Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-06-15

You want q quick fertilizer for po-
tatoes.
The apple tree borer 10 a trouble
some worm.
Get ready the lamb creep so they
can get a good start
Wood charcoal should always be
kept in the hog pen.
A small threshing outfit on the av-
erage farm will not pay.
Let the grass get a good start be-
fore turning the stock on 1t.
The last Of May is plenty early
enough to turn the calf out on grass.
Working out buttermilk and work
ing in salt is where the overworking
is done.
The borer is the most common and
It is the most troublesome enemy OF
the peach.
II is a good plan to have the horses
and cows clean up their managers aft
or each feed.
Have grass paddock for the calves
so they can Craze at will and have the
exercise they need.
A farm raised COW is much superior
In most every respect to the one
bought at the cattle yards.
Don't forget the little ducks In case
Of a shower for II you do one will
be apt to have dead ducks.
Belgian or yellow carrots are hardy,
make large root growth and are the
best roots for horses and colts.
The most inhuman measures are
often employed for breaking up hens
that nature prompts to set when their
owners don't want them to.
Grading of cream is receiving more
attention by the dairy press and dairy
men than 1t possibly ever has in the
history of the dairy business.
In squads the flesh Is whitish, as
seen through the skin, but in year.
old bird 1t takes on a light purple
shade and grows darker with age.
Trim the young tree in the orchard
right from the start. Low-headed
trees are best; therefore. prune from
the top down and not from the bottom
up.
II has been shown repeatedly on
demonstration farms that disking be-
fore blowing is one Of the most paying
operations in the preparation Of a
seed bed.
When the calf is two weeks old
mix one teaspoonful Of linseed meal
and one teaspoonful of -four mid
dlings, which should be thoroughly
scalded in each feed.
Seeds Of caulifower, cabbage, let
tuce, celery and tomatoes, sown in the
cold frame about the middle Of this
month will furnish good. stocky plants
for the principal early summer crop.
The filters of a gilt, which is the
first litter Of a SOW, are usually
smaller and slower in growth than
when the dam Is Of more mature age,
hence much profit must not be ex-
pected.
Cold frame plants are often better
than plants raised in the hotbed, as
they are stouter, thick stemmed and
have more fine fibrous roots and are
less liable to wilt when set out in
the open ground.
Where prices are too low to feed
young pigs for porkers, 1t is better to
sell them for sucking pigs. although
this plan is seldom resorted to owing
to the better prices which are obtain
able for the former.
August is none too early to decide
which plants shall be taken into the
window garden and their treatment
from the time Of the decision should
be such as will At them to make fine
display during the winter, rather than
get the finest present showing.
In the newer methods adopted in
some Of the largest dairies the milk
10 not touched by the hands Of the
workers from the time the cows are
automatically MIXED with a machine
70 the time the fluid is placed in bot
ties rSady for delivery.
In the flower garden SOW sweet
peas outdoors Just as early as possible.
Il is important to set them in early,