Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-12-01
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Extracted honey, II brought to q
temperature of not over 160 degrees
Fahrenheit, bottled and sealed while
hot, will usually, II kept In uniform
ly warm temperature, keep liquid for
a year or more. But there Is a great
difference In honey. Some will candy
much more quickly than others. Cold
atmosphere is quite favorable to
candying of both extracted and comb
honey. Cellars and cold rooms are
poor places for honey.
AS a pasture for pigs In the produc'
ton OF pork and for the feeding Of
brood sows during winter, a branch
Of farming which SO often goes hand
in hand with dairying, alfalfa cannot
be too highly recommended. In fact
for all animals on the farm-horses
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry-al'
falfa is we'll nigh indispensable. II
corn is king. alfalfa is surely king OF
kings.
Where gullies have been formed by
soil washing during the summer 1t is
well to fill them as early as possible
in the fall while the leaves are still
on the brush with which they are
filed.
Horses at pasture will need no other
protection than a shed II they have
enough to eat. Cold, dry weather VIII
not injure stock as much as cold rains
and damp, foggy weather.
Young cattle and dry cows should
not be battered up in close stables dur
ing the winter; give them roomy
shed with hard dirt floor. Bed heav-
lily with straw or leaves.
This years sprouts may be pulled
from the peach trees with the hands II
It is done this fall. when 1t should be-
which will save considerable work
next spring.
The average annual honey yield per
colony for the entire country should
be from 25 to 30 pounds Of comb
honey or 40 to 30 pounds Of extracted
honey.
The COW that wanders over bare pas
lures and looks wistfully at growing
crops she. cannot reach, is not happy
nor contented, and will not produce
well.
The men who have followed diver
sified farming for years rarely ever
are pinched with q crop failure be;
cause Of a variety Of products for an
income.
An occasional handful Of oil meal
will do the horses good, especially II
their main grain is corn. The pea-size
oil cake is handiest for this purpose.
Wheat sown too late to come up the
year 1t is sown, II the soil still con-
tains some warmth, will start to
sprout in the ground and take root.
Many a colt has been spoiled by In
discriminate petting and handling. Let
the master pet and govern the young
sters until they know who Is boss.
Like the strawberry, little more
pains should be taken when setting
asparagus plants in the fall, to get
them well mulched before winter.
Old raspberry-canes should be re-
moved from the patch before the
freeze.up and the new vines mulched
with oat-straw or barn-yard Hitter.
Those old hens which have Just COM
pleted a tardy mott will fatten now.
Cast up their egg account and make
up their deficiencies with meat.
It never pays to starve q colt. Thir-
ty bushels Of oats VIII cost about SO
and be worth twice that much to any
well-bred colt next winter.
The constitution and general sound
ness Of the farm horse very much de-
ponds upon the treatment he receives
during the winter.
Wheat, or any other Of the grasses.
viii not do their best unless the seed
bed is worked down to q iine and com
pact condition.
After weaving the foal, the young
animal should not be neglected and
permitted to rough It the FIRST winter.
Carrots, potatoes. beets and other
root crops should be dug as soon as
possible now. dried, and stored in the
cellar.
Every farmer WIN admit that a good
new fence on the farm b beautiful
and useful.
There Is nothing quite 90 GOOD as
fne brush to catch and hold soil wash.