Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-04
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Grow plenty of hay. and some wheat
and oats.
Chicks in a large run will exercise
more and hence keep warmer and
healthier.
Do not feed the young chicks any
thing for at least thirty.six hours after
Matching.
Diversified farming and crop rota-
zion are the best antidotes for farm
mortgages.
Foul drinking water and filthy
drinking vessels are q prolific source
Of trouble.
The boar should always have q
large lot to himself, and never be con.
fined in dark, damp quarters.
Rape is sometimes sown on corn
ground Just preceding the last cultiva-
ton, and with timely rains the rape
win furnish a great deal Of pasture
after the corn Is harvested.
The farmer who has all the land he
can well tend to has no need OF more
land. He would be much happier with
4 reasonable amount Of land, only
enough SO that 1t can be well Inn
proved, fertilized and cultivated.
Some make q practise In setting out
an apple orchard to plant peach trees
between the rows Of apple trees, al
lowing the short-lived peach tree to
die before the apple tree natures.
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes or
Rhode Island Reds viii grow into hens
at maturity that will weigh from six
to eight pounds when fattened for
market, bringing more than dollar
each.
Horses comprise nearly AZ per cent.
of the total live stock value Of the
country, their figures being $2,276, $685.
600, as compared with $5,13S, 4S6,OOO
for horses, mich cows, cattle, swine'
sheep and mules.
In the selecting and buying Of cat
tie select the most healthy looking
animals, and then determine positive
" with the tuberculin test as to
whether or not they are free nom
tuberculosis.
II you have a patch Of rye use It as
n soiling crop for COWS. You can begin
to cut and feed 1t when It is about o
foot high. Cut only enough at time
for two days feeding, and store 1t IN
the shade, where it viii keep green.
The first thing is to have everything
connected with the milk and milking
as clean as It is possible to make
them. The other essential Is to cool
the milk as soon as possible after II
ds drawn from the COWS and hold II
10 a low temperature till it Ii to be
used.
Many farmers milk COWS Of CUES
tiOnable cleanliness In vessels known
TO be impure and place the milk after
milking In q warm room, often neal
the kitchen stove. Such milk Ii moi
only unwholesome for food at any
time. but It will soon sour and be
come unfit for human food.
Give the hen a good busting will
insect powder two or three times dur
ing incubation, and a good one as sh'
comes on With the chicks. Lice arr
n great enemy of young chicks, hence
care must be taken with the sitting
hen and her nest to see that no hc'
breed during incubation.
Do not leave the cows out In the lot
"A warm weather comes on, but keel
them at nights in their accustomed
stalls with plenty Of soft, dry bedding
Il is more convenient to milk 9 Gov
in her usual stall than in an open lot
where she may wander about at vii
or be disturbed by the other cows.
The pen Of breeding fowls should
re furnishad with clean nests and thu
eersS rsfhsred with clean hands. M
ereise or 6il Of any kind must tcucl
them. Eggs should be gathered fire
dnantiy and stored In q mild and no
foo d.. place to prevent them from
ehfulne end losing moisture. The.
ekonld b turned daily while held AMI
ref a. soon rs possible. Fresh egg
ere most fertile.
me Sround for the future bean croI
A. usually. q possible. fail or wints
tisWsa. Or At least plowed very earl
n he spring. Soils producing 500
nm crops grow me beans An idea
roll iB q sandy clay loan en-
rhr b. bbrn fertilizers. or Glove
s,1s. and - Il loves a loose, deep soil
lhonrh SHALLOW rooted, 3 manurol
Irr sd pit b c11n ne season d