Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-07-21
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Keep pure bred ram.
Any climate suits alfalfa.
Glover Is q more efficient sub.soiler
than the best sub-soil pillow.
Some say that cows need salt when
the butter is hard to churn.
A good wick to the incubator lamp
is one Of the important things.
Dampness in the poultry house,
yards or runs is often q source of
trouble.
The thing that counts in the poul-
try business is doing the right thing
at the right time.
Don't let the weeds get foot high
and then pull them, disturbing the
surrounding flowers, even If none are
pulled out
Fight green lice with tobacco-tea
and the rose-slug with lime-water. Or
try busting air-slaked lime on the in.
tested rose-bushes.
Few horsemen pay enough attention
to the teeth Of the old horses, and
then wonder why they look out of
condition.
On land at all subject to foot-rot
many sheep will fall lame-more es-
pecially the close-wooled breeds on
grass.
1t is very seldom that a group Of
sheep may be fattened on dry food
without some of them dying or suffer-
ing with constipation.
There may be such a thing as bad
luck in the dairy business, but It is q
peculiar coincidence that 1t always
follows bad management
On receiving new rose bushes from
the dealer or from other sources,
transfer them Immediately to the soil
without exposing the roots to the sun
or drying wind.
When a colt or other animal on the
farm is cut with barbed wire or by
other means, the wound usually can
be successfully treated without the
services Of veterinarian.
Probably the best vegetable grown
in the garden Is asparagus. II Is q
perennial plant and lasts for many
years without renewing. It is the ear
Hest and most delicious vegetable.
Select a good, strong colony to
build the queen cells, remove all
combs containing unsealed larva, also
remove the queen, and let them re-
main queenless few hours.
The common foxtail millet is the
best for dairy COWS. This threshed
and mixed with an equal part Of clo-
yer hay makes one of the best rough.
nesses. INTERESTED millet should
never be fed alone to any kind OF
stock.
Vine crops should not be disturbed
after the vines commence to run, as
the leaves act as mulch Of the plants
spread almost as far as the vines and
grow quite near the surface of the
soil. Any weeds not destroyed by
former civilizations should be pulled
by hand.
Salad plants. tomatoes, muskmelons
green corn, beans and the like have
of late years been added, one after
another, to the greenhouse crops, and
the enlarged menu resulting there
from has gratifed the epicure and has
been a source Of revenue to the pro
ducers.
Leave all the good eve lambs for
breeding, but give extra feed to
lambs intended for summer market.
They may be growing now. but they
win put on better flesh for higher
prices with a daily feed Of ground
grain. It is a good way to cash IN
surplus grain.
II you have a separator you VIII not
be bothered with a lot Of sour milk
standing around during the warm
months. Pigs win drink sour milk,
but the sweet milk win do them more
GOOD. Get a cream separator and
save more Of the cream, besides de-
irving more benefit from the skim
milk.
II the mare Is fed on timothy hay
and corn alone she cannot furnish the
proper elements for the development
OF the foal Wheat bran, shorts, oil
meal and clover hay should be q great
mart Of the daily ration. Give the mare
daily exercise and It win not hurt
"a work her up 70 foaling time, pro
4idlng she b not istrained o. over.