Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-02-10
Dairy cows do pay.

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Muck soils are generally acid.
Ducks love to stay out all night in
their runs.
Pelin ducks are good breeders even
at four years Of age.
Roughage fed in considerable guam
titles will result in the production OF
beef.
Good, unadulterated milk should
contain about 81 per cent. Of water
and 13 per cent of solids.
Even the hired man now rides where
he once walked and he gets higher
wages than when he walked.
Watch the breeding sows. II they
get too thin It Is had for them and II
they get too fat 1t is for the unborn
pigs.
The proper feeding of poultry Is a
science and one that not only affords
pleasure in Its investigation but profit
in its mastery.
Some men don't seem to realize the
Importance Of manipulating the I'D
der with the hand at the same time
they are milking.
The COW with the good appetite is
apt to be the cheapest butter producer.
Cows that are ''finnicky" are not apt
TO be profitable.
A coop IA by IS feet is large enough
for 80 hens. Give them light, warmth
and plenty Of air. Let the last filter
through a canvas window.
Few COW keepers know anything
about the theory of dairying, but a
good one has got the practice down
line, and this Is what counts.
Glover that Is vigorous will put more
plant food into the land than clover
that is not vigorous for It has more
power to draw on the nitrogen in the
air.
Skim milk, which IL whole milk,
minus part of its fat, and which costs
only half as much as whole milk, fur
nishes protein about four times as
cheaply as beef.
A special bee-cellar in which moth
ing else is kept is certainly desirable,
but many bee-keepers cannot afford
this and yet can well spare room in
good house cellar.
To protect the trees from mice and
rabbits, screen wire. veneer, or tarred
paper may be placed around the
trunks. This is, indeed, a good pre-
caution for all young fruit trees.
The chickens should be encouraged
to run and scratch in the garden in
the winter after the frosts have de-
stroyed the tomatoes and other vege-
tables the fowls might damage.
Horse manure is very dry and loose
in texture and dificult to mix with
litter. Hence 1t heats rapidly. fer
mentation sets in and the ammonia It
contains escapes into the air and 10
lost.
The best way to fatten young stock
to secure a maximum profit is to feed
them well from the start. Whether It
be young cattle or lambs, they should
be literally fed. from the beginning
of the feeding period.
Good timothy hay has about the
same feeding value as good, bright
well-cured corn stalks. II IL not con.
sidered as good for mich COWS as the
corn stalks, though the analysis OF 1t
would seem to indicate that It is prac-
ticaTly as good.
II experiments conducted at the In
diana station in 1893 milk cows ex-
posed to the weather in winter, bnt
provided with shelter. made 4 very I'M
favorable showing, as compared with
those given shelter in the stable ex-
cepting for brief airing when the
weather was suitable, The exposed
cows ate more food, lost IN weight and
cSIso n milk yield. while the sheltered
mes gained IN weight and made .
bstter showing. At the Kansas ex.
periment station similar results were
obtained