Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-08-19
wi FARM
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Deep blowing is good for some soils
and not good for others,
Sour milk Is good for the chickens.
and where fed brings larger egg
yield.
Put small dependence in drugs, but
everything In good care in handling
your chickens.
Every crop raised on the farm
should help to put the soil into better
condition. This is the purpose and
aim of rotation in crops.
Good stables, well-lighted, well!ven-
tilated, and arranged with a view to
the comfort of the cows quartered
there are some Of the requisites to a
good dairy farm.
The opportunities Of picking up fine
heifers are growing scarcer as the
dairymen are becoming alive to the
value Of keeping the promising heif-
ers and raising them for themselves.
A farm without pasture land means
that little If any stock Is kept, and
where this is true 1t is safe to con-
clude that the land is being run down;
rather than built up, unless lots Of ma
nure is bought and hauled upon the
land.
Now is the time to attend to the YER
min in the hen house If you have not
looked to 1t before. A fight begun this
late in the season is better than no
fight at all. 1t will be hard one, but
you must conquer II you do not want
the vermin to eat up all your profits.
How many farmers go to the ex-
pense Of setting out an orchard, TAX
ing up valuable land by so doing and
who then expect that the orchard is
going to run itself without further
care or attention from him. What
folly. Plant trees and then cultivate
them as you do your other crops.
Never let the sod get thin on the
pasture land for this always means
the decrease of the root systems Of
the plants and a decrease in their abil-
ity to penetrate the soil in search Of
plant food. When sod becomes so thin
that the hOof Of the animal will break
through 1t in wet weather, 1t has
reached a state OF exhaustion that re-
Quires attention.
It is always best to feed the calves
by hand because one knows just what
they are getting and how much. 1t Is
really not such terrible task to feed
a dozen calves, but 1t is quite q nuts
ance to go through the motion Just
for one or two. Perhaps great many
dairymen who object to raising calves
Tor their own herds would change
their minds II they should practice It
in q Wholesale way
Any old method is poor way to
handle the calf. The most successful
dairymen allow the animal to suck the
COW for the first two or three days,
then feed the whole milk until about
two weeks old, then gradually skim
the milk. II the calf Is healthy and
worth raising at all, 1t VIII do well
on skim milk alone, at this age. At
two or three weeks old, place q little
whole corn and oats before II, which
it will sooon learn to eat, also hay and
silage. Keep the calf in thrifty con.
dition, for once run down It is hard
to get back to normal condition again, ]
and during that time 1t has lots Of
good growth.
Do not let the soil form a crust
It Is at such times that the evapora-
ton Of the moisture is very rapid.
Run the cultivator through the corn
to prevent this condition, and the
oftener it = cultivated the better the
crop win do. Such cultivation puts
fine dust mulch upon the surface
which effectually prevents evapOra-
ton except at a very slow rate. Any
one that has examined a well-cultivat-
ed field has been struck by the dry.
ness Of the surface, and only q few
inches below It was almost wet
enough to make mud balls. After
every rain It Is necessary to break up
the crust that forms. In this way
moisture enough may be accumulated
10 tide over the period when It is
needed most. A little shower often
does considerable damage By destroy |
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