Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-10-07
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Burn out the tent caterpillar nests.
The sheep should never be handled
roughly.
The non.layer makes a good eater
for the table.
Horses with tender shoulders should
have sweat pads used upon them.
With the tightening of the work
tighten up on the feed ration for the
horse.
A handful or oil meal daily in the
horses ration will help put a gloss
upon his coat.
The wife will prove your best coun
sellor. Listen to her and many legal
complication will be spared.
Milk is good for the hens as well
as the pigs. See II you cannot spare
them some. It helps to make eggs.
How are the drains about the
house? Time to think about getting
them in good shape for the winter
months.
Hold the wheat in the bin rather
than sell at too low a price. It is al
most certain to run into money before
the year is over.
Food left in the trough by the hogs
is the best kind of evidence that you
are feeding too generously. Feed only
what will be eaten up clean.
The farm where the days work ex-
tends from three or four o'clock in
the morning until eight or nine
o'clock at night is the farm where it
is hard to keep hired help and where
the children are inspired with the am
bition to leave 1t on the first oppor-
tunity.
To produce good eggs and get them
on the market in the best possible
condition one must provide good
housing, food and water regularly,
and above all keep the nests clean.
Eggs should be gathered daily, and
when the temperature is high they
should be gathered twice a day. Re-
ject all doubtful eggs and keep the
eggs in as cool place as possible.
Much has been said in the papers
about petroleum butter" and the
curiosity IL not the anxiety Of the
dairy farmers has been excited.
Dairy Commissioner Foust Of Phila-
delphia secured a sample Of "petrole-
UNI butter" and had 1t analysed. He
found 1t was composed Of 80 per cent.
vaseline, two per cent. salt and 10
per cent. cornstarch. The rest was
water. The sample looked much like
vaseline and is said to taste like 1t.
Mr.. Foust decided that It could not
be sold as butter.
Drained soils are generally well
ventilated soils, for as the water per
colates through and lowers the water
table, it draws an equal amount Of air
into the soil. Then when another rain
falls and a sheet Of water is formed
on the surface of the field, it presses
down upon the soil air, and has ten
dency to force it out through the
drains, and in settling draws another
volume of air into the soil, so that
every shower helps to change the air
in a drained field. The drains them
selves continue ventilating fIues by
means of which air circulates through
the soil more or less because Of
changes in temperature and baro-
metric.
The simplest form of silo is the
stave silo. It should be made from
two-inch narrow plank. properly bev-
eled and held together by strong
iron bands. The slaves, after bevel-
ing so that when fitted together they
win form circle Of the desired size,
are placed on end on a solid founda-
tlon and properly fitted. These are
strengthened and held in place by
strong iron hoops, which are 50 made
that they may be frightened or 1oOs-
ened at will. Doors should be built
at intervals from the top to the bot
tom so that the silage may easily be
got out. It is not necessary to put
roof on this silo. but Il Il much to
be preferred. This style Of the 'Hilo
should be kept well painted both In
eide and out. II properly built and
taken care Of q staye silO is durable,
rigid a7d alright.