The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-11
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockman

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few hills viii 90 a long ways toward
making the cows happy,
The little gasoline pumping engine
is making a hit with the stock farm
ers during these hot, MINDLESS days.
Pumping water by hand is relegated
to the past when farming was all
work and no play.
AS the season advances il becomes
more evident that the farmer does
not need to lay up any odd jobs for a
rainy day. II there is an odd job that
needs to be done, do it now.
The absence of mosquitoes and the
presence of good roads are two of the
good things that go with a dry sum-
mer. AS far as this season is con-
cerned it has whole lot of silver lin
ing for such small cloud.
The makers of automobiles who
are trying to get farmers for their
customers should remember that it is
reliability rather than high speed that
the farmer wants. To build an auto
mobile that can run more than twen-
ty miles an hour over the best of
roads is waste of energy as far as get
ting farmer customers is concerned.
Whenever the farmers begin to
wish for rain the merchants are about
ready to pray for it. There is rea-
son for this because a drouth that
would bring hardships to the farmers
would bring still harder times to
some of the business men of the
cities.
The horse killed by lightning is
usually the one that's not insured.
A hinged door is not complete with
out clips fastened to the side of the
building to hold the door fast when
opened. Clips that work automatic
ally can be had for few cents.
The silo craze has just struck my
neighborhood. A half-dozen stave
silos have been sold within the last
weeks. 1t seems that one buying
has started up all the rest.
About every other rig seen on the
road these days carries one or more
schoolma ans. They are all out after
their contracts now, and the way
some of them tell their story would
do credit to lightning rod agent.
There is one thing in connection
with school matters that makes me
tired. That is to have the parents
uphold their children in their whines
against the teacher. The children
have probably violated the rules of
the school, and when a teacher pun
lshes them it's home with great tale
of woe for the child. 1t is then the
fond parent should Slobber over the
child with buggy whip.
Not many weeks ago | was bragg
ging about the docile disposition of
my Durham bull. The other even
ing he slowly walked behind Fur
rows as he went to milk, and but for
glance and a quick sidestep, this
plowman would have awaited over
five-foot woven wire fence. The ami
NAL is sold, but the shipper has not
yet come for him. In the meantime,
| milk with club handy.
The fuel that cooks the meals on
this farm is now coal oil. A barrel
of coal oil is cheaper than a ton of
coal and it will go farther, besides
the fire is out when you want it out
and it heats up only where you need
the heat. A neighbor lady did all her
last winters cooking on an oil stove.
A heating stove made the kitchen
warm.
A town is helped by those who buy
what the farmer has to sell. If a
farmer can always find good mar
ket for anything he has to sell in
town, that town is always his choice
in preference to others that may be
nearer. | hear that buyers in GER
tain town are offering but twenty-five
cents a bushel for oats. That one
thing has already caused more un-
favorable mention of the town than
anything that has come up for good
while, so it is easily seen that the
farmers make the town.
Another agent blew along this
morning and of course came out in