Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-05-21
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Weeds are costly.

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blooms.
Weeds are not a necessity. but a
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.
If you doubt whether a pig enjoys
grass give him 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
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 a mellow seed bed.
You can't tougher horse to the
spring work in a day Start in easy
Think how it is with your own Shout
ders.
Shearing sheep too closely, even
when the weather is warm, is bad
practise. as either a chill or a sun
Scald is liable to result
\ mixture of a little salt, charcoal,
ashes and air-slacked lime has a 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 if 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 If planted
wide enough for horse cultivation.
Keep full record of your farm
operations this year. Unless you do
this you will profit little in experience.
If 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 to
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
if allowed the use of sharp tools and
encouraged to make the home at
tractive.
Standing in the barn will spoil
horse sooner than good steady work
When you see his legs begin to stock
up. hurry and get him to work at
something, il it is nothing more than
exercising in the yard every day
Keep that up till you have some real
business to do.
To make hogs of 225 pounds at
seven months or $50 pounds at eight
from early March farrows is more
profitable than to have pigs come in
April or May or later, since the early
pigs are ready to make use of the
pasture while it is at its best and es-
cape stormy cold weather before fin
ished-
to plant potatoes after potatoes on the
same land. The crop is more likely
to be diseased, and the yield not as
good as if planted on a one or two
year clover sod, or after corn The
spores Tor seeds) of fungus diseases,
such as blight, scab, etc, will remain
in the soil for a year, at least, after
the potatoes are harvested
There is no other food stuff to be
found more constantly upon our
tables than dairy products, and none
that are more worthy to be there;
and it only rests with those who
have the handling of such products
under their direction to realize and
keep in mind the fact that these prod
ucts are to be used for food and that
they must use good judgment and
proper care in handling them or the
value of having a sanitary dairy barn
will be lost