Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-09-03

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Feed the chickens regularly.
Rats are very fond Of chickens.
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Heavy pruning young trees delays
lfruiting.
Alfalfa should be cut when one
tenth in bloom.
Try petting the COWS and see how
quickly they respond.
Orchards should not be set in any
but deep and Sfertile soils.
The more cultivation given to beets
the better the crop on the average.
Eggs should be collected daily and
should be cooled as quickly as pos
Bible.
Fasten down the tops OF the hay
stacks-or better stlll-cover them. 1t
pays big.
Good water helps TO make good
butter. You can't make It with any
thing else.
The skunk has some sins chargeable
TO his account, but killing field mice Is
not among them.
Sunshine will do much for the churn
after you have washed It, but don't ex-
pect It to do your part.
Damp mashes are not good for tur-
keys, either young or old. They thrive
best on q dry grain ration.
Milk at milking time, not after dark.
either in the morning or at night.
Wind up the chores by daylight.
Treatment for cowpox consists main
ly in applying some healing agent to
the sores. Carbollzed vaseline Is good.
Keep all windfall apples and plums
on the ground. They often have
insects in them. Feed to the pigs or
burn.
Il IL estimated that sheep eat more
than seven times as many varieties OF
weeds and grasses as do cattle or
horses.
An egg is composed Of over so per
cent OF water. Fifty hens should con-
sumo not less than five quarts OF wa
ter daily.
II properly cared for. the manure
from one COW Is said to be worth
about so cents q week. 1t doesn't pay
70 neglect It.
Too many farmers have not learned
that it is all wrong to feed q SOW on
feed that produces heat instead OF
bone and muscle.
Il is not q profitable business for
the farmer, whether land owner or
renter, to sell the calf for little or
nothing at its birth.
A little care used In gathering seed
will cut down the seed bill the follow
ing spring as we'll as improve the veg.
etables from year to year.
Milk that has a bad flavor often &C.
uuires this after It is drawn from the
COW. It Is more often due to such
influences than to the feed the cows
have had.
When manure Is allowed to accumu-
late It should be kept under cover and
II covered with q layer OF earth the
loss OF plant food will be still further
reduced.
Many q horse has been made sick,
and not q few have died, from eating
a little green clover when the body
was too warm or In some other way
out Of order.
Cows in full milk require some con.
centrated feed In addition to hay and
siIage, as they cannot consume enough
of these feeds to keep up large now
Of milk and maintain body weight.
A little salt in the mash food for
poultry will assist somewhat but too
much salt picked up around the place.
or the drinking Of salty liquid like
brine, will cause sickness and perhaps
death.
In taking up plants for setting out
they should not be pulled up, but lifted
ont with a dibble or case knife. By
proper handling plants may be taken
up and transplanted on q hot, sunshiny
day with scarcely q check to their
growth.
Although growing geese viii some
times live and even thrive TO some
.~t.nt m the grass and other food