Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-02-24
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The stallion should be made to work
Just as any other horse.
The rooster doesn't count as q lay.
ing hen. but he eats like one.
It don't pay to buy cheap harness;
sometimes bad accidents result.
Possibly the failures In raising poul'
try are not dwelt upon as much as the
successes.
The goose and the guinea fowl
should be found in greater numbers
on the farms.
What is commonly known as the
richness of milk depends upon the
amount of butterfat It contains.
Foods prepared with either skim or
whole milk are much more nutri-
tious than those prepared with water.
During winter all extracted Tor
more commonly called strained honey
is liable to granulate II in glass pack
ages.
No vegetable makes better succu-.
lent food for tho hens in winter than
the beet when boiled or pulped in a
root cutter.
Poultry raising is an avocation that
furnishes healthful, pleasing and pro
fltable employment to the wife and
daughters on the farm.
One buying WORKOUT farm has
one advantage over the one who
buys a WORKOUT overcoat; taking care
of the first will keep him warm.
Tests have shown that butterfat can
not be fed into milk. II more and
better feed is given the milk flow in
creases. but the milk is no richer.
When buying seed be sure you get
what you pay for and that It Is clean.
Unclean seeds cause a large per cent.
of the weeds which bother the gar
dener.
Leaky roofs and drafts are the
death knells to poultry profits during
the winter and spring. Overcrowding
Is almost as bad, and poor ventilation
is killing.
To determine the percentage Of
cream in the milk Of different cows,
set some of each in glass tumblers.
The thickness Of the cream can be
seen through the glass.
Protein, bone and body ash-forming
nutriments, so essential to successful
and economical cattle feeding, are
supplied cheapest in the form Of home
grown leguminous hays.
Some idea Of the Importance Of
milk as human food may be gained
from the fact that about one-sixth Of
the total food Of the average family
is furnished by It and its products.
For winter shotes, kept for spring
and summer feeding, as soon as posi-
BILE get a little blue grass or clover
for them. There Is no better stock
food blood purifier than our native
grass.
Be sure to drain all water from the
steam or gasoline engine as soon as
you are through with It. New cylin-
ders and pipes are expensive and Jack
Frost was never known to do them
any good.
Corn is always the best and cheap
est base of the grain ration for fatten-
ing animals, but with It should be COM
bined such other feeds as viii give the
ration q proper nutritive ratio. and In.
crease the paIatabIlity Of the grain
feed.
When rough feeds form the entire
winter ration, It is always best to feed
IegumInous hay. II the supply is
limited, use about equal amounts OF
roughage and leguminous hay. Good
returns may be obtained from feeding
equal parts Of non-nitrogenous rough
age and legume. On many farms nj
trogen-gathering hays are not avail
able in SUFFICIENT quantities to be fed
entirely, but cheap stoVer and stalks
are always present and make salts
factory combination