Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-05-19
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A sour manger is an abomination.
Plant the garden when the cherry
blooms
Weeds are not a necessity, but q
costly luxury.
Make a good seed bed before plant
ing corn, potatoes and garden.
The old brood sow should be kept
as long as she remains vigorous.
II you doubt whether a pig enjoys
grass give him a chance to show you.
The time is fast approaching when
the dairyman will find he can't AFFORD
pasture.
The brood SOW needs a mixed diet
in which there is plenty Of food rich
in protein.
Feeding COW milk to young lambs is
a very dangerous practice. and is very
apt to kill them.
Glover sown without a nurse crop
should be sown very early in the
spring in q mellow seed bed.
You can't tougher q horse to the
spring work In day. Start In easy.
Think how 1t is with your own shout
ders.
Shearing sheep too closely, even
when the weather is warm, Is bad
practise, as either a chill or sun
scald is liable to result.
A mixture of little salt, charcoal,
ashes and air-slacked lime has good
effect upon parasites Of the digestive
system OF either young or old pigs.
Enough extra time is wasted every
year with matted and sodded over
weeds to keep our fields clean several
years IL the work had been done In
time.
Many fields Of alfalfa are ruined
by too close pasturing, the stock eat
ing the crown Of the plants so that
they are injured and they cannot
send out young shoots.
Onions are one Of the crops that
need regular and heavy fertilization
of the whole ground, and one cannot
make money with onions II planted
wide enough for horse cultivation.
Keep a full record Of your farm
operations this year. Unless you DC
this you will profit little in experience
II you keep a correct record, you may
profit in both experience and finance
Weeds will always be in the land
to a certain extent unless every farm
er will clean his grain and work t.
destroy them in place OF sowing the
seed and trying to cultivate the weeds
out.
Teach your boy how to shoe horses
sharpen plows and use tools intelli
gently. He will take pride in making
the needed repairs around the home
II allowed the use Of sharp tools and
encouraged to make the home at
tractlve.
Standing in the barn will spoil {
horse sooner than good steady work
When you see his legs begin to stool
I'D. hurry and get him to work a
something, II 1t is nothing more thar
exercising in the yard every day
Keen that up till you have some rea
business to do.
To make hogs OF 225 pounds q
seven months or $50 pounds at eigh
from early March farrows is NOR
profitable than to have pigs come II
April or May or later, since the earl!
pIes are ready to make use of tn
pasture while It is at its best and es
cape stormy cold weather before m
ished.
As a rule 1t is not a good practic
TO plant potatoes after potatoes on tn
same land. The crop IL more hkel'
to be diseased, and the yield not .
good as II planted on a one or two
wear clover sod, or after corn. Tn
spores Tor .sseds) Of fungus diseases
such AZ blight, scab, etc. win remaiI
IN the soil for q year. at least, afte
the potatoes are harvested.
There Is no other food stun to b
found more constantly upon on
tables than dairy products, and non
that are more worthy to be there
snd Il only rests with those VIII
nave the handling Of such product
under their direction TO realize an
-Seeu IN mind the fact that these prod
,,rts are TO be used for food and tina
rev must use good judgment an
--,rar care IN handling them or tn