Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-02-26


The clumsy horse suffers from cold.
Use the best breeding stock that
you can AFFORD.
Color in butter is important but
flavor counts for more.
II will pay for owners to keep indl-
vidual records Of cows even In small
herds.
The young mare has fretted and
fumed. always half length ahead Of
the old horse.
Leguminous plants do not thrive in
soils where the accompanying bac-
terra are absent.
Hens that are put out into the cold
and snow are soon chilled out OF the
egg-laying notion.
The most frequent fault of old
peach trees is the absence Of fruiting
wood in its lower branches.
Kerosene is a great remedy In the
poultry pen. 1t may be used as q
medicine, also as a disinfectant.
Alfalfa is the forage crop that
means much for the development Of
diversified farming and more stock.
A horses usefulness is measured BY
its strength and rapidity Of move
ment rather than by size and weight.
The man who will grow strictly
fancy asparagus need never want long
for any OF the comforts this world AZ
fords.
Butter that is washed until It is dry
and hard usually lacks that quick,
fresh taste that is In butter not 80 dry
and hard.
One OF the greatest mistakes with
beginners Is the tendency to crowd so
fowls into place where there is room
for only 20.
Inheritance has something to do
with persistency in milking, though
care and feed will encourage and es-
tablish the habit
You can find prosperous dairy farm
ers in every locality. There are neigh
bors who don't make the cows pay. It
is In the men. not In the soil.
A few Goals from the wood fire Of
the kitchen put into the houses now
and then. where the hogs can grind
them up to charcoal. help to keep the
hogs healthy.
Fortunate is the man who has q
big crop of pumpkins. They should
be gathered before frost. and fed to
the cows. Don't be afraid the seeds
win hurt the cows.
No man should forget that the
dairy barn is the place where human
food that is most susceptible to out
side influences is produced. Have the
barn in good condition.
Garden beans have been developed
from several species Of wild forms.
and all Of the common kinds are very
tender to frost and require a warm
season and sunny exposure.
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One OF the methods OF preventing
injury to apple trees from the woolly
aphis is to have the trees grated on
Northern Spy roots, as this variety
seems never to be seriously attacked.
The beginner in selecting breeding
stock should appreciate the advantage
he will secure in using much care In
the selection of stock and the sorting
out of the undesirable ones from time
to time.
Black raspberries and dewberries
are propagated by layering. The tips
Of the canes are bent over to the
ground and covered with dirt to q |
depth Of about four inches as soon a.
the fruitingi season Is past
A little grooming or brushing viii |
have q great influence on the appear
ance Of the COW. A few minutes |
spent in this way will pay large diVi- |
dends in better looks and also IN q
greater price. Of farm stock and better
returns.
After the silo has been well filed
It may be covered over at the top
with q little well shocked straw or
hay. As q matter Of fact. though. the
silo can be opened and used the day
after II is fIled. II you have use for
the feed. don't wait.
Making the stallion earn his feed By
moderate work outside the actual
hraoding aaaeon win leave the faon