Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-02-02
Take care Of the tools.

The dry cow should never pc neg
lected.
A log drag will shorten up a long
bad road wonderfully.
The condition of the live stock re-
fleets the ability Of the owner.
Work of all the old rough Leg
fowls, but first make them fat.
Many a man has been lured from a
good farm by some petty political po'
sition.
II We implant fear in the hearts Of
our children, we may expect 1t to turn
to hate.
A nice easy mixer is a source Of
pleasure to the one who does the
milking.
II farm dairying pays under ordi-
nary conditions the better the method
the better the profit.
Never again, says the man who
started with dunghills. Get a good
strain to start with and be success
full.
Sunlight, crude oil, lime, carbolic
acid, pure air, clean houses and
yards. are cheaper than drugs and
dope.
More depends upon the right choice
Of kinds of fruit to set than upon any
other one factor as to profit in the Or
chard.
The management OF the eve lambs
throughout the winter months should
be directed to developing their con-
formation.
II you are in the poultry business
right, 1t is not too early to begin
planning for your breeding pens for
next season.
No one can breed up fine flock Of
chickens without culling closely. This
often seems difficult, but 1t is abso-
lutely necessary.
Strawberries need acid In the soil;
the lime in hen manure neutrallzes
the acid; therefore. hen manure Is
harmful to strawberries.
1t would be a good thing for the
chickens on many farm to move the
poultry yard and give the fowls new
clean ground to run over.
In an experiment made by a poul.
try keeper last winter, Is hens that
were fed milk laid more eggs than
100 fed on cut bone and meat.
Pigs that are allowed to pile up
will come out in the morning sweat
Ing, and be sure to be more or less
with colds and snufles.
Where hoed crops are intended to
be grown between young trees the
ground should be MANFRED freely or
the growing crop will injure the trees.
Neglected fruit trees are not worth
the ground they occupy; they are an
syesore, and when pest-infested they
are a positive menace to the neigh
borhood.
Be sure to cool down each skim
ming before putting 1t into the cream |
Jar or storage receptacle. Then keAp |
Il cool ready to ripen with the pre-
pared starter.
With dry corn stalks and hay for |
one would want to feed
pretty literally and would hardly ex-
,ect to have the COWS eat up this
'oughage very clean.
One Of the great advantages that
,ome from getting a catch Of clover
N the light soils, is that the clover
cots make humus, or decaying veg
table matter in the soil.
Make a small paper cover and place
yver the mouthplece of your telephone
o keep out the dust which will gather
md is finally breathed into the lungs
Il the person who is speaking.
There Is much talk now and dIscus-
ion in the creamery circles to have
butter standard instead Of moist
re standard, and It IL probable that
bis will be worked out and in all
reliability the standard wiz be fixed
I g25k per cent fat for butter.
A great mistake that many dairy
nen are making Is the placing at the
cad OF their herds a bull Of feminine
IN addition to having a
.1tago 81 high producing dams The
nj aho1ld have 3 dlIflnpl masculine |,
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