The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-09-29

stations advises farmers to water
their work horses during warm
weather at least once in the forenoon
and once in the afternoon. presume
that advice is sounded, but, as a mat
ter of fact, | have been working
horses for forty years and | have al.
ways been able to keep them in good
flesh. | have done a good days
work every day, have never lost a
horse from overdrink and, in view of
this record, why should lose an
hour in the forenoon and an hour in
the afternoon in order to give my
horses a drink? theoretically, |
think the plan is all right, but prac-
tically one is not in position to take
the advice.
These cool evenings and mornings
bring out the stacks of cotton gloves
on the store counters. To chore in
nothing is better or cheaper.
The coal dealers assure the people
there is no cause for worry over the
coal situation. AT the same time |
notice that when man goes in after
coal he comes back with a little in the
hind end Of his wagon or with none
at all. II will soon be a case of using
the axe and saw.
The man who has to build a new
feed rack every year will soon have
to get busy. The first feed rack |
ever built was out of poles. Every
one used poles for both racks and
sheds then, the only difference being
we put the hay inside the rack and
over the outside of the pole frame of
the shed. When lost a fine steer
by strangling in the old pole feed
rack | built something better.
This weather has the feel of
husking pegs, vaseiine and ham and
eggs about it. All four are neces-
sary to putting two good loads of
corn in the crib in a day. The older
a man gets the more like work il
seems to fill a twenty-six inch box.
The automobile is becoming a ne
cessity in the livery barn. Where
none of the liveries in town have an
auto, all are on an equal footing; but
when the roads are good the livery
with an auto gets the business, es'
pecially the long hauls.
1t is a good idea to have clean
ditch at each side of the road before
winter. The other day a neighbol
plowed good furrow out OF each
ditch of the road alongside his farm
and he pulled the dirt over the grade
with road drag. 1t was neat thing
to do. The dirt put on the grade wa
not enough to make mud, but enough
to open clear track for the water II
each ditch.
They say that what is called 8
"green hand" puts his corn in the
silo too green. Unjust say that wher
it comes to being an authority on thi:
subject, |, too, would be a greer
hand and would probably get in toe
much of hurry to Fill her up"
Owing to the shortage of the hay
crop a great many have set the
threshing machine so as to run the
oat straw directly into their barn:
this year. Others are taking unusua
pains in building good straw stacks
No one seems to have straw to burn
Many of the school house grounds
are now being adorned with a shet
to accommodate the horses that chill
dren from distance may ride Of
drive. Such a shed may not be
thing of beauty on the grounds, bu
let it be set in some corner and it il
not at all unsightly. As useful i'm
provement it may be classed at thu
top.
Cooler weather is putting a few
more cents on the price of a dozer
eggs. A case filled with this produc
of the farm now brings twice al
much as it did sixty days ago. A
groceryman tells me his trade usual
II, ;ncraococ with the price IF eUUS