Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-06-01

The Gamma, like corn needs moisture
and heat to develop properly.
Don't let the weeds get a start
kill 'em while they are a-borning.
The horse Is known by It's years,
but the mule is better known by its
ears.
When you hoe corn, thin 1t out TO
not more than three good stalks to
the hill.
The ewes must have plenty Of pal
atable food both before and after the
lambs come.
A flock Of so hens, or not more than
100. properly fed and cared for will
pay handsomely.
If the butter is packed in jars or 9th.
err receptacles. they, too, must be ster-
ilized as above stated.
The ashes OF the elm. oak and beach
are the most valuable for applying to
farm and garden crops.
Cattle should not be pastured in
the orchard, a sthey pack the ground
hard and brulse the young wood.
After trees are planted, mulch with
one foot of leaves or rotted straw;
water If season should be hot and
dry.
The calf should be kept in the pen
and not tied out on grass until the
weather is warm and the ground IL
dry.
Enormous yields Of potatoes can be
secured under irrigation, provided the
moisture in the soil is uniform and
continuous.
Tobacco stems contain large guam
titles of potash and are worth eight to
ten dollars per ton for topdressing
grass and grain.
You will get more fruit by spraying
thoroughly and the quality will be
such that you can sell more Of 1t as
first-class fruit.
Good orchardists say that an or
chard neglected for one year without
spraying or pruning and cultivation,
puts 1t back fully three years.
Five dollars invested in package
material will pay many times the In
vestment in the better prices the
fruit will bring when properly packed.
Plan to raise fine flock Of general
purpose standardized birds this sea-
son. They will yield much more sat
isfaction and profit than a mixed
flock.
Western alfalfa Is ground into very
fine meal form and after being mixed
with molasses is sold to western dairy
men and poultry raisers for from $50
a ton up.
If there is no other chance to get
sunlight into the COW barn 1t might
not be much of a chore to cut few
openings in the south or west side and
put in some windows.
To feed so laying hens one month
will require 200 pounds of oats and
cracked corn or 300 pounds of wheat
screenings, in addition to the rye and
grass pasture and ground meat and
bone.
Two perennials which are compare,
lively new and most beautiful and
satisfactory are the Burbank daisy
and the lovely cherry-red, hardy car
nation pink. You make no mistake In
ordering them.
The leguminous crops grown on the
farm are the clovers-red, mammoth,
white and alsike-alfalfa, peas, beans
and vetches. Much of the farmers
prosperity depends on the use he
makes Of these plants.
Ten million dollars is a neat sum
to pay each year for the ravages Of
one animal, yet this is the figure
given by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture as the damage
done by the pocket gophers.
A practical method of keeping ami.
mails, as dogs, pigs, chickens. and
cats, from injuring the hotbed and |
its contents, is a section Of wire fence
cut to the size Of the bed, with de-
tachable clasp on the four sides.
The practical farmer by harvesting |
the clover in season and securing the
hay In the best possible condition
can secure an additional profit by feed