Baxter Springs news. [volume], February 18, 1909, Image 7

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I Trim the apple trees early la Um
A GOOD DOOR LATCH.
One Which You Can Easily Make foi
Yourself.
This consists of three pieces of oat
or other good hard wood, as shown
in the drawing. For the handle use a
II II n u H f n v
Feed corn as the evenlnc meal.
Like the bean a man needi anap
to be worth anything.
The long, steady stroke la best In
milking the cow.
It la nearly time to think about
getting the hot bed started.
In all your management of the
flock let It be with the aim to improve
your stock.
A little millet scattered in the straw
will set a flock of hens to work as
perhaps nothing else.
Weak harnesses are a peril on the
most tractable horse. They invite dis
aster. Don't trust yourself with one.
Never was a saying more true that
an ounce of prevention Is better than
a pound of cure than in the poultry
business.
It's a little trouble to put the tools
back In place after using, but It saves
lots of time when next they are
wanted.
None too early to begin the cam
paign against the lice and mites. Be
gin now and avoid the rush that Is,
the inrush of the pest during the sum
mer time.
Wcll-fllled is' not always well-fed.
The hen will crowd its crop full of
corn, and will put on fat, but will lay
few eggs. To be well-fed means more
than just plenty of It. It means those
kinds of food which will go to make
eggs.
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The farmer may get along without
keeping a diary, but he ought not to
try to run the farm without keeping
some kind of accounts, as to outgo
and Income. Too many farmers are do
ing business by guesswork and not
by facts.
The hen cackles because she has
something to advertise, and when she
has properly announced tbe arrival of
the new invoice of goods, she gets
busy to do another day's business for
the farmer. What would the farm be
without the business hen?
The horse is no better than the feet
he stands on. For this reason look at
the hoofs of the stallion you propose
to use. If they are flat and other
wise defective have a care, for the
chances are ten to one that the colt
you get from him will have the same
undesirable qualities.
Do you know which crops netted
you a profit last year and how much?
Do you know what animals you fed
and made money on? Of course you
don't if you kept no accounts or rec
ords. Quit such reckless methods. Do
your farming as the business man
conducts his business.
The young man who goes courting
and spends the long evening by the
warm fireside in the delightful com
pany of his inamorata while his horse
' is hitched to the cold side of a wire
- fence with little or. no blanketing is
more than apt to show a similar
thoughtless disregard for his wife aft
or the glamour of the honeymoon is
over.
It would be a first-rate plan during
the leisure of the winter days to make
an inventory of all you have on the
farm buildings, equipment, machin
ery and stock. Know what you have.
Plan how best to work the farm, and
use the machinery, and you will find
that there will be a larger margin
between expenditures and receipts
than ever before.
Try growing calla lilies this way.
Place a thick layer of charcoal In the
bottom of a box 15 Inches sqnare and
fill with leaf mold and a little sand.
Plant a calla in each corner, and in
the center sink a six-inch flowerpot
'with the drainage hole stuffed with
moss, and with a layer of charcoal
above the moss. Water carefully till
growth Is well started, then fill the
alx-lnch pot once a day with water.
If tbe lilies drink so Quickly that the
pot is empty before night, refill. Wash
and shower the leaves weekly. 1
spring.
White of egg In the mustard plastet
will prevent its blistering the skin.
Keep the seed corn dry. Freeslni
will not hurt It if It is entirely free
from moisture.
De sure the colts get exercise dor
Ing the winter. Give them a run out
side every nice day.
In raising colts remember that false
economy during the first year or two
will cost you dearly later.
Getting angry does not help things.
It only complicates matters and
plunges one into a series of difficulties
Time to mate up the breeding pens.
The rooster ought to be with the flock
several weeks before using the eggi
for setting.
Air-slaked lime sprinkled around the
cracks and crevices of the hen house
make it a very uncomfortable lodging
house for lice and mites.
No matter what kind of stock a
farmer Is handling kindness always
pays. Even pigs have feelings, and
appreciate kind treatment
Keek a hammer in the barn where
it will be handy in driving loose nalli
and knocking the snow balls from the
horseB feet when they crime in oil
the road.
Some bens, like some people, will
shirk duty when they get a chance.
Weed out all the star boarders. Keep
the buBlncss-Uke hen and use her to
breed from.
The quick-tempered man who loses
bis bead when handling a horse is the
man who generally has a horse that
gets spells, too. Like owner, like
beast to a great extent.
To make the cellar a good cold
storage place open at night except dur
ing the severest weather, and close
It during the day. Keep fruit cool,
but do not let it freeze. Sort the
apples frequently.
To some farmers ventilation and
draught are synonymous terms. One
means fresh air for the stock with
out injury, and the other means fresh
air with a drawback of discomfort and
colds which is ruinous.
Have an extra rope with a snap
on one end hanging np in the rear
of the horses' stalls, so thaf it will not
be necessary to untie the rope from
the manger every time you want to
lead a horse out of the barn.
Here Is how some folks keep sweet
potatoes through the winter success
fully: They wrap each potato sep
arately in newspaper and place in a
barrel lined with newspapers until
the barrel is full, when it is well cov
ered and kept in a warm, dry room.
According to the Maryland experi
ment station, a bog produces ten to
fifteen pounds of solid manure per
day. Hog manure is a wet, cold ma
nure, and ferments slowly. Its com
position, of course, varies as does any
animal's, depending upon the food
consumed. It is much like cow ma
nure in its general character, but gen
erally considered richer.
More than ever do the hens need
something in the way of green food.
