The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoeRmAn

The other evening a friend of mine
remarked that he had queer people
for neighbors. Whenever it rained
he said they were afraid it was going
to keep right on raining, and when il
was dry they feared a continuation
of the drouth.
Il When a team of mules do not wish
to go or pretended fear, they spread
away from each other. The other
day saw a team that was tied to-
gether at the names with a stout
strap. The driver said it kept them
from spreading apart too far.
While in an implement store the
other afternoon, a customer came in
and inquired the price of six-foot
gear mower with a five-foot cutter
bar. That was new idea to me, but
/ the man said he would have no other
combination, as he believed the regu-
lar five-foot gear was not heavy
enough for the five-foot bar. The
dealer was able to furnish him what
he wanted by changing the bars,
The short hay crop will furnish in
creased work for the corn binder in
few weeks. already realize that
the acreage of shocked corn will have
to be increased on this farm, to make
up for the hay shortage. The corn
belt farmer should be thankful he has
something that can be made to take
the place of hay.
have "laid by" more corn with a
disk cultivator this year than ever be-
fore, There are, however, strips
through every field cultivated the last
time in the two ways, and husking
time will decide the test of which
way is best. Last year a neighbor
says he got five bushels more to the
acre from strip through his field
that was cultivated last with disks.
Little calves and pigs coming into
this world during the heat of summer
have about as hard a time of il as
when they arrive in midwinter. Last
week one of my best cows lost a
three-day old calf in the pasture, un-
doubtedly from the effect of the hot
sun. have lost many July farrow-
ed pigs before now, just from the
the heat, in spite of the best of shade.
1t is said that even the fly is here
for purpose, that without this pest
disease germs and filth would multi
ply and prove greater scourge than
the fly. The fly lives on germs and
filth, and now doctors say they carry
disease from place to place, conse-
quently they recommend 'swatting"
the fly. If the fly is necessary to de-
stroy the germs, and still we are told
to kill the fly because it carries germs
from place to place, I wonder how
we can have the germ destroyer and
kill it, too?
Some of the pastures are suffering
from an overload. A midsummer
drouth always hits the overstocked
pasture hard and the stock therein
suffers accordingly. Worst of all,
the damage to the pasture is not con-
fined to one season, but extends ever
into the next and the next.
Not long ago | heard it asserted
that the third and fourth generations
of the industrious early settler are
often set of soft hands," who will
not do manual labor except under
compulsion. have known it to be
so and not to be so. This man had
in mind the case of a grandfather
who is seventy years old and work
ing hard yet, while almost every one
of his grandsons consider themselves
above manual labor and manage
somehow to get along without doing
it. He cited an exceptional case, it
seems to me.
cannot see why horse should
brighten at steam engine or an auto
mobile. Both are savers of the
horse, the engine in heavy work and
the auto in travel. Nearly all livery
stables now have one or more autos,
while all thrashing and most of the
road grading is being done by steam.
The work that used to be required of
horses seems impossible now that we
have other power with which to do
it, but we used to pull them through
in some way.
The recent rains have had a mark