Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-05-05
Go easy with the colt in spring.

Sunhower seed IL good for poultry.
Draughts and ventilation are two
different things.
A milk producing ration is neces-
sary for the brood SOW.
Vegetable manure (muck, rotten
turf, wood soil, ashes. etc. is the best.
Nutritious roughage rich in protein
Is valuable for the SOW before far
rowing.
Pumpkins, corn meal and bran
make a fairly good combination In
the fall.
Incubator and brooder are abso-
lutely essential to profitable early
chick raising.
It's not enough to know that q COW
IL profitable. You must know how
profitable she Is.
Experience and good judgment must
guide the practical dairyman in his
daily work Of feeding.
Many a field Of corn has been
husked by the hogs this year. It's
good plan when you can afford It.
Do you think the oleo makers would
sell their product for what It is If they
could make the people believe 1t was
butter?
Poultry yards should have shade
for chickens during the summer. II
your hens do not have shade plant
trees for this purpose.
Early chickens to sell as broilers
usually meet a good demand and bring
a paying price. as they have to be fed
only for comparatively short time.
Many boys and girls leave the farm
simply because they have no money to
spend. Start them in the poultry bust
ness and let them earn their own
money.
Sweet corn should not be planted
too early. 1t requires a warm soil;
1t seldom terminates well when plant.
ed too early. Plant about the time
field corn is planted.
There is little need of O meat boy.
colt, If your farm furnishes plenty OF
fresh fruits and vegetables. Incl
dentally, a few pigs might be raised
to furnish you meat.
Money invested in sheep will nearly
double itself in one year, since the
fleece will pay for the feed and care
OF the sheep, and the lambs, often
two per eve, are the profit.
You may not think 1t, but being
regular in milking is the means OF
making at least Is per cent. more
from your cows. Cows MIXED at any
old time dry up much quicker.
It costs less to put pound OF
weight on a young growing animal
than on one older. and the amount OF
food necessary to produce a given in
crease of weight gradually increases
Onions, lettuce, radishes and spin
ach may be sown as early as the soil
can be worked into good filth. 1t
is of no advantage to SOW seed of any
kind when the soil is too wet to work
readily into a good condition.
II forest and shade trees have not
been planted, this should not be neg
lected any longer. The trees should
have time to secure a hold in the
soil before the dry season makes
heavy demand upon the moisture in
the soil.
To cure MARBLES in cattle, take q
glass syringe of the smallest size and
inject sweet oil with 40 drops Of car
bolic acid to the pint, into the hole at
the apex of the little mounds on the
cows back. This will bring them
away without injury to the COW.
With the exception Of few OF the
very best of the pullets 1t is nearly
always best to sell all Of the early
Matched chickens as soon as they
reach a marketable size. In nearly all
cases q better price and certainly a
better profit will be realized than by
keeping and feeding them until fall.
Geese should be given free range
summer and winter. Even when the
ground is covered with snow, the
birds will find plenty Of grass along
! small stream of water. Clover hay
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