Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Keep your chicks on dry ground.
Fodder corn should not be neg
lected.
Roots should always be part Of the
rations of dairy cows.
A wet yard is an abomination in the
sight Of q well-bred hen.
Use the shepherds crook as little
rs possible at or before lambing.
The pigs should have clean. pure
water always at hand, day and night.
Providing a man knows his business
the brood mare is the most profitable
farm worker.
Baby beef is not more common be-
cause stock raisers generally are not
stock breeders.
From the dairy standpoint, the best
time in the year for COW to freshen
is the month of September.
Just one setting Of thoroughbred
eggs may be the means Of working q
revolution in your poultry business.
II a neifer is to make the best dairy
COW, she should freshen when she is
from two years to thirty months old.
Newly Matched ducklings can be
brooded without heat in box coop at
this season, and II we'll fed will grow
rapidly.
The scalper shovel is best for
corn cultivation, as the deep running
old-style shovel Injuries the feeding
roots.
Dairy butter should be packed in
five-pound jars and ten and twenty
pound tubs to sell to the best ad'
vantage.
II eve aborts, remove her at once
from the lambing shed; burn all litter.
bedding, ETC., and thoroughly disin-
feet the pen.
No extensive grower OF potatoes can
afford to do without breeding patch
from which to secure seed stock for
his own planting.
Orchard grass should be cut just as
soon as the blossoms fall, and crimson
clover when about two-thirds Of the
blossoms turn brown.
All sprays after the first should be
very fine and so applied as to lightly
cover the entire surface Of the fruit
and foliage with the liquid.
The subject Of cutting back young
trees when planting is an old one.
and the ideal one in favor, Of which
much has been said and written.
II is commonly believed that warm
horse should not be given water to
drink, which is correct II the animal
is to be allowed all that he will drink.
Some turkey growers who cater to
special hotel and club house demands,
seek to improve the flavor Of the flesh
by introducing Wild blood into their
fiocks.
The 1,400-pound mule is becoSsing
a popular draft animal. He is tough,
eats less than a horse Of the same
weight. and II sound will sell for $500
or better.
Alfalfa sown in the fall is almost In.
variably helped by disking the follow
ing spring, with the disks set quite
straight, SO as not to cut the crowns,
but to split. them.
Corn and corn meal are carbona'
ceous matter, similar in composition
to that Of cream, and there is no feed
that a calf likes so we'll as shelled
corn or corn meal.
Potatoes should be either put over
an inch and three-quarters- screen or
assorted 20 as not to have anything
under an inch and three-quarters in
the stock sent to market.
A good mower oil is made by mix
ing. at about 40 degrees, the ordi-
nary thin OIL and the heavy dark grade.
II this does not run freely file on
half.inch Of the snout Of the oil can.
Many a good spirited young horse
has his value greatly lessened. II he
is not ruined, by being compelled to
work beside q SLOW. lazy mate, or
one that is 90 much stronger that TO
keep up with him requires q constant
strain.
All live stock owners should apply
the tuberculin test to their cattle. and
n any react, which would indicate that
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