Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-03-23
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Buttermaking is an art.

Gapes is caused by small worm IN
the windpipe.
Most farzN S~rfdings are built too
close to To- dwelling.
In preparing a seed bed for sweet
eiONer do a thorough job.
Very little is known about the actual
value of rye as a poultry food.
The barn that Is banked up VIII
have fewer draughts over the floor.
Don't leave your valuable farm ma
chinery standing unprotected IN the
field.
Dat straw is an excellent rough feed
for sheep. Wheat straw is next in
value.
Overcrowding the eve flock during
the winter months is frequent cause
Of severe losses.
Very early spraying with Bordeaux
is the thing for all kinds of fungus rot
and for peach leaf curl.
Fresh, green bone is of itself almost
a complete feed, and may be used as a
special material for egg production.
Farmers should not buy more land
until that which they already have
is producing to its maximum capacity
Exercise is OF prime importance in
several ways. 1t keeps the pigs MIN
BILE and in a healthy condition gener-
ally.
Before putting the chicks into the
brooder 1t is q good plan to sprinkle
them carefully with good insect
powder.
One of the first needs OF the pigs is
q comfortable place in which TO pass
more than half OF the time, sleeping
and resting.
Breeding stock should be selected
for health, strength, vigor and matu.
rity first, utility second and fancy
points third.
It is a we'll known fact that properly
managed a 20, 40 or so acre farm will
return in addition to living, fine
income for the family.
The dairyman having a productive
farm Of 1870 to 200 acres can easily
raise six to eight Of his best marked
female calves each season.
The annual income from milk and
butter in the United States is said to
be more than the output Of the gold
and the silver mines.
Carrots are fed to horses not SO
much for their feeding value. but for
their influence in keeping the digestive
organs in good condition.
II requires ice to handle milk,
cream or butter, so see to 1t that you
will be fully supplied with this cheap
article for next summers use.
In winter dairy farmers often for
get that nothing is cheaper and more
beneficial than pure air, sunlight and
O reasonable amount of exercise.
Fowls should always be starved for
at least "a hours before being killed,
so as to have their crops and intes-
tines thoroughly free from food Of any
kind.
There is q steady demand for nuts.
The English walnut. pecan, Spanish.
Japanese and American chestnuts,
butter nuts and shellbarks are the
most profitable.
The difficulties experienced in
spreading poultry manure, on account
OF its sticky consistency, may be OBJ
waited by mixing with loan. peat or
common stable manure.
Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
duction are very much like anything
that stimulates a human being. After
the immediate results wear of the
bird Is in worse shape than before be
ing fed.
People think that II hens don't lay
IN the winter they viii in the sum-
mer. but this is a mistake, as It has
been found that the winter layers will
produce as many eggs in the summer
as the noD-winter layers.
Az regards rotation Of crops, unless
the western farmer is willing to see
his land become, even in the present
generation, as valueless for agricul-
turnl use as 70 80 much Of New Eng
and, he must adopt and adhere 70
some Systematic use Of restorative