Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-02-01

Separate all indisposed turkeys.
Have a regular day for greasing the
wagon.
The COW is q vital part Of the dairy
machine.
The olive trees date back to very
early times.
Few horses can digest perfectly
clear timothy hay.
There is no animal more unprofit-
able than poor sheep.
Horses that have a light hay diet
are seldom affected with heaves.
It does not make very much, II any,
difference when q COW is fed grain.
Good horse blankets are savers OF
valuable horse flesh and high.priced
feed.
You can hardly push pigs too fast,
providing you use the right kind Of
food.
Dirty collars are probably as re-
sponsibIe for sore shoulders as ILL.,
fitting ones.
You cannot fatten a brood SOW and
fatten hog alike and make the best
success of both.
From eight to ten hens to one tom |
is good mating with turkeys, and |
should produce $50 poults.
A good COW ought to produce on an
average rs pounds OF four per cent.
milk daily for 800 days in the year.
Close housing and bad ventilation in
the COW stable are favorable conli-
tions for starting tuberculosis in
herd.
Besides dry nesting quarters. the
pigs should have a good-sized lot in
which they may get plenty Of exer-
else.
As long as the breeding of a SOW
is profitable she should be bred. 1t
is not advisable to sell of a good
brood animal.
Groom the horses well after hard
work. The skin is thus not only
cleaned, but safeguarded against para
site diseases.
Brush the mud off the cows udder
and flank. then wipe of with damp
cloth. You can't strain mud out Of
milk. Keep 1t out.
The COW your neighbor does noti
want to sell is the one you want to
buy. Get around this dilemma by
raising that kind yourself.
Three years Of spraying, pruning
and cultivation will bring an orchard
thai you are ashamed Of into a condi-
ton that you will be proud Of.
Scrape of loose, peeling bark from
the trunks of trees before spraying
them, because this serves as an excel
lent breeding place for insects.
To get the best eggs for Matching,
the rations should be Of good grains
balanced by milk or meat food and
must Include green food in some
form.
High prices should not tempt the
wise dairyman to part with his good (
cows and hcifers. Remember they
are Just as valuable to you as to any 1
body else.
In yarding sheep, don't forget a
constant supply of good fresh water /
and rOck-salt are a necessity; also, 1
plenty Of good fresh bedding, and al '
ways q dry lair. t
After narrowing when the digestive
system Of the SOW has reached nor [
NAL condition her ration should DO
gradually increased until she Is get {
ting all she can eat
Ewes VIII suifer less and have fewer
spoiled udders II they are confined to {
small lots or Enclosures, with dry feed, c
for a few days after they have been c
robbed OF their lambs. Z
Never buy horse, II You can avoid
It, with a narrow or shallow chest, or /
whose foreless are close together. 4
Such an animal lacks room adequate .
for the lung capacity to be long {
winded. q
A piece Of tarred paper or wire
netting should be fastened around the
stem Of all spring and fall planted Il
trees. Tie the tarred paper clusely g
~ the hoffom and NJ the ton. This n