Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-11-06

Clean up the garden.
Spread the manure daily.
The horse is still on the Job.
Clean up the strawberry bed.
It takes 30 days to hatch q setting
OF goose eggs.
Stop at the top Of the hill and let
your horse get breath.
Give an ailing animal change OF
diet. An ailing man, also.
Cool the milk as soon as 1t Is out
Of the COW. This is very important
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Prune and burn all the diseased
limbs and fruits clinging to the fruit
trees.
Keeping two cows to do the work
OF one is the cause of many losses In
dairying.
Charcoal in pieces the size OF pea
or burnt cork once a week is good for
all poultry.
One advantage in keeping poultry Is
that they eat much that would other
wise be wasted.
To thrive best the young pigs must
have dry nests, and the bedding should
be changed frequently.
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The man who fails to profit by his
mistakes is losing one Of the best les
sons taught by experience.
Poultry makes good insect destroy
crs for orchards. Have the runs ex'
tend into the orchards when possible.
Don't disappoint your customers.
Keep your promises and don't make
promises unless you know you can
fulfill them.
A good mixture for growing calves
is FIVE parts rolled oats, three parts
wheat bran, one part corn meal and
one part oil meal.
Sheep manure is one Of the best
farm manures. 1t contains a large
percentage Of nitrogen and portion
Of phosphoric acid and potash.
II is much easier to run flock OF
poultry down than to build 1t up, and
nothing will run down flock Of chick
ems quicker than improper feed
ing.
For the production OF sanitary milk
the dairyman must have healthy
COWS, q Sanitary barn, clean bedding.
dust.free air, a clean barnyard and
clean cows.
An acre of alfalfa will furnish more
high class protein feed than almost
any other crop that is grown in the
sections where dairying is followed
to the best advantage.
Provide ample roosting places for
the growing young stock. Beware Of
crowding. Nothing Is 30 conducive
to colds as the overheating that
comes Of crowded quarters.
There is a good market for all kinds
Of feathers. Pick fowls dry and sort
feathers, the coarse from the fine.
They can easily be preserved until
enough are collected to take to
market
While coarse manure hauled out
and spread in the spring may not
greatly benefit the crop OF that
year It is better hauled out at any
time than left to leach and burn
In the barn yard.
Machinery is necessary on the farm
and cheaper than hand labor, and 1t Is
also more efficient in many cases.
The farmer must have considerable
money tied up in his machinery and
therefore It is necessary to give 1t the
very best OF care, both when in use
and when stored.
In selecting the bulls to head the
herd or buying any stock to put in
the herd. ancestry is Of as much I'M
uortance as individuality. but both
must be considered. It is wrong to
take a poor individual because Of an
cestry and II is also wrong to take a
good individual that does not have any
ancestry.
Raise your own teams and ONE oc-
casionaIly for your neighbor. So long
"A men use improved implements they
viii continue to use good teams. And
the best way to have an efhcient team
on your own farm IL to raise colts for
this purpose.
II your poultry houses are old.
after thoroughly patching them up,
Rive them a thorough coating Of
strong vhitewash containing kero-
-. IN ,nd sorna earbollc acid Give