Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-08
study sanitary care Of feed boxes.

Grade your honey systematically.
A nervous COW ID preferable to q
stolid one.
Keep the spray pump going in the
potato patch.
Hard coal ashes make o nice cool
mulch for currant bushes.
Too many farmers sacrifice quality
for mere size in the selection OF q
ram.
In order to realize the most for
wool, there must be q uniformity OF
condition.
An animal that Is only fed enough
to be kept alive 10 Of no practical
value to the owner.
When the lambs have Just been
weaned they require the best possible
care and need good pasture.
Phosphoric acid tends to increase
fruitfulness, but q liberal supply OF
potash is Of almost equal Importance.
The grain for calves should be FED
first while the calf Is quite small
with a little bran to aid In learning
to eat.
A few hens carefully watched and
literally fed are more profitable tnan
large number forced to forage Tor
their living.
When you see many bees hunting
around hooks and corners, you may
be sure there IL rObbing going on
somewhere.
A good horse used in q common
sense manner should live to an old age
and be in condition TO perform good
work at all times.
During the hot weather the garden
should receive very frequent culuVa'
ton to keep down the weeds ana
conserve the moisture.
There is no reason why q man with
an acre patch Of potatoes should not
spray for blight, the same as q man
who has ten acres or more.
Cultivation should not be continued
too late Ia the season, or the wood
will not harden by the time winter
sets in. and the trees will be injured.
As a rule. no cultivating should be
done in the orchard during the next
two months. II the soil Is IN gooo
filth and clean Of weeds It Is best not
to disturb in hot dry weather.
The cowpea will thrive under unfa'
vorable conditions Of soil preparation
II Is. however, a plant that responds
most readily and prohtably to thor
oughly deep breaking and pulVeriEa
ton Of the land.
Asters suffer from root lice, which
invariably kill them in a short time
n undisturbed. These lice also at
tack chrysanthemums, clematis, ant
like plants. Where those pests are al
work. there will be ants also.
All wounds on trees are the better
for being painted, tarred or covered
with some substance to keep out the
water. Then the bark covers ovel
the wound little by little, and no rot
ting of the inner wood takes place.
Young animals make much more
rand growth in proportion to siz'
than older ones, and the ratio Is de
creased as they approach maturity
but they eat much more In proportion
to live weight and the flesh contains
much more water.
A good many farmers who nav
cows are now aware Of what q splen
did investment Of time and money
would have been had they sown plo
of ground to peas and oats last sprinI
TO supplement the pasture that Is nov
getting parched BY the EXTENDED
! drought
A few one-yearold hens and
flock of young early hatched pullet
well cared for and carefully culle'
win yield more winter eggs than
, flock twice the size consisting OF
. mixture of old and young hens. lat
, and carly Matched pullets, some hal
, moulted, etc.
, As the sire Is half the flock in tn
sense of his influence upon the lam
crop the few extra dollars required t
purchase a pure-bred animal OF tn
, breed which may be favored by an