Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-03-19

start slowly with poultry.
The horse must have fresh air.
The goose lays Il score or two Of
eggs in a year.
Earliness is one of the main items
in raising broilers.
There is a large opportunity for
improvement in horses.
Beware OF the oily-voiced tree agent.
Buy of firms of known integrity.
II is the wise poultryman who
studies the comfort of his fowls.
a weed cut before seeding means
hundreds less for the ground 70 be
feeding
A little ground charcoal mixed with
the chicks feed will help keep away
digestive troubles.
Common salts will prove a reliable
laxative where physic is needed in
the treatment OF swine.
Onions, beets, spinach. radishes and
lettuce may be sown as soon as the
ground can be worked easily.
Eggs cannot be produced without
heterogeneous food in some shape.
Bones are absolutely essential.
Hardness in poultry is not indicat-
ed by color or plume Hardness de-
ponds upon the care Of the fowl.
Any man who has ever had corns or
bunions can sympathize with horse
that has tender feet from any cause.
The successful business man stud
ies the requirements Of the market
and the farmer should also follow this
method.
Go over all garden tools and see
that they are repaired or replaced
with new ones before next seasons
work begins.
Plant q quart or two Of onion sets
as soon as the ground can be worked.
White or yellow sets of the smallest
size are best.
A boar of heavy bone is more to
be desired than one of slight build.
Fineness as quality is more desir-
able in the SOW.
Every farmer should try to have a |
good garden every year. as 1t goes a
great way in supplying the table with
pure, healthful food.
The average farm hen produces
about six dozen eggs yearly, which is
Just about enough to pay her expenses
and leave a little profit.
The period OF CESSATION with the SOW
is 112 days. or 16 weeks, and seldom
varies to a great extent. Keep your
service recor1 accordingly.
A small plot, even II 1t is not more
than q rod square, on which new
seeds can be tried out is interesting
and quite often OF real value.
The hog raiser is getting started
right when he buys few well bred
sows or a pure bred boar. Let every
farmer aim to produce better hogs.
Our hogs fail to maintain their
size, first, because they do not get
enough feed, and second, because
they do not get the right kinds of
feeds.
Too much care cannot be taken in
buying nursery stock. It's heartbreak-
ing to care for trees for four or FIVE
years only to discover that they are
worthless.
Most hen houses are not sufficiently
well ventilated, particularly at night.
Pure air supplied without causing n
draft is necessary to the health and
productiveness of the fowls.
With turkeys It Is well to avoid
inbreeding, but It is better to keep
the same male two years and mate
to his own offspring than to select a
trio Of chicks year after year with
out introducing fresh blood.
Black feathers in white varieties
are a disqualification. but such feath-
ers unless too frequent are very often
found in the whitish birds and are US
ually removed by expert exhibitors
before the fowls are shown.
Charcoal IL one Of the most essen
tial articles in the food In successful
poultry farming. Place ears Of corn {
on cob In oven until charred, and then I
shell on corn and feed to chickens. I
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