The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-31
FARM BURROWS.
Turned by a Practical Farmer in the
Livestock Indicator.

Vic NdluC VI u ClONOI CIODs
Keeping farm % may be the
means of turning loss into profit.
Most of us want to be Sin the
top of the heap" or out of it
altogether. We can't always tell
how it is going to pile up. The
safe way is to get in the heap.
The old SOW has the advantage
of the young SOW in experience
and is usually the best mother,
but when she gets her head set
the wrong way there is sure to be
trouble if she is opposed.
The " stand' of candidates is very
good so far, and if political condi-
tions are favorable the crop will be
an immense one. Sometimes the
growth is spontaneous and the crop
springs up like mushrooms.
The almost universal verdict is
that this country would be better
off with more sheep and fewer dogs.
Dogs may be all right in their
places but that place is not in a
sheep pen or pasture at a midnight
hour.
The extreme difficulty with a
milking machine that actually
milks is in keeping it clean. Actual
tests have shown many very hnrt-
full germs in milk that have come
there through the use of machines
which are not found in milk that
has been hand drawn.
Feeding an Improbable COW or
an old plug horse is worse than
a mortgage to the extent of the
food consumed. One seems to be
as hard to eradicate as the other.
They will steal the farmers labor
and his hope. Sometimes they
work in such a manner as to drive
the boys from the farm and make
the girls shy of farmers sons who
are matrimonially inclined. Don't
feed a forty dollar plug fifty dol
lars worth of feed.
, A rotation of crops on the same
soil prevents the exhaustion of
=. plant food, primarily because
, different crops draw in different
proportions on the plant food
, elements of the soil. When a no.
, tation is kept up, one element will
5 be drawn largely one year, the
next some other and so a balance
I is maintained. Rotation implies
s more, however. Some plants in
| the rotation should add to the
soil.
4. Get plows and cultivators sharp
ened and put in a good condition
for spring work and when the
time comes for using them there
will be no delay. OF course this
q is meant for the man who failed
S to get that done before putting
r the tools away in the fall. 1t is
: better to get stirring plows sharp.
ened just before the last field is
finished in the fall and pillow a
!, half day or a day after sharpening.
e The pillow will then be bright and
sharp for spring work.
Some of these days when there
}. is a soft snow, or what is known
o as "slush," will be a very good
= time to hitch up the colt to a sled
n and drive about over the fields. In
the past this was done by driving
over the prairies, but since the
other fellow has come in and
=" "settled up how to appreciate
them is missing a whole lot of
the good of this life. 81 could be
happy with either, were t'othel
dear charmer away"
II Once upon a time a man would
have a large lot of cattle and owl
every n of them. 1t is now pos
1t sible for him to have a great mum
Der and owe for every one of them
1t With some men there is a vast diff
ference in owning a large numbe
and owing for the same number