Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-01
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sCing to give q generous now OF mix.
A good road is good investment
for any section.
Kind treatment is one OF the ingre'
iients of the ration of every cow. No
LANCER OF overlooking along that line.
The good brood SOW ought to prove
profitable up to seven or eight years
Of age.
Look over the flock and II any of
the ewes seem weak, separate them
from the flock, and give them extra
care and feed until they grow strong.
Know when your stock Is ready for
market and know when and where
you can find the best market for your
stock.
Grow some hickory trees for Ak
and hammer handles. II you raise
more than you need you can easily
sell, for hickory brings good price.
Plenty Of light always FOR the
stock. If your barn lacks windows,
put them In at once, a window with
every stall.
It has been well said that anybody
ian keep stock, but 1t is quite another
hing" to manage so that stock will
Keep you. Are you doing It?
II It is possible to avoid 1t don't
lake your seed potatoes from base.
nent where there Is furnace. Their
vitality is apt to have been i'm.
paired.
A little molasses added to the ra.
ion Of the cows is good. II gives zest
% the appetite, but too much is bad
Tor the COW, and 1t should not be fed
n the breeding season.
+ Give the horses a run IN the pasture
IL 1t is possible. 1t must be pretty
nonotonous standing In a stall for
long stretches at time, as some
horses are forced to do in the winter.
My, how the hens do like the chance
10 scratch over sheaf Of oats or
wheat which has not been threshed
out They will get all the grain II
Tou give them a chance.
Are you getting the bulletins from
your state experiment station? They
are yours for the asking. Have your
name put on the list. If you do not
want them all but only those of GER
tain topics, you will be put on the
special list for the kind Of bulletins
you want.
Provide clean troughs and feed
floors for the hogs and you will re-
wise your opinion of the animals that
they prefer filth to cleanliness. A
cement feeding. floor and movable
troughs that can be scalded ont once
or twice a week will enable the feed
er to give them sanitary conditions.
A good horse sling for supporting
the animal on his feet Is made by
folding a stack cover so as to pass
under the belly, then roll 1t on pieces
Of scantling from each end so as to
from a hammock Of the proper length.
By the use OF chains and singletree
the sling can be supported from above.
Straps or ropes must be used at both
ends to prevent the horse from fall
ing forward or backward.
DR.. Roberts Of the Wisconsin exper-
iment station denounces the ordinary
method of drenching cattle as dan
gerous. Perhaps. says he, the best
way Of demonstrating the danger Of
drenching cattle Is TO advise the read
or to throw back his head as far as
possible and attempt to swallow. This
YOU will find to be difficult task. and
you will find 1t much more dificult
and almost impossible to swallow with
the mouth open. It In for this reason
that drenching cattle is q dangerous
practice. II cows head be raised as
high as possible and her mouth kept
open by the drenching bottle or horn.
a portion OF the liquid is very apt to
pass down the windpipe into the lungs.
sometimes causing instant death BY
smothering At other times death
follows in q few days from conges-
lion or Inflammation Of the lungs