Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-07-28
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Sheep are excellent farm cleaners.
The bruise on an apple is injurious.
Lice and mites come with warm
weather.
Tie the grape vines to the trellis
wires before the vines begin to run.
No we'll bred farmer ever contents
himself with scrub stock or poor crops.
Il Is q sad mistake for O man to
make good crop Of grass into poor
hay.
Pure fresh air, day and night, is
one of the prime essentials for keep
ing fowls in good health.
Most separators do their best work
with the milk at a temperature of
from"85 degrees to 95 degrees Fahren-
helt
When the cream has been held at
churning temperature for period OF
two or three hours, it is ready to be
churned.
A good way to keep manure for the
garden is to fill a large box, turning
1t over with a fork about once q
week and keeping It moist.
The government is sending out ex-
perts to various parts of the country
to teach fruit growers the best meth
DDS Of spraying their trees.
When shrubs are first planted they
should be headed back one-half or
more, but after they become estab-
lished they should be allowed to
branch at will.
One Of the prominent symptoms OF
shoulder lameness in horses is a diff
ficulty of lifting and extending the
limb, which is particularly noticeable
when the patient is urged to trot.
The flea beetle Is a small, metallic
blue insect which is destructive to the
fruit both as the larva and the adult.
Spraying with arsenate of lead or
paris green is generally effective.
Some Of the amber honeys are
made from the aster, goldenrod, bone
set, queen Of the meadow, heartsease.
wild sunfower. Spanish needle, su-
mac, magnolia and marigold.
The earliest sown lettuce should be
of some Of the loose growing varieties.
For summer use plant cabbage lettuce,
or heading varieties. as the leaves
during the warm season will be whittier
and more crisp.
Soy beans shed their leaves before
the grain begins to ripen; therefore
when hay is desired the plants must
be cut when half or more Of the pods
are fully grown. but before the beans
begin to harden.
In cutting rape for soiling 1t Is best
to cut about four inches from the
ground. It is advisable to arrange
the cutting so that each days product
viii be consumed within that time, as
the foliage soon willis and Is then not
reIished so much.
The sitting hen must not be dis
turbed. II eggs are laid in the same
nest with those that are Matching It
is often difflcult to tell the fresh one
from the others. hence partly Matched
eggs are taken out instead of the
fresh ones.
II Is a well known fact among
farmers and fruit growers that black
berries improve the physical nature
Of the son through their root action.
When they are removed from the ap-
ple orchard the son is left in ideal
condition for the outer feeding roots
Of the apple trees
While it is conceded that permanent
maintenance Of soil fertility without
live stock is possible, Il Is not prac-
ticable as statewide policy. because
It Is not the highest type Of agricul-
ture and because few farmers can be
induced to comply with all the condi-
tions necessary to make 1t effective.
Plant cannas one 70 two feet apart.
depending altogether II they be dwarf
or the tall-growing sort. They like
very rich soil and plenty Of water
during the growing season. A mulch
Of straw manure win help to con-
serve the water that is given them.
+ Cut on all the seed pods as they
form.
Root plants may be transplanted.
mt Il Il not advisable unless Il were
N the case. Of extra early beets start
"A n The hotbed or turniprooted rad
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