Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-03-11

the best results.
Filthy stables make bad air and bad
air 10 Just as injurious for the stool
40 Il would be for you.
Kindly treatment will win the conn
dence of your poultry and will keeI
them in the laying mood.
Have you read the report or the
Country Life commission and the
presidents message on the samef II
10 q timely word on q live topic.
Try rubbing the horse down while
he stands at the watering trough. II
he Is not hurried he will often drink.
Give him chance.
Get q town business Of your own for
your butter. Put your stamp on II,
and II your goods are right you VIII
never lack for good paying customers.
Avoid feeding too much fattening
foods to the brood SOW. See that she
gets plenty OF exercise. jog her up
occasionally by drawing her attention
to some tidbit and then throwing II
to the far corner Of the pen, compel
ling her to get up and 60 over
after II.
The feet of the colt need looking
after. II neglected the hoofs grow
crooked and cause straining OF the
ligaments in the fetlock joint or
twisting of the Joint itself. A rasr
used on the bottom Of the hoof Is the
only thing necessary to keep the feet
growing straight.
The agricultural department reports
the milk production OF last year n
worth $500, 100000. A goodly sum te
be sure, but how much Of 1t was over
and above the cost Of productions
That is a good question for every
farmer to ask himself. Do you know
what your cows are doing for you?
Try this for mending bags: Get al
your patches cut out. then make
good thick -four paste; few expert
ments will determine the right con
sistency. Have some hot sad irons
ready. Cover the patch with the mix
ture, place 1t beneath the hole, put the
hot iron on 1t and the sack IL
:.
Root crops are the things for brood
mares, sows and sheep, but for cows
corn silage is the best form Of succu
ent winter food. Sheep will also dc
we'll when fed silage as O part ration
but for brood sows and mares
would prefer to have root crops. such
Is carrots for mares and beets ant
for sows.
Finely chopped roots OF any kind are
. good substitute for green food fol-
he hens. A good way to feed the
'oots, II you do not want to chop then |
Inc, is to suspend the roots from the
ceiling of the hen house with string
Ind let the hens jump for bite. They
,njoy the exercise, and they get the
'oots all right.
Cheap onion seed Is not safe to use
IS It may mean mixed varieties, lack o.
in the crop or the produc
ion Of scullions. Onion seed is SLOW
o terminate and the little plants are
ielicate and slender-rooted at first
The fresher and more vigorous the
iced the better the termination and
he stronger the plants. The germina
i've vitality of onion seed decreases
lutte rapidly with age.
When the clouds hover remember
he silver lining. To the farmer there
ire lots of dark days, seasons ant
Weather conditions threaten Ill some
lines and even utter failure, but re
member the brightness just ahead. L
8 never as bad as we fear. TIL,
armer needs to remember this. H,
must learn to be friends with tn,
weather, to be an optimist and to d
lis work into the conditions which
Dame Nature gives him.
With the Increasing demand for 20
atoes the blight makes further in
'oads on the production, until It Il
laid the agricultural department fear
!. potato famine in the United States
md will turn its attention to the prob
EN- of the bug and the blight. Tn,
after foe Of the potato is proving
more dangerous than the beetle, which
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