Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-10-14

Now is the time to Gull your stock
and get the flock in shape for the win
ter run.
Don'ts as well as dos are . conven'
lent and proper thing to have around
the farm.
Never be so busy that you cannot
be friendly and lend helping hand
to a neighbor in trouble.
Rotation Of crops gets the fields out
Of the rut Of deterioration and makes
for enriched soil and greater crops.
Yes, It is too late to build and NIL q
silo. Let your disappointment at your
lack spur you on to better deeds next
season.
If the colt let's its tongue hang out
of its mouth, you may be sure there
is some reason for It. Find the cause
and remove 1t.
A little spray on the cows the past
summer would have given you many
pound more of milk in the pail. Spray
Is cheaper than milk.
After a days work or q long drive
over the roads sponge out the horses
mouths and noses with cold water.
Also rub down the legs and body well.
Boil the small potatoes and feed oc-
casionally to the chickens. That they
enjoy them is only too evident from
the manner In which they go after
them.
It will not hurt the beets to be left
in the ground until freezing weather
comes. Then they should be pulled,
packed in moist sand and placed In q
cool cellar.
Watch the hired man when he IL
tending to the stock. II he is rough
and brutal you can well dispense with
his services, for the animals will not
thrive under his care.
The National dairy show Will be
held at Milwaukee October IA to "a.
B. H. Rawl, chief of the national
dairy division of the agricultural de-
partment of the government, will Co
operate with Manager Van Norman
of the Dairy association in making
the show success.
The bureau of animal industry,
which has been conducting expert
ments for the past three years, has
concluded that better butter can be
made from cream pasteurized and not
ripened, that is, churned sweet, than
by the old processes, and better than
from the new process of pasteuriZing
and ripening with pure culture start
er. New butter made in this way,
without the addition Of a starter and
unsalted, has too mild q flavor to
please most dealers; but It undergoes
fewer changes in storage than when
made in the ordinary manner and
may be sold, after being held in artif'
cial cold storage, as high-grade but9er
The Ontario experiment station hal
been treating winter wheat in diner
emit ways to kill the sinking smut
and the results have been very salts
factory. Untreated seed produced al
average Of SO per cent. Of smut in the
crop Of last year and 9.S per cent. O
smut in the crop Of this season. Sect
wheat which was immersed for q
minutes in a solution made by adding
one pint Of formaldehyde (formalin.
to AZ gallons Of water, produced Al
average yield Of grain per acre Of 3d.
bushels, and that which was untreate'
produced only as bushels per acre
The treatment here mentioned wa
easily performed, comparatively cheap
effectual in killing the smut spores
and instrumental in furnishing tn
largest average yield Of wheat pc
acre Of all the treatments used.
Look out for weevils in the grain
Thresh as soon as possible. Fresl
grain should not be exposed to attacl
BY being placed in bins or granarie
with that already infested. Befor'
storing. the old grain should be re
moved and the floors, walls and cell
ines of the bins thoroughly cleaned
II the granary has been badly infest
ed. Il should be fumigated. Cleanll
ness Is very important in preventinl
injury by these insects. Dust, dir
:, .,,h1,i.l, ,efnae grain. flour and men