Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-03

Through live stock we market our
products at home in the finished
product.
Il would be better to give some OF
your cows away than to feed them
at loss.
Keep the eggs as short time as
pcscsible and at a cool temperature,
40 to So degrees.
All the profit Of sheep husbandry
is bound up in one thing; the keeping
OF the flock in health.
A good aphis is one Of the worst
enemies the orchardist has to combat
In the young orchard.
Selling less hay and straw, feeding
more cows on the farm, will help re-
duce the fertilizer problem.
Great care should be exercised in
all cases in transplanting evergreens
to avoid drying Of the roots.
Tomato seeds are easily preserved,
and II you have extra good ones pick
out the best and save the seeds.
II should be remembered that sows
that are to feed large filters Of pigs
should be we'll fed and cared for.
The pig that is intended for brood
SOW should be fed we'll enough to keep
It in good condition, but not extra fat.
AS good insect powder is 30 cheap
there is no use or excuse for allowing
old fowls to remain covered with YER
min.
II you want late celery for winter,
It should be planted any time from
the first Of July to the middle Of
August.
String beans should be drilled in
double rows six inches apart with just
enough space between to allow for
cultivation.
Buttermilk is one Of the best known
feeds for pigs, used in moderation
and properly mixed with grain or 9TH
er feedstuffs.
The foremost method Of cultivating
alfalfa is with the disk harrow, one Of
the most excellent farm implements
ever invented.
II the skin of the horse IL kept
clean he will sweat more freely,
which is necessary to keep him in
good condition.
Too much water is as bad as too
little, because the surplus fills up the
interstices in the soil, excludes the
air and smothers the plant.
For the large tomato worm which
was more numerous than usual last
year, the best method Is to pick them
OF by hand and destroy them.
Never feed meat scraps that were
made of rotten meat. Good, pure
feed is the only thing that ever ought |
to be fed to q fowl Of any kind.
It costs money to have things 60 |
wrong on the farm or anywhere else.
but It Is almost inevitable that some
thing will 60 wrong once in . while.
Before and after the SOW farrows,
she should be fed very light or the
pigs will not be able to take all the
milk, or II they do. they viii become
sick.
Don't forget to thoroughly overhaul
the binder before harvest; this IL
cheaper than to be overhauled by q
hailstorm because you let the harvest
ing drag.
Small-fruit growing and truck farm
ing does not mix well with general
but an apple orchard IL a
profitable appendage to any diversi-
fed farm.
A gilt that is expected to be kept
for a brood SOW should never be bred
before she IL eight months old, and It
Is better to wait until she il ten or
eleven months old.
It IL Just as cheap to make q pound
of good butter as It IL to make q
pound Of poor butter and when It
comes to selling It, the prices are very
decidedly different.
All we can do towards the moult u
to feed well. Keep the birds In the
best condition to stand the strain. DO
not try starving or overlooking, or
extreme changes in feeding-all fatal
processes.
Clean all dairy utensils BY nrst thor
oughly rinsing them In warm water,
than rlaan fnsida and ont Nth \ hrf,nh