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

Diversified farming is best.
The guinea is a great forager.
The silo Is the farmers friend.
Tho calf OF today Is the COW OF to-
morrow.
A good dispositioned horse is one
that is healthy.
A mule scents danger almost as UNI
erringly as the elephant.
The man who raises scrub stock
usually raises scrub grain.
Manure piles are good for the pro-
duction OF gapes in chickens.
The more rapidly the animals are
finished and fattened, the greater the
profits.
Improbable cows should be fat
tened up at once and sent to the
shamblcs.
The collie is the only dog that has
any business around sheep. Shoot the
prowling cur.
Under like conditions. young AMI
mails make the largest gain in proper
ton to food consumed.
Sheep rightly managed can be made
to aid the farmer materially in Kidding
the land of noxious weeds.
Don't allow the sheep to rush or
squeeze through doors or gates. 1t
may injure the unborn lambs.
Flowing gardens in the fall gets rid
OF most of the weed seed and makes
them easier to tend next spring.
The larger the animal is and the
rougher it is the greater the amount
required for the food Of support.
Go out and purchase one or more
good sows and enjoy your own pork
as we'll as an increased bank account.
You should be feeding for the lamb
crop. The ewes must grow wool, lambs
and mutton all at once. Feed accord
ingly.
1t Is impossible to produce clean
milk and cream unless the COWS,
stable. milking utensils and separator
are clean.
Corn is perhaps one OF the best sin.
gle grains for poultry. but 1t is very
fattening and should not make up
the entire ration.
There is no play connected with
earning a living, neither is there any
play work connected with any depart
ment of farm work.
In hot weather or in drawing heavy
loads. watch your horses breathing.
II he breathcs hard or short and
quick. it is time to stop.
Farming is now becoming such a
complicated business that certain fac!
tors are just as necessary in making
il success as in any other business.
Poultry houses that are up.to-date
are no longer double boarded affairs
that are closed up at every point. but
are fresh air houses with plenty of ven.
tilation.
Early selection OF seed corn from
tue field of standing corn permits a
of the stalk on which
each ear grew and the chances each
stalk had.
Rye. barley and oats. equal parts.
ground and made in slop with skim
milk. will make any pig make a hog |
Of himself in short order. It is the |
best feed out
In formulating a ration due regard |
should be had to it's palatability. A
low will give better returns il she rel
shes her food. It stimulates the APP
,etite and aids digestion.
Every bit of manure that can be Sc.
cured, should be scattered over the
fields at this season while you have
line. The yield OF your land can be
increased in no easier or cheaper way.
II an animal gets out OF condition.
ppears to run down and does not rel.
sh its food, a little faxseed boiled in
ats and fed two quarts at a time for
few days will soon give him a good
ppetite.
Do not select seed corn from hills
Iaving only one stalk, as a good ear
N such a stalk is due to favorable
rather than to its inherent
bility to Weld we'll under average