Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-12-25

Hogs suffer for the want OF water.
For winter lambs the ewes should
be bred In July.
Eggs In winter mean money and the
lack Of them means loss.
Good roads mean good schools;
good schools good citizenship.
Good roads bring the producer and
consumer In personal contact.
Marketing the products of the farm
is Of equal importance as their pro
duction.
In order to obtain eggs II is neces.
sary to have healthy, vigorous stock,
properly fed.
Butter churned too soft cannot be
properly washed, and so contains a
great deal Of buttermilk.
Turkeys should always be allowed
free range because they are unprofit-
able when placed in confinement.
Considerable loss is occasioned on
many farms every year by allowing
crops to become too ripe before har-
vesting.
One bushel OF oats, four pounds OF
rape, and bushel OF field peas makes
a splendid acre seeding for temporary
pasture.
Cement has come to be regarded as
one OF the cheapest, as we'll as the
best and most durable materials for
stable floors.
Regular careful milking permanent
ly improves the animal as a milk pro.
ducer, aside from directly increasing
the milk flow.
Cows should be given all the pure
water they can drink. not less than
twice day. 1t has a decided effect
upon the milk production.
A good cold weather protector or
storm door for the house, can be made
by lacking a piece Of oilcloth, muslin
or roofing over the screen door.
Before you rid the dairy herd Of the
"robber COW" make sure that she is
having fair show by being supplied
with the proper rations, care and shell.
ter.
There is no better time than now to
get rid Of the poorer COW. Feed is too
high to waste 1t on COWS that could
not pay their board when feed was
cheaper
No other farm animal requires so
much kindness as the dairy COW. Han
ding the heifer in q roughshod man.
ner is an excellent way to make an
unruly, nervous COW.
The dairy farmer can raise hogs
cheaper than anyone else and natural
ly more important than the cost of
feed this makes a better profit for
him from this one line.
When we put blinds on the bride of
the nervous horse we only add fuel to
the flames. Do not forget this i'm
portant fact when you go to work that
fool horse" or that "onery cuss."
Your chickens require plenty Of air
but not Of the drafty kind. It is much
better to have the whole side Of your
house open than to have the air
streaming In through knothole.
To prevent bad flavors in butter
great care must be used in milking,
in handling the milk and cream. and
in making the butter. Everything
used must be kept in a sanitary con-
dillon.
The White Holland turkey although
somewhat smaller than the Bronze, is
noted as q good layer and economical
meat producer, and their feathers are
worth considerable more than those
from the Bronze.
In developing the pigs for breeding
one should handle them rather differ
emily than when heIs feeding them
for market. Such pigs need feed rich
er in pi tein. in other words. more |
ilesh-fori ing foods.
An acre OF soil nine inches deep, II |
Of ordinary fertility, IL estimated to
weigh about 100000 pounds, and
contains about 1000 pounds Of nitro
gent 1000 pounds Of phosphoric acid
and 5000 pounds Of potash.
When the new stock SOW or boar 10 |
resolved at the farm, put By itself for
. month or six weeks at least II at
that time Il seems perfectly healthy
and has been improving IN assh. It Il
safe % PVT 4 with the other stock.
MS q azllls preventive Of the D.
IrofaelIon Of disease on TIE farm.