Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-08-19

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ing in favor among many pouttrymen.
Growing sheep for mutton is all
right, but be sure that you have sheep
that grow a good back o. wool.
Young poultry cannot develop nor
mally II infested with lice. See that
they do not have any such handicap
In the struggle for growth.
II the pasturaSe is good 1t Is ques-
tionable whether It pays to give heavy
grain ration. The difference In gain
is not Offset by the increased expense.
1t looks like waste when thinning
the fruit on the trees, but the harvest
time Of larger and better fruit proves
the wisdom Of the course.
Radishes need lots Of potash, and
for this reason wood ashes sprinkled
on the soil where they are grown will
give them large and rapid growth.
II is look q long ways ahead, but
Just make up your mind now that you
will attend your state and county fair
this year.
This is a good haying year in most
sections. The cool, moist weather
has encouraged heavy growth, and
there ought to be plenty OF hay
throughout the country.
Oats and field peas make a good
combination crop for hay. The peas
add the protein property to the fodder
and the oats hold the vines UP so that
they can be cut with the mower.
In sending eggs to market have
them as near in size and color as pos
sible. Ill-assorted eggs never bring as
good a price as those with even ap-
pearance.
1t is the wise farmer who feeds all
he raises and then buys some from
his neighbors to feed. The farmer
who carries such an amount OF live
stock will be constantly improving
his land and making 1t more pro-
ductive.
Do you appreciate the fact that II
the liquid manure is not utilized the
most valuable part Of the manure Is
lost? Use absorbents in the stable
to take up the liquid manure, or bet
ter still have q cistern into which all
the liquid manure can be drained, and
from which It can be pumped and
used as desired.
Study the character Of the soil OF
your pasture land II the grass is not
doing well, and aim TO supply the
fertilizer containing the elements
needed. The droppings Of the ami
mails help, but some concentrated fer
tilizers are also needed. Narrowing
the pasture fields will help to break
up, distribute and work into the soil
the coarse dropping of the pastured
besides Improving the tex
ture of the soil.
For the first week after narrowing
until weaving the sow will be little
else than q milk machine, and to be
4 high-power machine in perfect op-
sration she must have proper care.
Nothing else is so well calculated to
make pigs grow as bountiful supply
of wholesome sow's milk, and the pigs
hat have plenty Of other feed with
The milk Of a well-slopped SOW for
sight weeks will ordinarily have much
the start of those weaned at five or
six weeks, no matter how much food
md attention the earlier weaned pigs
may have had.
After the first two weeks you can
get the calf onto skim milk. Whole
milk is too expensive to raise calves
IN. Calves thrive much better on the
warm SKINNED milk from the hand
separator than on the skinned milk
brought home from the creamery,
where the milk Of several hundred
COWS lie probably mixed, or the milk
Iet in pans and crooks or deep cans,
which, when the cream il taken on,
b always cold and usually half sour.
think SKINNED milk may be fed to
calves with more profit than to any
,ther thing about the farm. unless It
De the poultry.
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