Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-06-17
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NIT FARM
AMM.x III

Cleanliness is absolutely essential
for successful poultry raising.
Now is the time to begin the fight
on lice and mites in the henhouse.
Make up your mind you will take
better care Of the tools and machinery
this year than last.
II Is easy to use one of the various
types of road drags, all modelled on
the King idea.
Oats require a well-prepared seed
bed. II is time well spent in pulver-
lzing the soil. Use the harrow freely.
Animal for animal, mules bring a
higher price than horses. Why not
raise few?
Have you kept the road drag busy
alongside Of your place? Not much
work, but It improves the road a
heap.
Test your seed corn. You will then
know whether you are planting corn
that will grow or not.
Begin the grain ration with the lit
tie chicks early. Many do not be-
lleve in feeding soft mashes to little
chicks at all.
If your seed corn is not what 1t
ought to be, don't plant 1t. 1t will pay
you to buy of some one who has good
seed corn to sell.
Seed corn IN the ear brings high
er price than that which is shelled,
but it is worth more Pay the differ
ence and g.. the best.
Make It the rule to constantly i'm
prove the stock on your farm. II you
start with scrub stock don't be con-
tent to continue with that grade, but
use pure bred sires and breed up. In
a few years you will be in possession
Of q fine grade Of animals.
In the opinion of some who have
tried It, the best crop to prccede the
sowing Of alfalfa is cowpeas. After
the vines are removed or plowed I'M
der, the ground should be well broken
and kept clean of weeds and grass by
surface cultivation until 1t Is seeded
In alfalfa the following fall.
II you made proper selections OF
seed corn last fall and have kept 1t
well you are among those to be con-
graduated and undoubtedly are the
envy Of improvident farmers who by
hit and miss methods are now forced
to use most anything that is left for
planting.
1t is a foolhardy policy to sell the
good cows when wishing to reduce the
size Of the herd, Just because you can
get a little better price for the good
ones than the poor ones. Sell the
poorest every time, even though they
do not bring nearly so much. Such
q policy will help build up, not tear
down, your herd.
II your neighbor seems to get along
better than you do; II his farm, which
is right alongside yours and ought to
be no better soil than yours, raises
better crops than yours does; II he
seems to get along easier than you
do, watch him, study his methods,
There is a reason foE IT., and you can
learn from him II you will.
A tired horse Just in from the hard
work of the field is in no condition to
fill ND on grain. Water, and rub down,
and let stand for a while before feed.
ing. In this way the digestive organs
viii be ready to begin their work with
vigor, and the rest and the feed dur.
ing the night will put him In vigorous
condition for the work of the next
day.
One of the coolest, rawest days this
spring when / went out to look over
my acres and was grumbling at the
unpromising conditions the notes Of a
bird from the southland reused me
and | said: IF they can sing while
the north wind blows and snow Is in
the air, and are not worried over the
weather, 80 can I, for He who careth
for the BIRDS careth for me-" And that
ended my crouch for that day, at least