Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-18
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Unleached wood ashes sown broad
cast in the orchard will prove bene-
fetal.
Start the milk with the thumb and
finger II the colt Is not very strong,
or II the udder Is at all hard.
Dust the climbing roses with sui
phur early in the morning. while tho
dew is on, to prevent mildew.
A cool, well ventilated pen is ideal.
but It must be free from drafts or
you will surely have trouble.
The ground is q bank in which the
farmer invests manure, seed. filling,
time had thought. All are important.
There is no better or cheaper place
to develop a young horse and put him
in proper shape for market than on
the farm.
Sweet corn may be canned and kept
through the winter, but It requires
considerable time and patience to
cook It properly.
Two drones cost as much to raise
as three workers, and after they are
raised they keep on eating, while the
workers labor for you.
Good roads contribute much toward
rural development. The money spent
upon building and maintaining roads
returns in splendid dividends.
Difference in individuals to produce
maximum flow of milk should prompt
every dairyman to weed out his IN
ferior animals as early as possible.
A good bee smoker rightly used ID
necessary to handle bees, as by Its
use one can subdue them so that
they may be handled with few II any
stings.
Unless the owner is q thorough
fancier and has time and facilities Tor
keeping them unmixed the keeping OF
more than one variety is exasperating
and seldom profitable.
Make bird-houses and thus secure
the presence and esteem OF these
active insect-destroyers. Also protect
every toad and try to keep a few
about the home place.
When a hen Is through setting burn
all the old nest material, disinfect the
nest box and give 1t a coat OF liquor
lice-killer to make q good job OF 1t,
and then put in fresh material.
Cottonseed meal at $3.50. per hun
dredweight is better and cheaper to
feed with corn to dairy cows than oil
meal at the same price or than bran
at even as low as 81 per hundred
weight.
After the hay has been in the NOW
a few weeks the leaves become ten
der. and when the hay is handled for
feeding purposes break on and go to
waste. This waste is far greater than
generally realized by most farmers.
Keep some kind Of q crop growing
in the garden the enire season. II
nothing else is done SOW wheat or rye
on the vacant places to keep weeds
from springing up and maturing seed.
Weeds ripen In a very short time, II
they are allowed to grow.
Soil is composed Of minute particles
Of disintegrated rock. These rock par
ticIes contain chemical substances.
These substances must be in solution.
Hence the first great Office Of cultiva-
ton is to conserve heated moisture in
the soil to aid in making soluble min
eral plant food.
The greatest profit in raising bees
is secured by a well-directed method
of dividing the colonies when In
proper condition to do 90. and re-
straining their instincts, as far as
may be, to swarm when the surround
ing circumstances are unfavorable
for an increase Of colonies.
The cows which produce best are
usually those which were well pre-
pared for their milking period. Breed
and strain or family are important
factors, but important and necessary
as they both are. neither, In itself, IL
a guarantee Of production. Feed is
equally, and possibly more important.
II the busy woman on the farm andS
It takes too much time to make her
butter into pound prints. which are
some trouble to make and still more
dificult to keep without ice, she can
purchase small Jars Of crooks which
hold a pound each, and which cost but