Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-01-12
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Don't hurry the ducks.
The little chicks like q clean house
as well as anyone.
When about three weeks old is q
critical time with early chicks.
In ordering trees Of any kind con-
suit your soil. climate and market as
to varieties.
Young apple trees 1T for setting are
higher than last year. Poor trees are
awfully dear as gift
The great difficulty confronting the
average planter is in selecting varie-
ties adapted to his particular soil.
The pure bred herd OF hogs will
be more profitable even from the
standpoint of meat production than
the scrubs.
The pea vines can easily be cured
by spreading them on sod land. Pea
vine hay is considered better than
clover hay.
Nature will reclaim and make
profitable what man has apparently
destroyed II given time and opportu-
nifty to do so.
Standard varieties Of strawberries
are known quantity, untried varie-
ties a good way to lose valuable time,
labor and money.
When a mixer does all sorts of
farm work he will soon have his
hands in bad shape for handling the
cows udder properly.
For family use set the varieties the
different members like. For market
what the ultimate consumer likes. It
will pay to consult him.
Beef scraps or cut green bone must
be fed in winter to furnish the meat
food, which is necessary for the pro
ductiOn Of a large number of eggs.
II you keep cross-bred or mongrel
hens. buy a well-built, vigorous male
and see how much bigger, better lay.
ing, more uniform the chicks will be
next summer.
The American hen has made her
place in agriculture by producing mil.
lions Of dollars every year and she
has earned the respect Of every right
thinking farmer in the land.
The nurseryman prefers to sell
something which brings immediate
satisfaction rather than to urge upon
the customer a poor tree which he
receives with protest and harbors
under suspicion.
Information gathered from q num-
Der Of sources indicates that cattle
will consume from 30 to 100 pounds Of
water per day per head; that horses
weighing 1900 pounds will consume
from 30 to 80 pounds per day.
When the utmost cleanliness is not
observed in the poultry yard the birds
become infested with vermin, which
set up q certain amount Of irritation,
and to overcome this the fowls are
constantly picking at their feathers.
There are usually two ways Of do |
ing anything. the right way and the
wrong way. The wrong way to feed |
steers is TO feed them without hogs |
following. The waste that hogs get |
Is sometimes the only profit there is |
In the transaction.
Poultry raising In Germany has not |
kept pace with the demands OF the |
market Imports Of poultry into Ger.
many have increased in 20 years from
$500, 900 annually to nearly S50,O00.-
600 worth at the present time, an IN
crease that Is almost Incredible.
Prof. Bailey, Of the agricultural col.
Iege Of Cornell university. says "ani-
mails born when the moon Is new. or
increasing, will be much more likely
70 thrive than those unfortunately
born at the opposite period. In tia
new OF the moon is the time to set /
hens, to plant corn and other things
that grow above ground. Planted IN
the old Of the moon. seeds Of such
plants win probably rot On the 9TH
er hand. crops that grow under the
ground. as potatoes and beets. should
be planted IN the old Of the moon"