Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-01-22

The COW is not a machine.
MIX is a food. not beverage.
Manure Is q valuable by.product
II is poor economy to stint on the
cows feed.
Clean up the garden. Remove or
burn all trash.
Alfalfa contains more protein per
ton than clover or corn.
There is more profit in grunting
pig than in a squealing one.
When common scours appear imme-
diately reduce the feed one.half.
Newfoundland has for several years
steadily increased its agricultural pro-
duction.
Switzerland is first and Belgium
second in the interest taken in the
raising Of bees.
To insure vigorous lambs careful at
tention must be given the ewes while
they are carrying the lambs.
A well bred steer calf. made into
beef as quickly as possible. yields q
fair profit on high priced land.
Inbreeding OF bees is as impractical
as inbreeding OF animals, but the diff
Guilty is in controlling the drones.
Farming is simply a business propo-
sition. To be successful the farmer
must run his farm on business basis.
The raising OF a couple of good
horse or mule colts on the farm each
year does not call for an increased
investment.
Those who are feeding bundle corn
TO their cattle must make arrange
ments to have hogs follow them or
the waste will be too great.
The farmer who marketed his corn
in the hog yard and who is now mar
keting the hogs. can look any man In
The face and tell him to go to any OLD
place.
A standard division of the work on
any farm should be the growth OF
every crop which can help towards
the sustenance Of the stock or the
family.
Keep the manure cleaned up well
around the barn yard and carried to
the fields. putting 1t on poor spots.
You will note big difference in crops
another year.
It is better to SOW alfalfa late rather
than early in the spring. On well-pre-
pared land not more than six pounds
of good seed properly sown will be
called for per acre.
Dairying is a good division Of agri-
culture to provide a regular income
IN the farm and to convert coarse
feeds into salable products where prof.
i's may be made.
Autumn Is the ideal season for hor'
ticulture. and as the farmer often has
no time to prune, spray and mulch the
trees in the spring, he is now due to
get busy in the orchard.
It pays to buy a well-made stlo. A
poor one is expensive at any price.
Cement for this purpose is worthy Of
consideration. One cannot afford to
make a mistake in silo building.
A cream separator will not do its
best work unless II runs smoothly and
does not vibrate. That's where q
solid, concrete foundation comes in.
II also means longer life for the ma
chine.
Winter feed must generate heat, and
the colder the climate the more atten-
ton must be paid to this detail. Corn,
barley, peas, buckwheat, oil meal. po-
tatoes and rye all come in the list Of
heat-producers.
II plenty Of bran IL fed, the pigs win
seldom become constipated. Much
PHOSPHORUS is needed to grow a good
frame, and bran supplies considerable
of this, and the addition OF bonemeal
or ground phosphate rock win be bene-
fetal.
A windmill with five widely sepa-
rated vanes has been adopted for irri-
CATION purposes in Italy's new pos
sessions in Africa Rs the only kind
that win withstand high winds and
at the same time work In light
breezes.
The pure-bred bull has done great
deal TO improve the dairy herds Of the
middle west All states, or at least
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