Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-12-12

Stubble will catch the snow.
Paint beauties the farm house.
Paint puts the proft.making touch
onto the buildings.
Cabbage which Is to be stored
should be handled with care.
II there were fewer whips In the
world there would be fewer ugly
horses.
II is Just rs necessary to flt q col
lar to a horse as It is to fit shoe TO
the foot.
The young calf should be trained
to lead. This habit will be decidedly
appreciated in later years.
A man cannot work on boiled tur'
nips alone: neither can a horse work
on a diet Of straw and fodder.
Alfalfa is injured by pasturing, and
can not be recommended II the neios
are to be Kept for meadow purposes.
II is entirely possible that you may
be able to double the income from
your COWS by selling half the cows.
Well.managed poultry is preferable
to farm crops, in that poultry Will
produce an income at all times OF the
years
II costs a good deal Of money to buy
a satisfactory team. In most cases
this can be avoided by the farmer
raising his own.
When a bird becomes Ill. separate 1t
from the rest OF the flock BY doing
SO the spread Of an infectious disease
may be averted.
Always tie your team or put them
in a barn when you 90 to town. 1t
is much cheaper than having to buy
a new harness and wagon.
The horse that is all the time being
tanned with the whip never knows
what his master means by 1t, and
comes to think he means Just nothing.
Indigestion is the cause OF more
than half the diseases Of the horse.
and largely caused by improper food
and working horses on full stomach.
Il Is more profitable to have the
hens IN laying condition for the period
when prices are high than It is to at
tempt to preserve" eggs until that
time.
All implements that are not needed
further this summer should be taken
to the Toulouse and protected from
the sun. A dollar saved il equal to
a dollar made.
BY raising standardized poultry
one will be able to sell stock and eggs
for breeding purposes and get much
better prices than when selling eggs
and fowls for food only.
The San Jose scale is not capable
of living and thriving on all kinds Of
plants, and 1t Is extremely important
that the grower should know which
ones are most liable to attack.
The COW gets up on her hind feet
first, her head down. For this reason
the manger should be low and the
COW allowed enough freedom In her
stall SO that she can rise with ease
Men who are inexperienced in al
falfa growing should have forced on
their attention the important lesson
that II pays well to put q little labor
on the surface after removing each
crop.
Present indications are that hog
prices will make another fight with
in the next Eve or six months. This
ought to be a good time to get a
bunch Of shoats together and feed
them skim-milk.
Keep a sharp lookout for fOotrot,
and at the very first signs of lame
ness cut out all the affected parts Of
the hoof and force the entire flock
70 walk through a shallow trough con-
tanning disinfectAnt
The manure spreader should be the
generally used tool on the farm, but
this. is no reason why It should be
left unprotected in the storms and
wintered in the snow bank A shed
for the spreader would be beat econ
Omy.
To produce milk economically We
should use the roughageI Of our
farms wherever II 'is possible. for By |
90 doing we not only save the labor
~ hauling bulky material. but It viii |
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