Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-09-17


Maintain the milk flow.
Vetch is an annual plant.
Clean the troughs. these hot days.
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Straw and hay make good nesting
material.
Over-sour cream makes butter lose
its ine aroma.
Cutworms, as a rule, do their great
est damage in the spring.
Improper feeding will soon cause a
good strain Of hogs to run out
Pasturing the pigs in q 30x30 mud
pen makes NO money for the owner.
Lime is best supplied by giving the
fowls access to crushed oyster shells.
A combination OF high roosts and
heavy fowls seldom proves satisfac-
tory.
Separate the young pigs that are to
be kept as breeders, from the fatten-
ing stock.
The time to feed silage Is directly
after milking or at least several hours
before milking
The mares with draft blood are too
coarse to give quality to the colt, no
matter what the sire is.
Do not allow decayed meat to lie
around where the fowls can get 1t
or they may die from ptomaine poison.
Fire blight, like hog cholera. Is
caused by an organism invisible to the
naked eye, but present in the blighted
twigs.
When given with care. one OF the
best foods for young and growing
chickens. and the laying hens. too. is
sweet milk.
Sorghum IL preferred to corn for
silage in semi-arid sections because
It Is a surer grower under dry wealth
er conditions.
Angora goats have been used with
profit to keep fire lines clear Of in
fiammable vegetation on national for
ests in California
Let the colt wear its little halter
through the day. but remove It at
night to prevent the possibility Of get
ting its feet caught in It.
Sixty million dollars were lost by
the American farmer last year sim
ply because he did not take steps in
time to prevent the deadly hog chol'
era.
II pullets do not lay before cold
weather, they are apt to wait until
spring. so the chicks hatched very
late will not ill next winters egg
basket.
Wasps, yellow jackets and birds
sometimes puncture grapes, and then
but not until then-the bees feast on
the released juices. Paper bags are
a great help in growing perfect clus-
tiers.
Never put lid on can OF warm,
fresh milk-use q cloth cover. II the
milk Is to be separated get 1t through
the machine as soon as possible-the
quicker the better. Cool the cream i'm
.medlately after separating, and II pos
sible. dispose OF the warm skim milk
at once.
A mare may become wire cut and
almost worthless on the market, but
sbe can still redeem herself II she Is
a breeder. Her value for raising colts.
II she is bred we'll. Is not decreased.
The gelding has place on the iarH
till he has reached his prime, then
cash him in. II he gets blemished.
all he is worth Is the hard work that
he can do.
Silage is safe to feed to horses and
mules only when It is made from fair
~ mature corn. properly stored in the
silo. When II is properly stored and
is not allowed to mold. no feed ex-
oeeds II as a cheap winter ration. It
f. most valuable for horses and mules
which are not at heavy work, such as
brood mares and work horses during
the slack season.
The average hen, II provided with q
good place to dust herself, will keep
down the lice, but this will not protect
her from the red mites in the chicken
house, which lnfest her body at night
These are the enemies We need most
to fight against.
Take time to visit the nearest park