Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-05-18
Give the hen wide range.

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Cows should be kept comfortable q
Ill times.
Provide some succulent feed To-
ewes In winter.
Weeds rob the soil Of food elements
required by other plants.
Farm philosophers say this is go
Ing to be very dry year.
The mich COW needs a shelter from
the summer storms and heat.
A pig that is fed grain all his life
usually fails to pay expenses.
Potatoes require considerable nitro
gen and large amount OF potash.
The pigs should have a clean, dry
yard to exercise in during the day.
A cheap and effective way Of de-
horning calves is with potash caustic.
BY judicious choice Of varieties car
rots may be enjoyed for a long sea-
son.
A daily record of work done will
cut out many of the wastes of the
.arm.
The oat crop as a money maker on
The farm is liable not to receive the
attention it deserves.
The soil on cultivated fields on hilly
Or rolling land will wash less If
plowed well and extra deep.
The gardener should try to grow the
carrot quickly in order to secure ten
Ter, sweet, uniform specimens.
One of the chief reasons for butter
becoming rancid at an early oge is the
tact that II is not washed thoroughly.
One ton OF average fresh manure
contains ten pounds of nitrogen; one
on of clover hay, 40 pounds of nitro.
gen.
Prune the trees In the early spring
( possible, any month Of the year If
necessary, but be sure to prune the
.rees.
Glover and grass seed may be sown,
and a good stand secured, on oat
ground during the last Of April and
he first Of May.
II the buttermiIk is not washed out
It will furnish abundant food for the
bacteria, since they thrive on the
casein In the milk.
With a quiet, steady team a half
crown boy, with a sulky pillow, can do
as good work as a man with the old
fashioned walking pillow.
There is no professional study that
REQUIRES closer work than does the de-
velopment of the corn plant-a COM
bination Of brain toll and nature.
Pigs in the pasture require some
sort of crude shelter to protect them
from the sun and keep them from
blistering and scalding on hot days.
Growing geese require large guam
titles of grass, which they will obtain
II allowed their range, and which will
cut down the feed bill at least one
half.
The picking Of live geese for the
live geese feathers. so called, is prac-
ticed less and less. It is cruel prac-
tice, and ought to be entirely abol-
lshed.
The amount Of feed that the pigs
should get cannot be definitely ad-
vised. That must be determined by
the feeder from the appetites Of the
lssimilate food.
II has been found that the seeds Of |
many weeds win retain their vitality |
FOR IL to Is years. possibly longer.
and not all Of the given years seed
grows IN any one year.
Il is surprising how few farmers
have cement floors IN their stables,
md as a rule they do not realize the
osS they sustain by having the earth
aoor or a leaky, hlthy plank floor.
Poorly-hatched and poorly-brooded
.hicks furnished good grounds IN tho
past for believing that artihcially-
Matched chicks were not as strong
ma vigorous az those hatched b. the
ZEN, and they we're not. hut mattaEB
ave greatly CHANGED 81 lat1 goala.
rhare are now lncubaior1 and brood
~ ihsi are reliable 80 1afs /