Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-09-10

Give the hens free range.
Alfalfa should be cultivated.
Shade and pure water should be
provided.
Keep the old sows as long as their
teeth are good.
Keep only as many sheep as you
can take good care OF.
A COW is not losing time while lying
in the shade chewing her cud.
The best price for pork is the early
price Keep the pigs growing.
II ia n great mistake not to halter
break the colt while It is a sucking.
One Of the most valuable lots on
your farm is lot for the straw pile.
DO not allow rhubarb to send up
seed stalks il II Is to be used I'll sea-
son.
Provide n platform for the pigs to
feed on. Keep the platform as clean
as possible.
The COW cannot give you milk and
cream on just enough food TO keep
life in her body.
There is little danger Of draft In
the poultry house II there is only one
opening in the building.
The time to fatten your birds is far
enough in advance to make the proc
ess economical Herein lies the profit.
4 gentle mother makes gentle
chicks. When the mother hen is Wild
and Eighty, It is hard to tame her
young.
Skim milk is more valuable fed to
poultry than to pigs or calves, not on
ly in flesh returns. but as an egg
producer.
Allowing calf to run with a good
milk COW looks like a poor PROPOSE
tIon any time, even though the COW ia
nearly dry.
People who fail in the poultry busi-
ness are generally those who take 1t
up as fad and not for the purpose Of
making living.
Colds with poultry often lead to
roup. and when once the roup gets
good start we are likely to have quite
a task to get rid of It.
Woodworking causes a leaky and
notified butter OF loose texture. But.
ter should be cool at time Of working.
II Is a mistake to set out trees more
than two years old. Many good or
chardists prefer yearlings but two
ynar.olds generally produce the best
results.
Get rid of all the surplus fowls. II
is more profitable to dispose Of them
now at good figure than to carry
them through the melting season at a
possible less
Most farmers know the vast differ
ence in feeding value between bright
green nicely cured hay and the
bleached out woody stun some call
hay. The first will keep stock in fine
condition without particle Of grain,
while the latter will hardly do so with
grain.
Chicks will be more nearly free
from disease II the eggs from which
they are Matched are laid in nests
which are perfectly clean. IL the eggs
are kept clean until they are given
the hen or incubator. and II the incu-
bator or the sitting hen and her nest
are kept clean.
There is some difference In practice
regarding the time TO begin hand-feed-
ing the calf. Some do not allow the
calf to nurse at all, others let 1t re-
main with the COW three or four days,
or until the fever is out OF the udder.
When 1t is impossible to feed the calf
often It is best to let 1t remain about
two days with the cow The earlier
the calf is taken away the easier II
will be taught to drink milk from a
bucket.
A good grain mash to make rapid
growth on broilers is a mixture Of one
bushel each OF wheat middlings. ground
oats and corn meal. Moisten rs need
ed with skim milk or buttermilk. Aft
er four or five weeks, increase the
corn meal.
Nearly every year there is a season
OF short pasture. Everything goes
back then. Feed some sorghum or
sweet corn and it will help out won
derhlIly. See that the stock has