Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-09-09
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feed is still worse.
Keep the young animals growing.
Little chance of overlooking.
Stick to your job. The farmer Is
the most Independent of any class OF
workmen.
Hogs thrive best when allowed to
Craze. 1t is economy to provide suit
ably fenced fields.
A bit of woodland fenced in with
the pasture provides the ideal condi'
ton for the stock.
In sections too far north for Grim
son clover, barley and Canada peas
make a good cover crop.
Borax and sugar dissolved in boil
Ing water and placed where ants are
troublesome will drive them away.
To keep water in common jug cool
out in the field try placing 1t in a
pail and covering with coat or
blanket.
The SOW with young hogs should
never be pastured with other large
hogs. 1t means trouble with prob
able loss.
It Is better to spread lime over the
field to be so treated a week or two
before putting in the wheat or rye.
The drill can be used in spreading |
lime.
Tobacco waste and salt mixed in |
proportions of about one part tobac- |
CO to five of salt shoeld be kept before |
the sheep at all times so they can |
help themselves. Where this is done |
there is no trouble from stomach
worms.
Renew the meadows on the hill |
slopes in the following manner and |
the loss by washing will be almost If
not entirely stopped: Break the |
meadow sod In alternate strips with |
the slope of the hill so that any ero-
sion from the cultivated strips will |
be caught by those left in meadow. |
These cultivated strips are then sown
to grass and the other alternate |
strips broken and planted to a cult
waited crop. In this way all Of the |
eroded soil will be caught and held
on tho plowed meadow strips and
none will be permanently lost.
DIR. L. L. Lewis, OF Oklahoma, points |
out that a great many farmers when
they obtain a remedy for hog cholera
dispense with all precautionary meas
ureB and rely upon the cure for their
protection. DR.. Lewis points out that
thiS method is folly and that strenu-
GUS precautionary measures should be
kept up during any course of treat
ment. He says: Hog cholera Is an
Infectious disease and may be carried
Ia a number Of ways from infected |
pens to hogs that are healthy. Run
ming water is a very active means Of
spreading the disease. Pens contain
ing diseased hogs and located along |
streams make the water dangerous
for all other hogs below them. Out
breaks of cholera can often be fol-
lowed considerable distances along |
water courses. The infection may al
so be carried by the clothing, wagons,
crates, or, in fact, by almost all means
of communication between farms"
The handling OF the pigs intended
for breeders should be entirely differ
eut from those intended for market.
They should be pushed for rapid |
growth, but must be fed for growth |
of frame and bone; not fattened on
corn. but expanded by feed rich in
protein. At six, eight or ten months
of age, they should show more length |
II body and more scale than market |
hogs. and be smooth and well covered,
but not SO fat as for market. This can
be very easily done by feeding mixed
grain ration, with ten per cent. Of
tankage or ten per cent. Of oil meal,
Use corn, barley and oats ground to-
gether, mixed thickly with water. and |
fed at once while sweet. It is much
better to mix three pounds Of milk to
one pound Of grain. II one has no milk
the next best feed is ten per cent. Of
tankage. II one has the corn and does
not want to buy the mill feeds, he can
use 80 per cent Of corn and 20 per
cent Of tankage and have . well-bal-
snced ration