Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-01

method as easily as a calf, II the same
pains are taken with 1t.
Pounds of meat or amount and quail
ity of other products that an animal
will provide are what count.
II q SOW proves good breeder, there
is no reason why she should not be
kept as long as she produces strong
pigs.
To the intelligent corn grower
weedy field spells shiftless farmer
who is fooling with his chances Of sue
cess.
Do not allow any fruit to ripen on
berry plants set this season. Prema-
ture fruit.bearing stunts the growth OF
the plants.
The man who raises pigs ought to
have q field Of peas into which they
can be turned just before the peas
become hard.
The richest color of the cream IL
when It first rises to the surface, ana
II churned in that condition the butter
will be yellow.
You will have to spray with kero
sene emulsion to reach the cabbage
lice. Be sure to get 1t on the under
side OF the leaves.
Corn has become q good CROP
whether hogs are high or low, but 1t Is
not a good plan to plant more corn
than can be we'll tended.
Cocks should not be allowed to run
with the hens during moulting, so that
az the number of hens not moulting
decreases they should be confined with
the cocks.
Anyone who will knowingly sell milk
from a diseased COW well deserves
the epithet Of criminal, for his act Is
nothing short OF crime. To sell hlthy
milk or butter is scarcely less repre-
hensible.
The trouble with great many poul-
try keepers is that they think they
can fly before they are really able TO
walk. Take time to learn the busi'
ness. .By and by the flying Will come
easy enough.
There is some difference in the cost
NJ corn whether 1t is 'hogged down"
by sheep and lambs in the field, or
high priced help husks 1t and hauls 1t
to the station, and high priced
railroads ship 1t to feeding yards.
II is a law of nature that all plants
must have a season Of rest from &C
tive growth. In the tropics this Is
done in the dry season. No plant
can be forced into continual growth
without weakening 1t and finally kill
ing 1t.
The cockerels which are to be
marketed should, Of course, be FED
a more fattening ration than the pull
let's. and those which are to be used
as breeders should be kept from the
pullets until about six weeks before
the eggs are wanted for Matching.
As soon as the cockerels get old
enough to pay attention to the pull
let's they begin fighting and the
weaker birds are crowded out and
don't get their share Of feed. Fol
this reason the sexes should be sepa
rated 80 as to allow full ana rapid
development.
There is no better way to warm
hen up In the morning than to scat
ter some warm wheat around In
good clean layer Of straw and let then
work hard for It. They will get righ'
down to business as soon as It is fair
" light and stick to 1t till they hav'
earned their breakfast. BY that TIME
they are as warm as q toast.
II you do not cultivate soon after
rain has hardened the surface you
task will be ever so much more dim
cult. The tendency Of a hard bakeC
soil under cultivation is to break VI
into clods, especially II It has not beeI
well worked previously. This does no
produce the necessary mulch but rath
er tends to dry out the soil further
} and, in fact, Is frequently worse thai
no cultivation at all.
The average life Of . worker bel
! during the summer time is not owe
three months and during the height o
the clover bloom perhaps not over ST.
: or eight weeks. It's life Is probabl,
! cut short during the summer months
BY the wearing out Of Cts wings. WheI
lts time comes Il win crawl away b.
itself where It can ale without hinder
lnr the work Of the rising generation
: Dronea. e they are not put involun
J torlly out Of ne way. may i've POI