Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-04-28
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Salt the cows regularly.

Get ready to SOW the hog pasture.
Sheep profits are sure and readily
obtainable.
Keep the land free from weeds by
burning the seed.
Dairy COWS are being bought in Yer
mont and shipped to Iowa.
Borrowing is poor policy at all
times. II never cements friendship.
Watch for and destroy all weeds
that appear during late summer and
TALL.
Why, certainly the machinery
should all be under shelter by this
time.
Unfruitful orchards, as a rule, are
so because the soil is deficient in
plant food.
Thoroughbred stock not only pay
their board, but lay up something for
the rainy day."
Winter rye, especially q little fur
Their south, make good early pasture
In the hog lot.
Thoroughly clean and whitewash
the hen house this month. The clean
er and whittier It is the better.
II won't pay to try to brace up an
old tree that blew down during the
heavy storm. Plant new tree In its
place.
Ring-worm on cattle may be cured,
by washing once a day with a five
per cent. solution of carbolic acid,
until healed.
A COW should have at least six
weeks vacation between milking pc
RODS. If she is MIXED continually she
will not last long.
The poultry industry has fourished
as no other livestock industry, yet the
value Of poultry products is higher
than it has been for years.
It is of supreme Importance that
the dairy stock should be handled
gently. Wild and intractable animals
are usually the result Of harsh han.
ding.
Where dry grains are extensively
fed to fowls, they should have sue
culent food-melons, culled potatoes,
beets and tomatoes will answer this
= purpose.
Twenty-eight years ago hogs
reached the present level Of prices.
The cause then was scarcity due to
great epidemic Of cholera which had
swept oyer the west.
Good garden implements are essen
tial for successful gardening. Much
of the benefit and pleasure derived
from work In the garden "a missed by
having poor tools. The Best are the
cheapest. 49,
Where milo is grown for poultry II
need not be threshed. Fowls eat II
as readily from the head as when 1t
Is threshed. Milo has a crooked stem
and It is sometimes convenient to
hang the heads in the chicken house.
The flower garden may not be as
profitable as the vegetable garden,
but 1t viii add cheer, comfort and
contentment to the home. The rest
and peace Of mind afforded by strolls
in the flower garden is not to be COM
pared with money.
The condition Of the bowels is the
best indication Of the fowls health.
When the droppings are more or less
hadr, dark brown color, capped with
white, we know the fowl is enjoying
the best Of health. But when they are
yellow and watery, indigestion. II not
liver troubles. are the cause.
There are various methods for ven
tilating poultry houses, but the best
and simplest is to lie. the fresh air
come in unobstructed except by a mus
lin screen. Remove the window sash
and tack on muslin in its place.
Enough air will enter to keep the
house dry and sanitary. but there viii
be no breeze. even in very stormy
weather.
Many city horses with hoofs bound
and cracked and otherwise injured,
have been taken to farm. their shoes
pulled on and turned out TO pasture
and thoroughly cured within SIX
moaths. In fact. the farmers around
the large cities used to find in this
class Of animals q cheap supply, many
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