The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-02
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and ssockman.

uOn or the FARMER Is nedItilIul Onc,
it is too true that there is great deal
of i'll health among farmers, and those
who have looked into the matter at
tribute this to the fact that the aver
age farm house is not well ventilated,
particularly during the sleeping hours.
have not slept in room during the
last twenty years without having at
least one window raised, and gener-
ally all the windows are up as far as
they will go.
am a strong advocate of the prac-
tee of feeding corn and cob meal to
all kinds of live stock. Indeed, be-
lieve in it so much that there is
scarcely day during the whole year
when we do not feed a considerable
quantity of corn and cob meal on our
farm. have had so much to say
about ii that one of the boys asked
me the other day if | didn't think it
would make good breakfast food,
but that is carrying the matter too far
and making light of serious things.
Someone who has a liking for fig
ures has found that in perfect stand
of corn planted three and one-half
feet apart each way, a yield of one
pound to the hill will make forty-sev-
en- and one-half bushels to the acre.
Have you ever weighed the yield of
a hill of corn?
Where filing has been done and the
tile is found to be too small to save
the crops from being killed by too
much moisture the best way to do is
to take up the tile and put in larger
size. This has been the experience
OF many early Tiers and as usual is an
expensive experience that others
should profit by.
Those who husked early in this
vicinity are having trouble with their
corn heating in the cribs and the late
ones are liable to have the pleasure
(?) of husking in the snow. 1t really
looks as though even farming may
have its drawbacks.
In regard to milking cows just be-
fore calving there may be some dis
pute, but if the cows udder indicates
that it should be relieved | never
hesitate about doing so and will con-
tinue until am "shown."
The beet sugar industry is on the
increase and wherever trial is a
success it gives another boost to the
value of land.
Those who selected their seed corn
from the fields before the rain, fol-
lowed by hard freeze early in Octo-
Der, are very fortunate.
If all the barns in neighborhood
could be built exactly alike the lum-
Der dealer would be able to furnish
all the pieces already cut and ready
to put together at a great saving of
material, but many men Of many
minds make many barns of many
kinds.
Last fall the big pork packing con-
Germs were wondering where all the
hogs came from. This fall they are
wondering where all the hogs are to
come from. In the meantime those
who stuck to hog raising are getting
their reward.
| sometimes think that the corn
worm is better Judge of good sound
corn than / am. This is impressed
upon my mind every day husk corn,
because invariably, only the sound
mature ears are the ones on which an
attack has been made by those little
pests.
There is good reason for men to
feel uneasy about the prospect Of
their corn terminating next spring if
it was not thoroughly dry when the
hard freeze came in October. Fortu-
nately, our corn had been hanging up
two or three weeks before the period,
and i is my opinion that my seed was
reasonably dry at that time and that
It has not been injured.
The assessors in one county Of