Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
NlT FARM.
&MMs.~ III

rotation crop.
Poor food and bad teeth are fruit.
full sources OF cholic in horses.
Geese need pasture. Give them the
run Of green field and they will
thrive and make money for you.
II the cows find little feed In the
boxes In their stalls when they come
In at night they will not delay in COM
ing in. Try it.
Clean feeding pals. clean quarters,
plenty OF sunlight, fresh air and pas
turage as soon as the calves are old
enough Will insure gratifying sue
cess.
Cneer up says the robin. There Is
always bright side to even cold,
backward season, and many back
ward season has O good ending. re-
member that
Wheat bran makes good food for
the chickens. It contains protein and
lime for egg forrDation. Try feeding
It as a dry mash. Ground oats make
q good addition to the mixture.
We all like fruit, but too little Of 1t
Is found on the farm, many times.
Put in more fruit trees and bushes.
The health of the family will be bet
ter If there is a generous fruit diet.
Better to spray once than not at all.
But the only right method is to be
systematic and spray at the pre-
scribed intervals. 1t is well to fol-
low the spray calendars which are
furnished by experiment stations.
Plant more trees. In q few more
years they become a big-paying in
vestment. Utilize every available
space on the farm for this purpose.
Plan to never let a year go by but
that you have put in few trees. 1t
Is too late to set any out now but
make up your mind that you will put
some in in the fall and next spring.
Richness in milk depends on the
COW rather than on the kind Of feed,
provided, of course, she Is fed proper
ly. Several experiments have been
Inaugurated to test this and the re-
suits of all are that the feed has no
practical influence upon the percent
age Of fat in the cows milk. II It
were possible to feed fat into milk
by the selection Of feed, 1t would be
practiced by many men who own cows
that give large flows, but rather low
testing milk. It is left to nature to
determine the percentage Of fat in
milk.
The department Of agriculture 10
experimenting with a view to secur-
ing q single germ beet seed. Last
years investigations were successful
In increasing the percentage Of the
single germ seed to so per cent, as
compared to 20 per cent. for the year
previous. BY methods Of selection
from single.seed plants this percent
age may be still further increased.
The ultimate establishment Of a sim
gle germ beet will revolutionize sugar
beet growing, since the several
sprouts sent up by the ordinary seed,
all but one OF which must be carefully
removed by hand. constitutes the most
difficult problem in beet raising.
A large pocket knife with a sharp
blade should be carried when going
through the orchard. With It one
can cut out small branches and do
a vast amount Of good pruning that
will save much work later. With the
Dig blade Of a large, sharp pocket
knife branch nearly an inch In
diameter may be easily and quickly
cut or. To perform this operation.
pull the branch to the tree with one
hand and cut with the other. The
bending Of the branch makes the cut
ting easy. Let the cut be clean, leav-
ing no stub, or only very short one.
Branches Of pear trees that have
been killed with blight should be cut
out and burned. When they are
promptly removed the remainder Of
the tree not infected VIII assume Wig
oruus growth and produce q heavy
crop OF good fruit A pear tree with
more than half of the large branches
killed by the blight may be saved in
this manner and become q perfect,
healthy tree.