Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-04-17

Keep poultry houses clean.
Clean ouS the feed troughs daily.
Sweet clover does well ON any
soil.
vetch and rye viii grow wen to
gether.
Foamy butter IL q sign that the
cream Ia too sour.
Sharpen and repair the garden tools
for next seasons use.
Young peach trees are never a
sturdy as apple treea.
The littls things on the farm often
represent tho best profit
II takes just little bad cream tc
spoil the whole batch for butter.
Watch your machinery for loose
bolts and nuts. and don't forget the
oil can.
Wherever dairy products are work
ed up on the farm the dairy thermom'
eter Is essential.
Summer or winter q good dairy
thermometer pays its way wherever
dairy cows are kept.
In setting the orchard stick to the
proven varieties. Let some one else
do the experimenting.
To double the amount Of milk per
acre and cut the cost Of milk produc'
ton in two-build q silo.
Build the roosts all one height. II
saves competition among the hens to
see which can roost the highest.
Two OF the best acreagesaving
money-making propositions up to the
farmers today are silage and alfalfa.
The manager of one OF the largest
duck farms claims that an expert can
scald and dress q duckling in ten min
utes.
An open shed makes the best place
for the turkeys to roost. but 1t should
not be SO open as to furnish no pro
lection.
Decay soon spreads in fruit or vege-
tables in the cellar To be on the safe
side they should be culled over fire.
quently.
The incubator lamp should be filed
and cleaned every day at noon. This
will give ample time to regulate thu
fame by night.
Ventilation is essential to both man
and beast. Oftentimes the cattle are
better provided for along this line
than the children.
Pasturing grass too soon or too
hard rs an expensive way Of saving
feed; It costs several times the
amount Of feed saved.
A little careful feeding about ten
days before freshening time Is all
that is necessary to prevent milk fever
and other udder troubles.
Butter for market wrapped in pa
per will always get the edge in price,
and the expense Is trifing. A quarter
buys a big batch Of butter paper.
In your order for nursery stock.
don't fail to include a few Concord
grape vines. Quality and hardness
considered, you can't beat the Con-
cord out here.
By raising standard bred 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.
BY keeping q little tab on the hens
that are laying best. now; then set
ting the eggs from these hens In early
spring, one is pretty sure to develop q
flock Of flrst-class winter layers.
Keeping the cold out Of the stables
BY excluding all fresh air Is endanger-
ing the health Of stock. Fresh air,
without cold drafts, Is what is desired,
though It is some trouble to secure
such conditions.
II the buttermaker uses more than
the right proportion Of salt, thinking
thereby to increase the weight cheap
" he Is lowering the quality Of his
product and increasing the weight but
little. Not more than one ounce to the
pound should be used
Fresh air 4 important IN successful
uonitry culture. To house fowls IA q
Close. stuity building. VIII result IN
colds which Lead on 70 rohp Since
the advent Of the scratching shed
houses the value Of fresh afr has