The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-12-29
FARM BURROWS.


lcdCucIS III CuuHlIg SCilOOaS COtii'
plain that telephone service increases
the chance for discord in school mat
tiers. When the children go home
with tales of woe, as children usually
will, the mothers talk about it the
next day over the telephone, and il
soon gets spread over the entire dis.
trict. Sometimes this leads to "tak-
ing Sides" and never does the story
lose any of its color by several repe-
titions.
Lately | have been having a trial,
keeping pair of overgrown, ambi-
tious colts inside hedge fence. For
substantial fence | have given up
hedge as bad job; it looks pretty
when kept well trimmed, but il is
work to trim II, and when stock find
they can bulge through they always
do ii at an opportune time.
The next time | build a machinery
shed, il will have cement floor, and
there will be no sill to lift over. As
far as arranging machinery shed so
machines do not have to lbe moved
around after putting in, that is impos-
sible, for one cannot plan it so but
what the very machine he wants is
back of all the rest, and If the floor is
of cement one man can do as much as
three can moving over dirt.
The man who is not likable and the
woman who is not lovable belong in
the class of foreopdained failures.
How happy is the fat hog whose
owner does not rout him out of bed
very early these cold mornings. lal-
most envy his hogship.
Inotice that one of the charges
against the sugar trust is that it
shut down some factories which it OBJ
tanned. Agricola knows of one factory
which it did. There were four fac
tories in one town and the farmers
would not grow enough beets for
more than three. One was closed
and the other three handled all the
beets, One of the three is owned by
the trust, one by individual owners,
and the third is cooperative factory
owned by the patrons.
The factory which was shut down
was later dismantled of its machinery
which was shipped to another state
and a new factory built and kept rum
ming at loss of three years by the
trust before it was well enough es-
tablished to become paying venture.
1t is now one of the defendants in the
prosecution by the government.
If lump jaw isn't contagious, it
seems mighty queer to me. For
years have noticed that when one
animal in the herd has it, more are
almost sure to follow. There are
now so many prepared medicines on
the market that are successful in the
treatment of lump jaw that it is not
the calamity it'once was to have the
best cow in the herd suddenly develop
lump jaw symptoms. | find it not
difficult to cure when taken in good
time, and the sooner after discovered
the easier it is.
Mrs. Burrows has put in for some
new clothesline posts, and | have
been wondering if | could make a
success of them out of cement, re-
enforced with heavy wire. If anyone
has tried it, will they kindly give the
initiated the benefit of the experience
gained? 1t seems to be about as hard
to keep a woman's clothesline in re-
pair as it does to keep man in de-
pehdable suspenders.
know a man who went into court
to prevent the town from condemning
some of his land for road purposes.
Most remarkable, however, was fine
fact that he owned a cheese factory
and the road, as planned, was sure to
bring him a large financial benefit
over the loss sustained. But he
forced the town to pay very high
price for the road. The same man
also conceived grudge against his
congressman because there was a
change made in the rural mail route.
So he refused to receive the mail de.
livered by the carrier, but would
bother some neighbor every day ia
bring his mail from the postoffice. as