The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-09
FARM BURROWS.


TOT almost u ucCduc TIC 1ltCih
tional Live Stock Exposition has ev-
cry year selected foreign judge to
tie the ribbons on the most important
steer classes, but l have never heard
Of a simple case where an American
Judge has been asked to tie the rib
bons in foreign show ring. My
own private opinion, if ! may be al
lowed to express it publicly, is that
we have just as good judges Of cattle |
in this country as ever crossed the
sea. This is not equivalent to saying |
that judge should not be brought
over for this task, but think it's
time that some Of our own great
Judges were recognized abroad.
While prime steers have been sell
ing up as high as $3.50 and $500 and
even 1925 per hundred pounds, a
close examination of the sales made
each day at the principal market CEN
tiers shows that the great bulk Of the
steers sold ran from IS to 81 a hun
bred. II is my opinion that most Of
the sirloin steak that is now selling
for twenty and twenty-five cents a
pound in the towns and cities Of the
corn belt has been cut out of steers
that were marketed at figure not
very far above six cents per pound.
They say that Uncle Sam is soon
going to send one-half the emigrants
to the rural districts. All right, Un-
Gle, send them along, but don't for
get to send the better half. See to
that and you will make good job of
| it.
Every man ought to have one SUI
preme ambition and here is mine:
II is to make pure-bred steer weigh
1900 pounds at the age of eighteen
months, after which | propose to
dress him for home consumption.
Instead Of having big turkey dinner
when invite my friends in, we will
serve sirloin steak, and | venture to
say that there will be no grumbling
as to the quality of the meal.
They say that bees will travel five
miles in search of honey. would
like to ask our boy readers how they
would like to workfive miles to work
every morning and the same distance
home at night, especially if they had
to carry their days work home with
them like the bees do?
II is said that it takes good team
on a rural mail route to make twenty
five miles every day and hold up un-
der it. think have owned horses
that if fed properly, would make thir-
ty-five miles day every day in the
year. A neighbor has a horse that
can clip off twenty miles in two hours
without ever drawing sweat.
}, Inever could understand how there
could be much food value in "swill. "
Of course, there are certain forms OF
scraps around the kitchen which are
of some value to hogs and chickens,
but when it comes to the dishwater,
that goes into an underground pipe
and is carried about twenty rods from
the house at our place. In spite OF
this, some people think they are ex.
! ceedingly liberal to their young pigs
! when they are giving them plenty Of
: "swifi.
A man is either born with or with.
out bushes talent, and indeed,
. guess that applies to women as well
: If a person does not possess thai
: talent he generally has hard shedding
: throughout his entire life-I NEAR
!. hard Shedding in a financial way
: while the shrewd fellow seems to en-
l d
. Joy all the good luck.
Il It's a big responsibility to bring W
: a family. This has been forced upor
I my attention recently by this discov
! cry Of the fact that one Of our colt
! has learned to suck eggs. lam plan
: lining to surprise him by letting hin
= discover a nestful Of door knobs, m!
Hope being that by the time he crack
one or two Of these, he will have al
: the eggs he wants until next Easter.
Dick CURE was held up Monda,
! might BY a lone highway man on TIL
l-lnad between the Bob Marshall plac'
: and the Mrs. Allen place in Elkhar
L. - =.