Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-04-13
Set trees In the spring.

Chemistry Is a valuable science.
Russia exports nearly two billion
eggs each year.
Onions are pulled when half grown
and sold as bunch onions.
Nearly 16 per cent Of the people Of
Great Britain live by agriculture.
A little farming, we'll done, is more
profitable than whole lot attempted.
The milk should be stirred occasion
ally. but not vigorously. while being
cooled.
II is said that under favorable condi
lions the olive tree lives to be 1000
years old.
IN order to make q good dairy COW
you must start with the calf of some
COCO dairy type.
4 goat eats only one-eighth as much
rs a COW, but gives more than that
proportion OF milk.
The fewer sows kept together dur
Ing the breeding season and until far
rowing time the better.
Silage is one Of the cheapest sue
culent feeds that can be supplied to
farm animals during the winter.
Don't SOW a miscellaneous assort-
ment Of real seed, weed seed and dirt
and expect to get satisfactory stand.
II seems strange that more farmers
DO not combine dairy and poultry
farming when It may be done with 80
much profit.
It would require bin q mile square
and 10 feet deep to hold the grain
produced in the United States in an
average year.
In the interest Of cleanliness, bot.
tomless" milk bottle has been invent
cd, a glass tube with paraffned paper
caps at each end.
You don't have to wait for the in.
cubator to get broody, and then II
you don't want to set It you don't
have to break 1t up.
An incubator will not feed or regu.
late itself as the hen does, and we
must not expect as good results until
We have had some experience.
Do not give eggs to an early broody
hen until she Is surely broody, as
hens, like the weather at this season
Of the year, are rather changeable.
Many farmers simply tolerate the
fowls about the farm with a sort Of
notion that It is a hobby Of the wo-
men folks to have few hens to cod
die.
OF the 101, 100000 acres Of land in
Sweden, fully 100000 acres are in
wood. Finland alone, of European
countries. having larger forests than
Sweden.
II you want vigorous healthy chicks
do not feed too much animal matter
TO force heavy egg production, for II
you do you will weaken the vitality
Of your chicks.
There are incubators which have
been 10 arranged that the thermostat
works to control the moisture con-
tanned in the egg. Others require
added moisture.
Corn and corn meal are carbonace.
Gus matter, similar In composition to |
that Of cream, and there IL no feed |
that a calf likes so well as shelled |
corn or corn meal.
There IL q wonderful Increase in the |
consumption Of milk all over the coun- |
try since the authorities have taken |
up the work Of compelling the produc-
ton Of clean pure milk.
In preserving eggs in water glass,
or any other favorite method, remem-
Der that every egg so used must be
strictly fresh. One spoiled egg win
eontaminate q whole hatch.
While alfalfa IL an excellent fodder
crop to grow, no farmer should jump
headlong into Il unless he IL very
sure Of his ground. both from . knowl-
edge Of the plant and some expert
enco.
II you suspect your trees-fruit, nut
and ornamental-ar troubled with
aphis or bark louise, wash the trunk
ana lower branches with soapsuds Of
lie water. WhitSVash iS also eject.
I've n keeping the trees healthy but
NAT a % object 70 Whitewashing
tie trunk trssa