Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-07-14
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Plant lettuce any time.

Look well after heifer calves.
The best land for strawberries Ii .
sandy loam.'
A cattle feeder should be encour-
aged by every corn seller.
The farmer can produce clean milk,
but It means added expense.
The harrow is an excellent tool for
cultivating potatoes the first time.
II is deemed an injury to let the
sheep carry its fleece into the hot sea-
son.
The climbing or trailing nasturtiums
can be planted either with or without
support.
scaly legs on hens are caused by
Q small parasite insect working under
meath the skin.
The colt should early be taught the
use Of the halter, and made to know
that his master is his friend.
All hog raisers know that corn will
20 twice as far in feeding hogs in
summer If the hogs are kept on good
pasture.
Unless one is gardening on large
scale It Is cheaper to buy cabbage
plants for the early crop than to
Srow them
Do not let the manure accumulate in
the COW stall so that the animal must
ne with her hind quarters higher than
her front quarters.
Never buy a brood SOW with short
legs and short, chunky body. She
must have big feeding capacity In
order to produce plenty Of milk.
As q rule, the average farmer al
lows his hogs to get along on slim
rations in summer, at a time when
they could make most profitable
growth.
Nothing is more injurious to the
poults than tainted or infected meat
of any kind, as 1t will disturb their
bowels in a very few hours and cause
greet trouble.
Wedding out the poorest cows is the
best way to improve the record OF
any dairy in the amount OF milk and
butter produced in proportion to the
number Of cows kept
So many fruit trees were ordered
this spring for planting in British Col
umbia that the nursery supply Of stock
suited for that region was not nearly
great enough to meet the demands.
Sunshine is q great purifier and nat
,gral disinfectant and the poultry
houses should be so arranged that
there will be an abundance OF sun
shine in the buildings on fair days.
natures greatest purifying agents
are sunshine and air. Soils need thor
.ouRh aeration that are frequently fer
,tilized with animal manures; then
they will not SO soon become non-pro-
,ductive.
In buying a bull for use in q milking
herd, look far beyond the animal him
self and see what kind Of mixers his
dam and granddams were and. what
bind Of mixers his male ancestors
were able to get
Sow fodder corn thickly, either with
n Grain drill or corn planter, at the
rate Of 80 to so pounds per acre, culti-
vate enc way, cut with corn binder,
rhocH in the field, allow to stand until
> .Nad or hauled to the barn.
pvery hen that does not pay for her
-tanD by laying eggs should be sold at
.oDee. There are thousands Of hens in
the poultry yarus Ihat oAS iOS1He
money for their owners. Find out
whether you have such hens, and. II
30, get rid Of them.
m acting out cuttings, II Willows,
-ourrants, virginia creepers or any 9TH
AZ stock Of this sort. put the cuttings
van down into the soil. One or two
S-ds above ground is quite all that is
.oooded. A cutting foot long may be
,r~f down ten inches into the soil and
two above.
Tha ideal sheep pasture is blue grass
"a white clover. Il makes the driest,
sIo-ogt 500, and dry land is best for
-h~eD. There Il no sod that win pro
- more pasture and no sod that win
-eta a better winter pasture than
~ rrass sod protected Tree from pas
1870 through the autumn season. A
.,-f,F pasture for breeding ewes.
49, fhay may run out during clea4.
..r-1 ~orlhsr h almost q necessity, q