The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-15
FARM BURROWS.

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ton under the sun in which theory
and practice are so apt to differ as in
farming. theoretically, a horse
walks from two and one-half to three
miles an hour with a fair load. AT
the former rate he will cover at least
twenty-three miles in a nine and one
half hour day and that would amount
to blowing nine and three-quarterS
acres of corn in rows of average
width. While there are men who
pillow this much corn one day after
another it is certain that they do not
have much time to uncover corn ex-
cept with their boot, or pull weeds
that the pillow does not happen to up
root. Hasty work the first time over
young corn is not to be advised, and
if man plows from four to eight
acres, and does the work thoroughly
by giving the corn and the team prop
er attention he should be given credit
for good days work.
Off all unhappy mortals the one who
always sees the bad in everything
must be the unhappiest. | mean the
person who takes big crop as sure
sign of low prices, good weather as a
sure sign of storm, or day of rest as
one that will make the work day that
follows only that much harder. These
people remind me of the old woman
who, according to story, claimed that
il always made her feel worse to feel
better because she always felt worse
afterward.
There is nothing so difficult about
sewing rip in a tug or line if you
have the necessary material and para
phernalia at hand. That is the point,
to always have these things at hand.
1t only takes little forethought to be
sure, but forethought is so much
harder than "bindthought" that it is
very easy to get neglectful, So one
pays the penalty of trip to town
often when work is pressing and pays
the harness maker for keeping an
awl and some waxed ends.
Three or four years ago farmers as
class were much opposed to the in
vasion of tho country roads by the
chug wagon. Some of the more ex-
cxcitable were for petitioning state
legislatures and branding all persons
owning or operating the said vehicles
as criminals. To-day altogether a
different attitude is assumed. Horses
have become pretty well used to the
new vehicle and hundreds of farmers
have adopted the more rapid method
of travelidg. Most of us in fact are
looking forward to the day when we,
too, can make miles seem like min
utes. Who said that farmers were
slow? se .0ass-
| If you are feeding a lot of potato
bugs the sooner the finishing process
is begun the better for all concerned
in good crop of tubers. Paris green
is good "finisher." 1t will put a
finish on the hardest feeder that the
patch contains in almost less time
than it takes to tell about it.
To some the idea of feeding oats in
the bundle may seem like shiftless
way of doing, but | am quite in favor
of the plain. My experience is that
for calves and horses not doing heavy
work, as in the winter, there is no
better way to feed oats than in the
sheaf. The combination Of grain and
roughage makes oats fed in this way
chit the spot" Store away several
loads before thrashing and test this
advice next winter.
There is one and only one advan-
tage of being school director that
know of, that is that you get to visit
with all the pretty high school grad
yates when they come around to ap-
ply for your school. Each is so un.
like the other and has such differ
emf way Of getting at the purpose Of
her visit that they are a welcome d.
version to the day.
Those who follow old man Greeley
advice about going west will find
conditions altogether different now
than when ''Go west young man.
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