Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-20


| Open up an account With the hens.
| See whether they are giving you q
| square deal.
AS general rule, sticking to one
breed of chickens is better than trying
a half-dozen different varieties.
Calves dropped during the cold days
of winter should be blanketed to pro-
| tect from sudden changes of temper
ature.
The dust bath for the hens. Place
the box in the sunny exposure in the
hen house. My, how they will enjoy 1t
| on bright days.
A pig that is in constant fear of the
| See to it that there is not TOO much
bullying among the herd.
A dry bran sack makes a poor thing
to brush the cows udder off with. 1t
raises the dust and doesn't clean the
| udder. Use a damp cloth.
The fellow who is always doping
chickens to prevent their getting sick
is pretty apt to have sick chickens
that sure do need medicine.
No methods are so perfect as to
need no readjustments or changes.
Are you sure you are managing your
flock to the best advantage?
Corn gets monotonous as a steady
! diet, and hogs will become unthrifty
where the ration is not varied. Try
some of the silage for the hogs, If you
| have it.
It is a good thing to separate the
pigs into lots of six or seven accord
ing to size and strength. They will
| be easier to feed and will thrive bet
| ter for so doing.
A circular piece of tin strung
through it's center on each end of the
| line from which the seed corn, bag
of nuts or dried fruit is hung in the
attic will keep rats or mice from
reaching them.
Where too many pigs are kept in
| one pen they are apt to pile one upon
| the other, causing the under ones to
become overheated This leads them
to get to the outside to cool Off which
causes colds.
Last thing at night after the hens
have gone to roost throw some wheat
into the litter so that madam hen
will get busy first thing in the morn
ing before you have time to get
around to feed them, and will warm
up over the search for the tempting
morsels.
If the plants have been in the house
window-box long enough to fill it with
roots, fertilizer must be applied either
| in the form of bone-meal or rotted
manure, or preferably, by the addition
of weak liquid manure. This should
only be applied when the plants indi-
cate their need by a check in growth.
Such a plan should afford satisfaction.
Scours in calves fed on skim milk
Is caused by indigestion brought on,
as a rule, by overlooking, but also by
feeding skim-mi1k in poor condition and
from dirty pals. Every feeder of
skim-milk to calves must sooner or
| later learn this lesson. He must learn
!! that if the calf has the scours the
feeder is not doing his work right. In
: the case of scours, reform your system
of feeding instead of purchasing the
many remedies advertised and in
dairy farming one of the important
qualifications is the learning not only
of making but saving money.
Wrap the young trees with building
paper or with wood veneer if you
would provide the most effective pro-
lection against mice and rabbits. Vari-
Gus paints and washes have been rec
commended to prevent such attacks
but the majority of them are without
merit, and some of them are even
liable to kill young trees. Some of
the washes require renewal after every
hard rain. In experiments with a
wash of whale-oil soap, crude carbolic
acid and water. for apple trees, it
was found that in about As hours the
carbolic acid had so far evaporated
that mice renewed their work upon
the bark. Blood and grease, said to
give immunity from rabbit attacks,
would invite the attacks of field mice.
The discussion as to the merits of
the low-headed fruit tree over the
fruit tree that is trimmed TO grow
high still continues. 1t would SEEM
however, that the low-headed tree has
| the advantage over the high-headed
one in that it is easier to prune, spray,
graft or bud, gather fruit from and
is about as easy to cultivate. 1t
would seem as though nurserymen
ought to take the lead in advocating
Low h<o lnd he