Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-09-18

Sell only fresh eggs.
Time to select seed potatoes.
Lime is beneficial 10 clay soils.
Good feeders prepare in advance fol
their stock.
The fowl does not perspire as dc
most animals.
The fast walker is the profitable
horse on the farm.
System in the dairy should surpasi
all other matters on the farm.
The quantity Of milk in the pail IL
the most dependable sign OF goot
mixer.
BY keeping stock always in a good
condition the cost Of maintenance it
lessened.
Laying hens should have their hoav.
lest feed OF the day not long before
roosting time.
The energies of the dairy cows are
convertible into a profit almost every
day Of her life.
The only time to develop stock is
when you see the animal is young
and growing fast.
Farming on q bushes basis elimi
mates small mules just as 1t dis
places small horses.
The duck comes nearer perpetual
motion than anything on the farm
not excepting the boys.
Pasture or other feed will 70 farther
when there is plenty OF water, shade.
and protection from flies.
When O COW is foundered. plenty OF
water to drink and very light feed.
will often correct the trouble.
II you want to raise a good COW
you must first raise a good calf from
the start all the way up TO the COW.
Milk utensils should have sun
bath every day. but they should be
protected from dust at the same time.
II tissue paper is squeezed hard and
stuffed into q mousehole 1t will form
a barrier through which mice will not
nibble.
While there is but little sale in
market for guineas, they are the near
est approach to the wild fowls OF any
meat known.
Dairying and poultry raising go to
gether. the waste Of the dairy being
more proftably fed to poultry than
anything else.
Where calves are kept in the barn,
furnish plenty OF bedding, and when
out of doors have a suitable place for
q shelter and shade.
Poultrymen who have tried 1t,
claim that a teaspoonful OF Venetian
red in a gallon of drinking water Is
a good bowel trouble preventive.
Mice and rats have little show
around buildings or homes where or
der prevails and general farm santa
ton is looked after as it should be.
Give the pigs fair start in life by
Feeding the SOW upon milk producing
ratlons. There is nothing much bet
ter than skim milk mixed with shorts.
In the market stock yards the
bunch Of hogs that is even in weight.
conformation and color will bring
more than the lot made up OF all
sorts.
Keep the apple trees well sprayed
TO Tree tnem ITOHl tHC uSOAu Se''S
work of insects worms and scab. II
a satisfactory crop OF fruit Is to be
expected.
Feeding in sheep husbandry is Ike
any other problem in live stock man
aeement! However good the breed
without good care and feeding they
will degenerate.
The truth is the farmers OF the
middle west are raising better NUT
ton than ever before. and people are
learning that It is about the best and
cheapest meat they can buy.
II ia a mistake to discard breed
On the supposition that 1t is not a
hardy one. Hardness can be instili-
: ed IN any breed by proper housing
proper food. proper attention. and sys-
tematic breeding.
A poultry breeder is greatly pleased
Nth the success Of his diet Of steel
cut oats and new milk for young
chIclrs. He altenates his feeds. Civ
Inv ne oats and milk one meal, and
- = ,-,rf-oH orafua IN litter