Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-05-20
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Watch out for the weed seeds In
clever and alfalfa.
Red and alsike clover make q good
mixture-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.
The average market hog should
weigh about 300 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 of close to the
tree so that the tree in time will cover
the wound with bark and thus pre-
vent rotting.
That mountain.high manure pile
near the barn is not only reminder
of wasteful methods Of keeping the
manure but 1t also tells of long days
of hard work in getting It out on the
land. Too bad it was not hauled out
load at a time as 1t was made dur
ing the winter.
The theory is advanced now tfat II
Is not smut in wheat which causes ex
plosions in threshing machines, but the
gas which is gene, ated by heat from
the black oil used as lubricant on
the bearings. II is said that the use
of lard or castor ell will prevent all
danger. Try Il next fall when
threshing.
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 !:
of these died before weaving time
After 1873 had died veterinarian was
called in to find what disease was
killing the pigs and he found that the,
had all been killed by lice. They were
covered with -vermin.
II blowing is done early you car
20 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 lowel
part OF the soil before the time o.
planting. The farmer usually meet
not fear that he will turn up unproduc
tive soil by deep blowing, for as
rule It will soon become aerated ant
fertile.
Don't put over the pruning Of thu
fruit trees. II is the leading branches
that need attention. When heading II
the leaders on q tree 1t Is best. &C
cording to the opinion Of Prof. G. F
Warren. New Jersey. to cut them of
to a side branch. rather than to dor
mant bud. frequently when an in
experienced man practices headlngin
he is tempted to shear the tree al
over and leave II q smooth. oval form
Il will be seen that this is very diner
emit from the method described above
where only the leaders are cut bacl
and the side shoots thinned 80 as t.
leave an open top. The amount o.
headingin to be done should vsry
from year to year, according as tho
crop promises to be large or small
Az the tree gets older less heading-iE
Is usually necessary: 3