Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-01
Any good garden soil is good for

access to charcoal and salt.
Treat the cows kindly. You win
get more milk in this way than by
brutal methods.
make in stock. Costs no money, but
it gives money return
Don't crowd the chicks in the brood
er. From start to finish chickens
never do well when crowded.
A commodious tool shed is an equip
ment which every farm should have
but which in too many cases is abb
sent.
Slick up around the place this year
and see if the neighbors don't catch
the fever A good example goes a
long ways.
In handling young chicks be careful
not to overfeed- There is as much
harm in this way, If not more, than by
under feeding.
Sheep keep the land looking trim
Have you never noticed how slick the
ldWA PASTURES anu TOduSIuGS look on
the farm where sheep are kept?
Remember that there is scarcely a
spot on the farm but that can be
made to return a profit. Study it's
characteristics. If not good for one
thing it may be good for another
In the hog yard put few short
posts, around which fasten some old
bagging securely. Saturate with kero-
sene and the hogs will do the rest to
any stray lice wandering over their
anatomy.
Raise your own timber Plant trees
every year. Put them in every avail
able place. They will not only provide
desirable shade if well placed, but
will grow timber which will prove
valuable in the years to come.
Do your work neatly. If it is
greasing the wagon, don't get the
grease all over the wheels as well as
on the axle, or on your clothes, eth
er. Some men think hurry means
sloppy methods. It's a mistake.
If you have not already provided
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milk it will be well for you to con-
slider the proposition, for it not only
makes the handling of the milk and
cream easier, but gives you sweet
milk to feed to the hogs.
Garden all planned for? Surely you
are not going to let another season
pass without that promised luxury. 1t
is a little work, but you will be more
than repaid next summer when you
are enjoying the fresh things you can
grow on the little patch near the
house.
The surest method of killing all YER
mine and disease germs in the chicken
house is to fumigate by burning sui
phur. No living germ or animal can
exist in the presence OF sulphurous
acid gas. 1t finds its way into every
crack of the room and makes complete
| destruction in it's path. When fumi-
eating, remove all of the fowls, make
the room perfectly tight, and burn the
sulphur with live Goals or on a redhot
| shovel.
Treat the seed oats If there is any
| danger of smut. Get a nalf pound OF
| formalin add 80 galloGs of water.
| Spread the oats out on the barn floor
and sprinkle the solution over them
making the grain quite damp. Then
! shovel together into a pile and cover
with sacking and leave for about two
| hours If not sowed at once, spread
| out and dry Thoroughly Thirty gal
| lonsof the solution will treat $50 bush
els of oats.
| Drilling in oats Is much to be pre-
ferred to broad casting. The seed is
much more evenly covered and more
evenly distributed throughout the
| fields. From one to two pecks per
acre may be saved in the amount of
seed needed. At the Iowa station for
| 1907, with its cold, dry spring, the
results in favor of drilling over broad
casting were very marked. An in
crease of over nine bushels per acre
| was secured in favor of drilling. When
\ this is figured at the rate of 33 Ia
cents per bushel, we find that less
than 35 acres of oats would have paid
! for a drill in that one season. In sea
! sons more favorable for oats produc.
ton, this difference is by no means as
marked, yet the drilling can be rec
commended as a much more profitable
means of putting in oats than the
common system of broadcasting.
Simply because a young SOW gets
| with pig because allowed to run With
the herd, and then kept as one of the
regular brood sows of the farm is the
| reason that the grade of some farm