Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-10-13

Requiring almost the same care
care and using feed almost identical,
chickens and squads should b In
separable. With q large fock OF hens
producing winter eggs. and q number
Of squads at q time when young
chickens are not obtainable, the p0ul-
tryman has practically no competition.
The supply, in most instances. 10 30
limited and the demand so great that
the young squads are sold ut the nest,
people coming after them to be sure
Of getting them.
Brood sows on the average farm
may be almost entirely supported BY
waste products. And those same waste
products form the best sort Of bal
anced ration. Skim milk, buttermilk.
windfall apples, parings, q run In the
orchard, with shade, and after the
filters are weaned and growing NICE
ly, a run in the stubble to clean up
every kernel Of grain, and In the
clover fields after hay has been cut
A hen that lays $50 eggs in year
will earn for her owner certain net
profit of one dollar and twenty-five
cents, and II he is careful about mar
keting his profit may be increased BY
an additional so cents, so that II ne
wants to increase his income by $3.50
or $500 It is only necessary for him
to keep 200 or 400 hens.
II you can do no better by way OF
making troughs for the sheep to eat
their grain out Of, you can nail two
boards together in the shape OF "
with a couple Of short pieces across
the ends to keep them right side up.
This will save much grain, and gram
is money this year.
Sailing the COWS is most important
especially when they are on green
grass. About an ounce per day Is re-
uuired by each COW and this is better
given regularly and in small quaint
ties than only occasionally and IN
large lots.
With hired help almost impossible
to get at any price. It would seem
that all farmers would hesitate about
taking more land upon themselves for
cultivation. for poorly-cared for crop
is surely a failure, but they plunge In
regardless of consequences.
Some breeders claim that sex can
be selected from which males and
females can be Matched at will. Old
hens mated with cockerels produce
about rs per cent pullets. while mat
ing pullets with old cocks give
greater per cent. OF cockerels.
Did your cows fall of in their milk
while passing from summer to winter
conditions? This is a trying period
and the COW that tides over It all
right will. with normal conditions, be
safe for a good flow till spring
Sunfowers are usually grown for
the seeds, and the stalks are allowed
to go to waste. They contain so large
a percentage Of woody fiber when ma
ture that they would be Of no value
for feeding purposes.
It will pay to market old and use
less hens now, rather than carry them
through the mott which begins this
month. Many Of them will not lay
again until spring and will not pay
their keep.
There are two great and common
mistakes in landscape gardening. One
is to make a garden without any how-
ers in 1t; the other is to have a mess
of plants assembled without any de-
sign.
II you wish to improve the quality
of your flock without serious expense
the best thing to do is to Gull out a
pen of the choicest birds and hatch
their eggs.
Very often when the large farm has
been obtained at the expense Of the
home, so much Of It goes to waste for
the want of Northumberland cul.
tivation-that 1t Is really improbable.
Now that the Matching season IL
over, all the male birds should be
taken away from the hens. Your
chances for fresher eggs and more Of
them will be increased.
Manure is Just what Is needed to
bring up the yields and to increase
the water-holding capacity Of our soil.
for without water no amount Of fer
tility is of any avail
Don't forget the supply Of sharp
gravel or grit even In the fall; fowls
can not always pick up q suitable sup
ply even when on q range and the
weather is good.