Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-05-01


An exclusive corn ration seldom
brings the best results.
A pig gives the best returns from
dairy products while young.
Sifted coal ashes are not fertilizers,
but they are good soil lighteners.
Duck raisers claim that hawk will
never attempt to steal q duckling.
II you positively must hurry your
horses, hurry them up hill. not down.
Clean all homegrown seed. ana
grade. so only the largest seed can DO
used.
Prepare to keep the young pigs
growing from the hour they enter the
world.
A little carelessness may result In
the loss Of a part Of or a whole litter
Of pigs.
For early lettuce, the common curly
kind does the best. Head lettuce
comes on later.
Have those fruit trees and plants
been ordered and the land made ready
to set them out?
Little things in poultry keeping are
like pieces Of lead; they weigh more
than you think they will.
Fine rotted manure from the stables
may be applied with great benefit TO
the grass II spread early.
A chill brought on by the udder
coming in contact with frosty ground
is apt to ruin your best COW.
The time to get a thing is when 1t
is there. The time to get the apple
worm Is before he gets inside.
Better keep the hens in the house
on cold, rainy days, or they will get
soaked and take rheumatism.
The eggs plant is one Of the least
known garden vegetables, and one
that deserves better being known.
Be sure the sows have plenty OF
pure water to drink, aside from the
slop they have. Stop is not drink.
When pigs should be weaned should
be determined as much as how they
are eating and growing as upon their
age. -.
II from o well-nourished dam and
healthy strain Of animals the pigs
rarely need attention at narrowing
time.
Do give the later summer Matched
chicks chance to eat their meals
without being run over by the other
birds.
As a general proposition 1t may be
said that the SOW that has pigs before
she is a year old will disappoint her
owner.
Although there is little data on the
subject, alfalfa silage Of good quality
would certainly make an excellent
hog feed
1t costs a good deal of money to
buy a satisfactory team. In most
cases this can be avoided by the
farmer raising his own.
Protein that is grown upon the
farm is often more valuable than that
which is purchased in concentrated
form, and 1t Is also cheaper.
AS soon as the ewes have dropped
their lambs, and all danger OF fever
and caked udder is past, most liberal
feeding should be practiced.
The tillage, the crops and the in
come from the farm are all more OF
less dependent upon the economical
management of the work teams.
Eighty-five per cent. Of a pound OF
ids other than fat, that were In the
ture. salt and a small amount Of sol
ids other than fat, that were in the
cream.
| Old berry boxes, tin cans and paper
pots are excellent for transplantine
cabbage, tomato and other early vege
, tables into until they can be set IN
! the field.
Do not let the colts run down in con
dition on frost-bitten grass. They
may fll up. but the nourishment ISM
, there. A loss in the condition Of
; growing colt is a most serious one.
J The report Of the Commonwealth
, of Massachusetts shows that as q re
, suit Of its efforts to dispose OF unoc
cupied farm lands about 100 farmi