Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-06-30
Keep up the night against lice.

Steel cut oatmeal stands foremost
as q tiny chick food.
Strawberry plants may be set out Is
late as the middle OF summer.
The foliage Of the nasturtium Is
equally as beautiful as the blossoms.
Turkeys are perhaps the most prof
table of poultry kind If properly han
died.
Burnt wheat may be fed II fowls eat
It readily-that is. good conditioned
fowls.
Dried red blood, meat meal and hoof
meal contain from 10 to IA per cent
Of nitrogen.
Horses very often lose their eyesight
through dust and hay seed falling into
their eyes from the loft above.
A new style in baby beef has been
set. The kind that is going to market
at present is the 900 to 500-pound
type.
1t is easily possible almost every
where to make hen produce three
dollars worth Of eggs year on $3.50
worth Of feed.
Soy beans require conditions and
cultivation similar to those required
By corn. Good preparation of the soil
is necessary
For dry and cloddy corn fields,
either before or after the corn is
planted, a heavy roller is better than
either the harrow or drag.
Barnyard manure adds quite little
plant food to the soil besides contain
ing considerable organic matter which
will so toward the formation Of hu-
mus.
To secure the greatest benefit from
a green manuring crop care must be
taken in turning 1t under to have the
soil narrowed and packed as fast as
1t Is plowed.
A proper handling Of the milk is
most essential. Too often 1t is drawn
from the COW in stables in which the
air is filled with dust and put in I'M
clean vessels.
Live stock needs water at all sea-
sons, but water during warm weather
is more essential. P.epEre now for
a good water supply for the animals
during the summer months.
The color of milk does not indicate
the richness Of 1t. 0ftentimes milk
which Is rich is blue in color and
milk which is yellow and
rich looking is of q rather poor quail
ity.
Cream, on the average, will weigh
about eight pounds to the gallon, but
it varies, according to the per cent. Of
butter fat which 1t contains. It is we'll
known that butter-fat is lighter than
milk.
Success in poultry culture is simply |
the result Of looking after all the little
details connected with the business. |
Anyone can be successful II he will |
use a little diligence and common
sense.
Most Of the brood mares in the |
central west are dual purpose in char
acter. They not only raise colts but |
most Of them put in eight or ten hours
Of strenuous labor every day after
the colt Is ten days or two weeks old.
Fertilizers too rich In nitrogen |
should not be applied to the field in
tended for oats, because the growth |
will be too rank and the production Of |
grain will be retarded. The same Is |
true In a very limited measure Of |
corn.
II young hogs are kept in close con-
fnement and fed heavily on corn
alone, they viii most likely develop
leg weakness, as they require nitro
genous foods in which skimmilk
should take a large part in order to
grow good, solid bones.
Not how much, but how well, Is a
good motto for folks who are In the
chicken business. Better to hatch and
raise a small number Of fine, thrifty
early chickens than to hatch q hun
dred or two and lose or stunt them
for lack Of care or suitable accommo-
dations.
Wheat containing kinghead seed Is
cut in price, because 1t il almost i'm.
possible to remove them, and II they
are ground with the wheat the flour