Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-05-13

Early sown oats are the ones tnut
have the best chances for good growth
and maturity.
Tomato plants need 10 be transplant
oi before they get 10 spindling In
order to get stocky. plants.
White.faced hornets prey upon horse
flies. Let the boys understand this
so they will not destroy their nests.
Sheep should not be allowed to run
In the same pasture In the spring and
summer which they have occupied the
fall before.
Whitewash can be satisfactorily put
on with n spray pump II the mixture
is carefully strained before putting
into the pump.
Seed in well.prepared soil which has
been compacted will terminate much
quicker than where the soil Is too
coarse and loose.
Be sure the brooder is running
smoothly before putting the little
chicks in It. They are as sensitive to
extreme heat as to extreme cold.
To cover the bare places In the
meadow SOW grass literally, give a
slight coating Of manure and then
run over the places with a spike-tooth
harrow.
II you are looking for larger oat
yield observe three things. Get good
seed, treat with formalin to be sure 1t
is smut proof and then plant In we'll
prepared soil.
Tests indicate that more wheat can
be raised on land which has grown
a crop of millet for hay. and also on
land where the green millet has been
plowed under.
II the little buttons where the horns
will grow are thoroughly rubbed with
caustic potash during the first two
weeks OF the Calls life you will not
have to dehorn later.
Baking powder and other cans can
be easily uncovered when new by cut
ting the paper around the seam OF
the cover and then rolling on the floor
once around under the pressure Of the
foot. Try II.
Get the horse on to full feed gradu.
ally. Remember that too radical
change is apt to so derange the sys-
tenn as to unfit the horse for work for
some time. This is also true as a re-
spects other livestock.
It is a good plan to not only keep
the fences of the farm in good repair
but to build a portion new each year
durinA the slack times, so that there
will come no year when all fencing
must be replaced as Is sometimes the
case.
It is said that oats dipped in water
kept at 100 degrees temperature will
free the grain from smut. After such
treatment they should be carefully
dried upon a clean floor where smut |
infected oats have not been allowed to |
come.
A chicken well.hatched is a chicken |
half raised, is perhaps putting 1t
little strong, for constant care and |
are necessary to steer
the little things clear Of the manifold
pitfalls which mark the pathway from
to maturity.
Watch the men who do your milk
ng. This is important, as carelessness
n milking and handling the cows will
Tut down your profits. Visit the barn
It milking time and see that things
ire done right and that the milking
8 done thoroughly. Don't let the
men know when you are coming.
Unless amply able in the way OF
Dom and time to keep more than one
breed, confine your chicken raising to
me variety. Chickens are difficult to
,onfine during the breeding season on
he average place. Mixing will result,
inless the fowls are closely confined
md watched. especially II you have
leighbors with chickens.
In planting oats with a cultivator,
,ome SOW them on the unprepared
ioil, cultivate them in and harrow for
This method has the ad-
yantage OF covering the seed well, yet
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