Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-06-01
Mulch the trees.

Horseradish is mostly grown for the
packers.
Too much care cannot be given the
dairy utensils.
The calf should be trained to lead
and be halter-broke.
Don't have LOT of manure lying In
the yards all summer.
Obtaining the seed is the important
thing In growing potatoes.
Parsley seed should be sown In a
protected spot, or in the cold frame.
A very desirable and useful tool
which is not found on all farms Is
level.
Sweet potatoes require q warm
sandy soil we'll filled with rich rotted
manure.
Turkey eggs set this month will give
good salable carcasses for Christ
mas feasts.
Two sprinklings a week with ker-
osene oil should keep the house free
from insect pests.
New potatoes can be got earlier by
allowing the seed to sprout In strong
light before planting.
Practical farmers know the value Of
blowing and narrowing land when in
the right order for working.
Just one setting Of thoroughbred
eggs may be the means of working q
revolution in your poultry business.
Don't keep little ducks and chickens
together If 1t can be avoided. Keep
each separate, and they will both do
better.
The best marked heifer calves from
the largest and most persistent milk
ers should be raised and not sold to
the butcher for a few dollars.
When geese become quite old-say,
five or six years-they acquire an
abdominal pouch of large size, and
this is an unfailing sign Of old age.
To have large juicy stalks Of rhu-
barb and long, straight roots Of horse
radish the ground must be fully IL
to 16 inches in depth and finely pull
verified.
Give the setting hen a thorough
busting with insect powder two or
three times during the incubation.
This may save your little chicks from
lice and mites.
Farmers now having silo can very
we'll afford to grow what roots they
need to give at least one peck Of
sliced roots daily to each head Of
stock wintered.
Sore necks in horses are due usu-
ally to one Of two causes, a short
collar or too great weight coupled with
the side motion as noted in a two
wheeled vehicle.
Divide the dahlia roots and start
some, but not all Of them. The early
planted-out dahlias come into flower
during the hot weather, and they will
not give SO large flowers as later-plant-
ed roots.
Pillow your ground deep and prepare
the soil as carefully as you would for
the corn field. Nature often performs
wonders with trees, but as a general
rule she ought to have a little intelli-
gent help.
II you are quite sure that alfalfa
will not grow on your land try Essex
rape. 1t makes fine hog pasture
some farmers even going so far as to
say that It beats clover, which of
course 1t does not.
A few years ago when concentrates
we're cheap. sheep and wool were also
cheap. Now wool is worth twice as
much as 1t was ten years ago and the
sheep must have some rich food in
order to grow a rich fleece.
Ground oil meal may be either the
Did or the new process. The old pro-
cess oil meal is made into cake by
pressing the oil out Of the haxseed by
high hydraulic pressure. but these
cakes are frequently ground before
selling.
II your favorite cherry tree Is badly |
iecayed, clean out everything in the |
,avity a. carefully as your dentist |
would prepare a..tooth for hlling. then
pray thoroughly with q two per cent. |
solution Of formalln, an the cavity
old with cement and paint over al.