Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-01
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Plenty of shade Is essential.
Keep the peppers picked clean at
least every other day.
A few trees In the sheep pasture
will turn 1t into paradise.
Cement or concrete silos, when well
built. are practically everlasting.
Allowing weeds to go to seed now
means increased labor next season.
The best method to determine II
your hens are good layers is the trap
nest.
A strong swarm Of bees will furnish
q hundred pounds Of honey aside from
what they themselves consume.
II you grow late-maturing crops In
the orchard they will keep the wood
growing too late to make them safe for
winter.
Cowpea vine hay has feeding value
practically equal to that OF wheat
bran, which is worth now more than
$50 per ton.
It Is folly to raise hogs. feed them
Qaigh-priced feeds, get them in good
shape and then let them die on their
way to market
EARLY potato blight is liable to at
tack the potato crop at any time from
June until the crop is ripe, but is
most seriously destructive In July and
August
A heifer becomes q COW after she
drops her first calf and begins CIV
ing milk-no matter at what age, ana
she remains a heifer until these ma
ternal obligations are assumed.
In dairying there are special breeds
enough and reliable information
enough, so there is no excuse for
man who goes it blind and blames
luck and the weather for his failure.
With dairying, as with other lines
of farming, the dairyman should IA
miliarize himself as much as possible
with every fact which can be brought
20 bear upon the quality of his pro-
duct
Bacon is only the intermingling OF
Cat and lean meat, and If the meat Is
grown along rapidly 1t will be more
sender and palatable than II 1t Is
Dtnched until the lean is dry and taste
less.
In all those portions of the coun-
try where dairying Is q leading and
distinctive feature, and other grains
than corn are used as growing and
fattening ration the bacon hogs can be
raised to advantage and profit.
As the days wax warmer and warm
ar ones efforts are apt to relax, but
the young fowls destined to take their
places in the show room must not be
NEGLECTED. They must have their feed
raRuIarly, and water In abundance.
Upon the horsecollar depends
much more than appears at first
dance. The day-in-and-out efficiency
OF the team, its labor service, Its
fhriftiness depend very largely upon
the proper kind and fitting Of the
collars used.
The man with slip will be In
position to congratulate himself this
winter and we urge every farmer to
eonEider the erection Of q sllo. this
fau. No other means will provide
70 much palatable and nutritious
fsed from an acre Of land.
Cultivation as the plants develop re-
euires not only care and skill, but
f0rethought also. II heavy rains have
Haaten the soil into hard mass and
Il fs water soaked It may be neces-
sary TO go as deeply as possible with
souf injuring the roots In order TO
aerate the ground properly.
Once the calf Is well started toward
m early and profitable marketable
maturity by liberal feeding and good
care at this season Of the year, there
little need Of advising with regard
q his future feeding care. as the
anef's good sense win tell him that
4 vim pay to continue to feed and
ears for him well.
FoWls WIN lay occasionally In win
fr n they are not cared for other than
lawns q few Bcoopfuls Of corn tossed
them IN e nlthy house. but they win
oFe 4 profit over ana above the feed
housing 4 lhey are ven sheltered
fed 4 varielg q clean and whole
6 rr.ins have a BIT Of green