The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-30
GUMPTION ON THE FARM.

NIUE nOW your nelgnOOr Is noelng MS.
Better have patches on your pants,
than a lot of unpaid bills and threat
ening creditors.
How can any man sleep well at
night when he has scolded and whip
ped his horses all day.
Beginning to think about your
wood-pile? That's right. Cold nights
make us creep up about the stove.
Enough dry wood and chips to last
a week ahead is riches; fire out and
the last stick gone is poverty.
If you tell boy, day after day,
that he isn't earning his salt, he will
soon be likely to work down to that
estimate.
If the soil needs undertaking,
now is an excellent time to lay the
tiles. They should be at least two
and half feet deep.
Don't give the cats and dogs stale,
dirty or soapy water to drink. See
that it is clean and fresh. You know
how it is yourself.
II pays better to be behind every
body else in getting fall grain sowed,
and thus have the ground well stir
red, than to hog over it and have il
half done.
Money spent on booze is wasted,
spent on clothes is vanity, spent on
food is gone, and fooled away is
wicked, but money spent for seed or
fruit tree is wisely invested.
The patrons along a rural route are
apt to expect too much from the car
rier. 1t would be great help to the
farmer to apply to the government
for copy of the postal laws in refer
ence to the regulation of rural car
rierS.
Are you planning to build new
house this fall? Don't make it too
large. Many houses are so large that
the women folks are kept scrubbing
a good share of the time. Large
enough for all practical purposes, but
no larger, should be the rule.
In an address on the subject of
corn, Professor Beal remarked that
the top-most ear was the best for
seed; Of two fields, one planted with
seed taken at random and the other
selected in the field, the latter yielded
as much again as the former.
If rye is sowed this fall as a green
manure for potatoes next season,
believe it would be better to pillow it
under next spring after it gets good
start and not wait till it gets tall.
Then the rye will rot better before
planting time and you will get more
good from it.
Keeping cabbages: Select a dry
place in the patch, pull up the cab
bages and stand closely together,
heads down. Cover with soil from
five to ten inches, thinly at first so
they will not heat, covering only
enough to prevent freezing as the
season advances. The burying beds
may be made from four to six feet
wide.
The following method will appeal
to every farmer as the easiest quick
est and least expensive plan for stor-
ing all kinds Of fruit and vegetables,
from potato to a pumpkin: Arrange
the fruit or vegetables in long row,
as high and as wide as would seem
Spread little hay over
them, and set up fodder on each side
to the desired thickness-say, three
or four feet. This affords excellent
protection from ordinary cold; and in
the case Of pumpkin, turnip or cab
bage storage, or any other article fed
to stock, you have the means at hand
with which to form a most desirable
balanced ration as you feed out the
corn and fodder. This method will
prove especially valuable to renters
and others who are compelled to
move early in the spring, when it
would be extremely unhandy to chop
through the frozen ground, and Fish
out" fruit or vegetables from the old
fashioned ''hole" or pit. From Octo-
Der Farm Journal.