Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-10-29
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Thicker cream, quicker butter.
Now ls the time to separate the
feeding from the breeding stock.
Careless methods lose many farm
er a competence.
Poor. musty hay or grain should
never be fed to the horses.
Shelter In the pasture for the sheep
Essential to successful sheep raising
Much depends upon the method OF
ripening inc cream as TO the quality
Of butter produced.
Use water, clean and cold, In work
ing the butter. Worked dry you are
almost sure to overwork.
The use Of wide tires will prevent
to large extent the rutting OF the
road.
Between four and one-half and I'VE
months is the right time to take the
angora kids from the mothers.
Cement floors in the hog pen are
good II covered with plenty of good
bedding.
On the trip to town buy little
knick.knack for the children and don't
forget the wife. A very little spent
brings back the sunshine and the
gladness.
A Cornell professor after tests, has
found that milk can be produced for
S. cents per hundredweight and but
ter fat for 16 cents per pound where
the herd is fairly good and the feed
ing and milking are carefully handled.
Connecticut has wonderful COW as
Is shown by an advertisement In one
of her country newspapers as fol-
lows: "Full-blooded COW for sale, CIV
Ing milk, three tons Of hay, lot OF
chickens and several stoves"
Save the saplings Of hard wood
when clearing up land, as they come
handy for handles to the various tools
used on the farm. To make them is
only a little work and you save
money.
Spend a few days in the orchard
this fall cleaning up the grounds and
the trees. The most neglected spot
On some farms is the orchard, and
Il is right there that the best profit
might be realized II the right care
was given the trees.
Give the chickens good airy place
TO roost at night. For the growing
stock all that is required until cold
weather comes is a shelter from sun
and rain. Have the shelter so con-
structed that you can move 1t about
from place to place.
Lumpy jaw in cattle is Of parasitic
character and treatment Is advisable
only where the disease is local and SUI
perficial. The diseased masses are
cleaned from their cavities and the
places filled with iodized carbolic acid.
II is a disease that man is suscepti'
BILE to and great care must be exer-
cised. In most cases 1t were better to
destroy the animal.
NO" said farmer with whom
talked the other day. Il never break
nv horses until they are four years
of age. They always do better work
than the horses of my neighbors that
are broken earlier" What did he
mean? His idea Of breaking colt
was putting It to hard work, and when
suggested that the training OF colt
should begin early in the first year he
looked at me in amazement. / asked
him II a was not a pretty tough job
breaking the four-year-olds, and ne
admitted It was. The training OF
colt does not mean that he must be
worked. II simply means the edu
eating of the animal to obey words oil
command. to submission to touch oi
harness and to follow the guidance Of
the reins. And how easy all this IL
while the colt In young and easy to
handle. A horse broken In this way
is more thoroughly broken than he
ever can be where the task Is left
until he gets his growth and habits
are formed. Who would think OF lcay
ing the education Of q child go until
Il had attained its growth and was
able 10 stand a mans work.