The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-04-21
FARM BURROWS.


II I FARMER anu
Some men attach great deal of
importance to the matter of pulling
the tusks out of little pigs, but for my
part | have never found it necessary.
| think all the hammering and pound
ing that the little fellows do to one
another is on account of the fact that
there. is no nourishment for them,
and in their endeavors to get a sup
ply they inflict all this punishment,
and, Of course, it results in canker
sores. If a sow has plenty of milk
you will have very little trouble with
these sores.
Sometimes il is necessary to change
a calf that has been used to sucking
its dam, TO another cow. IL the little
fellow is three or four months old it
is sometimes not an easy matter to
make a change, but | will tell you
how | got at the matter. Let the lit
tie fellow get thoroughly used to
having his mother turned into a box
stall with him, and when you want
to make the change, wait until he is
good and hungry and put the other
COW in when it is dark. He may
suspect that you are putting up a job
on him, but his hunger will soon
wipe away all his preiudices and
there will be no further trouble. \
A new trick on several of the new
planters out this year is the variable
drop feature. By the shift of lever
the drop may be changed to two,
three or four kernels in a hill. The
advantage of this will be apparent to
the man with poor knobs in his field.
Some men will not take rest until
it rains, and then they bring the har-
ness into the kitchen to oil or mend.
Those who profess to know say
that hogs will be as scarce next year
as they are this. notice, however,
none of the wise told us a year ago
that there would be such a scarcity
and such price this year. Guessing
on hog prices is like guessing on
next years weather.
The man who butchered his fat
hogs late was caught by the wrong
kind of March weather. Many of my
neighbors have lost ,lams and Shout
ders in pickle and dry salt, the meat
tainting before they were aware it.
March came in like a lamb and re-
manned like lamb until the end.
have patch of strawberries out
in full bloom, and for the last three
nights the thermometer has been too
low down in the thirties to suit me.
Three years ago | covered patch,
but lost them just the same. This
year | have no covering, except hay
worth $40 ton.
The other evening a man was
working this neighborhood in the in
tereSt of man who has a $500 horse
he wishes to sell for $1,000. Compa-
ny business do not like. 1t has in
cited more trouble in some other
neighborhoods | know than any other
one thing, and | would not go into it
with my neighbors if it were possible
to get a $1,000 horse for 81, 600.
The other evening, as a neighbor
boy was coming to town, dogs came
tearing out to the road, took after the
boys horse, bit it on the heels, and
caused it to throw the boy. In the
fall the boy dislocated his shoulder
and lay in the road some time before
help heard his cries. The cur dogs
are still free, but here's a-hopin'.
We need more stone-arched and
concrete culvert, the only kind that
are everlasting and a pleasure to
drive over. There is never a lift of
from two to five inches, as there is
on many plank, and there is never
plank off for a horses foot to 90
through.
A farm philosopher observes that,
in their general farming operations,
too many western farmers have too
much that is spoiled in the tops and
bottoms of their sacks. A pretty
good hit.
| When buying a new wagon, take
along six-foot measure, or get one
after you are there. If you will use
thic in measuring the evacf thread of