Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-25
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ON sandy soil.
Sell on all the roosters except the
prime ones for breeding.
The breed of white hogs is rapidly
disappearing from this country.
The good roads movement increases
the pleasure of moving over the
roads.
Some men never discover where q
fence is weak until they attempt to
climb over It
Even a city man can come to the
front with a small flock Of poultry In
his back yard.
No COW which averages less than
one and one-half gallons Of milk per
day can be kept ut profit.
Take the chill of the water for the
mare, and feed her carefully and keep
her quiet for a number Of days.
The man who said that the best
poultrymen on most farms are the
women" knew what he was talking
about.
1t is more difficult to secure the
seeds Of forest trees than any other
kinds of seeds, since there is so lit
tie market for them.
Beets may be canned or picked and
saved for winter use. When vegeta'
bles are scarce they will be greatly
enjoyed II saved in this way.
In Japan there are 1872 people for
every 40 acres Of land and 256 COWS,
256 donkeys, and 512 swine for every
square mile Of land In the kingdom.
It is not fair calculation to take the
average Of the herd as the basis Of
computing annual profit from the
dairy. Let each individual stand on
her merits.
The sitting hen should be given Q
new, clean box for a nest, filled with
the cleanest Of material. Place her on
the new nest and give her the eggs
in the evening.
No animals are bred that are capa-
BILE Of supplying the largest amount OF
rich milk and storing away the largest
amount Of flesh and fatness in their
bodies at one and the same time.
Most people find that the yearling
hens lay more eggs than the older
hens, but some chicken raisers claim
that the old hens eggs are better for
Matching, because they are more
strongly fertilized.
Good food never creates the char
acter nor temperament Of q COW, nor
makes of har a good dairy animal,
any more than It never makes a good
COW out of a small mixer; 1t is use
less to make the effort.
Water or moisture II always on the
move. When It rains It soaks the
ground. and as soon as It stops raining
It starts its upward movement by capil-
larry attraction. It travels from one
soil particle to the next and so on until
the soil becomes what we call dry.
It must be apparent to every I'M
prejudiced thinking man that II the
dairy farmer wishes to obtain the
greatest profit In his dairy he must
grade up his herd by one Of the pure
bred bulls of one Of the four great
dairy breds, Ayrshire, Guernsey. HOl-
stein or Jersey.
All stock will be healthier and VIII
thrive better II salt is kept where
they can help themselves daily rather
than at intervals. Medicated salts are
now put up and sold mat are better
in every way for the stock than the
common salt usually used besides be-
ing a better conditioner.
The soil has wonderful absorptive
power to hold on to its moisture, for
II we place some soil In the oven and
drive on the moisture by heat and
then examine these soil particles un-
der a powerful microscope we will ind
each soil particle coated with q thin
film of what is termed microscopic wa
ter.
Shade and water are important mat
tiers in connection with grazing cattle,
and the more nearly natural the condi-
tons can be made, the better. In a
pasture which contains no trees, It
sometimes pays to put up board roof
to protect cattle from the hot sun in
July and August, but summer feeding
on a large scale is not generally I'D.
visable at all where there Is no ma
tural shade In the field.