The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Ssockman

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again, that there is no weed that is so
Ipernicious, SO everlasting and so
hardy as the so-called button or vel
vet-weed. | would consider that
land thoroughly seeded to this weed
is reduced in value 25 per cent as
compared with what il would be if it
were free from them.
Why is it that hog always seems
to eat more when mill feed is high in
price? have a few old sows that |
will put up against anything else in
the world in consumption contest.
One old granny can eat a twelve
quart pail of slop and at the end of
the meal she pulls on an expression
as though you ought to be fined for
cruel and inhuman treatment in not
feeding your live stock,
The nabob of the neighborhood
used to be the farmer with a new
buggy. Now the farmer with an
automobile isn't so much. Flying
machines will probably be the mark
of esteem" of the future. II will then
be possible for the farmer to actually
as well as literally ely with the
geese"
used to be so anxious to work in
the field that would go out in the
face of a shower, and often stay out
until wet to the skin before conclud-
ing that it was going to rain. Since
then | have learned to take better
care of my health, which is some
thing very difficult to buy when once
lost.
Someone has said that the Amer
lean cuts down trees six days in the
week and fifty-two weeks in the year
and when Arbor Day comes he sets
out one lone tree. Most of us do
know that the quality of lumber is
getting poorer every year, a sure sign
that the best has already been milled.
Cattle drift before the storm and
only stop when the fence stops them.
There they will stand, often with
their heads between the wires. Light
ming striking the fence will some
times kill a dozen instantly, and the
bolt may strike the fence a quarter of
a mile away. We should all be more
careful about grounding our fence
wires. 1t is easily done and it doesn't
take much material to do it, but too
many of us put it off from time to
time.
Less than twenty years ago an Ok
lahoma friend of mine entertained
company in small dug-out. The
other day he entertained the same
company in a modern farm house, a
house that would not be out of place
on any fashionable street of any city.
It's the rainy weather that hurts
most the man who is trying to farm
few more acres than he should.
Turning horses out on grass, where
they get no grain, is a poor way to
build up strength during the wet
weather when it is needed during the
dry weather. Work horses need
some grain, whether they work or
not.
The daily papers are now so short
on news that they print interviews
with farmers on the crop outlook AS
what the farmer produces is what
keeps the country prosperous, | do
not know but what such news is just
as important as how many games of
golf Taft played in one day or who
was murdered for his money.
1t has been said that it is impossi-
BILE to build a clothesline too long to
suit a woman. | have seen such
lines hung in festoons on the door
yard trees, and a drive between the
wrong trees on a dark night would
mean a chuck under the chin that
would keep man from shaving for
a month. | like to see the clothes
lines away from the driveway.
A good farmer frequently has poor
fences, but did you ever know poor
farmer to have good fences, unless
he got them with a farm recently
purchased?
| When the weather is disagreeable
we envy the shop worker, when the
day is bright and all outside is health
in big doses the shop worker envies
us. 1t seems to me that the sight OF