Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-05-27
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Moldy corn will prove harmful feed
for the horse.
Hard to find n better feed for hogs
than alfalfa.
Dogs and sheep raising do not gen.
orally harmonic very well.
Feed little and often is the rule In
raising the colt by hand.
Twenty-four hours after Matching is
plenty early enough to begin to ieed
the little chicks.
When working in the soft ground
with the horses this spring try work
Ing them without shoes.
Keep the young stock growing right
from the start. A set back Is always
hard to overcome, and proves expen-
sive.
Dwarf fruit trees are large bearers
generally in proportion to their size.
Fruit Is easy to gather and the trees
do not take up much room.
Sugar peas, which are edible pods
and ALL are a nice thing to put In the
early garden. Cooked with pork they
make most appetizing dish.
Remember that the newborn colt
must have milk during the first half
hour after II is born, and must be fed
artificially II 1t is not able to suck the
dam.
Crushed oats, wheat bran and oil
meal makes a good mixture for the
young colts to MUNICH on. and they Will
learn the trick early II given the
chance.
Have limit Vt to the period Of the
days work. No farmer can expect to
keep good farm help II the labor In
the fields runs from sun to sun, and
dozen cows to milk after dark.
Farmers invite attacks Of cholera in
their swine herds by the filthy way
In which they keep the hogs. 1t has
long since been conceded that 1t pays
10 keep the hogs in wholesome sur
roundings as well as 1t does the other
animals on the farm.
Figure ahead and have some green
food ready for the cows when the dry
spell of the summer comes. You re-
member how 1t caught you last year,
and you then made your VOW you
would grow something to tide over.
Don't fail to do SO.
Don't let conditions master you, be
master of conditions. When bad
weather comes have some work you
can fill into the chink of delay, and
never put off a favorable opportunity
for doing a piece of work which de.
ponds upon weather conditions.
A drag which will do good work
firming and leveling the soil can be
made by boring holes 10 inches from
each end Of five or six round poles
six feet in length, then stringing them
on chains by passing the chains
through the holes and letting them
come together in front where the team
is hitched. This drag will crush clods
as Il passes over them, firm the soil
and leave 1t level and smooth.
You need a plow shoe to take the
pillow to and from the field. A piece
OF planking two or three inches thick
eight inches wide and two feet lone
will answer the purpose. Now nail 9
strip on one side near the middle and
bolt block on in slanting position
having first rounded the lower corner
on so that the plowshare will sliI
under 1t. Round of the nose Of thu
plank on the sides and bottom and III,
shoe is all ready for use.
The suggestion has often been made
that the bull is improved where h,
is worked. With nothing but idlenesl
Il is no wonder that they so often be
come vicious. They have nothing d
do but to study deviltry. For some I'm
explicable reason, they are considered
too good for any sort Of labor. In Thu
age OF rapidly-doing things, we do no
expect to see an increase Of the us,
OF oxen on the farm. But we have tn
bulls, and II working them will max