Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-05-04

Of the hog.
Don't put the new bed on sod land.
The white grub is death to straw
berry plants.
Clean sand or good country pine
sawdust Is excellent to use on floor
OF poultry houses.
Do not plant beans until all danger
of frost is passed, as the young plants
are extremely tender.
At Is cents each day-old chicks
are cheaper than eggs for Matching
at two dollars per sitting.
| The poultry business large and
small is made successful through at
tention to the small things.
The turkey hen that ranges far
from the barns is likely to steal her
nest a long ways from home.
II there are two toms in the flock
and they don't agree. shut up one
one day and the other the next.
Be sure to have brood coops and
breeders ready and waiting for the |
chicks when Matching time comes.
In some places the mutton sheep |
are the more profitable, while in other
places it pays better to produce wool.
Cleanliness and plenty Of fresh air
are great helps in developing the
chicks and keeping them thriving and
propering
Don't look for fertile eggs II you
crowd your hens too close. Another
bad thing in the same line is lack
of exercise.
II you have only one breed of pure
blooded birds you will sell many eggs
for Matching and birds for breeding,
at high prices.
A field Of four or FIVE acres will be
large enough to run flock Of 100
sheep for about thirty days and fur.
nish some hay besides.
According to a successful dairyman,
the presence of dirt in milk indicates
careless and uncleanly methods In
production and handling.
Now that the days are warmer, be
sure to keep the incubator cellar well
aired and do not run the machines
with too high a lamp flame.
In transplanting cabbages set the
plants in the ground up to the first
leaf, no matter how long the stem Is,
and press the earth firmly about It
II brood hens with chicks are given Z
good care they will usually begin lay {
ing early and continue to lay for sew |
eral weeks before they wean their Q
brood.
The would-be poultryman should be
careful in his selection Of q farm, for
upon this selection may depend his G
success or failure in the pounltry Z
business.
For those who have not much time r
to devote to the garden there is no
class Of towering plants more desira-
BILE than the hardy perennlals and B
herbsceous plants. '
There is considerable easily earned d
money in rearing pigeons. In large [
cities $3.50 to S3.75 dozen pair Is d
paid for them. Tho demand IL always 1
greater than the supply. d
Farmers who have heavy draft n
mares are making a great mistake In
not raising more colts Of this class,
md keeping the money at home that
s now going west for horses.
Obviously the remedy for unproduc :
i've eggs 10 to use only healthy breed
ng stock and to keep the breeders In :
rood condition by good food and good =
common sense care and management :
Il
II you have q piece Of land that
must be planted 10 corn later than
he last Of May, use seed Of some
rood early maturing variety Of corn. o
canning Sixty Day corn is good for v
ate planting. .
II white worms appear IN the soil .
II your potted plants dissolve . piecl b
II fresh lime In water and set the
Dot in. the water, letting Il remain
here until the soil and BAN Of rootl
ire thoroughly saturated.
Il Il said that bees cannot proAt Il
lbly travel more than two miles for \
lectar. II they have % ~ greatsI
Iistance and carry back their load
hay cannot bring 70 ths hive enough
living TIE working hours e nnk1 \
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