The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-26
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockmsl


1t is apparently a fact that weeds 1
can grow and thrive when the wealth
Ter rs too unfav0rabTe for corn and
other grain crops, but here of late I
really believe it has been too chilly
for the weeds. Last evening NOTICE
ed none had ventured outwhere there
are always a plenty. 1t can be too
mfavorable for the weeds.
Sprouting potatoes was the dislike
of my boyhood, the hatred of my
youth and now it has become the
dread of my older years. There are
no apples on the cellar shelf at the
season of year for sprouting potatoes.
Years ago the Burrows family quit
buying sugar by the package. 1t is
cheaper to buy it by the l00-pound
sack, and then there is not the dis
comfort of forgetting the little pack
age il is necessary to get nearly every
time in town. Coal oil, too, | buy by
the barrel.
/ The weather is still making every
effort to make a clean sweep of the
fruit crop, 1t got it far down towards
the South at the first strike and has
been pounding away ever since to
break still further into the solid South.
Next spring, if | were an apple tree,
| wouldn't bloom until June.
The planting season brought the
seed corn question home to every
corn raiser. This year at least 20per
cent of the corn crop in this vicinity
will be planted from seed that was
shipped in. II is impossible to guess
what kind of . crop will be raised
from this seed until late in the season.
Perhaps we will never have anoth-
err season as unfavorable for gather
ing seed corn as last fall was, but at
present it looks as though the makers
: of seed corn testers will find ready
sale for their goods in the future.
{ The array of levers, foot lifts, seed
plates and other contraptions that &c
| with a modern corn planter would
, make the users of the old hand plant
err dizzy if he had not seen the new
= things added from year to year. Even
placing one of the first horse planters
{ beside one of the latest patterns
, makes anyone wonder what corr
: planter will look like ten years from
now.
Dairying is receiving more atten
ton now than ever before. The mail
/ reason for this must be the none,
! there is in it, but those who take it W
: as a sort of get-rich-quick scheme art
! liable to be disappointed.
, About the best way to bring home
the cows from the pasture at milking
, time is to have a good feed for then
, in the barn. Ii this is done regularly
they will bring themselves home anc
:. pay for the feed at the pail.
: 1t is said that the cost of moderI
S battleShip would build a macadan
road from New York to Chicago. AT
: ter battleship has been built cou
S pie of years it becomes antiquated
but macadam roads never do. | an
g for better roads and fewer battle
: ships.
Pedigreed corn is all right for tn
man who is willing to coax it by prop
u er cultivation throughout the season
', Common scrub corn is better for tn
man who expects to give his crop in
{ different ears. am sure it vii
stand more neglect than will the well
u bred varieties. That, however, is
mighty poor excuse for raising poo
= stuff.
When it comes to corn planting ant
cultivating simply insist upon hitch
ing up good-stepping team. Th
fancy actors may be all right for som
people, but | like a horse that doe
not walk too long in one place.
}. They tell us that consumers are in
IS creasing faster than the producers
). In every village, town and city MA
y be found small army of consumer
n that, insofar as farm products are con
= cerned, are not producers. Thi
5, makes farm products higher-priced
: but when some of us want few Q
the idle ones to come out and hel