Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-03-28
Alfalfa is an old plant.

Are you using good strain OF seed?
Don't allow the sweet corn fodder
to waste.
Peas are strongly recommended for
fattening sheep.
Sunlight for little pigs is almost as
essential as food.
Rape is one Of the best crops for
temporary hog pasture.
Horses should be carefully handled
in cold, stormy weather.
Late Matched turkeys should never
be used for breeding purposes.
Clean hay cannot be obtained from
soil that is foul with weed seeds.
In broiler raising careful attention
should be paid to the breeding stock.
Sheep ought to be kept because of
the influence which they exert upon
fertility.
Keep the brooder houses in a clean
sanitary condition and never over
crowd.
More pigs are raised in Pennsyl-
vania than in perhaps any other state
in the union.
In keeping cows never be without
clover. It is one Of the foods essen
tial to good dairying.
See that your brood sows get plenty
of exercise so that they may produce
large, healthy filters.
A man cannot work on boiled tur'
nips alone, neither can horse work
on a diet Of straw and fodder.
The matter Of spraying and pruning
is important and vital in connection
with the apple growing industry.
Gentleness and patience are always
important in the dairy barn, but
doubly so when handling the young
heifer.
The busy hen is the productive one;
hence she should be so fed as to in
duce the greatest activity, If In con-
flnement.
Weighing and testing a cows milk
will never make her give more. but 1t
will make her owner appreciate her
real worth more.
Winter dairying provides more care
and better feeding, but It also comes
at a time when 1t is possible to give
this care and feeding.
Keep the hogs well bedded on cold
nights and provide sufficient shelter
for them SO they will not be inclined
to crowd each other too much.
II market hogs are your specially
your aim is Of course to produce from
your brood sows as large number
of strong. healthy pigs as possible.
Lambs Of low vitality and ewes de-
ficient in milk flow at lambing time
are usually the result Of improper
management during the pregnant pc
Rod.
When out in the barnyard or corral
the COWS like to keep busy picking ut
some corn fodder or other roughage
even II they get enough feed in the
stables.
Clean pens, stalls, bedding, etc., and
plenty Of ventilation are important,
and without these things the hogs are
In such weak condition they are like
" to take anything.
Goose eggs require thirty days for
incubation and It is customary to
hatch at least some Of them with
hens, since the geese are heavy and
often not inclined to set.
When dirt from the cow or from
the milker is introduced into the milk
there is not only introduced the bad
flavor Of the manure, but also some
ferments common to the digestive
tract
AS soon as fall plowed ground is
dry enough in the spring the disk
should be put on 1t and kept going
every week or ten days so that mois-
ture will be stored up which may
come in handy during next July and
August.
Provide succulent food OF some
Kind in the sheep ration Silage Is
best. but II you have no silo. give
roots Of some kind - mangels, tug
nips or rutabagas-chopped into the