Now that you cannot give them the
trimmings from the garden provide
clover meal scalded and then cooled
before feeding. Also give them a
carrot, beet or turnip to pick at A
good way to manage the vegetables is
to hang by a string from the ceil
ing, Just high enough so they will have
to jump for them. .
Various remedies exist for the treat
ment of scours in calves. One or two
raw eggs broken into a calf's mouth
have cured such cases. The feeding
of dried blood in Bmall quantities, eith
er in the milk or In the corn feed, is
a good remedy when the bowels be
come too loose. The feeding of kaflr
corn, either In the chopped heads or
meal, is a good grain for feeding
while the calves are drinkjng milk.
Kafir-corn has a constipating effect
which offsets the laxative tendency of
the skim milk.
Water the horse before, not after
feeding. There is a popular idea that
a warm horse should not be allowed
to drink, and, unlike a great many
other popular ideas, there is a little
truth in it If you water a warm
horse in the ordinary way, letting him
drink all that he will, you are likely
to have a foundered horse on your
hands. This is especially so if, at the
time, the horse is fatigued. Neverthe
less, It is always safe to allow him
from six to ten swallows, no matter
how warm he is. -If this be given on
going into the stable and he be al
lowed to stand and eat hay for an
hour, and is then offered water, he
will not drink nearly so much ss he
would had none been given before.
Details of Latch.
piece of 8x2x1 inches. Shape a flat
tlsh knob on one end three inchet
long. Work down the rest so as tc
pass through a one-Inch 'auger hole.
Shape a knob on the other end by
flattening the sides. The latch !i
made of a piece 5xlx inches. Tb
catch is 8x2x inches.
Bore a one-Inch hole for the handle
three inches from the edge of tbe door.
Push the handle through the hole and
Latch In Place.
mark on it the thickness of the door;
then bore In the handle a three-eighths
inch hole for the latch. Now, explains
e Orange Judd Farmer, assemble the
parts according to the finished figure,
which shows the latch thrown back. A
little peg may be used to keep the
!atch from falling down when the door
Is open. . ....
FARM NOTES.
It's hard when an illusion changes
to a delusion.
The string which ties a man to his
ob may become the chain that holds
bim to slavery
A bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush, especially if the two are
scrubs and the one is a bred-to-lay
business hen.
To destroy hen lice, sprinkle insect
powder, any of the varieties used to
lestroy squash bugs will do, in the
lust baths, enough to slightly tint the
lust the color of the powder, and let
tbe hens scratch in this and so dust
themselves. -
Keep at It
Too many farmers, in fact almost
svery one of them, stop dragging the
roads as soon as tbe weather grows
old and the ground begins to freeze.
Some become careless about the mat
ter, but' the greater majority, perhaps,
think it does no good. These are
wrong ideas, although there is but one
time during -the day when It is bene
Sclal to drag the roads in winter, and
that is usually in the afternoon. Just
at the time the clods and little bumps
jt earth, which thaw during the warm'
er part of the day, begin to freeze
again. It is at this period that the
llrt is brittle, and yet not sloppy; and
a light dragging each day it thaws suf
ficiently will workjwonders, if kept up
all winter. " - - .
Dairying a Growing Industry.
The ultimate extension of dairying
to all sections of the United States is
Inevitable. As population becomes
more dense, as land values increase,
lust in this proportion must dairying
extend. Dairying provides the most
economical utilization of the feeds of
the farm and on high priced land re
turns to the farmer greater profit than
any other agricultural pursuit
To Keep Butter.
A writer sends in tha following sug
gestions for keeping butter: Pack but
ter in a jar immediately after churn
ing and lay a cloth over the top of the
butter. When more butter is made re
move the cloth, pack the new butter
on top of that which is already in the
Jar and -replace the cloth. Press the
butter down solid and it will keep for
1 long time.
..Bluff That Doesnl Pay.
- The man who falls to bluff a girl by
threatening to marry another general
ly feels about like the boy who comes
home at dark after having run away
to be a hero. -
Do you know of any woman who ever received any
benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound?" If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculUr
to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be
surprised at the result There is hardly a community in
this country where women cannot be found who have been
restored to health by this famous old remedy, made
exclusively from a simple formula of roots and herbs.
During' the past 30 years we have published thousands
of letters from these grateful women who have been cured
by Lydia E. PinkW Vegetable Compound, and never
in all that time have we published a testimonial without
the writer's special permission. Never have we knowingly
published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine.
Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts
that this is a true and honest statement of a woman s experi
ence with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound write
and ask her.
Houston, Texas.- When I first began taking Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. I bad been
fick for ttafee years with female ?gg
and a liver trouble. I had tried several doctor's medicines, but
nothing did mo any good. w
"For three years I lived on medicines and thong ht I wo uld
never pet well, when I read an advertisment of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try It.
My husband got me one bottle of tbe Compound, and It did
me so much good I continued Its use, I am now a well woman
and enjoy the best of health.
I advise all women suffering from such troubles to give
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. They won t
regret it, for it will surely cure you.- Mrs. Bessie L. Hicks,
810 Cleveland SU, Houston.
Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish surely
not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should it
not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks.
For pl
Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for sprains
and bruises. .
It quiets the pain at once, and can be applied to the
tenderest part without hurting because it doesn't need
to be rubbed all you have to do is to lay it on
lightly. It is a powerful preparation and penetrates
instantly relieves any inflammation and congestion,
and reduces the swelling. -
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L
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vis an excellent antiseptic and germ
killer -heals cuts, bums, wounds and
contusions, and will draw the poison
from sting of poisonous insects.
Prioe, 25c SOa, and $1.00.
Dr.EarlS.Sloan, Boston, Mass USA.
Born' book cm bwMi, eattto, Amp and poultry teat free.
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