Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-07-14
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ter after the mother is shorn.
The lambs should nibble at grain
and hay before they are two weeks
old.
II is sometimes said that good
breeder always has his ideal animal
In his mind.
A mule is no more prone to kick
than horse unless he is taught to do
SO by bad treatment
Cabbage and all other plants Of the
cabbage family require a very fertile
and cool, moist soil for good growth.
II is q significant fact that corn
this year at this season is going down.
instead of up, as is the usual custom
in spring.
What we want to do In working q
horse for the first time 10 to teach
1t to do things which 1t has never
done before.
When the butter is we'll drained II
is ready to salt, and this is done In
the churn when the butter Is IN
granular form.
Begin to cultivate musk melons as
soon as the plants can be seen and
continue cultivation till after the
fruit begins to set.
Never use a milking tube II 1t can
be possibly avoided as there is much
danger of injecting the entire quarter
by the use of the tube.
It pays to pasture pigs, but II the
pigs root up the pasture 1t will pay to
ring them. Pasture sod is too valuable
to be destroyed when It can easily
be avoided.
II an animal will ever make profit
able gains, 1t will make them In warm
weather on green grass. supplemented
with shade, cool water and some con
centrated feeds.
Goats, more perhaps than any other
animal, have an exclusive affection fol
their keeper, and sometimes fight des.
perately even at home against being
MIXED by anyone else.
Where possible one should make
sure that the birds he selects for
breeders have been bred from sound
healthy stock, so that they may have
a hereditary tendency to health.
It is true that q farmer can, by
a careful selection and examination
materially change the constituents OF
his corn, thus growing a corn that Is
of higher feeding value for his farm
animals.
Don't forget that the temperature
of the cream at churning should be OF
to So degrees Fair. in summer and 6O
to 62 degrees in winter. The best
churning results will be had at these
respective temperatures.
A good hen is expected to lay IN q
year about five times her weight IL
eggs, This means a reproductive
process on an average, at least every
third day during the year, or perhaps
In rare instances, every other day.
When doing the tree planting, do
not forget to put a few trees in cor
ner of the pasture fields, II there Ii
such a thing as a fenced pasture on
the farm. Protect these for few
years, and they will protect the stock
for many more.
The Minnesota experiment station
saws barley has the advantage over
fax for cleaning the land Of weeds. be-
sides being often fed ON the farm at
Drofit over the market price. At pres
emit prices, however. fax is In the lead
and good fax land viii undoubtedly
return a good profit
After the young turkeys are sixteen
to twenty days old begin to feed light
ly on cracked corn, wheat, etc., and
occasionally baked cornmeal or john,
nycake, which Is simply cornmeal
mixed with either sweet skimmilk or
water and a very little salt, and thor
oughly baked. This is moistened
slightly before feeding.
Seeding plants Of all kinds should
be ready to transplant as soon as the
character leaf begins to FORM which
Is about three weeks from time OF
nlanting seed. One hundred plants to
each fat is the usual quantity for boz
nlants for commercial use. but II
choice plants are wanted they should
again be planted to so In q box, thus
giving them more room to spread ana
develop In proportion to their size.