Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-05-25

Beet molasses acts Us tonic when
fed to stock.
Weeds harbor injurious insects and
plant diseases.
In breeding time hogs take 112 days
before they farrow.
Timothy seed may be sown in the
spring II 1t is sown early.
The main poultry building should
face the south or southeast.
The matter of feeding the mare is
quite an important consideration.
The bean straw makes a good feed
for sheep or cattle II properly handled.
The addition of manure to a clay
soil will make It lighter and warmer
The carrot. like most all root crops,
responds readily to frequent cultiva-
ton.
To grow cucumbers to perfection
plenty Of heat, light and moisture are
required.
Carrots should be sown early as
the crop, especially the late varieties,
require a long season.
Do not expect success with house
plants unless you give them enough
room and enough sunlight.
Clover and orchard grass seed
should be sown on winter grain be-
fore the frost is out Of the ground.
Pig losses are invariably found to
be much smaller where they are kept
on pasture than under any other con-
ditions.
The most potent cause of hens eat
ing their eggs is lack Of the mineral
elements in their system to make the
egg shell.
Barley is best suited for a cool eli
mate and a good soil, like limestone,
slate or red clay soil; a sandy loan is
too dry and hot.
While sweet corn will grow on al
most all good farm land, yet It will
yield larger ears on a deep, sandy or
river bottom loan.
A crop of beans can be grown and
marketed cheaper than a crop Of
corn and are much easier on the land,
being q nitrogen gatherer.
After long investigation, three
European scientists have decided that
trees, through their foliage. extract
free nitrogen from the atmosphere.
As soon as pigs commence to eat
spread q little whole oats over the
floor after the slop is eaten. Keep
the trOughs and fesd yards clean and
dry.
Rape may be seeded at any time
between early May and late June, de-
pending upon what time the crop is
wanted for forage or pasture pur-
poses.
Plaster, when properly applied, IL
beneficial to all leguminous crops, es-
pecially red, white, crimson and al
sike clovers; disc peas. beans and
potatoes.
The most economical, as we'll as the
best growing ration for weaned pigs
10 equal parts Of wheat middlings and
oat meal, and about one-fourth the |
amount Of haxseed meal.
The Indian Runner ducklings are
usually very active and hardy, and will |
quickly roam far and wide in search |
of insect life, which II plentiful viii |
form q large part Of their food.
The average bean crop for the
United States is about Is bushels but
individual growers are getting as high
as 40 bushel per acre where conditions
are right and at no greater expense.
The yield Of corn and potatoes IL
often largely increased from q change
in seed, especially where the improved
and adapted varieties take the place
o. run out, stock Of inferior quality.
Cockerels I'VE months old may be
booked upon as having attained their
growth, or, at least, having SUM-
cisntly appropriated maturity to be
ready for the fattening crate; and
these, with hens one year old and
upward, and old boosters, may Be sx-
p5otod . fsttsn "A from ten dsyS to
tuD weeks j