Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-05-13
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Ammonia will clean the rubber roll
lers on your wringer
Trim little every year rather than
too much in any one year.
Cottonseed meal is considered q
great lean meat. bone and muscle
builder.
Be sure that warmth for the lambs
is not provided at the expense OF
plenty Of fresh air.
Arsenate OF lead is said to be q
better material for spraying for in
sects that eat the foliage than is paris
green.
Encourage the presence Of the birds
In the orchard. Even the robins will
eat enough insects in q season to
more than pay for the cherries they
may eat.
Plan the rows for small fruit to run
north and south. II possible. This
gives the best chance for the sun to
shine on all sides OF the plants and
to warm the ground between them.
AS soon as the leaves appear on the
currant and gooseberry bushes dust
them with hellebore while wet with
dew and you will keep the upper hand
on the worms. A second application
should be made later.
There is everything in getting |
started right. Look ahead so as to |
have the work we'll thought out be.
fore beginning. It is q good rule |
which will help you in making a good
start that will end in good finish.
Any impossible mud holes in the |
road near you? Make 1t a point to |
see that they are fixed. even II you
have to do little extra work gratis. |
One bad place fixed proves an incen- |
tive for the fixing OF another hole by |
some neighbor.
Test the seed before planting.
Farmers who have made practice Of
doing so declare that 1t makes as
high as ten to fifteen bushels per acre
difference. because they are able to
select the seed with the greatest
terminating power.
It is a good plan to have a ladder
handy, SO that in case Of fire one can
quickly get to the roof and reach the
place where a large majority of fires
in farm houses start. A few moments
time in such an emergency makes all
the difference in the world. Many a
house might be saved II one could
only quickly reach the place where It
started.
When ready to turn the cattle out
to pasture do so gradually. That is
have them we'll fed before turning
them on the grass and then for only
half day at first. This will prevent
their overeating Of the fresh, green
grass, thing which sometimes re.
suits in very severe cases of scours.
Remember any sudden and radical
change in the character of the feed is
bad for live stock.
Do not make cheapness the basis Of
selection of fruit trees and bushes
you are going to set out on your place.
Il takes just as much time and trou.
BILE to do the work and just as many
years to bring them into bearing as
though you had bought and planted
good varieties. With the latter you
have something to show for your trou-
BILE; with the former you have only
numbered the ground, and will get no
satisfactory returns in the way of
fruit. How foolish!
. The making OF serviceable horse
block is not such difficult task. Dig
a hole below the frost line for the
base of the block as the side of the
road where you wish 1t located. Fill
with cobblestones and between the
cracks I'LL in with cement. Then set ND
around the edge boards ten inches
wide and fill level to the surface with
stone. sand and cement mixture. Up
on this place another mold of boards
ten inches high, but only half as wide
as the first step was made. FIJI as
before. The next day or when sufH-
ciently dry, remove the boards and
finish OF the surface with fine cement
wash. II desired while laying in the
cement for the second step one can
nut in a strong heavy staple and chain