Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-15
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Destroy the weeds.

The sire is half OF the flock.
No butcher should tease you into
selling your best lambs.
The best method of weed destruc-
zion comes through rotation Of crops.
Slow, steady churning will get more
fat out of the milk than rapid churn-
ing.
Fowls in confinement have a ten
dency when moulting to pick feathers
on each other.
After pigs are six weeks old there
IL no better feed for them than skim
milk and shorts.
Why not screens on every door and
window of the COW stables and par
tjcularly where the young calves are
kept?
Diseased wood on a tree can never
be made good again. Cut it OF and
allow another shoot to grow in Its
place.
The best remedy for pear and APP
pie blight is to cut out and burn
every affected twig as soon as they
are seen.
Undoubtedly one cause Of much
strouble with milk In summer Is al
lowing COWS to have access to foul,
'stagnant water.
No farmer should use wagon with
out good springs, and especially are
they valuable in hauling live stock
and perishable vegetables and fruits.
Many small pigs are stunted Ia
their early growth because they can
not hold their own against their
larger and more quarrelsome broth
ers.
The best skim milk is that which Is
fresh from the separator and still
warm. Experiments show that 1t Is
only one-fourth as expensive to raise a
calf on skim milk as whole milk.
i. Bran, oats and oil meal fed in equal
parts by weight make better ration
and is more satisfactory to supply the
needs Of growth and development for
breeding purposes, than most anything
else.
At the present time the worlds
championship for the production Of
butterfat for IL consecutive months
&c held by the Holstein-Friesian COW,
Colantha fourth's Johanna with to-
tai of 1926 pounds Of fat.
Thirty-six pounds Of sheep manure Is
equal as a fertilizer to 100 pounds Of
ordinary farm yard manure, being rich
er In heterogeneous substances than that
Of the COW or horse, and ranking In
ammonia and richer in the phosphates
than the droppings Of fowl.
A good hand separator takes most
of the valuable butter fat out Of the
milk; indeed, a perfect machine should
take practically all Of the butter tat
from the milk; but 1t leaves most Of
the protein, which is the most valu-
able food element in the skinned
milk.
The best time to water plants is
late In the evening. Stir the soil
thoroughly and draw away from
around the stem Of the plants, pour
on the water needed, let settle and
then draw the earth back again; In
this way the moisture will DO re-
Gained better.
In selecting breeding stock It is
hlshly important that the reputation
az the breeder from whom the pur-
.shases are made, is well and favor
sahIv known, q man who Is noted for
aauare and honest dealing; and this
ig especially true II the selection Is to
he made by the breeder himself.
Forest Henry, one Of the farmers
institute workers in Minnesota, and q
successful farmer, says that his ex-
periences teaches that the time to
Wean the polt, even If not more than
shrso months old, Is before going into
the harvest field with the mare. He
caches his colts to drink skim-milk
md 70 eat oats with the mare before
gsaning.
n there ever were a time when oat
straw e worth saving It win be this
v.ar. Hay is scarce and the price
mi be IN accordance with the light
~oes Of the crop. The farm that has
- abundance Of hay can turn q pref
~ penny By using substitute for hay
- much as practical and selling the
~ that can Be spared. The city
1900 -II uant 4 al, at g good. oiiR