The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-02-17
FARM BURROWS.


In advising his son to plant trees,
the old ScOtchman spoke thus,
They'll be growing whileye're Sleep
ing, Jock" Pretty good advice. |
aim to plant more evergreens this
spring.
The other day | saw a forerunner
of spring sitting in front of black
smiths shop. II was a dull disc har-
row there to be sharpened. II is bet
ter for you and for the smith, too, to
take such work in so it can be done
before the spring rush.
II is also a good plan to take the
teeth out of your smoothing harrow,
throw them in a gunny sack, and
take them down to the smith to be
sharpened. You do more execution
with the same power when the har-
row teeth are sharp.
Last week my telephone was out of
sorts and wouldn't work. This, more
than anything else, set me to wonder
ing how could get along without a
phone. II seemed like pulling teeth
just to lose the service for a day.
Buy, borrow or hire a tanning mill
and use it this year. Use it whether
you think it necessary or not, for no
grain comes from a separator so clean
that a tanning mill will not make it
cleaner. You'll be surprised at how
dirty the cleanest is.
A man can be worse off than to
have hogs and no corn to feed them,
he can have corn and no hogs to eat
it, and, worse yet, have neither hogs
nor corn. The man with a thrifty
bunch Of shoats, and corn enough to
make them weigh "two-fifty, should
not complain about hard times, except
the hard time he has keeping the buy
ers away who want those shoats.
The spread" between the price of
corn-fed cattle and good coming
two's is not as great as it used to be.
One of my neighbors recently ship
ped steers out of his feed lot, for
which he got 20, and brought back
coming-two's to take their place, pay
ing for than IS. II seems to me he
hasn't got Spread" enough to work
on, but the quality of his purchase
may help him out.
| can remember when it took a
mighty good cow to bring SIS. My
father once brought some fine grade
Short-horns for an average of $14
each. But it took just as many BUSH
els of corn then to buy a cow as it
does now. You see there are two
ways of figuring on the price.
Winter oats appeal to me as a crop
that can be developed into one of
great popularity. | wish the expert
ment stations would take hold of this
crop with more interest than they do,
especially along the border of what is
now called the safety line for winter
oats. By experimenting, breeding
and working with it, believe winter
oats could, in time, be made as hardy
as winter wheat. Why not? y
Some folks are crying for rock
roads and overlooking the opportu-
mites before them for improving the
dirt grade. One thing looks logical
to me: The man who kicks on the
cost of dirt roads is going to be a
kicker on the cost of rock roads. We
would all have good roads if they
could be had without cost.
Sometimes very good machinery
goes for song at public sales, but |
observe that those farmers who 90
always to the sales for their machin-
cry soon have their yard Uttered up
with lot Of junk, and get little real
satisfactory service out of it, either.
AS rule, the man who starts in with
machine where some other man has
left off does not know what machine
satisfaction is. He is always monkey
ing with the old things to keep them
fairly serviceable.
The neigbor who has three or four
sows and three or four cows and no
male, has to depend upon a neigh
boris herd header, all of which is
more or less troublesome to the
neighbor. Many times, when in a
hurry to get to work or to start for
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