Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-06-24

Always be on the lookout for the
development OF a brood SOW with .
gentle. intelligent disposition.
No better way Of maintaining the
fertility Of the soil than by stock rails
ing.
Why not try and get a stand Of al
falfa this year. II will prove one OF
your best investments, II you do.
Sow rape for the hogs and. when II
has had sufficient growth turn the
hogs on It.
Don't let the drinking vessels in the
poultry yard become foul. Clean
every day.
Salt, charcoal and ashes should DO
kept where the hogs can help them
selves.
It is an easy thing to push the
horses so hard with the early work as
to put them out OF condition. Such
methods do not pay.
When the horses come in all tired
out and covered with sweat don't let
them stand in the raw winds. They
will be sure to catch cold If you do.
Did 1t ever occur to you that dirty,
foul-smelling troughs are the source
Of many disorders among the animals
using them?
Mark the SOW which proves a good
mother and treat her with special re-
gard. She will prove a spendid part
ner in the farming business.
Be ready for the dry spell when IL
comes this summer and have green
food for your COWS by planting a spe-
cial patch for them now.
There is this to say in encourage
ment Of spraying for San Jose scale.
1t not only keeps the pest in check.
but destroys many other insects.
The only way to accurately Judge q
COW is by weighing and testing her
milk. Guess methods will prove most
unsatisfactory.
Plan to build a silo this year and
plant the field with corn against the
time 1t will be ready to go into the silo
for winter use.
Something from nothing mover
works out in the dairy. You must put
the feed into the cows II you are going
to get the milk out Of them.
The successful farmer Is he who IL
quick to observe, slow to run after IN
novatlons, and patient in following out
the practical lines Of work on his
farm.
A study OF the root growth Of corn
shows that the lateral roots run about
four inches below the surface OF the
soil between the rows. This shows
that the cultivation should not be
deep after they have made good
growth.
In speaking of the difference be-
tween the feeding value Of fresh skim
milk. warm from the separator, and
the same milk cooled and then re-
heated to the same temperature when
It was desired to feed 1t, d. H. Otis
declares that there is practically no
difference. He says: In test l have
fed two lots of calves In comparison,
giving one fresh hand-separator skim
milk still containing the animal heat,
and feeding the other lot sterilized
creamery SKINNED cooled to about
So degrees F., to keep 1t sweet from
IL to IA hours. AS good results were
obtained with one as with the other.
Under ordinary farm conditions 1t Is
difficult and often inconvenient to
keep skim milk sweet, and for this
reason better results are usually OBJ
tanned with hand separator skim milk.
Sufficient heating will, however, pre-
vent the transmission Of tuberculosis.
which is quite frequently spread
through skim milk.
Sows that have been fed an almost
exclusive diet of corn during preg-
nancy, reach the narrowing period In
highly feverish state, are irritable and
nervous and crave some fieshforming
food. They very likely kill one OF the
pigs and eat it and having once tasted
flesh the chances are they will de-
your the entire litter II left to them
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