. Haying will
be upon us almost before we realize
It. This promises to be good hay.
ing year. Prices may be lower. but
the larger crops will bring the profits
up to fully what they were last year.
Wet wood is an aggravation, and
there Is a temptation to use coal oil
to hurry matters. But don't do 1t.
Many a person has tried 1t and been
injured or fatally burned. But why |
wet wood at all? Why not have the
wood supply under shelter and so far
ahead that It will have good time to
season.
Encysted worms in sheep cannot be |
reached by drugs. Treatment must |
be preventive. The mature worms |
must be expelled from the bowels by |
the administration OF vermifuge. |
surface waters must be avoided and
pastures known to be infected should |
be pastured by other stock for year
or two.
Get through with the chores early |
and spend the evening in mapping out |
the work for the following day. In
this way you will get time for needed
rest and will find that your time will
count for more. The hired man
should never have to spend his time
hunting you up to ask what he shall
do next. Give him his orders for
the day. Don't crowd him too hard
but give him plenty to fill the day.
Theory and then practice. Put
some Of the new ideas you have
gained from reading during the winter
and from the discussions at the farm.
ers' Institutes you attended to work
for you. There is chance for improve
ment in the methods on almost every
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