Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-01

Red and alsike clover make a good
nixture-half and half.
Feed the trees in the orchard.
Ground bone and muriate of potash
are good.
Better results are obtained in feed
ing cattle where alfalfa is mixed with
corn slower
weigh about 800 pounds at eight
months OF age.
Aphids or plant lice can be easily
destroyed by kerosene emulsion spray.
Get after them as soon as they make
their appearance.
The uncomfortable, underfed calf is
the calf that beats. Every bleat is a
protest against such unthrifty methods
for such calf will not grow and won't
pay
Take a good farm paper and then
read it. Meadowbrook Farm Notes
are not intended to displace, but to
supplement the farm paper. You need
both.
In pruning trees make your cuts
loose to the trunks or branches, and
paint the cut surfaces. This will pre-
vent unsightly stubs and places for
decay to begin.
II you have not a manure spreader,
harrow the field after you have put
the manure on by hand. This will
prove almost as good as the use of
the spreader, although not as quick.
Never use an ak to prune with. Use
saw or pruning shears and take the
limbs and branches off close to the
tree so that the tree in time will cover
the wound with bark and thus pre-
vent rotting.
Look after the bare places in the
dooryard and around the house. A
little preparation of the soil and SOW
ing of grass seed now will give you
a nice green covering for the sum-
mer. 1t will make the place look
better.
That mountain-high manure pile
near the barn is not only a reminder
of wasteful methods of keeping the
manure but it also tells of long days
of hard work in getting it out on the
land. Too bad it was not hauled out
lead at a time as it was made dur
ing the winter.
Lice will cause big losses to the hog
raiser. One stockman who was new
at the business bought several sows
that later had $50 pigs and all but II
of these died before weaving time.
After 13S had died a veterinarian was
called in to find what disease was
killing the pigs and he found that they
had all been killed by lice. They were
covered with vermin.
If blowing is done early you can
go deeper than when breaking the
ground late, as the soil will have time
to settle firmly back against the bot
tom of the furrow and to establish
capillary connection with the lower
part of the soil before the time of
planting. The farmer usually need
not fear that he will turn up unproduc-
tive soil by deep blowing, for as a
rule it will soon become aerated and
fertile.
Chickens troubled with gapeworms
can be successfully treated by putting
into box or barrel containing a GUAM
tity of air shaked lime. The dust of
the lime will cause the birds to sneeze
and the worms be thrown out in the
lime to die. Violent sneezing will al
most invariably dislodge the worms
and give instant relief. Fumes of to-
bacco may be used for this purpose.
Burn someStobacco dust or stems in a
| box and set the chickens in basket
over it. If sneezing takes place, relief,
Ii not cure, will result. Care, of course.
must be taken not to smother the
chicks inNthe fumigating process.
Don't put over the pruning of the
| fruit trees. 1t is the leading branches
that need attention. When heading in
the leaders on a tree it is best, ac-
| cording to the opinion of Prof G. F.
Warren, New Jersey. to cut them of
/ to side branch. rather than to a dor
mant bud. Frequently when an in
experienced man practices heading-in
! he is tempted to shear the tree all
over and leave it a smooth, oval form
| 1t will be seen that this is very differ
! ent from the method described above
where only the leaders are cut back
and the side shoots thinned so as to
leave an open top The amount OF
hcading-in to be done should vary
from .~ear to year. according as the
crop promises to be large or small
As the tree gets older less heading-in
Is usually necessary